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Terps basketball recruiting continued its recent momentum in a big way Sunday morning: star power forward Gus Gilchrist committed to the Terps!

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Best-ranked Indian tennis player Sania Mirza has decided to end her season early to completely recover from injury and start the next year fresh and prepared.

The 20-year-old Mirza had planned to play two more tournaments after the Zurich Open, but on Monday, in the first round of the tournament in Switzerland, she strained an abductor muscle and had to change her plans.

During the 2007 season, Mirza underwent one surgery in March after sustaining a ligament injury in her right knee at the Qatar Open.

Additionally, she suffered a wrist injury after the US Open, where she reached the third round, and missed her home WTA event last month.

"It's been a long and hard year for me where I had to make comebacks from two serious injuries and surgery," world No.30 Mirza told the Times of India newspaper on Saturday.

"I am mentally tired and my body is crying out for a break. I am looking forward to a rest and then a great season next year." (source: Reuters, photo via Sania Mirza fansite)

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Top-seeded Justine Henin beat world No.18 Tatiana Golovin 6-4 6-4 in the Zurich Open final on Sunday to win her ninth title of the year and to take the trophy in Zurich for the second time in her career.

In the opening set, Golovin was the one who broke first to take the 3-1 lead, but she didn’t manage to hold her serve and win the set. Henin broke Golovin two times, in the seventh and ninth game, to take the first set.

In the beginning of the second set, Golovin saved two break points, but the third one she didn’t and Henin took the lead. Golovin came back by immediately making a re-break but then dropped serve once more to fall 2-1 behind with what proved to be the last break of the match.

The 19-year-old played well, but not well enough to beat absolutely fantastic Justine Henin. Anyway, despite losing this final, Tatiana Golovin will climb the rankings to her new career high of world No.13.

Having won the 2007 Zurich Open, Justine Henin took home $182,000. (photo via BBC)

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The LA Daily News is reporting that plans are being made for a movie based on the life story on perhaps the greatest Beltway Boxer of all time — Sugar Ray Leonard.

The movie is scheduled to be written by acclaimed author H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, who wrote one of the greatest sports books of all time — the Texas high school football odyssey Friday Night Lights.

Bissinger plans to conduct interviews with Leonard’s friends, family, associates and opponents over the next six months. The movie is scheduled to be produced by Red Bird Cinema, whose founders include actor Kevin Pollack and St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa. Production on the movie is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2008.

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SAO PAULO, Brazil — Kimi Raikkonen won the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday to capture the Formula One title in the tightest race for the championship in 21 years.

The Ferrari driver rallied from third place in the points standings for his first F1 crown, taking advantage of Lewis Hamilton’s mistake on the first lap and Fernando Alonso’s disappointing run.

Raikkonen grabbed the lead with 17 laps to go and was followed by teammate Felipe Massa. Alonso, Hamilton’s McLaren teammate, finished third.

Hamilton was trying to become the first rookie to win the title and F1’s youngest champion. He went off the track on the first lap and later had car problems to finish seventh.

Alonso would have had to finish second and Hamilton fifth to keep Raikkonen from winning the championship after his victory. Raikkonen erased a seven-point gap coming into the race to finish with 110 points, one more than Hamilton and Alonso.

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Welsh manager Chris Coleman, sacked from his last post at Fulham, was appointed manager of Real Sociedad de Fútbol in the summer of 2007, although judging from the lack of coverage the news received, it would be fair to say that the move was swept under the carpet somewhat, and managed to avoid the elitist football radar.

Sociedad had just been relegated and UK-based Spanish football pundits chose instead to focus on the massive transfer fees being shelled out by the “big clubs” Real Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona [and Sevilla]. Such a focus is endemic in modern football, a real shame for those who still cling to the wilted remains of “grass roots” tradition.

The lack of attention paid to the news seems even more bemusing considering the fact that Coleman is one of the few British managers currently working abroad, a fact which ought to have made his fate of huge interest to the British media.

When Coleman, affectionately nicknamed “Cookie” during his playing days with Crystal Palace, where he enjoys legend status, was named manager of Fulham in 2003, he became the youngest manager in the Premiership at the time. Originally intended to be a “stop-gap” during the interregnum, Coleman’s popularity amongst the Fulham fans and the club’s survival from relegation with 10 points from a possible 15 saw the Welshman given the job on a full-time basis, a job which his hard work fully deserved.

