The News Review:
- Travel Soccer … or Baseball … or Any Sport
- Sports in brief: NCAA approves ‘sand’ volleyball for women
- Sports Briefing | Sports Business Turner Broadcasting Is rdered …
- Under Rogge women’s sports are getting short shrift in lympics
- Phelps to try new freestyle technique Sports Digest
Travel Soccer … or Baseball … or Any Sport
Washington Post
While the parents in this case were simply banished from the field for a couple of games others elsewhere have been jailed for unsportsmanlike outbursts. But back to this entire concept of travel teams for youth. Traveling sports teams aren’t cheap — they run $1000 and up — and they require a HUGE commitment. Many teams travel during the winter holidays and allow only limited reasons for missing practices and games. In Annie Gowen’s story yesterday she describes WAGSL as “home to many of the area’s best soccer players with 600 teams and more than 15000 participants. ” WAGSL isn’t the only such league in the area to boast high competition. Take the Arlington Travel Soccer Club which aims “to provide Arlington and Falls Church City youth the opportunity to play soccer at the highest level [my emphasis here] commensurate with their individual ability potential and interest.
Sports in brief: NCAA approves ‘sand’ volleyball for women
San Jose Mercury News
The organization will spend the next year developing rules that will govern play including regulations on financial aid playing dates and recruiting. “The opportunity to play sand volleyball in the spring will spur growth in the sport. I wish I had that opportunity when I was at Stanford” said San Jose’s Kerri Walsh a two-time lympic champion who like most beach players competed indoors in college. “This development will give more women an opportunity for a professional volleyball career in the United States.
Sports Briefing | Sports Business Turner Broadcasting Is rdered …
New York Times
css); Sports Briefing – Sports Business – Turner Broadcasting Is rdered to Pay – NYTimes. ) Superior Court judge ruled that Turner Broadcasting System must pay the Texas businessman David McDavid $281 million as a jury said last year. Judge Tom Campbell denied Turner Broadcasting’s request to overturn a verdict that favored McDavid who accused the company of cheating him out of buying the Atlanta Hawks Atlanta Thrashers and the Philips Arena operating rights in 2003. TBS has 30 days to appeal Campbell’s ruling. ) Superior Court judge ruled that Turner Broadcasting System must pay the Texas businessman David McDavid $281 million as a jury said last year.
Under Rogge women’s sports are getting short shrift in lympics
USA Today
lympic ideals be damned. At most only two of these seven sports will make it into the 2016 Summer Games. Softball which was cut when some IC members thought they were voting to get rid of baseball (yes really) is the cause celebre in this battle. It’s the sport that has worked the hardest to get back into the IC’s good graces by taking its case and bringing its game to the nooks and crannies of the world. They like softball in Gambia? Who knew?BRENNAN BLG:.
Related from Marcbryant: Rogge ‘sympathetic’ to rugby in lympics
Phelps to try new freestyle technique Sports Digest
Baltimore Sun
) UltraSwim on May 14-17 in North Carolina his first meet since Beijing. He plans to swim four events including the 100- and 200-meter free and the 100 butterfly. Polo: Twenty-one prized horses that mysteriously died before one of the sport’s top championships were given a supplement that likely caused their deaths the leader of the Venezuelan-owned team told an Argentine newspaper. Juan Martin Nero of Lechuza Polo told the newspaper La Nacion that the horses were given a supplement known as Biodyl which contains a combination of vitamin B12 a form of selenium called sodium selenite and other minerals. Florida authorities have started an investigation to determine whether the deaths were intentional or accidental. Baseball: The Rangers put right-hander Kris Benson an ex-riole on the 15-day disabled list with elbow tendinitis. Scott Feldman will start in Benson’s place Saturday against the rioles.
