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Aug 8, 2011

SPORTS, Athletics News, Aug 08, 2011


Game changer: Funding cuts leave Waverly athletes scrambling
Lansing State Journal
But since his contract expired, the athletic department has had no one to lead it through possibly the most tumultuous summer in its history. Nick Burns, Waverly's girls soccer coach for the past two years, ran the summer program for the boys in ...
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Will Dar reclaim lost glory in sports?
IPPmedia
By Correspondent The upward trajectory that football has recently moved is most reassuring especially after the national soccer team in recent years started impressing soccer fans. Some of them had switched to English Premier League arguing that local ...
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Odle Classic Benefits Scholarships, Sports Mission Trips
Taylor University Trojans Athletics
Taylor teams have continued Odle's legacy, including missions trips this year to Guatemala (women's cross country), Czech Republic (football), the Bahamas (track and field/cross country), Northern Ireland (men's soccer), and Honduras (men's/women's ...
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Bill Hempen's CU Buffs look to right ship
Daily Camera
By Joshua Lindenstein Camera Sports Writer University of ado soccer player Amy Barczuk speaks during a press conference on Saturday, Aug. 6, at CU's Media Day at the Dal Ward AthleticCenter on the CU Boulder campus in Boulder. ...
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UMSL Athletics, 'The U' Radio Station Release 2011-2012 Broadcast Schedule
Examiner.com
Mike Fraser and “Big” John Edwards handle most of "The U's" game broadcasting duties, which will include the most Triton sports broadcasts ever, with live coverage of men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball, men's and women's basketball, ...
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Bulletin Board
Lebanon Daily News
MULTI-SPORTS û After School Sports û An after-school program featuring several sports will be held at In The Net Sports Complex this fall. Among the sports to be played are soccer, dodge ball, flagfootball, kick ball and capture the flag. ...
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Berkley's disability champ shows the value of sports goes beyond dollar signs
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
An incoming fifth grader at Pattengill Elementary in Berkley, she competed on the Shrine Academy team in the spring. Track and field events are not her only endeavors in athletics. She also runs cross country, plays soccer and is a cheerleader. ...
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Local Sports Briefs
Glenwood Springs Post Independent
Parents can sign their student-athletes up online at rfsd.org under the athletics tab beginning Tuesday. Coal Ridge High School is holding a youth football camp geared toward players entering the third through sixth grades this Tuesday through Thursday ...
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Rugby novice at Stonehill becomes All-American
Boston Globe
As her father, Dan O'Malley tells it: “One day a week or so into her freshman year, she called me and said, 'Dad, I am playing a sport.' 'Good for you,' I said, figuring that thesport must be soccer given that it was September. Well, it wasn't soccer, ...
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Boston Globe
Slidell youth inline hockey player perseveres in spite of pain
NOLA.com
Osgood-Schlatter is most common in young athletes who play football, soccer, basketball, gymnastics or ballet. Payton's positions as goal tender in inline hockey and catcher in baseball put an excessive amount of stress on the growth plate behind his ...
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NOLA.com
BC announces Bennison as new men's soccer coach
Augusta Free Press
Bridgewater College President George Cornelius and director of athletics Curt Kendall have announced the hiring of Ryan Bennison as the head coach of the College's men'ssoccer program. He succeeds Matt O'Toole who resigned after two years at the helm...
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Augusta Free Press
Virginia Tech has plans for a new indoor practice facility
Washington Post (blog)
By Mark Giannotto It's been less than a year since the Virginia Tech football team moved into a brand new, $18 million locker room. But on Saturday, athletic department officials made public their plans to add a new, and even more costly, ...
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Area Sports Events calendar Aug 7-13
Stamford Advocate
For teams or individuals interested in playing flag football, call 203-984-6386 now. Also please e-mail your information to CTFFA@aol.com To be included in the upcoming events, send information to The Advocate, Sports Department, 9 Riverbend Drive ...
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Booster clubs a 'lifeline' for schools
The Daily News Journal
"Booster clubs are vital for every team," Blackman football coach Philip Shadowens said. "They all got a bad rap all of a sudden. "But most booster clubs are providing help to athletic programs so that kids can play sports and their parents won't be ...
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Republican & Herald
He was also employed as a part-time public address announcer for the Penn State AthleticDepartment, where he announced games for field hockey, soccer and Lacrosse. Nathan, who resides in Summit Hill, has been substitute teaching in the Pottsville Area ...
