Asia Kaczor and Everson Griffen were selected as USC’s Wells Fargo Student-Athletes of the Week today (Nov. 5) for the week of Oct. 29-Nov. 4.
Kaczor, a senior from Wroclaw, Poland, had a team-high 21 kills and 10 digs in a 3-1 win over No. 9 UCLA on Nov. 2 at the Galen Center. The Women of Troy lost the first game of the match to the Bruins, but Kaczor helped lead them back for the win to extend USC’s winning streak at the Galen Center to 21 matches.
Madrid, Spain (Sports Network) – The WTA Tour will wrap up its 2007 season this week with the exclusive eight-player, $3 million Sony Ericsson Championships in Madrid.
The Championships will commence today with a trio of round-robin matches, including one for defending champion Justine Henin, who topped Amelie Mauresmo in last year’s lucrative finale in Madrid.
New York, NY (Sports Network) – NFL football fans were just treated to Super Bowl 41-and-a-half, with the New England Patriots eking past the Indianapolis Colts, 24-20.
Now, fight fans can get ready for their very own Super Bowl, which will take place Saturday at the famed Madison Square Garden when former 3 division champion "Sugar" Shane Mosley (44-4, 37 KO’s) takes on undefeated WBA Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto (30-0, 25KO’s). And while this fight won’t have the glitz or the promotion of Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather Jr., it promises to be a much better fight, pitting Mosley’s speed and skill versus Cotto’s pressure and power.
Everton fans with the wrong tickets will be denied entry
About 1,500 Everton supporters face being turned away from Thursday’s Uefa Cup game in Nuremberg because of fears over crowd trouble.
Uefa classified the match as high-risk after it emerged that the German club had sold a number of tickets in their home section direct to Everton fans.
Bruce Arena resigned as New York Red Bulls manager and sporting director Monday, two days after the team was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs for the second straight year – losing 1 -0 to the New England Revolution.
We live in a time when we tend to look to the government to do a lot of things. For some reason, we tend to think that just because we have to pay taxes, it is our government’s job to fix everything that is broke and arrest anybody we don’t like. But if we can get a more rational view of what the government can do and moreover what it cannot do, we then can define what is local and should be handled by people in our own comity.
There are many projects that are just outside of what the government ought to be sticking their noses into. This is particularly true concerning the federal government. Too often we push to the national level discussions and decisions about the quality of life in our own communities when no matter what the federal government does, nothing will make our communities a better place to live more than people coming together as neighbors to make it so.
There are and have been many fishing techniques employed by different people at different times throughout history. It is quite possible to locate fish with a minimal amount of equipment. It is even possible to catch wfish with one’s hands. In the United States catching a catfish with only one’s hands is called noodling.
Noodling may also be called graveling, grabbling, tickling, or hogging depending on which southern state you’re in. Though there are many strange names, it is most simply known as handfishing. Only five states of the United States have explicit laws permitting handfishing. Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and Oklahoma all have laws explicitly permitting the right of individuals to handfish. In the year 2005, Missouri and Georgia have also adopted similar handfishing laws.
McLaren say they are in no hurry to sign a replacement for recently departed Fernando Alonso.
Team CEO Martin Whitmarsh also tempered Lewis Hamilton’s remarks over the weekend, saying the young Brit’s wish list of drivers doesn’t exactly match theirs.
BERLIN – Tommy Haas said it’s time to name names after an unidentified German player accused another of match-fixing during a television interview.
Talk of match-fixing has swirled around tennis for weeks. The latest accusation came from the unnamed German in a TV interview who said he was approached by someone who wanted to place a five-figure bet for him. The man’s voice was electronically distorted during the interview.
