The News Review:
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
- Sport debased by demands of business
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
- Cheerleaders’ stunts, bruises show sport’s growing intensity
- Multi-sport threat runs, jumps way to two first-place finishes
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Feb 9, 2008
makes his Hendrick debut in styleDaytona Beach, FL (Sports Network) – Dale Earnhardt Jr. captured Saturday night’s 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup debut event, the Budweiser Shootout. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet driver edged Tony Stewart by an unofficial 0. 137 seconds for the win. “Junior” led 47 of 70 laps, the most ever and won the race for the second
time.
Sport debased by demands of business
The Age – Feb 9, 2008
After a while, itbecame grating, and to this mind, counter-productive. The Socceroosbelonged to us, not an airline. This was the same airline that took 40 minutes to ferry a fewsuitcases from a plane to a luggage carousel late one night duringthe school holidays. I found myself thinking that this airlineought to concentrate more on air travel and less on appropriatingour sporting heroes.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Feb 9, 2008
7 Tennesee hold off LSUBaton Rouge, LA (Sports Network) – JaJuan Smith’s only points of the game proved to be the game-winner as seventh-ranked Tennessee survived to down LSU, 47-45, at Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Chris Lofton had 15 points and seven rebounds while Tyler Smith added 12
points and five rebounds for the Volunteers (21-2, 8-1 SEC), who have won
their last five games. “We got the win, but we didn’t play our best, and it wasn’t good for us,”
Tyler Smith said. “We weren’t executing, and we had some guys under the
weather as far as our main defender in JaJuan, but at the same time, we can’t
use that as an excuse. We’ve got to fight through that stuff.
Cheerleaders’ stunts, bruises show sport’s growing intensity
mlive.com – Feb 9, 2008
Fellow squad member Nicole Wood, 18, landed wrong from a jump at cheer camp last year and severely sprained her ankle. “People underestimate how athletic this is,” she said. “Whenever someone tries to tell me that it’s not a sport, I tell them, ‘I’d like to see you try to do it. ‘”Cheerleading injuries made headlines in recent years when reports cited a dramatic rise in injury rates and stated that cheerleading accidents accounted for about half of deaths and paralysis cases among female high school and college athletes… Cheerleading teams, especially those that compete, have repertoires that include hands-free flipping, twisting, pyramids, tumbling, basket tosses (hurling a teammate in the air and catching her when she falls), back flips and other risky maneuvers. “Cheerleading is more intense and more competitive than it used to be,” said Paula Dewrock, Swartz Creek’s varsity cheer coach. “It is definitely now considered a sport, and if you ask me or any other cheer coach, it’s one of the hardest sports around. Cheerleaders are in constant motion and, unlike many other team sports, have no second strings, helmets or padding, Dewrock said. The Swartz Creek team is in the midst of a series of 11 scheduled Michigan High School Athletic Association competitions that require a constant balance between safety and what Dewrock calls “the wow factor. “You want to keep everyone safe, but the crowds love the strong tumbling and flips, and the girls want to do them, too,” Dewrock said. Both Nicole Wood and Nicole Erickson said they wish their team could do more stunts and tumbling, but admitted that some of the riskier maneuvers scare even them.
Multi-sport threat runs, jumps way to two first-place finishes
Toronto Star – Feb 9, 2008
David Grossman
Sports Reporter
Courtney Clarke knows how to mix things up. It started three days ago when the 17-year-old signed her name to a soccer scholarship offer from the University of Miami at Oxford, Ohio. Last night, she was under the spotlight in another sport – track and field. A two-time athlete of the year at Toronto’s Francis Libermann High, Clarke won both the senior girls long jump and 60 metres at the fourth annual Project Athletics Invitational – the first indoor track and field meet of the year. With her mother cheering her on, Clarke easily beat teammate Shivonne Modest after sprinting to the finish in a time of 8.