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Councillors mull stadium sites
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Coun. Sue Uteck (Northwest Arm-South End) said Saturday she'd prefer to see the sports stadium at Saint Mary's University expanded. She's an alumna whose late husband, Larry, was the university's head football coach and athletic director. ...
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Welcome wagon
Hometownlife.com
TIM BUSCH | MU SPORTS INFORMATION When head coach Eric Scott opens practice Monday for his second Madonna University men's soccer season, he may need name tags. With eight new recruits and 15 other players gone, the second-year coach will more than ...
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Secaucus native Pein headed to Caldwell College Hall Mourning the passing of ...
The Hudson Reporter
by Jim Hague HALL OF FAMER – Secaucus native and former Hudson Catholic two-sport standout John Pein, shown here during his playing days, will be inducted into the Caldwell College AthleticHall of Fame next month. John Pein had put his athletic career ...
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BUDLONG: Lowery accomplished much with SDHSAA
Rapid City Journal
Determining how to fund all of the sports when schools are pinching every penny has been a major issue throughout the nation, and South Dakota is no different. This is also the final season thatsoccer will not fall under the sanctioning umbrella of ...
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Area school tryouts
Nashua Telegraph
15-19 for all grades. The girls take the South soccer field from 8-11 am, while the boys tryout runs from 5:30-8 pm Girls volleyball participants take the large gym court Aug. 15-19 from 9 am-noon.Football players kick things off Aug. ...
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SOCCER/ Women urged not to copy men's bad habits
Asahi Shimbun
... because I don't know why, it's the only sport which is always being compared to the men's performances. "It doesn't happen with athletics, swimming, not with handball. This is a challenge forfootball, how to respect he quality of the game itself. ...
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Pirates waited too long before making trades
Washington Observer Reporter
He's the guy who worked miracles (and never won anything) with the Oakland Athletics and wrote the book, "Money Ball." Pirates believers have been pointing to the Athletics for years as an example of how small-payroll (Oakland is not a small market) ...
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Same swim story: Cranbrook second to Forest Hills
Hometownlife.com
ANNIE LAZOR: Woodside Athletic Club in the girls 15-18 100-meter individual medley with a time of 1:04.83. NIKKI BARCZAK: Woodside Athletic Club in the girls 15-18 100-meter freestyle with a time of 56.13 (breaking her own record of 56.67 set the ...
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Wildcats' former soccer coach can't stay away
Charlotte Observer
London will look to all-state midfielder Jax Goyette as the Patriots try for a South Piedmont Athletic Association crown. Jay Edwards is a freelance writer. Got a notebook idea for him? Email suggestions to jedwardsjr23@gmail.com.
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Charlotte Observer
Bulletin Board
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
NEPA Miners 5th Annual Charlie Wysocki Football Camp will be held from 10 am to 2 pm on Aug. 14 at the LPI Sports Complex, 131 Bear Creek Blvd., Wilkes-Barre. The Cost is $15 for male athletes 6 through 14 and includes lunch. ...
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GSW NOTEBOOK: Hurricanes star golfer Gibson qualifies for Canadian Amateur for ...
Albany Herald On-line
GSW Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Information Keith Michlig made the hire and said he was excited about Ensor coming aboard. “Matt stood out from a large pool of qualified candidates during the interview process. He brings a lot of valuable ...
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West Coast warrior
Alton Telegraph
"Growing up, I was involved in a lot of sports, including track, football, cross country and soccer," Reiseck said. "While attending junior college, I was experimenting with different classes. I ended up taking an anatomy and physiology class, ...
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SPORTS NOTICES
The Mercury
Registration is under way for YMCA youth flag football and soccer leagues. Boys and girls ages 4-13 are invited with registration forms online at www.fvymca.org under the youth sports tab or can be obtained at the YMCA on N. Adams St. More information: ...
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Around Danville: Remembering Joey
San Jose Mercury News
Joey also played CYO basketball, Mustang Soccer and T-Bird football, and liked to play golf with his grandpa on weekends. Along with Dave and Jenny Goldman, close friends of the family, the Moores sponsor an annual preseason basketball jamboree in ...
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UFC 133 draws reported 11583 attendance for $1.5 million gate
MMAjunkie.com
The sold-out UFC 101 card drew a reported 17411 spectators for an apparent Pennsylvania combat-sports record $3.55 million gate. However, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission does not typically verify the receipts for public record. ...
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MMAjunkie.com
'Sunday Sit-Down': TODAY'S GUEST: Dr. Joseph Maroon
Wheeling Intelligencer
Should parents of younger children be concerned with sports such as football, soccer or others where head injuries can occur? Dr. Maroon: I saw some statistics a few years back, if you look at the time that kids ... spend in automobiles at the same ...
