Feb 08
Bucknell head men’s basketball coach Pat Flannery has been given full clearance to return to his coaching duties and will be on the bench when the Bison travel to Navy on Saturday for a 7 p.m. contest.
Flannery left the bench after feeling ill during the second half of Bucknell’s Jan. 30 game against Lehigh. After undergoing thorough medical evaluation and treatment, Flannery’s doctors have determined the cause of the illness and have given him full authorization to resume coaching.
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Feb 08
LOS ANGELES — While Sam Cassell acknowledges he’s unhappy the Los Angeles Clippers are losing, the veteran point guard made it clear Thursday he’s not lobbying to play elsewhere.
The Boston Globe reported Cassell was trying to buy out his contract so he could play for the Eastern Conference-leading Celtics. Cassell, averaging 13.1 points and a team-leading 4.5 assists in 34 games, is earning $6.1 million this season — the final year of his contract.
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Feb 08
13 May 2007 VIDEO: FA Vase Final: Totton 1-3 Truro
Truro City become the first Cornish club to lift The FA Vase coming back from a goal down to win at Wembley
The FA Carlsberg Vase
Fifth Round Proper
Saturday 9 February 2008
Winning clubs receive £2,000
Click here for the fixtures
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Feb 08
Darnell “The Ding-A-Ling Man” Wilson weighed in at 200 pounds for his USBA Cruiserweight title defense against undefeated BJ “El Peligroso” Flores tonight in Dover, DE on ESPN2. Flores also weighed in at 200.
Some out-of-town boxers who have fought along the Beltway numerous times are slated to be on tonight’s card. Undefeated Montgomery, AL middleweight John “No Mercy” Mackey is scheduled to be in the first swing bout that will be televised if one of the two TV bouts is a quick one. Also, Philadelphia’s Dhafir “No Fear” Smith is going to be in the co-feature TV bout against Rayco Saunders.
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Feb 08
I suppose when you have one of the top rated recruiting classes by ESPN, you can wear whatever you dang well please.
That said, Clemson coach Tommy Bowden may be taking things a little too far.
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Feb 08
The Beckham tour schedule has been released and he is hitting all the MLS cities this time around. The question, however, is will this sequel be able to live up to the hype of the original? Find out at a city near you for the light cost of a grade A soccer ticket.
And with nothing more to add, here it is, the Los Angeles Galaxy’s 2008 schedule:
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Feb 08
Amelie Mauresmo
PARIS – Amelie Mauresmo of France needed less than 10 minutes Thursday to reach the quarter-finals of the Open Gaz de France, advancing when Eleni Daniilidou quit the match because of the flu.
The sixth-seeded Mauresmo jumped ahead 3-0 on Daniilidou before the 36th-ranked Greek had to retire.
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Feb 08
Sir Alex Ferguson
MANCHESTER, England – Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is angry about the lack of consultations over the Premier League’s plan to take games overseas.
The league’s 20 clubs agreed unanimously Thursday to look at playing 10 games overseas, starting in the 2010-11 season.
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Feb 08
Tibetan activists protest at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne
The International Olympic Committee says history will prove it was right to award the 2008 Games to Beijing despite concerns over human rights in China.
Friday marks six months until the start of the Olympics and there remains disquiet in some quarters at the record of the Chinese communist government.
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Feb 08
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With Hockey Day in Minnesota almost upon us, tonight’s game against the Dallas Stars will also appeal to the State of Hockey’s sense of history and appreciation of the game. Tonight the team will recognize the accomplishments of 1988 1st Overall selection Mike Modano, who earlier this season became the all-time American-born scorer in National Hockey League history passing up Minnesotan, Phil Housely. Housely, along with former North Stars’ General Manager Lou Nanne will be on hand for the celebration. For some Wild fans, its a chance to praise one of its former hometown stars on huge milestone, and for others its a bitter and even undeserved celebration for a player who was not so kind to Minnesota when the team left back in 1993. Modano also questioned whether NHL hockey could succeed in Minnesota, questioning the fans’ dedication over the fact they were not willing to pay what he thought were affordable ticket prices. What sort of reception with Modano recieve tonight in front of the 18,568 fans that have come to watch a critical game for the battle for Western Conference dominance. We shall see.
With the help of Lou Nanne sharing “Let’s Play Hockey” the game would start with a great pace. Both teams seemed to have jump, and both teams would get some great chances early. The Stars would narrowly miss on a great back door play early but a Wild defender got just enough to keep the puck from going right to the stick of a crashing Brendan Morrow preventing a sure goal. Minnesota would press an attack of its own and this pressure would yield a power play as Niklas Grossman tried to ease some of the pressure by lifting a puck out of the zone but instead through it into the crowd drawing a delay of game penalty. On the power play, Minnesota worked the puck well around the perimeter with quick passes, trying to set up one-time chances with the intent of taking advantage of the screening ability of Todd Fedoruk. Minnesota would create some good chances, the best one coming of a blast by Mikko Koivu, but were not able to beat Mike Smith, who got the assignment between the pipes as Marty Turco was back in Dallas with an injury. A weak call on Aaron Voros for a clean hit he put on Virginia, Minnesota-native Matt Niskanen would negate the man-advantage. The Stars would try to take advantage of the open ice but Minnesota as Grossman’s penalty would expire Trevor Daley would find the defenseman on a stretch pass and he’d race in on a breakaway. Luckily for Minnesota, Niklas Backstrom was able to make the save, and the Wild would get the big early penalty kill. The State of Hockey would counter with some scoring chances; with some nice down low plays by Mikko Koivu to fellow Wild forwards Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Eric Belanger but Smith was able to make the saves. Belanger would have another grand chance as he’d skate toward the Stars’ crease and Smith would move out and try to challenge and the speedy French Canadian would move behind and around the net to try the wrap but couldn’t make it work. Perhaps still a bit angry over his hit on Niskanen earlier in the period, Dallas’ tough guy Krys Barch decided to drop the gloves with Aaron Voros. It was a spirited fight, with both fighters exchanging good right handed bombs at one another. Voros withstood a pretty good start by Barch to eventually start trading some better punches before eventually both fighers would twist down the ice still flailing away at one anther. Yet, Voros would commit some no-no’s in terms of “the Code” as he’d fire a few punches after the officials had moved in to break it up and the officials would give Voros a 10-minute misconduct for instigating. The Wild would re-establish its pressure towards the latter half of the period, and some close in chances would almost break the stalemate as Mike Smith seemed to be fighting the puck a bit. Despite the team’s best efforts the game would remain knotted at 0-0 going into the 2nd.
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