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Fri, 18 May 2012
(Photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)'Last-gasp IPL thrillers stressful for players, spectators'
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(Photo: Creative Commons / Yann Caradec)Rafael Nadal breezes to win and berth in Rome Masters quarter-finals as Samantha Stosur and Andy Murray fall
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World Athletics Day Meet
| Young athletes come out in numbers | A good number of young athletes were in action in Saturday’s World Athletics Day Meet at Stad Popiler. | Organised by the Seychelles Athletics Federation (SAF) to commemorate World Athletics Day, the meet targeted young athletes in...Full Story
Athletics
| Fanny gets level one lecturer certificate | Giovanni Fanny is not only a track & field athletics coach. He is also an IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) level one lecturer. | Fanny received his level one lecturer certificate after following a si...Full Story
Transfer rules on the minds of Big Ten athletic directors
By Matt Charboneau The Detroit News Comments Michigan State coach Tom Izzo has said he is not in favor of the rule that allows a senior to transfer and not sit out if they are entering a graduate program not offered at their current school. (Dale G. Young/Detroit News) ...Full Story
British Olympic Association rescinds lifetime ban on athletes caught doping
| DWAIN Chambers and David Millar were cleared for the London Olympics on Thursday after the British Olympic Association officially rescinded its lifetime ban for athletes found guilty of doping offences. | The formality followed the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)...Full Story
Track roots run deep for Cass Tech sprinter Kyra Jefferson
By Tom Markowski The Detroit News Comments Though she was a track star, Michele Watkins didn't push daughter Kyra Jefferson into the sport. The Cass Tech senior pursued it on her own. (David Guralnick/Detroit News) | Detroit- Sprinting is simply in Kyra Jefferson's bloo...Full Story
Clairton sprinters run to photo finish at WPIALs
| Maybe Clairton sprinter Vincent Moody motivated his cousin a little too much. | “My little cousin has pushed me so hard, and I could tell today that he was serious,” said Trenton Coles, who crossed the 100-meter finish line just three-thousandths of a second ahead...Full Story
Clairton sprinters run to photo finish at WPIAL contest
| Maybe Clairton sprinter Vincent Moody motivated his cousin a little too much. | “My little cousin has pushed me so hard, and I could tell today that he was serious,” said Trenton Coles, who crossed the 100-meter finish line just three-thousandths of a second ahead...Full Story
Clairton sprinters run to photo finish
| Maybe Clairton sprinter Vincent Moody motivated his cousin a little too much. | “My little cousin has pushed me so hard, and I could tell today that he was serious,” said Trenton Coles, who crossed the 100-meter finish line just three-thousandths of a second ahead...Full Story
SMU Fires Athletic Director Steve Orsini Ahead of Big East Move
| Southern Methodist University fired Athletic Director Steve Orsini as the Dallas-based school prepares to switch to the Big East conference. | Tim Leonard, the senior associate director of athletics, was named interim director of athletics while a national search is u...Full Story
WPIAL Boys Class AAA Track and Field Championships
| Following are the eight medalists from the May 17, 2012 meet at Baldwin High School. The top four finishers in each event qualify for the PIAA championships May 25-26 at Shippensburg University. Those who finish in fifth through eighth place must meet qualifying stand...Full Story
WPIAL Boys Class AA Track and Field Championships
| Following are the eight medalists from the May 17, 2012 meet at Baldwin High School. The top five finishers in each event qualify for the PIAA championships May 25-26 at Shippensburg University. Those who finish in sixth through eighth place must meet qualifying stand...Full Story
WPIAL Girls Class AA Track and Field Championships
| Following are the eight medalists from the May 17, 2012 meet at Baldwin High School. The top five finishers in each event qualify for the PIAA championships May 25-26 at Shippensburg University. Those who finish in sixth through eighth place must meet qualifying stand...Full Story
Man against mountain in the NorthFace 100
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Man against mountain in the NorthFace 100
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Who are the most injury prone athletes?
