The News Review:
- Baseball mitts, morning dew and the sweet smell of sports
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
- JJB Sports sells 5 UK Soccer Domes div to Powerleague for 17.4 mln…
- My Sport: Leeds Rhinos’s Brian McClennan
- Four seeking to lead sports arbitration panel – Olympics
Baseball mitts, morning dew and the sweet smell of sports
SportingNews.com – Feb 26, 2008
html>Celebration of Life Through Sports on Sporting News Radio:
I was sniffing something at the store today. Stop it! I can’t believe your mind your mind would go there. However, I was sniffing something at the store today. I am quite certain it was a spectacle. Grown man ? standing in the back of the store.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Feb 26, 2008
Sharapova won last week’s title at Doha and is off to a perfect start for 2008
with a match record of 14-0. She captured the year’s first Grand Slam last
month in Melbourne. “I was really excited to come to Dubai this week and was very much looking
forward to playing the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships,” Sharapova said in
a statement. “Unfortunately I have been battling a virus for several days and
it’s reached a point where I’m unable to compete.
JJB Sports sells 5 UK Soccer Domes div to Powerleague for 17.4 mln…
Forbes – Feb 26, 2008
4 mln stg, and plans to re-invest the proceeds as part of its strategy of re-energising its retail stores. The Soccer Domes operate out of locations in Manchester, Wigan, Derby, Blackburn and North Shields and have a total of 69 pitches. The deal will see JJB retain ownership of the leasehold sites and continue trading from the attached retail stores and healthclubs. Powerleague will lease from JJB the Soccer Domes as well as the wet sales facilities within the Soccer Domes and will pay annual rent and rates to JJB.
My Sport: Leeds Rhinos’s Brian McClennan
Telegraph.co.uk – Feb 26, 2008
I was brought up on the game. I started playing when I was four and if a match was cancelled through rain, I was desperate about it.
Four seeking to lead sports arbitration panel – Olympics
ESPN – Feb 26, 2008
Current interim president Mino Auletta, an Italian lawyer, and Gunnar Werner, Sweden’s former honorary secretary of the International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA), are being considered. The International Olympic Committee makes the nominations. The two previously declared candidates are Dick Pound, a senior IOC member from Canada and former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and Robert Briner, a Swiss international lawyer based in Geneva. The presidency of the Lausanne-based court has been vacant since the death in January 2007 of Keba Mbaye, a Senegalese judge who led the organization since its creation by the IOC in 1984.
