The News Review:
- TRUCK TALK The Pontiac G8 sport truck planned as a 2010 model
- 2009 Jaguar XF Supercharged Sports sedan is a modern expression of…
- Horse racing: Greg Wood previews the Preakness Stakes | Sport |…
- Uganda: Asians Raise Sh1.7bn for Sports
TRUCK TALK The Pontiac G8 sport truck planned as a 2010 model
San Francisco Chronicle – May 16, 2008
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2009 Jaguar XF Supercharged Sports sedan is a modern expression of…
San Francisco Chronicle – May 16, 2008
The latest car from Jaguar, the XF 4-door sedan, tends to follow in somewhat the same traditional format. It incorporates all that is Jaguar-ness, bringing forward styling cues that hint at old or traditional design elements, while striving to express those elements in an entirely new way. Specific design features represented in the XF are obviously “borrowed” from the past, without falling into the retro genre. As for something blue, there is a Phosphor blue halo illumination and interior mood lighting.
Horse racing: Greg Wood previews the Preakness Stakes | Sport |…
Guardian – May 16, 2008
An outstanding Kentucky Derby winner is poised to win the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday on the way to the Belmont and an attempt to win the Triple Crown. Big Brown is young, fresh, exciting and just what the sport needs if it is to win the attention – and then, perhaps, the affection – of armchair fans fixated with baseball and basketball. Instead, it is creeping towards the Preakness in a mood of apprehension, even dread… It was endlessly analysed on the news stations for days and, at the exact moment when the sport in America hoped to be turning people on to a potential superstar, they were turning off and turning away. Pressure groups soon moved on to the attack, led by People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta). The organisation is familiar to American sports fans, having been a leading and vigorous critic of Michael Vick, the disgraced former quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons,. Peta immediately called for, among other things, an end to racing two-year-olds, the introduction of synthetic racing surfaces throughout the country, a limit on the number of races a horse can contest in a season and a ban on the use of the whip.
Uganda: Asians Raise Sh1.7bn for Sports
AllAfrica.com – May 16, 2008
7b) sports project that could revolutionize Ugandan sport. The luxurious academy that will be initiated this year after stalling for three years, will be a continuation of the sporting aid that the community based in Leicester, has injected into the country since last year. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);"These were rich people that had too much money to invest in Ugandan sport. I launched the project in the UK and it was supposed to have set off in 2005 but unfortunately it didn’t because we had general elections at the time," former Ugandan High Commissioner, Dr.
