NPR News - All Things Considered , June 29, 2007 Mike Pressler was dumped as Duke’s lacrosse coach when rape charges were filed against three of his players. The players eventually were declared not guilty, and the prosecutor who pursued the case has been

Westphal joins Mavericks’ staff as assistant coach
ESPN.com - DALLAS — Former NBA head coach Paul Westphal was hired Thursday to be a Dallas Mavericks assistant coach. While Westphal has been out of the NBA since being fired as Seattle’s coach 15 games into the 2000-01 season, he had a 267-159 record as the

Gonzalez picked as NL All-Star coach
CBS Sportsline - MIAMI (AP) -Florida Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez is going to his first All-Star game. Gonzalez received a phone call from St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa on Friday, asking if he was available as coach for the National League next month

South Koreans aiming to overcome disrupted preparation
CBS Sportsline - SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -South Korea’s preparations for the Asian Cup have been disrupted by serious injuries and infighting, damaging the nation’s chances of lifting the trophy for the first time since 1960. Coach Pim Verbeek has not only seen

UCF hires Tom Freeman as offensive line coach
Orlando Sentinel - UCF announced Friday that Tom Freeman is the new offensive line coach for George O’Leary’s program. Freeman spent the past two seasons at Stanford, coaching the Cardinal’s interior offensive linemen. Before that, he was an assistant at Pitt — also

Australia 20 - 15 New Zealand
BBC Brasil - All sport is simple, as long as the players don’t detest the coach to such an extent that it impacts negatively on them, then it’s all down to the players as to how they perform and the results they get. Did Henry lose the game for NZ today ? Was it

Nellie sounds like he’s fired up
San Francisco Gate - del.icio.us One night was all it took to turn a 67-year-old coach supposedly contemplating retirement into someone who sounded like a giddy child ready for anything but. “Let’s put it this way,” Warriors coach Don Nelson said Friday. “If it ends up

BBC News - But two Football Association directors, Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore and Football League chairman Lord Mawhinney will now meet Caborn. Caborn also wants to investigate the ‘fit and proper person test’ used for club owners and

IU’s Lynch looks to focus on football after Hoeppner’s death
CBS Sportsline - BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -Bill Lynch has no plans to break out a win-one-for-the-Hepper speech. The new Indiana football coach would rather use his businesslike style and Terry Hoeppner’s vision to send the Hoosiers a message: Just play football

‘Triple-A pro football‘ latest venture for retired Corrigan
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot - THERE MAY BE MEN who enjoy their senior years more than Gene Corrigan, but I doubt it. I asked the genial 79-year-old former ACC commissioner and one-time athletic director at Virginia and Notre Dame for the key to a happy, healthy retirement. “Don’t

All Games “#”
Gamespot News - All Platforms PC PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PSP Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox 360 Live Arcade GameCube DS Game Boy Advance Mobile Wii Wii Virtual Console —– 3DO Adventurevision Amiga Amstrad CPC APF-*1000/IM Apple II Arcade Games Arcadia 2001 Astrocade

Football | NFL
Lexington Herald-Leader - His distinctive dreadlocks gone, Adam “Pacman” Jones posted bail, walked out of jail early Friday and headed home to Nashville, leaving his lawyers to again sort out the legal entanglements of the suspended NFL player. Suspended Tennessee Titans

Record-setting Mr. Football playing final year with Cincinnati
Review - CINCINNATI Ben Mauk of Kenton, who passed for 6,528 yards when he was Ohio s Mr. Football in 2002, has transferred to Cincinnati to finish his college career. His ill-fated venture at Wake Forest ended when he broke his arm in the season opener

ETBU makes changes to football coaching staff
Longview News-Journal - MARSHALL With just a little over a month to go before players report for fall workouts, East Texas Baptist football coach Mark Sartain has announced changes and new additions to his assistant coaching staff. New coaches coming on staff include

Iconic moments for college football’s time capsule
ESPN.com - It is one of the shrewdest weapons in a coach’s motivational arsenal. You don’t have to play hard for 60 minutes, the coach says. You have to play hard for six seconds, the length of an average play. Give me everything you have for six seconds, and

Football in Brief
Times Online - Uefa has agreed to new security arrangements at European matches after crowd trouble involving English fans last season. A review by the Home Office has been completed, with Uefa agreeing to measures such as an increase in the use of stewards rather

US News and World Report - Flores has allowed 12 of 19 inherited base runners to score this season. “In that situation we wanted to turn Victorino around,” St. Louis manager Tony La Russa said. “Randy just got the ball up. That’s what it came down to.” The Cardinals had a chance

More likely to return to the NFL: Martin or Jones Score: 87
CBS Sportsline - Two totally different players and people. One a future HOF RB who suffered a bone on bone injury, the other a criminal NFL prospect who seems to be on pace to be permantely banned from the NFL. Who will most likely play another down in the NFL

