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SPORTS, Athletics News, May 07, 2012


Soccer mercy rule adopted by NCHSAA
Chicago Tribune
The NC High School Athletic Association Board of Directors concluded its annual meeting Thursday with a few items of note. The one of the biggest consequence is the adoption of a mercy rule in soccer. Beginning this fall, if a team achieves a nine-goal ...
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Real Madrid wins league title; Messi breaks goal record
USA TODAY
MADRID (AP) – It took a record-setting output for Real Madrid to finally dislodge FC Barcelona from atop Spain's elite soccer league. Madrid's league-best 32nd title is its first in four long seasons dominated by its biggest rival.
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USA TODAY
Female athletes who grew up with Title IX proved women's sports have value
CNN
And I was the sports editor of the high school paper. Fast forward a quarter century and the Tamalpais High girls' soccer team had evolved into something of a powerhouse. The players were among the school's elite athletes, playing for traveling club ...
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Challengers will restore boys soccer program
Mail Tribune
... the board in athletics these days at the Class 3A level, and now firmly settled into its Medford campus after moving from Jacksonville, Fennell said it only seemed right to re-visit adding boys soccer. The fall sports season also includes football, ...
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Former Roberson soccer star Testo an advocate for gay athletes
Asheville Citizen-Times
Testo is a gay athlete, existing warily in a very macho sports world in which gay slurs are too common and too easily accepted. Since publicly coming out last year, Testo has stopped playing professional soccer and become an advocate for several causes ...
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NIU honors standout athletes Harnish, Hoffman
Chicago Daily Herald
By Daily Herald News Services DeKALB — Football senior Chandler Harnish and volleyball senior Kristin Hoffman were named Northern Illinois University's 2011 NIU Alumni Association Male and Female Athletes of the Year, headlining a list of 24 award...
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EMCC's Stephens speaks at Caledonia High sports banquet
The Commercial Dispatch
By Don Rowe, Special to the Dispatch CALEDONIA -- The Caledonia High SchoolSports Boosters honored student-athletes in 12 sports at their annual all-sportsbanquet Friday evening in the school cafeteria. Lindsey Burton, the girls soccer co-Offensive ...
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Athletes in minor sports attract colleges with grades
Modesto Bee
If athletic scholarships are even available in the minor sports such assoccer and volleyball, they're often partial. That leaves the student-athletes looking for thousands of dollars to pay the remainder of the cost of going to college.
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Modesto Bee
Return to 12-week football season, soccer mercy rule come out of NCHSAA meetings
Fayetteville Observer
By Earl Vaughan Jr. The NC High School Athletic Association's Board of Directors wrapped up its spring meeting Wednesday in Chapel Hill, taking action on a variety of things. In one of the biggest decisions, the board voted to return to scheduling 11 ...
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Teel Time: ODU basketball, soccer would be competitive in Conference USA ...
Daily Press (blog)
... the Colonial Athletic Association, is just too fractured, even if VCU and George Mason decline overtures from the Atlantic 10. With that in mind, let's glance at how Conference USA membership could affect ODU's headline sports. FOOTBALL: In each of ...
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Pana, Beardstown adding soccer programs for 2012-13
The State Journal-Register
By DAVE KANE Two area high schools will add boys and girls soccer to their athleticmenus next school year, although they are going about it in different ways. The Beardstown board of education early this year approved the addition of high school boys ...
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In the End, Depth Is the Difference in La Liga
New York Times
And Lionel Messi is the top goal scorer, ever, in a European soccer season. The only thing missing from this season of Spanish league superlatives is that neither Madrid nor Barcelona reached the UEFA Champions League final, to be played later this ...
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Dozens of Wyoming athletes, coaches plan Haiti trip to honor late football player
Casper Star-Tribune Online
It has developed into a life-changing excursion that will include several differ missions for a diverse group that includes many current and former UW athletes from a variety ofsports. A group of 25 is scheduled to leave Laramie on Monday for ...
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Yow's challenge: Put NC State athletic department on top
News & Observer
To achieve that goal, the school would need successful teams across the board – not only the big-ticket sports, football and men's basketball, but also the Olympic sports, from swimming and wrestling to women's basketball and soccer.
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News & Observer
Fordham Athletics Host 78th Block F Dinner
Fordham University Athletics
The award honors the memory of one of Fordham's famed Seven Blocks of Granite, who is considered to be one of football's greatest coaches. Meara, a true homegrown product who grew up in Yonkers and attended Fordham Prep, was a starter at Fordham from ...
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Fordham University Athletics
Athletes and their more famous wives
Houston Chronicle
And if you are a Barca fan, you probably hate Shakira, who has reportedly weakened Pique's commitment to soccer since their relationship began. (Scott Heavey / Getty Images) / SF Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson: Meet Eric Johnson, a former 49ers tight ...
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Eight former New Bedford High School athletes headed to Hall of Fame
SouthCoastToday.com
Of the three sports he played, football was probably his best. An offensive and defensive back, Len was a two-year Standard-Times All-Scholastic selection and was named to the Boston Record-American Football Roll of Honor.
