No. 17 Oklahoma hosts Cal Poly in Beauty and the Beast event Friday
Feb. 13, 2008
NORMAN, Okla. – The No. 17 Sooners return home this Friday, Feb. 15, at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman when they host the Cal Poly Mustangs (5-6) at 7 p.m., in the first annual “Beauty and the Beast” event.
The squad will share the floor with the OU women’s gymnastics team who will simultaneously compete against Big 12 rival Iowa State in the dual-team event.
“‘It’s definitely Philly,” said a Major League Soccer source, declining to be quoted by name in advance of an official announcement. ‘It’s the market size, the ownership group. These are wealthy people. They’re going to be strong owners.’”
Failing some sort of ‘impossible-to-foresee cataclysm’, Philadelphia is set to become the 16th MLS team. League officials and the new team’s ownership group have spent the last two days finalizing the draft version of the expansion agreement, while the ownership group has also been talking with Pennsylvania officials concerning how exactly they can use the $47 million in state funding.
Australia are unlikely to tour Pakistan in March because of security fears.
Elections delayed by the killing of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto take place in the country on 18 February.
Despite the Football Association of Ireland’s sense of euphoria at capturing Giovanni Trapattoni, the Italian will take over as Republic of Ireland manager with the country’s side at its lowest ebb in over 20 years.
PARIS — Tour de France organizers have excluded the Astana team from competing at this year’s race, forcing winner Alberto Contador to ride for another team if he wants to defend his title.
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My guest at Wembley was Daria Kulesh, a Russian lady who interviewed me a few months ago for a magazine called “British Style”. I now employ my own personal stylist, whose sole job is to keep my anorak suitably crumpled and covered in bird droppings.
Daria was a charming companion, as I knew she would be. She has made the life-changing journey from Moscow to Rickmansworth and gave me an insight into what it’s like to watch football when it’s 30 degrees below zero.
RETIRING star Adam Gilchrist believes international commitments will reign supreme and the Indian Premier League (IPL) could become cricket’s equivalent of a gold watch.
Gilchrist is set to become one of the lucrative league’s biggest stars when he bows out of the international game after this tri-series, but insists money will not motivate the world’s leading players over Tests and other national duties.
Although Australia’s stars are keen to take part in the inaugural IPL, scheduled to start in April, the keeper-batsman doubts the Twenty20 tournament will encroach on international cricket and threaten the game’s well-being.
I’ve got a ton of great projects in the works right now, but I’m really excited about this one:
I’m going to be doing some exclusive blogging at GolfForWomen.Com. GFW is one of my favorite golf sites on the internet and I just love their magazine too, so what can I say? I’m psyched.
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“Every game is important,” you might want to get used to this cliche because you’re going to hear it a lot around the league when players are interviewed before, during and after games. Cliche’s are nice because not only are they vague; they generally apply when given. For the Minnesota Wild, every game is indeed important and in games against teams you are supposed to beat earning two points is a given and failing to do so is a missed opportunity. This is the situation the Wild face as the travel up to Edmonton to take on the 5th place Oilers. The Oilers just got hit with terrible news when their premier free agent signing, Sheldon Souray is lost for the season to shoulder surgery. For Wild fans, its not a time for our team to show sympathy, and instead take care of business and earn the two points. Will Minnesota add to Edmonton’s pain tonight?
In the first period the Wild were flying all over the ice, they had speed and energy. Minnesota was anticipating the play well and winning many of the battles along the boards; and using this level of puck possession to pepper Mathieu Garon with shots. The Wild were controlling the pace of the play; and the Oilers were racing to keep up. The State of Hockey would earn a power play when Steve Staios earned a tripping call. On the man advantage, the Oilers would demonstrate why they have one of the best penalty kill units. The Minnesota power play would be neutralized rather effectively by the pressuring the puck carrier not allowing the Wild much space to operate and would earn the kill without much difficulty. After the power play the Oilers would follow up their kill with some good forechecking shifts but were unable to really create high quality scoring chances on Niklas Backstrom. Minnesota was doing well with a two-man forecheck that created many turnovers, and this led to some nice chances as Minnesota seemed to want to saturate Garon with shots on goal. Edmonton would try to relieve pressure by mounting a rush of their own, and would come dangerously close as Kyle Brodziak’s wide angle shot would somehow trickle past Backstrom and harmlessly through the crease. The Wild would continue firing shots, particularly from Kurtis Foster who was launching rockets from the point. However, as dominant as the Wild were they would receive a cruel break. Edmonton would have a late rush on a seemingly mundane slapper by Fernando Pisani the puck would appear to surprise Backstrom and into the net; and all the Finnish goaltender could do was stare at Wild defenseman Martin Skoula who he believed incidentally tipped the puck. The replays I saw did not seem to indicate any significant change of direction in the puck from it striking Skoula’s stick and Minnesota would go into the 2nd trailing 1-0, despite outshooting the Oilers 10 to 7.
Flavia Pennetta
Vina del Mar, Chile (Sports Network) – Top-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta was an easy opening-round winner Tuesday at the inaugural $200,000 Cachantun Cup.
Pennetta pasted Hungarian Greta Arn 6-2, 6-2 at this clay-court event.