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Aug 5, 2011

SPORTS, Athletics News, Aug 05, 2011


Hendrick gift adds sports at 32 schools
Charlotte Observer
I had a football coach who helped keep me focused." If not for those coaches, Hendrick said, he might not have achieved the success he has experienced. Sue Doran, interim athletics director for CMS, said the sponsorship "will make a lot of parents ...
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Covery Story: Surviving the Lockout, Real Salt Lake
In Utah This Week
College football and basketball aside, Utah claims ownership of four different teams that cater to the tastes of each sports fan. From ice hockey to baseball and arena football to soccer, there is enough athletic talent to get your inner fan bursting ...
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New Judson fields nearing completion
San Antonio Express
One advantage all the sports can utilize is the presence of on-site locker rooms. With the high school's current athletic wing reaching toward the football stadium and tennis courts, “all these teams can dress right here (at Judson) and walk right ...
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Nicholls soccer team opens fall practice
Daily Comet
One Nicholls State athletic team opened its training camp in John L. Guidry Stadium on Wednesday, but it was the football squad. Senior forward Kandice Champagne, a former Terrebonne High standout, and the Nicholls State women's soccer team started ...
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Boosters excited as fall sports approach
Mt. Carmel Daily Republican Register
Mt. Carmel High School Athletic Director Doug Spear told the Boosters that all the sports programs will start practices on Aug. 10. The six fall sports include boys and girls golf, girls tennis, boysfootball, girls volleyball, boys soccer and boys and ...
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Girls' soccer, volleyball realigned
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
By Tom Robinson Girls' soccer and girls' volleyball will have new divisional formats, according to the divisions and schedules for Lackawanna Interscholastic Athletic Association fall sports that were posted this week on piaad2.org. ...
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RBR Community forms Foundation to Light Football Field
Atlantic Highlands Herald
In addition to football, a lighted athletic field would benefit several RBR sports including soccer, lacrosse and field hockey, which currently can only play home games in the daylight. The Red Bank Regional High School Buccaneer Athletic Foundation ...
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Kids learn adaptations for athletic prowess
Daily Herald
He said he would like to see the sport become a national game and even have a national Paralympicsoccer team go on and compete internationally. His wish isn't without some promise; he competed at the 1984 Athens Paralympics in football (soccer). ...
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Morse Code: Pojoaque Alone on the Pitch
Rio Grande Sun
I don't expect the soccer program to ever be resurrected at Española given the budget woes and lack of interest in the sport. Hopefully, Pojoaque will continue its program because soccer gives more youths the opportunity to compete in athletics.
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Central Falls' bankruptcy taking toll on athletics
Providence Journal
Football practice starts Aug. 15, all other fall sports Aug. 22. “I hope the district follows its preaching and does what is in the best interest of students,” boys varsity soccer coach Carl Africo said Wednesday while walking to the ...
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Q&A: A conversation with Hough High athletics director Masanori Toguchi
Huntersville Herald
For a first-year school, we were able to have three conference championships – boys swimming, boys golf and a share of the girls soccer title. We had our first individual state champion (swimmer Peter Brumm). We only had a few teams that didn't make ...
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Huntersville Herald
Sports briefs
The Salem News
Send a cover letter and resume to athletic director Jared Scarpaci at jscarpaci@masconomet.org. Manchester Essex has openings for varsity and jayvee girls soccer coaches, a boys jayvee soccercoach and a freshman football coach. ...
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Soccer Opens 2011 Practice
BallStateSports.com
by Ball State Athletics MUNCIE, Ind. - Under of the direction of second-year head coach Craig Roberts, the Ball State soccer team opened the 2011 preseason schedule Wednesday afternoon at the newly minted Briner Sports Complex. ...
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Throwback Thursday: Cynthia Dahle
KUAthletics.com
I played soccer for awhile after college but I have four kids now so I do not feel like I have the opportunity to play as much but I still miss playing on a team.” Are your children involved in sports? If so, which ones do they play? ...