Yankees-Giants Box Score
The Ledger - E_MeCabrera (1), Jeter (12), WNieves (1), Rodriguez (1). DP_San Francisco 2. LOB_New York 6, San Francisco 11. 2B_ARodriguez (18), Durham (13), Rodriguez (1). SB_Damon (12), Winn (6), Vizquel (6), Bonds (5), Klesko (1), Schierholtz (1). S_Lowry. SF

U.S. passes test
Sports Illustrated - Youth was on display in the first half as both sides threatened to score but brilliant goalkeeping from Sanchez, however, kept the U.S. from scoring. It was the budding Mexican stars who finally capped an outstanding first half with a goal. Castillo

White wins skateboard vert; Lasek takes 4th on bad knee
Baltimore Sun - White was the top qualifier coming into the finals and had the luxury of knowing he had already won the event going into his third run when second-best qualifier Buster Halterman scored a disappointing 52.75 in his final run - his second-worst score

Box Score
YES Network - *Mussina takes mound for Yankees in finale vs. Giants* —– Ny Yankees (36-36) at San Francisco (31-42) 4:05 pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Ticker) — The New York Yankees will lean on the best interleague

One score and ten
Statesman - With little or no euphoria and the predictable carping, the 30th anniversary celebration of the Left Front in West Bengal was an unpredictably damp squib. Neither a hi-falutin statement of intent nor a balance-sheet of assets and liabilities greeted

Abby, Lilly score early to power U.S. women past Brazil
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - (June 24, 2007) EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. All Kristine Lilly and Abby Wambach could think about was getting off to a fast start. But this fast? Lilly put home a brilliant free kick 58 seconds into the game, giving the United States the early edge

Pull for Kiwis to beat Swiss
Detroit Free Press - It’s obvious, however, that the Swiss boat is a little faster in the light winds that have prevailed so far, and we’d be looking at a 2-0 score if Alinghi’s New Zealand skipper and tactician, Brad Butterworth, hadn’t made a mistake in Race 2 on Sunday

Boston Globe - However, you need to make sure that your organization has player talent or your leadership, no matter how good, will not be good enough.” “It’s more complex now than it was 25 years ago,” Alderson said. “There’s more money involved. The business side

For Maroth, Tigers receive player to be named
Detroit Free Press - The Tigers traded Mike Maroth to the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday, in order to clear room on the active roster for the return of Kenny Rogers. The Tigers will get a player to be named later, on or before September 15, from the Cardinals. Maroth, a

Police: Miami Dolphins Player Arrested After Fight
Local 6 - MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Miami Dolphins defensive tackle Fred Evans was arrested today after police say he refused to leave a taxi on South Beach and then fought with officers. According to the arrest report, police twice used a Taser gun on Evans in

SS has All-Star stats, not stature
St. Petersburg Times - ST. PETERSBURG - The player(s) who will represent the Devil Rays at the July 10 All-Star Game will be announced next Sunday, with Al Reyes, James Shields, Carl Crawford and B.J. Upton the top candidates, probably in that order. One player it won’t be

Henry: Arsenal may collapse
Times Online - Henry will arrive in Barcelona today and is expected to undergo a medical tomorrow before signing a contract that will give him close to parity with the club s highest-paid player, Ronaldinho, who earns a basic 125,000 a week. The agreement runs

American Reporter - to bury her according to her expressed wishes, but more likely to lay claim to custody over her infant daughter, Danielynn, a potential heiress to an $80-million dollar fortune. Also in the courtroom resonating from the rafters over the bench was

Report: Julien to be named Bruins head coach
Miami Herald - the Bruins’ fifth head coach since the start of the 2002-2003 season, following Dave Lewis, Mike Sullivan, Mike O’Connell and Robbie Ftorek, and the 28th different man to helm the B’s in their 83-year history. Julien’s first year behind the bench in

Kansas City Star - Giada in Paradise: Santorini, 8 p.m. Saturday, Food Network. Giada De Laurentiis goes to Greece to see the sights and experience the culture. Meadowlands, 9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime. In this eight-episode miniseries, Ella Smith plays one of

International Oil & Gas Holdings Corporation Highlights 3-Step
MSN MoneyCentral - International Oil & Gas Holdings Corporation (Pink Sheets:IOGH) today announced that the Company’s proprietary production processes for bio-diesel made from oils and fats are contained in three basic routes: Base catalyzed trans-esterification of the

Financial market highlights
Canada East - S&P/TSX Composite Index - 14,133.41, up 135.42 points S&P/TSX 60 - 811.31, up 8.29 points; Dow - 13,639.48 up 85.76 points; S & P 500 - 1,532.91 up 9.94 points; Nasdaq - 2,626.71 up 27.30 points; Tokyo Nikkei - 17,971.49 up 129.20 points TSX Venture