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Coach's Corner: August is the beginning of sports year for HS athletes
Frederick News Post (subscription)
Although most would agree that enjoying those two leisure months is hard to give up, for many Frederick County sports participants, both young and old, August is the beginning of the sports year. Youth leagues are prolific, whether soccer, football, ...
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Sahil Bloom, ex-Weston High hurler, goes coast to coast
Boston Globe
She was named to both the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference All-Conference Team and the NSCAA All-New England squad all four years of her college career, and was a three-time New England Women's Intercollegiate SoccerAssociation ...
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Boston Globe
Pospisil sputters, loses in semis
The Province
The best predictor of athletic excellence is work ethic, and Vasek's got a tremendous work ethic, too. "I'm really pleased with where he's at right now psychologically. He's very focused. He obviously has the physical and technical skills. ...
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Holden/Southborough/Worcester youths bring rugby back to life
The Daily Northborough
“It gives people who like contact an alternative to soccer and comes without the financial commitment of football,” MacNeal reasoned. “Anyone who is on the field can handle the ball, infootball not everyone touches the ball.” With youth rugby wrapping ...
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Winnipeg Blue Bombers' Defensive Dozen Are Worth the Price of Admission
Bleacher Report
Yes, I confess, I was thinking that Brittle Buck should have made like a World Cupsoccer player and dove, dove, dove. I couldn't for the life of me imagine why Pierce would actually think he could get from Point A to Point B on a football field ...
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Bleacher Report
Dunfermline 3-3 Inverness CT | WOPULAR
News Feed Info Posted on August 6, 2011 from BBC Sport | Football | UK Edition. ... soccer news, scores, stats and fixtures for Dunfermline Athletic on ESPN ...
www.wopular.com/dunfermline-3-3-inverness-ct
L-R Athletics News | LRBears.com
(Athletics) Lenoir-Rhyne University Unveils New Football Scoreboard For The 2011 Season ... The Academic All-America Teams are voted on by CoSIDA (College Sports ... Lenoir-Rhyne Soccer To Host Free Clinic On Sunday. Athletics News News ...
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STOCK, Shares, NYSE News, Aug 08, 2011



Pakistan Attractive as Growth Outweighs Violence, Atlas Says
Bloomberg
Samad said Atlas may introduce a government bond fund this year targeting investments of three to five years and is considering a dividend-yield equity fund and a sector-specific stock fund next year. “In the short run, law and order problems ...
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Reverberations continue: Selloff expected to continue at KSE today
The Express Tribune
“Around 35% of the free float market capitalisation of the Karachi Stock Exchange is owned by foreign investors,” said Hamad Aslam, a research analyst at BMA Capital. “If they start pulling their money out as a result of this downgrade, it could affect ...
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The Express Tribune
Wall Street braces for impact from downgrade
Reuters
A Wall Street sign hangs on a signpost in front of the New York Stock ExchangeAugust 5, 2011. By Paritosh Bansal and Dan Wilchins NEW YORK (Reuters) - A downgrade of United States' top-tier credit rating has Wall Street scrambling to figure out the ...
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Reuters
United States' bond rating might be downgraded by credit-rating agencies
Washington Post
Interest rates on Treasury bonds would edge up — a good guess is about a quarter of a percentage point at first. If you own a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund that owns Treasuries, that would knock 2 to 3 percent off its value. ...
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Israeli shares fall 7% after U.S. downgrade, local protests
Ha'aretz
Discount Bank was not spared, losing 10% and Mizrahi-Tefahot lost 7%. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries stock fell 4.7% to 139.60 per share, representing a shareprice of less than $40 – to be precise, according to the Friday official exchange rates,...
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Ha'aretz
Gulf, Israel stocks drop after US credit downgrade
AFP
Key Israeli stock indices fell around seven percent and trading on the Tel Aviv stock exchange was temporarily halted after shares slumped over the US credit rating downgrade, the bourse said. According to its website, the benchmark TA-25 index closed ...
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AFP
Debt-fight fallout
Mail Tribune
That new cash suggests investors once again see money funds as safe. —Volatility: The stockmarket's fear gauge, formally known as the Chicago Board of Options Exchange's Volatility Index, has risen to levels last seen in August 2010. ...
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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange plunges on US credit downgrade
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Analysts reportedly believe that Saturday night's massive protests throughout Israel against the high cost of living also contributed to the plunge, Haaretz reported. Since the Tel Aviv Stock Exchangeoperates Sunday through Thursday, it was one of the ...
