MSN New Zealand - New Zealand intend resting key players against Papua New Guinea tomorrow as they eye a crucial Beijing Olympic soccer qualifier against the Solomon Islands in Lautoka, Fiji, two days later. New Zealand will also fight to ensure Dan Keat is cleared
Reuters - The Ottawa Senators, playing their second game since general manager Bryan Murray replaced coach John Paddock behind the bench, got two goals and an assist from Daniel Alfredsson in a 5-4 home win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Forsberg practices with Avs, still undecided on playing Tuesday
International Herald Tribune - Smyth suffered a concussion and a minor shoulder separation after Kings defenseman Jack Johnson checked him into the padded glass partition near the Colorado bench.
No easy way to find formula for success
Bangkok Post - The current version has spent as much time, of late, injured and cheering mates on from the bench as he has helping them win on the court with his monstrous presence.
Milan and Arsenal need to raise their game
International Herald Tribune - Dutch forward Robin van Persie could make the bench after persistent injury. Tomas Rosicky and Kolo Toure look set to miss out with hamstring and calf problems.
Salt Lake Tribune - Posted: 1:14 PM- COLORADO SPRINGS — University of Utah junior guard Morgan Warburton has been named the Mountain West Conference women’s basketball Player of the Week, the league announced Monday. In victories over BYU and New Mexico, Warburton
A true recruiting guru
Sports Illustrated - He explained how the Nike and Scout combines — both of which are free and open to all players in grades 9-11 — can help the stock of an unknown player by earning him some much-needed exposure.
Handing out some Oscar-like awards to best rookies
Sports Illustrated - Best foreign film (awarded to best foreign player): Horford, as many forget that he was born in the Dominican Republic and spent most of his childhood there. Also nominated: Juan Carlos Navarro , Grizzlies (Spaniard has proved to be reliable long-range
Beasley’s heard it all
Austin American-Statesman - Many Wildcats laughed at the razzing, but the player on the receiving end of most of it barely acknowledged it. Michael Beasley had heard it all before.
In Ethiopia, does staying silent save lives?
Christian Science Monitor - This feature requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player and javascript-enabled browser. Reporter Nicholas Benequista discusses the dilemma faced by international aid workers in the Somali region of Ethopia. Jijiga, Ethiopia - Spotting a
SUU: Payne gets weekly award
Salt Lake Tribune - Posted: 12:34 PM- CEDAR CITY — Southern Utah’s Geoff Payne is the Summit League men’s basketball Player of the Week. A junior forward from Alta High and Snow College, Payne averaged 32.5 points,10.5 rebounds and four assists against Oral Roberts and
WCU s Giles could miss Wofford game
Asheville Citizen-Times - CULLOWHEE Western Carolina mens basketball player Brandon Giles might not be available for Thursday s game against Wofford, according to men s basketball coach Larry Hunter. The Catamounts leading scorer, Giles was injured in an
Jankovic to join Williams sisters in Bangalore Open
Reuters India - India’s top player Sania Mirza will not be in action after the world number 32 said she would boycott all Indian tournaments after being dragged into a series of controversies.
Rwanda New Times - The 27-year-old signed his first contract with Puma in 2005 and since then Puma has also been dressing the national athletics team in all major international championships.
Football s debt to fallen hero
Times Online - He should have been made to find his own way home, too, if he fancies he is not part of a team. His reaction to the mistake by Ga l Clichy that gave Birmingham City an injury-time penalty was pathetic.
China racks up opening win of women’s volleyball friendly series
Xinhua News Agency - To a thunderous crowd of the 8,000-capacity Fujian Sports Center, the home team, who has just finished a two-month behind-door training camp, blitzed the Cubans 25-18, 25-22, 25-12 in only one hour or so.
Iain Balshaw and Mark Regan could miss out for Scotland match
Times Online - Ashton has been admirably loyal to his players in the past month and, on Saturday night, they rewarded him with the scalp of the hitherto unbeaten France team, a result that leaves Wales as the only country capable of a grand slam in this championship
West Online - It’s little wonder the 32-year-old is jumping out of his skin in anticipation ahead of Sunday’s A-League grand final against Newcastle at the Sydney Football Stadium.
