The News Review:
- Dale Jr. carries hopes of sport and sponsors to new team – Feb. 15,…
- Thursday’s Sports In Brief
- A sport diminished
- … .com – The Sporting Blog – Top 50 Greatest Sports Movies:…
Dale Jr. carries hopes of sport and sponsors to new team – Feb. 15,…
cnn.com – Feb 15, 2008
NASCAR also can win bigSuccess for Dale Jr. will also be very important to NASCAR itself, which has seen its financial growth downshift to a lower gear in recent years after a decade of having the pedal to the metal. With NASCAR’s most popular driver not on top of the standings, that has dampened television ratings. If this trend continues, some say this could put a crimp into sponsorship dollars. And no major sport depends more on sponsors than NASCAR. "One of the things you hear as a possible cause of NASCAR’s ratings woes is Dale Jr. ‘s lack of success on the track," said Bartelli.
Thursday’s Sports In Brief
International Herald Tribune – Feb 15, 2008
TENNIS MIAMI (AP) — Monica Seles officially retired from tennis, five years after she played the last match of a career that included nine Grand Slam singles titles and was interrupted at its height when she was stabbed in the back during a match. Seles returned to the game 27 months later and immediately reached the 1995 U.
A sport diminished
San Diego Union Tribune – Feb 15, 2008
com > News > Opinion — A sport diminished. One is to wonder why Congress is trifling with a sports scandal. Another is to note that for all the hoopla, little new information came to light.
… .com – The Sporting Blog – Top 50 Greatest Sports Movies:…
SportingNews.com – Feb 15, 2008
(Jamie Foxx in a Speedo pretty much ended any chance of taking the movie seriously for me. )
There are shameful omissions on the list, of course. A few of the essential sports movies left out follow. Searching For Bobby Fischer (1993) One of the most affecting movies about young talent and the desperate search for identity by a competitor. Chess may be a non-contact event, but the conflicts in this film are jarring enough. A grand-cru cast, too: Ben Kingsley, Lawrence Fishburne, Joan Allen, and some phenomenal and forgotten child actors turn the film into a neglected masterpiece.
