Scotland are seeking a fitting end to their Euro 2008 qualifying campaign against Italy in Glasgow on Saturday.
Few gave the Scots a chance of reaching next summer’s finals when they were drawn in a group with Italy and France.
THE Kangaroos and the AFL are yet to reach an agreement over the league’s push to have the club relocate to the Gold Coast.
Kangaroos board members met with AFL officials in a meeting where both options were presented.
The AFL outlined its incentive package for the club to relocate, which includes wiping off the Kangaroos debt, and providing other financial and recruiting concessions.
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 On again, off again just another day in the life of having Marian Gaborik on your team during the course of an 82-game NHL season. While immensely talented, and productive when on the ice, staying healthy has been the speedy Slovak’s biggest obstacle. Minnesota could use a boost of confidence, not to mention a shot in the arm offensively where Gaborik’s skills are so important to this team. The Oilers, while still struggling are a determined and skilled team of youngsters. Despite their many injuries to their blueline; youngsters Sam Gagner, Robert Nilsson, and Andrew Cogliano fly around the ice and make things happen. Will they be able to do enough to beat the Wild tonight, or will Minnesota finally get back on the winning track?
The Wild started out with fair intensity to start the game; moving well and generating some early chances on former Minnesota goaltender Dwayne Roloson. Then, a little shot of luck got the Wild on the scoreboard early when a Martin Skoula point shot took and odd ricochet off of an Oilers defenseman unintentionally re-directing the puck by Roloson to give Minnesota a 1-0 lead. After this early goal, the Wild started to get into penalty trouble, on three separate calls (although the hooking call on James Sheppard was pretty weak). For a team that is supposed to have the league’s worst power play, the Edmonton Oilers were moving the puck very well and setting up big blasts from Jarret Stoll and Dick Tarnstrom. Yet, despite the great puck movement, the Wild’s penalty kill and Niklas Backstrom kept the Oilers off the scoreboard. The Wild would have just two power plays, and on its first one it was lucky it did not give up a shorthanded goal when a poor play near the Wild goal turned into a prime chance for the Oilers’ Kyle Brodziak but Backstrom was sharp and managed to keep the puck out of the Minnesota net. The Wild would have much better puck control; namely Pierre-Marc Bouchard would dangle rather well, but Minnesota could not seem to get shots on net despite by the good puck movement and the State of Hockey would skate away with its 1-goal lead into the 2nd.
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VANCOUVER – The city of Vancouver has signed a deal with the company building the Olympic village that will see the project providing 100 jobs to inner city residents.
The deal involving Millennium Southeast False Creek Properties and the Building Opportunities with Business Inner-city Society also includes the provision that $15 million will be spent at inner city businesses.
MADRID, Spain — Future record books may show there was no winner of the women’s 100 meters at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
IOC officials said Thursday they are considering the unprecedented step of leaving the gold-medal spot vacant following Marion Jones’ confession that she used performance-enhancing drugs.
MIAMI — Dwyane Wade is finally back.
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Miami’s All-Star guard, recovered from offseason shoulder and knee surgeries, played for the first time this season Wednesday night, but the Heat still lost, 104-95 to the previously winless Seattle SuperSonics.
Wade scored 15 points in 25 minutes on 5-for-9 shooting for Miami (1-7), which is 0-4 at home for the second time in franchise history.
INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge and World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound have accused governments of falling short in the fight against drugs in sport.
"Both partners of WADA - the governments and the sports movement - have to do a lot, and they have to do it fast," Rogge said on the opening day of the 2007 world conference on doping in sport, in Madrid.