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Excitement builds for new scoreboard at NCHS
NCAdvertiser.com (blog)
In the spirit of supporting all athletics in New Canaan, it is expected this scoreboard will benefit dozens of high school teams that use Dunning Field: including fall football, field hockey and boys and girls soccer, as well as boys and girls lacrosse ...
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Head Coach Todd Dyer Announces 2011 Schedule
Longwood Athletics
Longwood University 18th-year women's soccer head coach Todd Dyer '93 has announced his upcoming 2011 Schedule, featuring 10 home matches at the Athletics Complex in Farmville. The Lancers finished 2010 with a record of 11-8 overall, including 8-2 at ...
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FGCU thinking big in first year NCAA tourney eligible
The News-Press
At the customary team orientation he heads before each season, FGCU athletic director Ken Kavanagh on Tuesday tailored his message to the women's soccer team, one of four at FGCU to win a conference title last year. "We're hoping to win a minimum of ...
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Aggie soccer gearing for 2011
Alamogordo Daily News
The Aggies will play their home matches in a new stadium, the Soccer Athletic Complex, which is located between the Coca-Cola Weight Center and the NMSU Softball Complex. The new field has a natural grass surface, and the facility will share amenities ...
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Martin Togher Named Assistant Women's Soccer Coach at Concordia University Texas
Concordia University Tornados Athletics
Togher is currently a member of the Celtic Cowboys, which competes in the Premier League of the Austin Men's Soccer Association. A native of Watford, England, Togher earned a bachelor's degree in sports management from Cardinal Stritch in 2007 and a ...
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HPU Athletics 2010-11 Memorable Events: No. 3
HPU Panthers
7, 2010 - Johnston delivers HPU its second-straight Big South crown Senior Jillie Johnston (Naperville, Ill./Naperville Central) broke a scoreless tie with a goal on a bicycle kick in the 95th minute to give the High Point University women's soccer ...
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Meyersdale passes co-op sports agreement
Daily American Online
Salisbury students in grades seven through 12 may participate in Meyersdale football, girls' soccer, cross country, junior high soccer, wrestling, and track and field. “I think it's a good agreement,” athletics and extracurricular Chairman Jim Wiltrout ...
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Daily American Online
NCHSAA awaits South Johnston High violation report
News & Observer
The NC High School Athletic Association is waiting for the final report from Johnston County Schools before imposing any penalties on South Johnston High for violating out-of-season football workout rules. South Johnston had hitting drills in full ...
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News & Observer
UVM puts increased emphasis on offseason training
BurlingtonFreePress.com
“There's been a re-organization with strength and conditioning and a shift in philosophy to one that is much more holistic and incorporates nutrition, sports psychology and athletic medicine.” Holt, who came to UVM after spending three years as an ...
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Varsity Sports Flex Plans Now Available
West Virginia University Mountaineers
The Mountaineer Ticket Office is now offering a Varsity Sports Flex Plan, a bargain for families who plan on attending a WVU varsity sporting event during the 2011-12athletic year. “We're excited to offer an affordable, family-friendly ticket package ...
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West Virginia University Mountaineers
Kentucky group set to honor Dawn
Huntington Herald Dispatch
Women's soccer plays an Aug. 13 home match against Longwood. Volleyball opens Aug. 26-27 at the Morehead State Tournament, facing Michigan and the host Eagles. PAINT IT: Marshall footballhead coach Doc Holliday is one of the Aug. ...
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YHS in need of boys and girls soccer coaches
Reno Gazette Journal
"Yerington High School is in dire and desperate need of both boys and girls soccer coaches," YHSAthletic Director Daron Wildermuth said on Monday. "If we can't find a coach(es), there's a possibility of not" fielding those teams this season, ...
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Gloucester Sports Briefs
Gloucester Daily Times
Manchester Essex High School is looking for Varsity and JV girls soccer coaches, a boys JVsoccer coach and a freshman football coach. Please contact MERHS Athletic Director Kelly Porcaro if interested. Gloucester High School is looking for both girls ...
