The News Review:
- Belt-tightening forces scrutiny of UN sports
- Sports on the Air: Announcers try to build Super buzz
- Politics on the Pitch: When Gaza and Sports Collide
Belt-tightening forces scrutiny of UN sports
The Associated Press
Ryan responded in a memo last month that he would consider cutbacks in virtually every department including athletics. “It’s painful and at this point we hope we can figure out a way not to have any cuts to do our best to convince the state Legislature and our supporters that cutting higher education is not a good idea that it’s an investment in the future” said Ryan an avid sports fan who regularly attends UN games. At UN however the sports department needs not only to be spared cuts but must grow to retain Division I status. The university currently is in the fourth year of a five-year waiver from the NCAA which allows it to retain Division I status without having the mandated minimum 14 teams. UN currently has nine teams: men’s and women’s basketball; men’s and women’s swimming and diving; men’s and women’s tennis; baseball; men’s golf; and women’s volleyball. There are plans to add women’s golf women’s softball women’s soccer and men’s and women’s cross-country. That would bring the number of teams to 15 the minimum required for continued membership in the Sun Belt Conference.
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Sports on the Air: Announcers try to build Super buzz
Buffalo News United States
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Politics on the Pitch: When Gaza and Sports Collide
Dissident Voice CA
If they always banned these type of things then journalists would not be able to write columns. … Every war is absurd and too many innocent people have died for us to be fining people for things like this. ”Welcome to 2009 when Israel’s offensive on Gaza ceasefire or no is finding expression in the sports world. It’s a development that should give supporters of Israel’s actions in Gaza a great deal of pause. Kanoute’s actions come on the heels of an event in Ankara Turkey when the Israeli basketball team Bnei Hasharon had to flee the court from what the Associated Press described as “hundreds of fist-pumping chanting Turkish fans”. Before the game could begin angry chants of “Israeli killers!” came down from the crowd as Palestinian flags appeared in their hands. Then in a scene that would look familiar to George Bush off came the shoes and footwear rained down from the stands (the shoes didn’t hit any players).
