The News Review:
- All-Ego Sports Team starts here
- Sports Briefing | Soccer US To Start With Mexico
- Sports Digest
- Sports Briefing | High Schools
- As the economy tanks, we’re so tank-ful for good sports
- Sports Briefing | Tennis Jimmy Connors Arrested
All-Ego Sports Team starts here
Los Angeles Times, CA
How about Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal? Are they first team or second? Columnist Chris Erskine gives his picks. Chris Erskine November 23, 2008 What came first, the ego or the egg? Does success make you confident or does confidence make you a success?In the sports world, you’d be hard-pressed to find a major star without a double scoop of chutzpah. It’s a requirement of war.
Sports Briefing | Soccer US To Start With Mexico
New York Times, United States
To Start With Mexico – NYTimes. The draw was held Saturday morning in Johannesburg in conjunction with the draw for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, which will be played in South Africa a year before it hosts the 2010 World Cup. The other teams in the group are Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Trinidad and Tobago. The top three finishers will go to South Africa, and a fourth team will enter a playoff against the fifth-place finisher in South America for another berth.
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Sports Digest
Baltimore Sun, United States
"I don’t want to put a timetable on it, but Christmas morning, I want to know where I’m going to be for the next couple of years," he said. "So hopefully, by Christmas, it will be done. " The Orioles have had discussions with agent Scott Boras about Teixeira, who grew up in Severna Park.
Sports Briefing | High Schools
New York Times, United States
css); Sports Briefing – High Schools – Montclair Is Beaten – NYTimes. Montclair (7-3) entered the game having won four of five since the death of Ryne Dougherty on Oct. Dougherty, a 16-year-old junior linebacker, had a brain hemorrhage while making a tackle during a junior varsity game and died two days later. The Mounties, the top seed, beat fifth-seeded Hackensack (7-3) two weeks ago, 35-13.
As the economy tanks, we’re so tank-ful for good sports
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX
The Dow Jones is on a scary rollercoaster ride. There even are financial concerns in the sports world — the place we go to escape from these types of things. As bad as things may seem — in the sports world and out there in the real world — there still is plenty for which we can give thanks, and Thanksgiving time is a good time to stop and make lists that remind us just how much we do have.
Sports Briefing | Tennis Jimmy Connors Arrested
New York Times, United States
css); Sports Briefing – Tennis – Jimmy Connors Arrested – NYTimes. Connors, an eight-time Grand Slam champion, was taken into custody after refusing to comply with an order to leave an area near the entrance to the arena after a confrontation, the police said in a statement. Connors, an eight-time Grand Slam champion, was taken into custody after refusing to comply with an order to leave an area near the entrance to the arena after a confrontation, the police said in a statement.
