Nov 07
BOSTON — If you’re still looking for a fight of the year, you probably don’t have to look any further.
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Nov 07
The Texas A&M job was a hot topic at two college football news conferences Tuesday, and the coaches at the forefront were doing their best to dodge the questions.
In College Station, embattled Texas A&M coach Dennis Franchione said reports that he was negotiating a buyout of his contract were untrue.
“I am not going to get into the rumor game with you guys,” Franchione said. “There are no facts to that and I’m not into it. I’m sorry that you guys have to deal with it.”
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Nov 07
Gatting’s new role is wide-reaching
Mike Gatting has vowed to help counties produce more England-qualified players.
The ex-England captain is in charge of overseeing first-class cricket and is keen to see a reduction in overseas players, who number more than 50.
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Nov 07
Gretzky to Lemieux: The Story of the 1987 Canada Cup
By Ed Willes
Published by McLelland & Stewart
Hardcover, 256 pages
Release Date: October 6, 2007
Considering how many books have commemorated the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union, it’s almost unbelievable that until this year, no one had given the same full-length treatment to the 1987 Canada Cup. In the three-game final series that climaxed this classic tournament, the two archrival nations played hockey at a level that has arguably never been equaled, before or since. It pitted a 26-year-old Wayne Gretzky in his prime and a blossoming 21-year-old Mario Lemieux–plus other Canadian superstars like Paul Coffey, Mark Messier, and Ray Bourque–versus the elite Russian “Green Unit” of forwards Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov, Sergei Makarov and defensemen Viacheslav Fetisov and Alexei Kasatonov. Showing how equally matched the teams were, each game finished with a 6-5 score.
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Nov 07
Led by a couple of phenom rivals in L.A., Jeff Goodman says a strong incoming class has the potential to outclass the seniors.
Filed under Arizona
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Nov 07
By: Elmo Kandel
Some people love anything that is new. Some people love anything that is adventurous. Put both of those key elements together and it is easy to see how bungy jumping very quickly went from being one individual inventing an elastic rope and tossing himself off high structures to a legitimate sport which has gained worldwide popularity in a relatively short period of time. Twenty-five years ago no one had heard of bungy jumping; today, it is all the rage– everywhere!
Bungy jumping is one sport for which the aspect of newness is constant. Whether a person is attempting his very first jump or has made it a consistent part of his lifestyle, the element of adventure is such that each and every jump is a fresh experience. Even if you frequent the same bungy jumping sites on a regular basis, this is a sport in which every experience is different, and each time feels like the first time. Adventure-seekers of all ages and backgrounds will delight in this factor, because no matter how long you engage in the sport of bungy jumping it is something which will never become routine. The excitement is present whether it is your first jump or your twentieth!
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Nov 07
By: Elmo Kandel
There’s a new trend in bungee jumping, but I wouldn’t exactly say that it’s taking the world by storm. So what is this new angle on the ancient sport of bungee jumping? How about naked bungee jumping. OK, so I know you think I’m crazy, but there hundreds, perhaps thousands out there who will swear by this experience. Let’s take a few minutes to look at the possible attraction, as well as the detractors, of this bizarre variation on the sport.
First, it is interesting to note that the natives who have performed the ritual that has become bungee jumping for thousands of years wear very little clothing. I’ll admit, it must be a bit different jumping from a make-shift wooden tower using a jungle vine attached to your ankles. This is a far cry from modern bungee jumping. However, these native young men wore nothing more than a flimsy loin cloth on their plunge to please mother earth. So in some primitive, instinctual way, there must be a spiritual attraction of sorts in performing naked bungee jumping. Some people who choose to participate in this variation of the sport have admitted to being extreme naturalists, even nudists. Of course, there are those who complete nude bungee jumping who wouldn’t qualify as nature lovers at all.
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Nov 07
Another champion of sorts for Beltway trainer Jose “Pepe” Correa. Correa guided Cameroon’s Sakio Bika to an eighth-round TKO victory over Queens, New York’s Jaidon Codrington to win the “Contender” title tonight in Boston, MA. Bika captured $750,000 with the victory.
In what was an incredible bout, both fighters traded knockdowns in the very first round and went on to exchange power shots throughout the contest before Bika finally wore down Codrington and stopped him at 2:18 of the eighth round.
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Nov 07
Sven Goran Eriksson has revealed that when he was manager of Lazio he tried to sign Roy Keane from Manchester United. “I was on the phone to his agent,” Eriksson said, “but then he signed a new contract with United.” Now Manchester City’s manager, Eriksson will shake hands with Keane, the manager of Sunderland, at Eastlands tonight.
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Nov 07
They wanted to use this contest as a springboard to their season – but just as they were about to hit the water West Ham turned a well-executed dive into a messy bellyflop. In turn Kevin Nolan’s injury-time equaliser threw a hopeful lifeline to Bolton at the moment it appeared they were continuing to walk the plank towards relegation.
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