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Real Madrid, Ajax Win League Titles as Messi Hits Record
Bloomberg
Real Madrid clinched its record- extending 32nd Spanish soccer league title with a 3-0 win over Athletic Bilbao as Barcelona's Lionel Messi set a European goal- scoring record. Ajax won its 31st Dutch championship. AC Milan cut Juventus' lead atop ...
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FIU joins Conference USA
Chicago Tribune
FIU first joined a conference in 1991, when it joined the Trans America AthleticConference. It's been a Sun Belt Conference member since 1998 and added football, the school's largest revenue sport, in 2002. The Orange Bowl Cruise from two years ago ...
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Miami-Dade honors best, brightest athletes
MiamiHerald.com
Arena Sports Advertising and Marketing honored three male and three female athletes. Booker T. Washington's Charlie Williams-Harris and Southridge's Tyler Vickers, both standouts in football, cross-country and track and Miami High's Kevin Carabeo ...
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Spanish roundup: Messi sends Guardiola off with win
USA TODAY
The only other player to have scored 70 goals in a first-division season was Archie Stark of Bethlehem Steel in the American Soccer League in 1924-25. To get the latest sports news from USA TODAY, including game results, columns and features, ...
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USA TODAY
Utah State leaving WAC, will join Mountain West Conference
ABC 4
This is a great day for Utah State athletics and for the university as a whole.” During the 2012-13 seasons, Utah State will continue to compete in the WAC in all sportsalong with football members Idaho, Louisiana Tech, New Mexico State, ...
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Clemson Football Star Sammy Watkins Arrested by University Police
News Channel 7
Clemson University star wide receiver Sammy Watkins and men's soccer player Amadou-Tidiane Daniel Dia are facing drug possession charges. (more) Should a college athlete be kicked off the team if guilty of marijuana possession?
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North Texas athletics: New territory
Denton Record Chronicle
North Texas football fans watch the Mean Green kick off its season Sept. 1 at Florida International on the scoreboard at Apogee Stadium, which played host to its first football game Sept. 10 against Houston. By Brett Vito / Staff Writer North Texas is ...
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Denton Record Chronicle
CSUB's hopes for a conference take positive turn
Bakersfield Californian
The general consensus of college media types on the West Coast and in Texas conjectures that the WAC is dead as a football-playing conference. But it should remain alive in its other 18 sports offerings. And with all the defections, the WAC will need ...
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To be successful, young athletes need good nutrition
Kansas City Star
T-ball, soccer, softball and tennis are in full swing, and young athletes need nutritious foods for top-notch performance. "In order to properly fuel their bodies for sport, youngsters need to eat a daily diet that focuses on adequate calories, ...
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Madison County Female: Paige Luehmann, Granite City
STLtoday.com
Athletic awards are nothing new for Granite City senior Paige Luehmann, but the latest caught her by surprise. Luehmann, a soccer/basketball standout who helped Granite City win the Class 3A state soccer championship last spring, is the Suburban ...
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UTSA to join Conference USA in 2013-14
SportsPageMagazine.com
UTSA competes in 17 intercollegiate sports — baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country,football, men's and women's golf, women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track ...
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SportsPageMagazine.com
In memory of Ruben
Laramie Boomerang
“We didn't know what we were going to do but it ended up where we are going to teach the kids some football, volleyball, basketball, soccer ... and then offer any services that we can,” Christensen said. “It is a great opportunity for our kids to see ...
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Fisher Catholic soccer teams seek new home
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
LANCASTER -- Winning is important in any sport. But Fisher Catholic teams are under more pressure to succeed on the athletic field. The boys and girls soccer teams will need a new home after the 2012 season because the Fairfield County Board of ...
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For TSU, move into new home is like time warp into 21st century
Houston Chronicle
"For us to be able to create that football environment for our fans, to control tickets and to control the flow of the entire game-day experience is going to be huge for the Texas Southern community," athletic director Charles McClelland said.
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The good and not-so-good of WVU Tech athletics
Daily Mail - Charleston
by Jack Bogaczyk MONTGOMERY - You win some, you lose some ... and in recent years, it's been far too much of the latter in WVU Tech athletics. So, it is with a good dose of enthusiasm that the Golden Bears - despite having their football program ...
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College sport: Aquinas Athletics, Cricket success | Rotorua Sport ...
College sport: Aquinas Athletics, Cricket success | Rotorua Sport | Surfing, Rugby ,Soccer, Football, Cricket in Rotorua ... News & views from a Maori perspective ...
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SPAIN: FOOTBALL/SOCCER - Athletic Bilbao will aim for an all ...
Fox News Channel. Setanta Sports News ... SPAIN: FOOTBALL/SOCCER - AthleticBilbao will aim for an all-Spanish final in the Europa League as they prepare ...
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Connor Senn Memorial Match Suspended - OhioStateBuckeyes ...
Sport Related Links; General Athletics News · Athletic Training · Compliance .... in the area with the Crew leading Ohio State men's soccer 4-0 Tuesday night at ...
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