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FOOTBALL CAMP NOTES: New Bearcat under center
nwitimes.com
Football coach Ken Bye said that the coaches and athletic trainers have kept a watch on Anderson. "We talk to him and make sure he has to pace himself," Bye said. "If they've had a hard day of practice at soccer, we'll put him in a series that might be ...
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Pendleton Cup Continues With Beach Volleyball Tournament
Patch.com
... including paintball tournaments, outrigger races and football and soccer games, in addition to Wednesday's beach volleyball tournament. "We have every sport imaginable," said Theresa Flores,sports coordinator for Camp Pendleton Athletics. ...
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2011 Women's Soccer Coaching Staff
Longwood Athletics
The program has enjoyed outstanding success under Coach Dyer's guidance since attaining intercollegiate varsity sport status at Longwood in 1994. He led the Lancers to the 2002 Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference (CVAC) Tournament Championship and ...
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Academy at work on fields project
Sewickley Herald
"Playing varsity games on that field will help increase the excitement for both of those sports," said Win Palmer, Sewickley Academy's athletic director and varsity softball coach. "(Varsity) soccer and lacrosse will also be able to practice there. ...
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Community sports listings
New Era Progress
Call Joanna Nisbet at the Lynchburg Parks & Recreation Athletics Office at (434) 455-5884. w FYAA KICKOFF CLASSIC: Forest Youth Athletic Association will hold its annual Football Kickoff Classic from 9 am to 2 pm Aug. 13 at the FYAA Complex located off ...
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University of Arizona Athletics Going to Paperless Ticketing System
TMC Net
... softball, gymnastics, volleyball and soccer. Next season, the policy will be expanded to includefootball, according to the UA News Web site. While the policy may be new to the general public, Arizona Athletics has been digitally ticketing via the ...
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MHS Fall Sports Tryout Schedule
Patch.com
Many local athletes have been working all summer to prepare for the fall sports season. Here is Marblehead High School's fall sports tryout schedule. Marblehead High School football player Blake Forman during a regular season game last fall. ...
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Sports Notes
Columbus Telegram
Gilberto Rodriguez, a member of the Columbus 97/98 Chaos soccer team and the Olympic Development Program, was chosen to play for the Region II 12-year-old soccer team at a tryout July 6 in Overland Park, Kan. Players from 14 different states competed ...
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ValpoAthletics.com - A New Season Begins: Women's Soccer Reports ...
Valparaiso University's women's soccer team became the first Crusader athletics team ... Media Relations · News Releases · Pioneer Football League · Recreational Sports ... Sports Schedules Tickets Inside Athletics Multimedia Prospective ... Valpo's football and volleyball teams will arrive on campus Sunday, Aug. ...
www.valpoathletics.com/.../a-new-season-begins-womens-socc...
Football season is here!! Are You Ready ... - Wisconsin Sports Network
Wisconsin Sports Minute ... HS Football Board. More. Sponsor. Wrestling ... News . Volleyball - Girls ... WI Soccer Central. Soccer - Girls ...
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Women's Soccer Buckeyes Arrive in Columbus for Fall Camp ...
Sport Related Links; General Athletics News · Athletic Training ... Audio; Football Radio Network · Men's Basketball Radio Network · Scarlet and Gray Sports Radio ... COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The 2011 Ohio State women's soccer team arrived in ...
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GREECE News, Aug 05, 2011

Royal Bank of Scotland posts £794m loss after Greece hit
Telegraph.co.uk
Part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland today swung to a half-year loss as it took a £733m hit on its exposure to Greece's debt-laden economy. The bank reported a loss of £794m in the six months to June 30, compared with a £1.1bn profit last year. ...
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Turmoil in Europe spills into US markets
USA Today
Fears that the debt crisis that started last year in Greece is spreading to much larger economies such as Spain and Italy roiled markets around the world, sending investors scurrying out of everything from gold to oil to stocks. ...
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Portugal's New Austerity Fails to Bring Down Borrowing Costs: Euro Credit
Bloomberg
By Joao Lima - Thu Aug 04 23:01:00 GMT 2011 July 25 (Bloomberg) -- Otto Waser, chief investment officer of R&A Research & Asset Management AG, discusses the European sovereign debt crisis after today's downgrade by Moody's Investors Service of Greece's ...
