The News Review:
- Nemov, Hakkinen join Laureus sports academy
- Sports’ 20 most influential African-Americans
- Play! Recreational Sports Calendar
- Chinese competition managers to run all 28 Olympic sports
- USOC Works Hard To Be Details-Oriented
- Federer wins record 4th Laureus Sports Awards
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Nemov, Hakkinen join Laureus sports academy
央è§å½é – Feb 19, 2008
18 (Xinhua) — Russia’s Alexei Nemov and Mika Hakkinen of Finland were named the newest members of the Laureus World Sports Academy on Monday. Their election, announced at the 2008 Laureus World Sports Awards held in St. Petersburg, takes membership of the Laureus Academy, consisting of the world’s legendary sportsmen and sportswomen, to 45. Formula one driver Hakkinen, 40, won the world championships for the first time in 1998 and his second title came a year later in Japan.
Sports’ 20 most influential African-Americans
St. Petersburg Times – Feb 19, 2008
So today, we look at the 20 most important and influential African-Americansin sports history. Jackie Robinson Courageously broke baseball's color barrier in 1947 – a time when segregation was the social norm in America. Robinson's impact and influence was so great that baseball has retired his No.
Play! Recreational Sports Calendar
News & Observer – Feb 19, 2008
comp –> Play! Recreational Sports Calendar. comp –> Comment on this story Find a team, join a league or sharpen your skills. The free Play! Recreational Sports Calendar for youth and adult recreational sports is published each Tuesday in the Sports Section of the print edition of The News & Observer. Among the sports you’ll find included in the lengthy list that follows are baseball, basketball, BMX racing, cheerleading, curling, duathlon, football, golf, hockey, lacrosse, rope skipping, rugby, running, soccer, softball and wrestling, plus the offerings of area parks and recreation department programs and commercial multi-sport facilities. You can find more recreational sports news and announcements at.
Chinese competition managers to run all 28 Olympic sports
Channel News Asia – Feb 19, 2008
html BEIJING: All competition managers at the Beijing Olympics will come from the host country, a first since the 1996 Atlanta Games. Zhang Jilong, director of the organising committee’s sports department, said: “The International Olympics Committee, all the international sports federation and the BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee of the 29th Olympic Games) have all agreed that the competition managers of all 28 sports for the Beijing Olympic Games will be Chinese nationals. ”
Although competition managers do not help athletes win medals, they are crucial to ensuring that the games run smoothly and fairly for the players. The sports managers must have a sound grasp of the sport, good organisational and public relation skills. Together, they will oversee the successful completion of over 2000 events for the Games this August.
USOC Works Hard To Be Details-Oriented
Washington Post – Feb 19, 2008
Olympic Committee Chief of Sports Performance Steve Roush couldn’t decide whether to be awed or panicked when he walked into a large hall at the Beijing Shichahai Sports School nearly four years ago. Roush saw pairs of children playing table tennis at perhaps 50 tables arranged side-by-side across the floor. Beside every table stood a coach. The players, none older than 12, wordlessly executed drills, their wooden paddles pushing little white balls repeatedly over the nets. A flood of thoughts always filled Roush’s mind during such visits — he has toured about 20 Chinese athletic schools since… “Other changes generated more enthusiasm. Dozens of cameras record workouts at every sports venue on campus from various angles as part of what is known as the "Eye on Performance" system, which was gradually installed between late 2006 and last fall. The footage can be viewed instantly on large, flat-screen monitors, or preserved, filed and analyzed later. men’s gymnastics national team coordinator, called it the best training tool he’s seen at the center in 20 years.
Federer wins record 4th Laureus Sports Awards
china.org.cn – Feb 19, 2008
Swiss tennis star Roger Federer has made history by becoming the first ever four times winner of Laureus World Sports Awards on Monday. He was named Laureus Sportsman of the Year for the fourth straight time at the 2008 Awards ceremony after another superb year, which saw him once again win three Grand Slam titles out of four for the third season in a row. Tennis was the biggest winner in Saint Petersburg as Belgium’s Justine Henin won the Sportswoman of the Year award and Holland’s Esther Vergeer, the greatest wheelchair tennis star of all-time, took away the Laureus Disability trophy for the second time. Two of the biggest names in British sport also have their hands on Laureus as Lewis Hamilton won the Breakthrough of the Year award after his remarkable debut season in Formula One, while long distance runner Paula Radcliffe had the Comeback of the Year award.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Feb 19, 2008
Last week was NASCAR’s “Super Bowl,” the Daytona 500, and now we really get into the “regular season” grind at the California Speedway to determine the drivers for the “Chase for the Sprint Cup. ”
NASCAR
Sprint Cup
Auto Club 500 – California Speedway – Fontana, CA
After spending three weeks in Florida, the series travels across the country
for race No. It will also be a completely different race now that the
restrictor-plates are off the engines.
