Oct 10
Junior center earns honor for second consecutive season
Oct. 10, 2007
IRVING, Texas – For the second straight season, Oklahoma’s Courtney Paris was named the Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year in a vote by the league’s head coaches announced by the conference office Wednesday.
Paris has been the face of Big 12 women’s basketball in her two years as a collegian. The 2007 Associated Press National Player of the Year is the only player in NCAA history to collect 700 points, 500 rebounds and 100 blocks in a single-season – a feat Paris has accomplished twice.
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Oct 10
NEW YORK (AP) – One of Marion Jones’ relay teammates wants to keep the bronze medal she earned with the disgraced sprinter at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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Oct 10
Botham: During his record knock against Australia
I’m very, very proud. It’s the pinnacle of my life and I don’t think I can top that.
Ian Botham
Quotes of the week
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Oct 10
Vera Zvonareva delighted the Kremlin Cup crowd with a 4-6 6-3 6-4 victory over sixth seed Amelie Mauresmo in Moscow.
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Oct 10
Bellamy: Available
Craig Bellamy has been passed fit to travel with Wales for their Euro 2008 qualifiers in Cyprus and San Marino.
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Oct 10
In sport, the intimacy between triumph and disaster is often familiar to the point of triteness, but seldom can they have converged quite as vividly as in the case of Kieren Fallon.
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Oct 10
Howlett has scored 49 tries for the All Blacks
New Zealand rugby player Doug Howlett has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.
Police were called to a disturbance outside Heathrow Airport’s Hilton Hotel at 0300 BST on Tuesday.
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Oct 10
Vinny Testaverde has agreed to terms with the Carolina Panthers, pending a physical, ESPN’s Chris Mortensen is reporting.
Testaverde
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Oct 10
Lionel Messi
ZURICH, Switzerland – Brazil playmaker Kaka and Argentina forward Lionel Messi are among the leading contenders to challenge Italy defender Fabio Cannavaro for this year’s FIFA World Player of the Year award.
Cannavaro, who last year became the first defender to earn the honour, will also face competition from two-time winner Ronaldinho of Brazil and Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba, who are among 30 players nominated for the award Wednesday.
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Oct 10
The LA Times is reporting that a “sports marketer” who made payments to Reggie Bush and his family has agreed to cooperate with an NCAA investigation into the matter.
Lloyd Lake will “provide documentation of financial transactions” made to Bush and his family while the Heisman Trophy winner was a member of the USC Trojans football team.
Lake and his business partner Michael Michaels first came to national attention in April 2006 when Michaels told the San Diego Union-Tribune that the Bush’s family never paid rent on the home they lived in while Bush played at Southern Cal.
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