The News Review:
- Regulations Slim for Bloody Free-for-All Combat Sport
- Elias Says: Sports Statistics – Stats from the Elias Sports Bureau
- Let’s celebrate the unification, then roll up our sleeves and go…
- Woods in Match Play final | Sports | Golf | PE.com | Southern…
- Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex
- Winter Sports | US skier Lindsey Vonn wins Cup downhill title
- My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern…
Regulations Slim for Bloody Free-for-All Combat Sport
FOXNews – Feb 23, 2008
Moving on general news and sports services; also moving on sports lines. AP Photos By NATE JENKINS Associated Press Writer (AP) — One after another they landed on the young fighter’s head — short, punishing blows from an opponent who straddled him on the ground like an animal over injured prey. The young man began to lose the ability to defend himself — but the punches didn’t stop. The raucous crowd turned nervous.
Elias Says: Sports Statistics – Stats from the Elias Sports Bureau
ESPN – Feb 23, 2008
By Elias Sports Bureau, Inc. comUpdated: February 23, 2008.
Let’s celebrate the unification, then roll up our sleeves and go…
ESPN – Feb 23, 2008
What do we do now? First, try to put aside any resentment that might still be lingering from the split and its aftermath. This is a time to celebrate. For the good of the sport, unification is something that needed to happen a long time ago. Then we roll up our sleeves. As difficult and protracted as the process to merge the sport was, the hard work is just beginning. “We all have to recognize the biggest challenges lie ahead, and how will we deal with them?” Kalkhoven told ESPN… For the good of the sport, unification is something that needed to happen a long time ago. Then we roll up our sleeves. As difficult and protracted as the process to merge the sport was, the hard work is just beginning. “We all have to recognize the biggest challenges lie ahead, and how will we deal with them?” Kalkhoven told ESPN. “There won’t be a sudden miracle cure. It’s going to be a hard slog, and if there is a disappointment, the blame will start again.
Woods in Match Play final | Sports | Golf | PE.com | Southern…
Press-Enterprise – Feb 23, 2008
Typical of his year, success was inevitable. Woods with a putt to win is becoming like Michael Jordan taking the last shot, David Ortiz at bat in the bottom of the ninth. “It's fun to have opportunity, whether you succeed or fail,” he said. “Luckily over my career, I've succeeded more than I've failed.
Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex
Washington Post – Feb 23, 2008
OverviewWith an Olympic-size pool with 17 lanes, this facility boasts the area’s best lap pool. This facility includes the Wayne K. Curry Sports & Learning Center. Read Editorial Review.
Winter Sports | US skier Lindsey Vonn wins Cup downhill title
Seattle Times – Feb 23, 2008
skier Lindsey Vonn wins Cup downhill title By The Associated Press WHISTLER, B. — Lindsey Vonn clinched the World Cup downhill title Friday, becoming the first American woman to claim the season crown since Picabo Street in 1996. “It’s great to seal the deal with two races left,” said Vonn, who also leads the World Cup overall standings. “I don’t have to worry about that anymore. That’s a big checkoff on my lifetime goals. “It definitely feels great.
My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern…
Weekly Standard – The Weekly Standard – Feb 23, 2008
Dowling
Penn State, 208 pp. 95
William Dowling, professor of English at Rutgers, seems to be an angry man who has, willingly or not, transformed his public persona from literary scholar to a national leader in the still-losing war against the commercialization of college sports. He notes that he edited the Dartmouth humor magazine (where I, too, briefly toiled) in the last two years of his undergraduate career, but there is little lightness here, if from time to time a bit of mordant humor. It is, mostly, a well-argued diatribe, and a very useful one–perhaps the best overview of college-sports corruption published. It should be required reading for education and sports writers, not to mention high school students pondering their college choices along with their financially fearful parents. The narrative spine is the effort by Professor Dowling, other Rutgers scholars, and bright and brave students in a group called Rutgers 1000, to try to stem the state university of New Jersey’s slide into big-time college-sports corruption and associated academic mediocrity after this distinguished institution joined the Big East conference in 1994 and jettisoned much of the old-fashioned sports amateurism that it had when the school, chartered in 1766, competed with the likes of Princeton.
