Oct 15
Rooney celebrates with Owen after scoring against Estonia
Steve McClaren is confident Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney can forge a successful partnership up front for England.
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Oct 15
Michelle Wie
The losses for Michelle Wie keep piling up even though her LPGA Tour season is over. The latest came Monday when her agent resigned after less than a year on the job.
Greg Nared, a former Nike business manager whom the William Morris Agency hired a year ago to manage Wie, resigned as vice-president of golf. His announcement came one day after Wie finished 19th in a 20-player field at the Samsung World Championship.
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Oct 15
Alpine Canada Alpin
CALGARY, AB – Max Gartner, the Chief Athletics Officer of Alpine Canada Alpin, has agreed to guide the Canadian Alpine Ski Team and ACA’s participation in ”Own The Podium 2010” through the 2010 Winter Olympics, Chief Executive Officer Ken Read announced Monday.
Gartner, the successful ski coach noted for guiding wife Kerrin Lee-Gartner to Olympic downhill gold in 1992, left retirement to join Read during the rebuilding of Canada’s alpine ski racing programs in 2003.
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Oct 15
Even mainstream media is now starting to say it – coach Doba must go. Howie Stalwick, who is carrying the mail for the WSU coverage these days in the P-I, says it plain as day today in Sport Tri-Cities. By the way, Howie is a good writer and better than anything else the P-I can do, so it’s working out. And I’d put him right above Vince of the SR, who in his first year on the beat has a very difficult time doing anything editorial (read: he seems afraid to say what’s so painfully obvious!).
But Stalwick is right on many levels. They aren’t getting it done, from recruiting to everything else that has been examined ad nauseum. But the most dangerous thing right now is the level of blowouts that we are seeing. Not only is that talent level issues, but, it’s also becoming an effort issue. In other words, Doba and staff seem to have lost this team, and we’ve still got five games left. I can’t imagine it getting any worse than 40-0 at the half or 47-7 early in the third, but with the way this year is going, anything is possible.
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Oct 15
A heartening performance, a useful result and while pessimism continues to reign in Dublin, the fact is that mathematically the Republic of Ireland can still qualify for next summer’s finals. The odds against them are hefty because the Czech Republic are not expected to implode on the campaign’s penultimate day at home to Slovakia or at the death in Cyprus. But it is not over until it’s over, even if there was a feeling of a big decision delayed.
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Oct 15
Anyway, here are the regular league numbers 187 games into the season:SeasonWeek 28Attendance**3,070,539116,512Att per game16,59719,419Beckham Att (5*)195,8470Beckham Avg Att39,1690Goals50214Goals per game2.6842.333Inter-conferenceTie 28-28-25West 1-0-0Visitors49-91-472-2-2Ties47 (25.1%)2 (33.3%)* Number of MLS matches with Beckham in attendance
** I cannot locate the attendance numbers for Colorado-Columbus (2 Sept) or LA-Columbus (30 Sept) so the season average is for only 185 games.
Chicago Fire 0-0 DC United
If it were not for the work of Troy Perkins, United would not have the Supporters’ Shield wrapped up. DC looked extremely flat on the night while Chicago was pushing to find a way to make something happen. Blanco was shut down for large portions of the match, but Chad Barrett stepped up for the Fire. So is this just a moment of rest prior to the playoffs or is DC having another late season meltdown?
Attendance: 25,404
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Oct 15
           
    
The Colorado Rockies extended their incredible streak to 20 wins in 21 games. Rockies starter Josh Fogg spread out 7 Arizona hits while giving up just 1 run in 6 innings of work, catcher Yorvit Torrealba provided the offensive punch breaking up a 1-1 tie with a three run 6th inning homer off of Diamondbacks’ starter Livan Hernandez and the bullpen trio of lefthanders Jeremy Affeldt and Brian Fuentes and closer Manny Corpas locked down the Diamondbacks allowing them only 1 hit and 1 baserunner over the final 3 innings as Colorado took a commanding 3-0 game lead in the NLCS with a 4-1 win.
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Oct 15
Murray: No problem
Andy Murray has stated once again that his comments on alleged corruption in tennis were taken out of context.
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Oct 15
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Italy’s Flavia Pennetta outclassed Taiwanese teen Chan Yung-jan 6-1, 6-3 to win the Bangkok Open on Sunday and claim her fourth career title.
The No. 7-seeded Italian played aggressively and Chan struggled to keep up.
“She played well, didn’t make mistakes and deserved to win,” said 18-year-old, who was playing in her first WTA final.
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Oct 15
The FA Carlsberg Sunday Cup
First Round
Sunday 15 October 2007
Winning clubs receive £175
Click here for results
If you score 11 goals in five games you might expect to become a marked man. Not so, apparently, as Birstall Stamford’s Kris Nurse followed up last season’s Sunday Cup heroics with a hat-trick in his side’s opener in this season’s competition.
Birstall Stamford reached the semi-final last season, for the second year in succession, before they fell to the eventual winners Coundon Conservative.
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