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The global craze for austerity will result in more pain
ABC Online
According to this compelling portrait of the country's woes by Aditya Chakrabortty of The Guardian, "Greece today looks like parts of Latin America in the worst moments of its financial crisis". Greece's official unemployment rate is 16 per cent, ...
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Greece Must Consolidate Budget to Calm Euro Area, Roesler Says
San Francisco Chronicle
Only once they do that will European leaders consider further measures, Roesler, who is also Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy, told reporters in Oslo today. "The problems that arose in several nation states should be solved on a national basis," ...
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Europe's Plan Won't Cut Greek Debt: Allen, Eichengreen and Evans
Bloomberg
A 21 percent reduction in net present value sounds impressive, but it has no bearing on the amount by which the exchange will reduce Greece's debt. No one appreciated that 30-year zero-coupon bonds are much more expensive in today's low-interest-rate ...
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Gambling Review News » Blog Archive » Greece ignoring EU about ...
It seems that Greece is content to ignore the European Commission when it comes to their online gambling regulations. Today the country is pushed forward ...
www.gamblingreviews.com/news/?p=2318
The OECD forecast: Greece will return to ... - Stock Market Today
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development 2 predicts that the Greek economy will grow by 0.6%. This will be a continuous decline in.
www.stockmarkettoday.cc/the-oecd-forecast-greece-will-retur...
Yup. Italy becoming the next Greece today started it today.
Italy becoming the next Greece today started it today. Posted by nm on August 04 , 2011 at 21:38:00: In Reply to: Heard a woman from the Stock Exchange say ...
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BARACK OBAMA News, Aug 05, 2011

AP sources: Obama wants aid for unemployed vets
Channel 8 San Diego Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:13 PM PDT
President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve new initiatives to help some of America's 1 million unemployed military veterans find work, including tax credits for companies that hire out-of-work vets.
F-16s intercept plane during Obama visit
The Youngstown Vindicator Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:10 PM PDT
F-16s intercept plane during Obama visit SOUTH BARRINGTON, Ill. Two F-16 fighter jets
Obama to push tax credits for hiring veterans
Reuters via Yahoo! News Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:09 PM PDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday will propose a $120 million package of new tax credits for businesses that hire U.S. veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan at a time of stubbornly high unemployment at home.
Obama To Announce New Steps To Get Veterans Back To Work
ABC News Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:06 PM PDT
ABC Newsâ Mary Bruce (@marykbruce) reports: Today the president will announce new steps aimed at helping the nationâs one million unemployed veterans get back to work. In a speech at the Washington Navy Yard, the president will challenge the private...
Obama returning to Holland for battery plant visit
WZZM 13 Grand Rapids Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:05 PM PDT
HOLLAND, Mich. (WZZM) -- For the second time in 13 months President Obama is coming to Holland. This visit again revolves around the city's growing electric plug-in vehicle battery industry.
Weprin wonât endorse Obama for now
JTA Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:05 PM PDT
David Weprin, the Democrat running to replace disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner, declined for now to endorse President Obama's reelection
Obama's Midwest ride is on taxpayers' dime
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:01 PM PDT
When Washington politics get too hot, get on a bus and head out of town.
Obama supporters already on the attack for 2012 election
Daily Press Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:47 PM PDT
Surrogates for the president's campaign are pushing back early against criticism on the economy, and are developing lines of attack against his potential Republican opponents, especially Mitt Romney. The stock market plunge highlights a challenge President Obama faces in his quest for a second term: With a recovery that is anemic at best, he probably will be forced to run on something other than ...
Obama Praises Deal to Halt Aviation Shutdown
WIFR Rockford Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:43 PM PDT
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced a deal to extend the FAA's operating authority through mid-September.
Middle Class, Poor Will Pay for a Decade of War Debt
Albuquerque Journal Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:40 PM PDT
President Barack Obama touted his debt-ceiling deal Tuesday, saying, "We can't balance t ...