Highlights From The U.S. Open
CNBC - I’ve been at the U.S Open the past few days and have many things to share with you. The merchandise tent was 36,000 square feet, which I think was bigger than the main Super Bowl merchandise spot at the NFL Experience in Miami. Pretty impressive

Mason highlights change during forum
Exponent - IOWA CITY, Iowa How many professors does it take to change a light bulb? Purdue Provost Sally Mason asked this question Thursday, finishing the joke with a punch line and a message, What s change? The ever-evolving world of academics was

All Star Analysts Portfolio Highlights: Baker Hughes, Cameron,
MSN MoneyCentral - Zacks.com just released its latest additions and deletions to its proprietary All Star Analyst portfolio. Members on this exclusive list include Baker Hughes Inc. BHI , Cameron CAM , IDEX Corporation IEX and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc

City council highlights
Midland Daily News - Highlights of Monday s City Council meeting include the approval of amendments to the 2006-07 and 2007-08 Golf Course and General Fund Budgets. The budgets were altered to increase funding for Currie Golf Course operations. Also approved was a

History highlights | birthdays
Roanoke Times - On June 15, 1215, England’s King John put his seal to Magna Carta (”the Great Charter”) at Runnymede. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army. In 1864, Secretary of War

Nine MSN - The up-front $500,000 sign-on incentive being offered by a small rural town to a GP willing to work in the community, shows current recruitment policies are not working, the Rural and Remote Health and Medical Infrastructure Trust says. The money

SIGNATURE $AVINGS FROM NORTON
New York Post - Albee, Norton, writer/performer Bill Irwin and others returned to the theater yesterday to announce its new ticketing policy and the company’s plans for the next four seasons. Highlights include works both new and old by Albee, Charles Mee, Suzan

Showtimes and Tickets
Washington Post - The American Film Institute and Discovery Channel present this fifth annual film festival and celebration of the documentary form. Advance tickets for individual screenings, unless otherwise noted, are $10 and $8 for AFI members, seniors, students

Hall homer hammers Tigers
Detroit News - Highlights: Mike Maroth allowed one run on nine hits over seven innings, but a two-run homer by Bill Hall in the eighth off Fernando Rodney turned the outcome. Hall also had a single and a double. Magglio Ordonez had two singles for the Tigers

Detroit Free Press - On Tuesday, ABC announced more times and networks for its coverage of the Big Ten football. Though November remains a wild card, Michigan will play 3:30 p.m. starts on ABC against Oregon on Sept. 8 and Notre Dame on Sept. 15. MSU plays Alabama

Coach beat odds with ALS
Arlington Heights Daily Herald - Every year after football season ends at Leyden High School in Franklin Park, officials bestow a special honor on one player: the Jim Payne Badge of Courage Award. They began the tradition in 1991, shortly after Assistant Football Coach James L

Record Sport FOOTBALL
Daily Record - CRAIG DARGO yesterday confirmed to Caley Thistle he will be not be playing his football in Inverness next season. The 29-year-old striker has rejected the chance to become the best-paid player in the Highland club’s history and is holding out for

Joplin Globe - McALESTER, Okla. Oklahoma Gold brought Team Missouri down to earth Tuesday in the annual Oklahoma Junior Sunbelt Series. Gold posted a 11-1 victory at McAlester High School to drop Missouri to 6-2 in the round-robin baseball competition. Missouri

Junior going to Hendrick team
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Dale Earnhardt Jr. wants to win championships, and there’s no better place to do that than at Hendrick Motorsports. The most frenzied free agency in NASCAR history will end today when Earnhardt reveals where he’ll drive next season

LC tennis team honored
Baytown Sun - The Lee College tennis team received a proclamation from the City of Baytown declaring June 12, Lee College tennis day. Baytown Mayor Stephen DonCarlos presented the proclamation to several members of the team as well as members of hte coaching staff

Regular fix from Dr Dream Team
Australian Football League - EACH week, Dr Dream Team answers your questions and queries about the Coca-Cola Zero AFL Dream Team competition. Drop him a line at dreamteam@afl.com.au I have Ryan O’Keefe, Barry Hall and Peter Everitt in my Dream Team, and I want to get Adam Goodes

Crossroads Red 14-and-under volleyball team gears up for Junior
Tribune-Star - TERRE HAUTE Since the Crossroads of America Volleyball Club debuted in 1999 under a different name then plenty of talented players and solid teams have represented the Terre Haute area in local, regional, state and national tournaments

Vietnam includes 12 Olympic team players for Asian Cup training squad
MSN UK News - Vietnam coach Alfred Riedl has included 12 players from the Olympic team in his 23-man training squad for the July 7-29 AFC Asian Cup. Vietnam, which is co-hosting the continent’s tournament with Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, are in Group B for

MSNBC - Loney went to third when center fielder Carlos Beltran mishandled the ball for an error, but was tagged out by catcher Paul Lo Duca while trying to score on Tony Abreu s suicide squeeze attempt. Lo Duca tried to double up Abreu at first, but his