However, circumstances were far from ideal for the new manager; Fulham chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed was embroiled in a legal battle with former manager Jean Tigana, and was determined to avoid the reckless spending which had characterized the reigns of both Tigana and Keegan – the failures of the past emblematized in the £12 million spent on French striker Steve Marlet, who went on to score just eleven goals for the club before fading into virtual obscurity (he is now kicking around East Anglia, angling for a contract with Ipswich, where his popular and successful compatriot and ex team-mate Sylvain Legwinski plays his football). Nevertheless, Coleman clearly had a positive effect on the team, and in particular on the form of Louis Saha, and the team finished in a club record 9th position that season, despite having to sell the dynamic Frenchman to Manchester United for some £13 million (a move which they might have been able to postpone had it not been for the Marlet debacle).

Over the next couple of years, Coleman’s Fulham experienced many highs and lows (the club had the best home record outside the top 6 in the 05-06 season, and the worst away form), although Coleman always ensured the club avoided relegation with relative ease, generally turning rustic Craven Cottage into a veritable fortress, despite being forced on numerous occasions to sell the team’s best players (the excellent Malbranque and the explosive Boa Morte are two prime examples). Coleman also brought exciting attacking football to the side, particularly when at home, a distinct contrast to the style of current boss Lawrie Sanchez.

Coleman was influential in bringing such players as Clint Dempsey (who, unfortunately for Coleman, failed to settle last season) and Vincenzo Montella to the club, and there was a general consensus that the set of players at the club during the 2006-7 season was perhaps the best the club had possessed during their short tenure in the Premiership. However, with a surplus of draws, a series of defensive frailties and the team spiraling towards the bottom three, Coleman was sacked in April 2007, the decision splitting the opinions of Fulham fans (there were many who maintained that Coleman had shown his inability to organize the talented players at his disposal), although the great majority of the football community reacted to the decision with surprise and disbelief.

When Coleman was offered the position at Real Sociedad de Fútbol, he followed in the footsteps of his countryman John Toshack, who had managed the club on two different occasions, winning the Copa del Rey once and twice guiding the side to the final. Toshack, who enjoys a similar status and level of influence at Sociedad as does Johan Cruyff at FC Barcelona (and both are well known for their particular linguistic mismanagements), had recommended Coleman for the job, and Sociedad, lacking any other stand-out candidates, immediately followed the recommendation. Whilst such a comment is by nature difficult to quantify, it is clear to me that the sense of “fellowship” (linguistic – Euskera and Welsh both being spoken, nationalistic) between Wales and the Basque country (similar to the “brotherhood” which appears to exist between Cataluña (and to some extent, the rest of Spain) and Ireland?), both seeing themselves as important traditional peoples surrounded by “foreign” invaders, both needing their big teams to play in “foreign” leagues in order to survive – we remind you that clubs such as Wrexham, Swansea and Cardiff all compete in the English Football League – must have been a significant factor in the popularity of Toshack and the willingness to take a chance on Coleman.

Coleman faced and continues to face a number of problems at his new club (would it be fair to say that so far, Coleman has only managed at clubs at crisis point?). He inherited a squad marked by absences (without the 130 or so goals scored by Nihat and Kovacevic, the former having left at the end of 2006 and the latter leaving in summer 2007, after a pretty appalling 2006-7 season in which the club’s top scorer, Savio, got just 5 league goals), and a loyal fan base who expected immediate promotion, despite the exodus of talented players. Indeed, despite the fact that in 1989 Sociedad abandoned the “Basque only” transfer policy still followed by neighbours Athletic Bilbao, Sociedad’s current threadbare squad is notable for a conspicuous lack of the foreign players who had contributed so greatly to the club’s 2nd and 3rd place finishes in 2002-3 and 1997-8 respectively. Coleman’s limited Spanish (not to mention Basque) must, at least for the immediate future, severely impede his ability to stamp his authority on the team, whilst the club’s financial problems will have undermined any desire to rejuvenate the first-team squad through the transfer market. Coleman brought with him just one Welshman, talented ex-Crewe defender David Vaughan (quite unlike the transfer tactics of Rafa Benítez and Arsene Wenger), who has adapted well to Spanish football. Indeed, the club have lost both games since the young Welshman picked up a thigh injury.

Coleman’s Real Sociedad lost their first match of the new season, at home to Castellón; proof if any was needed that the season in the Segunda División was to be no walk in the park (to which we might add the fact that current league leaders Málaga, who had been relegated the season before last, finished in 16th place last season). Whilst the club has discovered some form as of late, their last two fixtures, against promotion rivals Numancia and Sporting Gijón, have ended in late goals and defeats (2-1 and 1-0 respectively), although there were many positives to take from last night’s performance, particularly from the first half. Sociedad continue, however, to fail to defend effectively from corners and free-kicks, and to let in goals in the dying matches of games, two alarming symptoms of Coleman’s demise at Fulham.

