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SPORTS, Athletics News, Jan 23, 2012

Nominees For 2011 Pro Athlete Of The Year
Sportspress Northwest
Former Sounders FC goalkeeper Kasey Keller, one of the nominees for Professional Athlete of the Year, greets fans at CenturyLink Field. Keller retired after a 20-year soccer career. / Photo courtesy of the SeattleSports Commission The 77th annual ...
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Concussion issues get spotlight via Twellman website
STLtoday.com
AP Photo ThinkTaylor.org got its official launch this month to raise awareness and provide help to families of athletes who have sufferedsports-related concussions. Former St. Louis resident Taylor Twellman, who retired from professional soccer in ...
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Nominees For 2011 Female Athlete Of The Year
Sportspress Northwest
Photo courtesy of the Seattle Sports Commission Woodward was twice selected to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-West Region Team (1992, 1993) and helped guide Seattle University to the semifinals of the NAIA National ...
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2010 Sports Star Of The Year: Rewind
Sportspress Northwest
“We really care about our athletes here.” 2010 Male Sports Star of the Year Nominees: JR Celski, short track; Mason Foster, UW football; Quincy Pondexter, UW basketball; Klay Thompson, Washington State University basketball.
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Athletics ups fund request along with ambitions
UNM Daily Lobo
SFRB member Japji Hundal said he would like to see more commitment from the Athletics department to fund sports other than the primary revenue-drawing programs. “I want to know, 'What is the status of the other programs besides football,'” he said.
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Boys prep soccer postseason begins
Pensacola News Journal
"He's a strong leader because not only is he a great athlete in soccer, but in other sports as well," Toellner said. "The kids believe in him and really look up to him." A win qualifies Catholic for the region tournament beginning next Tuesday.
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East Ridge Sets Special Meeting On Youth Athletic Associations
The Chattanoogan
The East Ridge Soccer Association, headed by Mack Helms, runs asoccer program and the East Ridge Athletic Association, headed by Kevin Wright, runs softball and baseball programs. Mr. Gobble said the city gets only sporadic accountings on finances of ...
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Boys soccer | Braden River Pirates, Saint Stephen's Falcons boast top seeds as ...
Bradenton Herald
By JASON DILL - jdill@bradenton.com Today marks the start of district tournaments in boys soccer for a host of local teams. The march toward the University of South Florida's stadium in Tampa, site of the Florida High SchoolAthletic Association finals ...
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Bradenton Herald
Soccer-Defiant Mourinho deaf to whistling from Real fans
Reuters Africa
MADRID Jan 22 (Reuters) - Jose Mourinho refused to answer questions about a reported rift in the Real Madrid dressing room and said he was not affected by whistling directed at him by some Real fans during Sunday's 4-1 home win against Athletic Bilbao.
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Three sport athlete Eric Hummel of Barberton is the McDonald's student athlete ...
NewsNet5.com
Eric is more than just a basketball player he's also a four year player on the soccer team and he is the punter and kicker on the Magics football team. Eric still finds time to be a member of National Honor Society maintaining a four point two grade ...
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Dempsey, Wambach, Shea, and Leroux US Athletes of Year
Soccer365 (press release)
For their excellence at the highest levels of the sport , US Soccernamed US Men's National Team forward Clint Dempsey as the 2011 Male Athlete of the Year and US Women's National Team forward Abby Wambach as the 2011 Female Athlete of the Year.
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Reuters Sports Schedule at 1500 GMT on Sunday, Jan 22
Reuters Africa
(SOCCER-AFRICA/NATIONS, expect by 2100, pix, by Brian Homewood and Mark Gleeson, 400 words) - - La Liga Rayo Vallecano v Real Mallorca (1500) Malaga v Barcelona (1700) Levante v Real Zaragoza (1845) Real Madrid v Athletic Bilbao (2030) MADRID - La Liga ...
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Sports wire
Columbus Dispatch
Marotti's title is assistant athletic director of football sportsperformance, which is a fancy way of saying his duties will include helping keep track of players both inside and outside the weight room. He will help monitor their studies as well as ...
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The new fun world of Kronum: A sport invented by two Delco guys (With Video)
Delaware County Daily Times
It features different zones, some where athletes are allowed to use their hands and some where they are not. Also, the different zones provide the basis for scoring. There are four crowns, much like goals in soccer, and a team can score in any of them ...
