The News Review:
- Minnesota sports administrator named Akron AD
- Report: India’s sports ministry against F1 race
- ‘Wii Sports Resort’ tops 1 million in sales
- bama’s vacation starts with sports
- GS sports commission taps former AD The Business Journal of the …
- Successful Comic and Rodent Tries Unfamiliar Role: Sports Fan
- Rumors and Notes from Around the World of Sports
Minnesota sports administrator named Akron AD
Houston Chronicle
Akron President Luis Proenza introduced Tom Wistrcill at a news conference Tuesday. He has been a senior associate athletic director at the University of Minnesota. Proenza said Wistrcill’s Big Ten experience would give Akron a springboard to “even greater excellence in all of our athletic programs. Wistrcill replaces former athletic director Mack Rhoades who left last month to become athletic director at the University of Houston in Texas.
Report: India’s sports ministry against F1 race
The Associated Press
India wishes to join the F1 grand prix circuit in 2011 on a course being built on the outskirts of New Delhi. But the Times of India reported Tuesday that the Sports Ministry has refused to endorse the F1 race as a sports event saying it would not have an impact on Indian sports “in terms of either participation broad-basing or promotion of excellence. “”It would have no impact on the development of sports in the country” The Times quoted an unnamed Sports Ministry official as saying. “F1 is not purely sports.
‘Wii Sports Resort’ tops 1 million in sales
USA Today
Nintendo says citing internal tracking figures. The Wii MotionPlus the motion-control accessory that attaches to the console’s remote is also experiencing a hot start at retail. Nintendo says more than 2 million consumers have purchased the add-on.
bama’s vacation starts with sports
Philadelphia Inquirer
place_ad_here(“half”); Posted on Tue Aug. 25 2009 In the Nation bama’s vacation starts with sportsCHILMARK Mass. – President bama played tennis and golf yesterday starting his first vacation in office on Martha’s Vineyard a picturesque island known as a refuge for the wealthy. bama began the day with a workout then played tennis with his wife Michelle White House spokesman Bill Burton said. bama later played golf with UBS investment bank president Robert Wolf and Chicago physician Eric Whitaker both friends. White House aide Marvin Nicholson was also in the foursome. White House officials have stressed that the president is on a private vacation and that little is planned.
GS sports commission taps former AD The Business Journal of the …
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Strable replaces Marc Bush who served as president for the past seven years. Strable became Greensboro College’s first full-time athletic director in 1989 and is a founding member of the sports commission. He was instrumental in luring the NCAA Division III men’s and women’s soccer tournaments to Greensboro in 2004 2005 and 2008. “Greensboro’s reputation in hosting sporting events in a first-class manner is widely known and is a true source of community pride” Strable said.
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Successful Comic and Rodent Tries Unfamiliar Role: Sports Fan
New York Times
(By his own admission he also knows next to nothing about football. ) But “Big Fan” is a movie in which his firsthand knowledge of cultural fixation was as important as any leading-man experience or actual knowledge of sports. The film (which opens in limited release on Friday) is written and directed by Robert Siegel who wrote the screenplay for.
Rumors and Notes from Around the World of Sports
FXSports.com
Trade bait? For better or worse the Vikings are Brett Favre’s team now. So what do they do with Tarvaris Jackson? Well. Dissed at home Sasha Vujacic was good enough to help the Lakers win a title a couple months ago but when it comes to the Slovenian national team.
