Boxing
CHICAGO – Canadian welterweight Adam Trupish’s run at the World Amateur Boxing Championships came to an end Thursday after a quarter-final loss to Thailand’s Non Boonjumnong.
Trupish was outscored 25-17 by Boonjumnong in the 69-kilogram match.
WHL
EDMONTON – Robin Figren had a goal and an assist to lead the Edmonton Oil Kings to a 4-1 win over the Everett Silvertips in Western Hockey League action Thursday.
Edmonton has now won three straight games.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Practice had long since ended Thursday, and Charlotte Bobcats forward Emeka Okafor was still on the court, playing a competitive, rotating one-on-one competition with three teammates.
GREG Jenkins heads the Australian contingent at the world pool championship in Manila, Philippines, from this weekend, and he’s amped about the format change implemented to make the game more exciting.
For the first time, the championship is using a format whereby the winner of a frame breaks in the next frame. The game used to be “alternate break”, which made it “very hard to get a rhythm going”, Jenkins told FOXSPORTS.com.au from Manila.
THE man who convinced Alan Jones to apply for the Wallabies coaching job today said he hoped the Australian Rugby Union would now give the broadcaster a “good hearing”.
Jones officially announced today that he would apply for the Wallabies role vacated by World Cup coach John Connolly.
He told a Sydney press conference today that discussions with Queensland Rugby Union chairman Peter Lewis swayed him to become a candidate.
USA TODAY‘s Christine Brennan goes out of her way to ask ‘what the heck does the Big 10 Conference have to brag about’ in her latest column.
Brennan, who grew up in Big 10 country, admits that the conference might be… umm… overrated.
The Big Ten has produced a record of 17-29 in the Rose Bowl in my lifetime, including a dreadful 1-9 run through the 1970s. Just last year, when Ohio State and Michigan met as the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the nation and played a game for the ages, both teams thudded back to reality with crushing defeats in their bowl games. Continue reading »
There has always been a problem surrounding the use of guns in American. In the past ten years or so that problem has been a concern of many American citizens and lawmakers. Anti-gun legislation are proposed laws that would limit the use and sale of guns in the United States.
Anti-gun legislators and their supporters really have not had much success. They have worked to increase the requirements for purchasing a gun; however, many anti-gun legislators and their supports still are not satisfied. This has many individuals who are gun supporters wondering exactly how far they may get.
Chris Rolfe
WASHINGTON – The Chicago Fire’s curse on D.C. United lives on. Barely.
The Fire got the better of United in the playoffs yet again Thursday night, scoring two first-half goals and surviving a thrilling D.C. comeback in a 2-2 tie that sent Chicago to the Eastern Conference final.
The result gave the Fire a 3-2 aggregate win in the two-game, first-round series, following their 1-0 win at home last week. Chicago improved to 5-0-2 against United in the playoffs, including a 4-0 rout in Washington in the exact same setting – second leg of the first round – two years ago.
The home to New England’s only Nextel Cup races is being sold, a move that leaves the future of NASCAR racing at New Hampshire International Speedway uncertain.
Kobe Bryant won’t be joining the Chicago Bulls anytime soon.
General manager John Paxson basically squashed the notion that the Los Angeles Lakers’ superstar will wind up in Chicago, saying the teams were never on the verge of a deal and talks were over for now.
“There’s not a deal to be done,” he said Thursday. “There’s not going to be a deal done. All the things that were out there were really unfair to all of us who were trying to do our jobs. The misinformation … I think gets in the way of the process. It’s just such a complicated thing and we kind of put it to rest now.”