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Menlo School girls finally topple SHP in soccer
The Almanac Online
There's a tie at the top of the West Bay Athletic League (Foothill Division) girls' soccer standings and, for the first time in more than three years, Sacred Heart Prep is not involved. The three-time defending champion Gators suffered only their ...
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Jenkins earns Senior Bowl invitation
Times Daily
... including 12 Lions that were selected for Academic All-GSC honors in their respective sports. UNA had five student-athletes earn Academic All-GSC in football, five insoccer, one in men's cross country and one in volleyball.
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Times Daily
Lifelong athlete digs deeper after family trauma
USA TODAY
By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY Jaclyn Sanderson, 28, of New Brunswick, NJ, has been very athletic since she was a child. She played soccer, basketball, baseball, softball and tennis. She went swimming and ice skating. "You name it, I've played it, ...
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USA TODAY
Chivas, Chicharito & a Weekend to Forget
Fox News
Hugo Rodallega The Colombian turned a free kick into a goal, but it was not enough for Wigan Athletic, which dropped a 3-1 decision to Queens Park Rangers. David Silva The Spaniard created two goals within a three-minute for Manchester City in its 3-2 ...
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Local sports calendar
Vineland Daily Journal
This is a very competitive level of soccer, which includes 2 ½ hour sessions of practice per week as well as one hour each way of travel four-to-six times per season. Email bpowers7169@comcast.net for more info. The Police Athletic League is looking ...
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County's Scholar-Athletes are leaders of tomorrow
New Jersey Herald
Van Beke is a two-year captain of the soccer team, earning Most Improved Player and MVP awards. She also has been named MVP of the track and field team, scoring the most points on the squad last spring. A passionate cheerleader for the Hopatcong ...
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Battle on for awards
Parkes Champion-Post
Henry and Amy Iglewski (Little Athletics), Malcolm and Roberta Stone (soccer), John Leister (golf), Greg Phillips (rugby league), Tennis Club Canteen Ladies (tennis), Cathy Ryan (netball). Al Gersbach (touch), Ian Leonard (Trundle athletics), ...
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Prep Notebook, Jan. 23
Hilton Head Island Packet
The soccer season gets under way for Battery Creek the week after next. "He most likely won't be able to do soccer for at least a couple months," Shuman said. Most young athletes dream about receiving offers to play in NCAA Division I athletics.
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High school realignment brings possibilities
Burlington Times News
“The argument would be that you would have to schedule quite a few games to complete the football schedule,” Kirby said. The six-team setup concerns some athletic directors because that would mean only 10 conference games in sports such as basketball, ...
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Sky Blues see red in W-League semi
Blacktown Sun
BY JOHN MACDONALD Blacktown's glamour girl of Australian women'ssoccer had received a red card late in the W-League semi-final at Queensland Sport and Athletic Centre. Simon's dismissal helped cost the Sky Blues a place in the grand final, ...
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Addison couple shares dedication to kids' sports
Bangor Daily News
What money we raise between selling hats and concessions, we use to buy soccer goals and scoreboards that work for both basketball andsoccer.” Parents and grandparents of the dozens of pint-sized athletesinvolved seem grateful that the program is up, ...
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'Tebow Law' for homeschool sports finds support
San Antonio Express
"If push comes to shove, he won't play high school soccer either. It's more important to us that his education be what it is than he gets to play public high school sports," Sharon Brockman said in a telephone interview. For years, a bill that would ...
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UCA Archives: A Brief History of UCA Women's Soccer
Log Cabin Democrat
The essential difference between soccer and football is that in soccerthere is no carrying of the ball in the hands, it being entirely a process of kicking and running. Quick mental action and athletic alertness are requisites of being a successful ...
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Dodo eyes Premier Soccer League
The Zimbabwean
To date, the club has 5 age groups teams playing in the South Dublin Football League. "I have a passion for discovering and nurturing young talent. I want to establish asports minded society amongst youths in the country if we are to succeed at ...
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The Zimbabwean
Van Beke Earns Huge Hopatcong Honor
Patch.com
"Education is first and foremost before athletics." But Gorzelnik said thesoccer field has provided several defining moments for Van Beke, 18. Van Beke volunteered to become the Chiefs goaltender when nobody stepped up for the job, Gorzelnik said.