Meanwhile, the British press is linking Coleman with a quick-fire return to the Premiership, with Bolton (who have had an approach for Coleman rejected by his Basque employers) or Birmingham (Steve Bruce’s position is by no means assured). Surprisingly, Coleman’s name was not linked with the vacancy which came up after the sacking of Peter Taylor at Crystal Palace, where I am convinced that he would have been a popular choice.

Do you think that Coleman can be a success at Sociedad? Or will he return to the Premiership/English football sooner rather than later? For the record, my opinion is that Coleman has an opportunity and the required charisma and ability to establish a Toshack-like legacy at Real Sociedad, and that therefore any move back home would be foolish at this stage. Let us hope, for the sake of Basque football and footballing tradition everywhere, that Sociedad do manage to bounce straight back up to the Primera Liga, as Athletic Bilbao currently look odds-on to fall into the abyss of the Segunda Liga for the first time in their history, and it would be an inestimable blow for all Spanish football fans to see a league with no Basque representation.

Will this Basque-Welsh love story end in heartbreak or marriage? Coleman was dealt a harsh hand at Fulham; but not all cookies crack in the sun, and in the Basque country this cookie will receive more than his fair share of precipitation.

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Part Two of our video interview with Bearcats head coach Mick Cronin from Saturday’s Fan Jam event.

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Joe Pelletier’s got an intriguing read over at Greatest Hockey Legends about some of the greatest penalty-killing experts in NHL history, including a run-down of the top all-time shorthanded goal-scorers. (It looks like Wayne Gretzky has a lock on that record with 73 goals, especially since his closest active competition is Sergei Fedorov with 36.)

Joe’s title, “Natural Born Killers,” gave me a chuckle. I’ve never seen the Oliver Stone movie by that title, but a university professor of mine used to reference it at virtually every class he taught. It was a running joke.

Seeing Dave McLlwain’s name mentioned was another blast from the past. The former NHL journeyman is now in his eighth season with the Cologne Sharks at age 40, and ranks second in team scoring with 13 points in 14 games. Apparently he can still skate.

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By: Graham Johns

To an outsider looking in, what makes up an amateur golfer may be ambiguous and mystifying. It’s more than a simple definition; however, and one looking at joining the amateur circuit needs to be aware that it is more than simply expanding on their hobby.

A simple definition of an amateut is a participent who plays for enjoyment and does not receive payment in cash or kind as a reward. But that is not a total defination of an amateur golfer. It’s important to note that there is an actual definition of an amateur player according to the United States Golf Association.

An amateur player reaches that status first by reaching what is known as golf skill. Golf skill is assessed by a player’s success at a competitive level. The level of competition can be local or national; the important aspect is that the player is successful competitively.

Once a player has success in competitions and is recognized as having golf skill, this is known as golf reputation. Again, a reputation can only be gained through actual playing and recognition of golf skill. Simply being associated with the game of golf, administering tournaments or being an instructor does not gain a player reputation or skill.

After achieving a level of reputable golf skill and establishing a status, an amateur may become an amateur player. This is a player that does not yet play for money and does not accept money for teaching the sport of golf.

An amateur player may not claim to be a pro golfer, either, and may not engage in any action that would credit them in the same fashion as a professional player. Breaking this code of ethics would also include accepting any endorsements from commercial groups, allowing names or likenesses to appear for commercial purposes, or entering into professional agreements with sponsors or agents.

Finally, an amateur player is not allowed to apply for membership to any organization for professional players. Of course, there are exceptions for every rule, and amateur golf is no exception. An amateur player is allowed to apply for an assistant professional player.

They are also allowed to enter and play in a tournament or competition that will lead to play in a professional competition. The only difference in play between them and a professional player is that an amateur player must forfeit all rights to any prize monies that they could potentially win.

The rules and exceptions of amateur golf play are numerous, but the most important factor of note throughout the process is that becoming an amateur golfer can be relatively simple. Becoming an amateur golfer is, however, only for those that take the sport of golf seriously and not for those that want to make a quick splash as a pro.

With the comprehensive rules of payment and expenses as they are, making a career as an amateur is simply downright impossible. Becoming one, though, is directed aptly towards those that are game for competition and those that are looking to strike their golf game up to the next level of such competition.

As with any sport, becoming well-versed in the rules and regulations of the governing body is of utter importance. Read and familiarize the USGA regulations prior to making any significant decisions towards amateur golf.

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