The News Review:
- Forget citius, altius, fortius. Sport’s new motto is fitter,…
- Houstonians cheer their candidate at sports bars
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Forget citius, altius, fortius. Sport’s new motto is fitter,…
Times Online – Feb 22, 2008
Really rather frightfully vulgar, don’t you think? India istreating its newfound prosperity like Viv Nicholson, the Sixties poolswinner who vowed to spend spend spend. That all ended in tears, of course. I think most of us who like sport are a trifle uneasy about this. The IPL hasbeen launched as a celebration of money. The sport itself has come a poorsecond. But are we right to have these reservations? Are we harking back tothe outmoded hypocrisies of amateurism? Are we being a bit prudish? Are weshutting our eyes to facts? Are we saying that there is one law for footballand England and quite another for cricket and the Third World?I’ll tell you something important about sport: whoever you are and whateveryou are trying to do, money doesn’t half help. Killer stat: in 1996, at theOlympic Games in Atlanta, Britain won one gold medal and finished 36th inthe medals table… ” That sounds sort of right to us, yes? There must be money,accepted – but it can’t be the No1 motivating factor. Hell, you can tellwhen it is. Time and again, we have seen England players in all sportsplaying not for victory and glory, but for their places; for the income. That’s when England lose. Money won’t get you genetic ability (yet). It won’t buy you the mysteriousthing that is the difference between the champions and the brilliantlytalented rest. But most certainly, money will allow the individual to becomeas brilliant as he or she is capable of being.
Houstonians cheer their candidate at sports bars
Houston Chronicle – Feb 22, 2008
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Sports bars across the Houston area switched the channels on their flat-screen TVs from ESPN to CNN Thursday night as Texans tuned in to watch Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama go head-to-head in Austin. Clinton and Obama are fighting hard for the democratic nomination and Texas has become the latest battleground in the race. With early voting already under way and the state’s primary scheduled for March 4, supporters from both sides cheered for their chosen candidate during Thursday night’ debate as if he or she was Yao Ming or Tracy McGrady and it was the fourth quarter of a Houston Rockets game. At Home Plate Bar and Grill across from Minute Maid Park, a boisterous crowd of about 60 volunteers for the Clinton camp waved U.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Feb 22, 2008
CCWS co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven returned from England and has met with IndyCar
owner Tony George, but a number of issued still have yet to be ironed out. Earlier reports of a Friday morning press conference never materialized. A deal could put eight new teams on the IndyCar starting grid. Tony George has
already offered free cars and engines plus more than $1 million to any teams
that runs the entire IndyCar season.