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Local Briefs
The Daily Advertiser
Registration for the spring season of the Southside Youth SoccerRegistration is currently under way. The league is for boys and girls 3 to 18. For more information, visit southsideyouthsoccer.com or call 453-2038. Lafayette Area Umpires Association is ...
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U of T has no school spirit — we'll tell you why
Varsity
Her conversations with U of T-goers uncovered the big role that apathy plays in driving down attendances at sporting events on campus. Finally, I had the opportunity to speak to athletes and hear their perspectives on support for athletics, ...
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Nominees For 2011 Sports Story Of The Year
Sportspress Northwest
Created by Royal Brougham and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1936 and currently presented by the Seattle Sports Commission, the Star of the Year recognizes professional and amateur athletic achievement. Tickets are $35 (show only) and $75 (pre-show ...
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North West Evening Mail
NW Evening Mail
SOCCER: Carling Cup semi-final second leg, Liverpool v Manchester City – Sky Sports 1 7pm; Blue Square Bet Premier, Luton v Mansfield – Setanta Ireland 7pm; Copa del Rey, Real Mallorca v Athletic Bilbao – Sky Sports 2 6.55pm, Barcelona v Real Madrid ...
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Rachel Scherdin works at being a swimsuit model
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Rachel Scherdin of Rochester works out at Midtown Athletic Club most days to keep her healthy image. / Jamie Germano/staff photographer Scherdin at the Miss Swim Suit USA international competition in Mexico. / Provided photo Even as the snow falls in ...
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Developers see sports, commercial complex at Olympic tennis stadium
Atlanta Journal Constitution
... football, lacrosse, soccer and other sports. He said the existing outdoor tennis stadium would be preserved and eventually covered. The complex also would include a sports medicine facility. Stedman said the complex would host athletic tournaments ...
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I'm always a footballer at heart
New Straits Times
Prior to that, I was an all-rounder in sports representing my school in athletics and other field sports, as well as indoor games. But I love football the most, as it requires teamwork, alertness and agility. Although the KP team was not well-funded ...
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New Straits Times
Man City, Man United win; Messi hits hat trick
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Manchester City's Mario Balotelli scores a goal from the penalty sport as Tottenham Hotspur's goalkeeper Brad Friedel looks on during their English Premier League soccer match at The Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday Jan. 22, 2012.
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School Board to Vote on Turf Issue Tonight
Patch.com
... them potentially unsafe for athletes. That includes the high school's stadium field. Though it only gets used about 60 hours every year forfootball, soccer and lacrosse, as well as graduation, the grass can't take the wear and tear of more events.
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Bucs close to deal with Chris Kelly for coach
Bradenton Herald
A group of reform-minded professors who represent their faculties on the Coalition On Intercollegiate Athletics met this weekend to talk about the many changes they'd like to see in college sports and the precious few they might help push through.
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OLYMPICS: Leroux takes fifth at home
ESPN (blog)
The athletic forward, whom the Atlanta Beat made the first selection in the Women's Professional Soccer draft earlier this month, scored in the 48th, 50th, 57h, 70th and 87th minutes. Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan (Diamond Bar/Diamond Bar HS) also ...
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Port St. Lucie soccer is TOPS for these youngsters
TCPalm
TOPS is a seven-week soccer program where children with special needs learn to play soccer with young Port Saint Lucie Soccer Clubathletes and other volunteers. "I have had so many people influence my life and this is my chance to take time and give ...
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Head coaching changes continue in football and more high school ...
Get the latest Oregon & Portland high school sports news, rankings, schedules, stats, scores, results & athletes info for high schoolfootball, soccer, basketball, ...
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Professors seek answers for college sports - College Football ...
They threw around ideas people dream about -- a 64-team footballplayoff -- and others that might be more realistic: finding a way to let players receive a small ...
rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-collegereform
Nordonia whittles down to six football coach finalists | Ohio High ...
Hot News · Sweet Deals ... Forty-six athletes and five coaches representing the Suburban League were honored Jan. ... Coaches of the Year in their respective sports included: Copley's David Antal (boyssoccer), Highland's Mary Becker ( girls ...
www.sportsink.com/259/4510/nordonia...to.../Default.aspx
Varsity Aces | The people, stories and scores of North Jersey high ...
The people, stories and scores of North Jersey high school sports ....He played football and lacrosse at Montclair High School and is a graduate of Elon University. ... high school sports in North Jersey since 1974 for the Ridgewood News.
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