| With Warriors star Jerome Ropati confirmed for another long stint on the sidelines, we look at athletes who tend to spend more time off the field than on. | Jerome Ropati - League | After dislocating his left knee against the Roosters on Saturday it was yesterday reve...Full Story
Justin Gatlin fires United States to a sprint sweep
Former Olympic gold-medallist Justin Gatlin and world champion Carmelita Jeter ramped up their preparations for London 2012 when they led a U.S. sprint clean sweep in the men's 100m at the IAAF World Challenge meeting on Wednesday. | Gatlin grabbed the men's 100m at 9.9...Full Story
Jeffersonville track and field results
individual: 13 numChar :2074 | -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 17 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 2516 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 2074 | LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 442 | -->--> | Team scores - 1. Jeffersonville 155; 2. Madison 129; 3. Silver Creek 86; 4. Scottsburg 76; 5. Switzerla...Full Story
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 Basketball star Terrell to be enshrined with five others tonight in SMU Athletic Hall of Fame
The Dallas Morning News | Ira Terrell called himself a “Mustang for life” — a Roosevelt Mustang as a star high school player, and one of the greatest basketball players ever seen at SMU. | It’s fitting then that Terrell — the 1976 Southwest Conference Player of th...
Fetterman: Area athletes plot Ironman Texas strategies
The Dallas Morning News | More than 200 area multisport athletes will be among nearly 2,000 converging on The Woodlands for Saturday’s second Ironman Texas event. | There’s a pro field vying for $75,000, and there are age groupers racing to complete the grueling course ...
Class A State Track and Field Meet: Results
Courier Journal individual: 7 numChar :2124 | -->individual: 18 numChar :2092 | -->individual: 26 numChar :2029 | -->individual: 37 numChar :2176 | -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 40 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 8845 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 8421 | LAST PAGE CONTAIN...
Sex, age may affect athletes' concussion recovery
Hartford Courant | (Reuters) - Female and high school athletes may need more time to recover from a than their male or college counterparts, according to a U.S. study that comes amid rising concern about concussions in young athletes. | Researchers, whose report appe...
Athletes of the week for May 18
Kansas City Star McCoy | Trey Daniel | SCHOOL: Blue Valley North | YEAR: Junior | SPORT: Boys tennis | Daniel didn't lose a game at the Kansas Class 6A state tournament until the final Saturday against SM West's Vinny Pham. Before that, Daniel, who finished the seaso...
SMU unexpectedly fires athletic director weeks after hiring of Larry Brown
Yahoo Daily News | Steve Orsini, left, SMU President R.Gerald Turner, center, and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith pose … | In Steve Orsini's tenure as SMU athletic director, he revitalized the football program by hiring June Jones, he orche...
Hurdling the CPS obstacle
Chicago Sun-Times | For most of the athletes heading to Charleston this weekend for the girls state track and field finals, the formula for success is talent plus desire plus experience plus support. | But Cameron Pettigrew is getting by on mainly talent and desire. |...
Operator of Miami Marathon now will run Palm Beaches Marathon, too
Palm Beach Post | The organization that has helped the Miami Marathon nearly triple in size - reaching a capacity field of 25,000 this past January - is taking control of the Palm Beaches Marathon. | Managing partner Peter Handy confirmed Thursday that his firm, the...
SMU fires athletic director Steve Orsini
The Miami Herald | DALLAS -- SMU athletic director Steve Orsini was fired Thursday, just four weeks after he and the Mustangs hired Hall of Fame basketball coach Larry Brown. | The move was announced by SMU President R. Gerald Turner in a news release, and was effect...
Former University of Miami athletic director Paul Dee, who led UM through its 'greatest dynasty,' remembered
Palm Beach Post | CORAL GABLES — University of Miami president Donna Shalala said she heard Paul Dee curse only once, and Hurricanes' fans everywhere can probably relate. | Toward the end of the 2002 national championship game between UM and Ohio State, Shalal...
College athlete advocates predicting long fight before NCAA transfer rules are eased, if ever
Star Tribune | The NCAA is examining transfer rules after a spate of high-profile cases that has critics saying too much power is in the hands of athletic directors and coaches. | The issue came to the forefront in men's basketball over the winter when 7-foot cen...
Frank Lampard eager to lead Chelsea over Champions League final hurdle
The Guardian | Chelsea's veteran midfielder holds Bayern Munich in high regard but believes his team can prosper in the Allianz Arena, he tells Barney Ronay Frank Lampard has often reserved his best form for the Champions League and is eager to lift the trophy on...
Celebrity 100: From Tiger to A-Rod, Powerful Athletes Face Problems Aplenty
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SMU Fires Athletic Director Steve Orsini
National Public Radio | DALLAS (AP) — SMU athletic director Steve Orsini was fired Thursday, just four weeks after he and the Mustangs hired Hall of Fame basketball coach Larry Brown. | The move was announced by SMU President R. Gerald Turner in a news release, and was ...
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