It’s war: League attacks AFL
News.com.au - Our responsibility at the AFL is to build our own code of Australian Football and we have said consistently for a number of years that if we want to be a truly national code we need to be in western Sydney, an area where there will soon be more than
NFLPA’s Vincent: NFL doesn’t have big problem with HGH
ESPN.com - INDIANAPOLIS — The use of human growth hormone is more of a problem in baseball than in football, the president of the NFL Players Association insists. “We feel it’s not something that’s common in our space,” former defensive back Troy Vincent said
Hall feels ’stabbed in back’ by Falcons
Atlanta Journal Constitution - Redskins vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato declined comment because Hall is under contract for one more year with the Falcons.
Immigrants Sue to Speed Citizenship Applications
KSDK - His 16-year-old son, Bijan, plays high school football. But there’s a critical piece missing from Barikbin’s American dream: He’s not an American yet.
Maples topple Tecumseh to win SEC White
Daily Telegram - This is awesome, Ohrman said. It s sweet getting conference championships in football and basketball. The team played real hard. The Maples trailed by seven after the opening quarter, but took over the game with a strong defensive effort.
Football team appreciates support of the community
Rhinelander Daily News - Parents, grandparents, uncles, families and friends, local businesses and Hodag football supporters: Due to your generosity our locker room pledge drive was a great success. Our goal was to raise $8,000 to $10,000 to purchase 40 lockers for our
NCAA restores football wins for Oklahoma
Asheville Citizen-Times - OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma will have wins reinstated from the 2005 Holiday Bowl season after an NCAA appeals committee partially overturned a ruling in the infractions case involving former quarterback Rhett Bomar. The NCAA Infractions Appeals
UIL grants San Marcos appeal in all but football
San Marcos Daily Record - San Marcos The University Interscholastic League approved San Marcos appeal of the recent redistricting Thursday, for the most part that is. All of San Marcos High Schools sports will play in District 17-4A, except for football, which will
Pravda - Jeff Bzdelik, the head basketball coach for the Colorado Buffaloes , dismissed Xavier Silas from the team. Bzdelik gave no definite reason for such a decision but just commented that it was done in the best interest for the
With New England vanquished, Memphis takes its shot at perfection
International Herald Tribune - It’ll be crazy,” Memphis coach John Calipari said. “If you can sell your tickets and pay for your child’s tuition for a year, just make sure the person is in blue.
Indians slugger Victor Martinez drops weight, puts on early hitting
FOXSports.com - What he has, you either have it or you don’t,” Indians hitting coach Derek Shelton said. “You can’t teach it.” It’s easy to see why Martinez is every hitting coach’s dream.
Sources: JMU’s Keener out at end of season
FOXSports.com - Jeff Goodman is a senior college basketball writer for FOXSports.com. He can be reached at GoodmanonFOX@aol.com or check out his blog, Good ‘N Plenty . James Madison coach Dean Keener has resigned, according to multiple sources close to the program
Pondeljak won’t start in grand final
West Online - Central Coast coach Lawrie McKinna says key midfielder Tom Pondeljak is virtually no chance of starting Sunday’s A-League grand final despite getting through Saturday’s final training session. Pondeljak has been hampered by an inflamed knee for the
Sabres banged up as they prepare to host Rangers
ESPN.com - BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sabres center Michael Ryan will miss a few weeks because of a groin injury, and coach Lindy Ruff is concerned about several others — including Thomas Vanek — who missed practice Friday. Without specifically identifying the players
RICK BRAMWELL: Rabbits elude focused hunter’s hop
Herald-Bulletin - Pendleton Heights softball coach Scott Hall is conducting a Softball Clinic on March 15 at the high school. Grades K-5 attend from 9 to 11 a.m.
MSN UK News - Giovanni Trapattoni is to become coach of Ireland’s national team and will face his former team Italy in qualifying for the World Cup. Trapattoni, who has won 10 club titles as a coach and two European Cups as a player, will leave Austrian team
Congress has good reason to intervene with baseball
Sports Illustrated - A great many countries have a ministry of sports which oversees athletics, and in nations where soccer is uber alles — which is most of them — the country’s soccer coach is often a national figure on the par with the prime minister. While we don’t
UEFA Cup: Werder enjoy stroll after Wiese saves
ESPN.com - There was also late drama in Athens where AEK, who dismissed Spanish coach Lorenzo Serra Ferrer on Tuesday after slipping to third in the Greek Super League, salvaged a 1-1 draw with Getafe. Midfielder Ruben de la Red looked to have won it for the
CBS Sportsline - While the Detroit Pistons are beginning to break their reputation as a slow-starting team, the Atlanta Hawks’ last game won’t do much to help them avoid that label. Winners of eight straight, the Pistons look to complete a season series-sweep of the
BlackBerry Outage Frustrates Users Again
Chicago Tribune - RIM said no messages were lost, and voice and text messaging services were unaffected. “It is too early to determine root cause at this time, but RIM does have a team addressing this issue in order to define the problem and prevent it in the future
Jason Kidd stays quiet, Nets make noise
New York Daily News - It likely will take a third team if Thorn is going to pull the trigger before the deadline. If not, Kidd is stuck in the Swamp for the rest of the season. That prospect has grown slightly more appealing since the Nets (22-29) have won two straight
New Jersey vs. Minnesota
CBS Sportsline - It’s great to have this kind of performance against a team like that to reassure ourselves that we’re a pretty good team. “Hopefully we can build off this and continue to do the job each and every night. The sad part is that we’ve put ourselves in a
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Other sport: Football (offensive/defensive tackle). It s fun knowing that you control whether you win or lose. In football I can play the best game of my life and we still could lose. Top moment in athletics: Coming back and winning the
Golf Photo Wire
ESPN.com - Change Sport MLB NFL NBA NHL College Football Men’s NCAA BB Women’s NCAA BB WNBA Golf Auto Racing Tennis Boxing Horse Racing Olympics Cycling Track and Field Gymnastics Skiing Figure Skating PBA Cricket Rugby Soccer AFL CFL Boo Weekley isn’t a
Topic of the week: Top moments in NASCAR history
FOXSports.com - Kenny Wallace, Bobby Hamilton and several others have been the same way guys who are passionate about what they were doing and they laid it all on the line just like a football player, boxer or baseball player does. One scary moment for me which I
Officer saw his work as a calling
Los Angeles Times - Simmons, 51, had tried as a young man for a career as a professional football player and was active in Police Department sports leagues, playing for the Centurions, the LAPD’s football club, and running in charity races. “He was a very outgoing guy
Where uninhibited rage is part of the job description
Seattle Times - The Nevada Kid’s football-recruiting story turned out to be a self-perpetuated hoax. On the bright side, though, there’s suddenly no shortage of candidates for Iraqi Information Minister. Quote marks Steve Rosenbloom of ChicagoSports.com , after ex
Giants reward Spagnuolo after he rejects Redskins
Newsday - Steve Spagnuolo is staying put. The Giants’ defensive coordinator withdrew his name from consideration for the Redskins Giants blog NFL blog More Football Islanders Rangers Knicks College Sports MMA/Boxing Keyboard Quarterbacks Sports Blogs Golf Tennis Outdoors
Spagnuolo makes a Giant decision
Boston Globe - of the stadium with a rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition before changing his mind, federal authorities in Phoenix said . . . A memorial Mass will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Boston College’s St. Ignatius Church for former Patriots and BC football
Seattle Times - A strip of copper bas-relief interrupts the flow of wood paneling as it climbs the walls above bench seating and curves at the low ceiling. It’s a wolf’s den, but an urbane one. The Italian-inflected menu borrows from Tavolata, too, but in truncated
Officer saw his work as a calling
Los Angeles Times - Although Simmons was the strongest guy on the team, able to bench-press more than 400 pounds, his friend and college teammate Greg Sykes remembers with a laugh that Simmons “couldn’t catch a ball to save his life.” Teammates would joke that the ball
Vianca Tejada has drive, attitude.
Philadelphia Inquirer - More youngsters come off the bench and play key minutes. Despite being left out of the preseason contender talk, Cherry Hill East has played with South Jersey’s best teams. Competing in one of the top conferences in the state, the Cougars have a 3-3
Coach Goes the Extra 1,500 Miles
Washington Post - The Generals appreciate all the sacrifices that Miller has made, and they believe she has strengthened the program. They are vaguely aware of her business acumen. (Trade journals refer to Miller as “a bench mark for women domainers” and say she has
Your foyer: a dedicated worker
St. Petersburg Times - Grand or humble, defined or casual, the front foyer is a place that should open its arms in welcome, catching keys and backpacks and cell phones, as well as showing off that great-looking piece of artwork or storage bench you discovered in an antique
Nation/World briefs
Detroit News - Jena Six’ defendant arrested: A defendant in the Louisiana “Jena Six” case was arrested after allegedly slamming a student’s head into a bench at his new school in Carrollton, Texas, police said. Dozens injured in sugar refinery blast: An