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US debt downgrade: an unpredictable impact
ABC Online
It is definitely an historic event, and markets will open today to a changed reality, as Mohamed el-Erian of the world's biggest bond fund, Pimco, wrote over the weekend. But I don't think the price of those US bonds will collapse - in fact they are ...
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Yield Gap and Yen Draws Investors, Kirin to Brazil: Japan Credit
San Francisco Chronicle
Buying all of closely held Aleadri will give Kirin 50.45 percent of Schincariol Participacoes e Representacoes SA, the Tokyo-based company said in a stock-exchange filing on Aug. 2. The purchase was funded with existing cash and loans. ...
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As Market Tension Builds, World Leaders Ponder Response
New York Times
In a sign of the acute tension after Standard & Poor's lowered the rating for long-term United States debt to AA+ from AAA, stock markets in the Middle East fell in Sunday trading, and the Tel Avivexchange delayed opening for the first time since the ...
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Markets: US Rating Cut, Australian Outlook Solid
International Business Times
The session erased more than $136 billion in market value of companies listed on Japanese stockexchanges, according to Marketwatch. The Hong Kong stock exchange lost more than $US132 billion in investor wealth, with the two main Chinese stock ...
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Fed Has Some Tricks Left, but None Are Magic
Wall Street Journal
He cut interest rates to near zero, printed $2.3 trillion to buy Treasury bonds and mortgage debt, and, with a posse of sleepless economists, devised an alphabet soup of rescue programs for commercial-paper markets, money-market funds, dollar-starved ...
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Debt crisis: Race to stop markets chaos – live blog
The Guardian (blog)
A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. There is mounting fear on Wall Street that the US is at risk of sliding into long-term economic trouble. Photograph: Jin Lee/AP 4.52pm: The stock market carnage on Friday was partly a reaction to ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Arab stocks plunge on downgrading of US credit rating
Monsters and Critics.com
Abdullah Baeshn, CEO of the Saudi TeamOne Consulting, believed the risk lay in the declining value of the Arab holdings of US treasury bonds due to the retreating exchange rate of the dollar. 'A weak dollar will mean a smaller value for the Arab funds ...
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Making Room for Midcaps
Wall Street Journal
He offers two ETF-only portfolios, and one portfolio made up of mutual funds whose managers make bets on stocks and bonds that they hope will beat benchmark indexes. To manage these portfolios, Mr. Cortazzo charges a fixed monthly fee of $199 for ...
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TASE: Day tycoons will want to forget
Ynetnews
Most of the shares on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange slipped Sunday following sharp declines on global markets and the US rating downgrade. Despite the fact that declines are across the board in all of the sectors of the Israeli economy, it is evident ...
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S&P Downgrade: Short Term, Meaningless. Long-Term, Spot On.
Forbes (blog)
Argentina, ever the innovator, did that one better in 2008 by forcing its citizens to give up their private pension funds and buy government bonds instead. - Transaction taxes on stocks: A good way to encourage investors to buy government debt is to ...
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Dubai Shares Drop Most Since February on Global Growth Concern
BusinessWeek
Oil for September delivery tumbled 9.2 percent last week to $86.88 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council supply about a fifth of the world's oil. The Bloomberg GCC 200 Index of the region's stocks ...
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Base exposure to a commodity on its volume of productioni
Financial Times
Exposure to commodities can be obtained through direct physical investment, through commodity futures, exchange traded funds (linked to individual commodities or commodity indices) or through owning the equity (or debt) of commodity producing companies ...
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Investors brace for nervous Monday
Times of India
One of the most-watched markets on Monday will be the Shanghai stock exchange, mainly because of the sheer amount of exposure of the Chinese economy to the US and also its holdings of US government bonds. "China is most exposed to the US market, ...
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FSC aims to avoid an FX meltdown
JoongAng Daily
On Friday, premiums on credit default swaps for Korean government-issued foreign currency bondsincreased to 115 basis points, the highest level in eight months. As credit default swaps are derivatives that insure a holder against bond defaults, ...
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Toronto stock market declined again
CTV.ca
European bourses were mainly lower as leaders face the prospect that Italy and Spain won't be able to hold out until a new, strengthened bailout fund is in place to prop them up. Italian and Spanish bonds traded at levels that threaten those countries ...
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CTV.ca
China's dollar dilemma worsens after US drama
gulfnews.com
Even though China's holding in US bonds has increased, their proportion in the country's overall foreign reserve is declining. Fearing over-dependence on the Treasury bonds, government-wealth managers — State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) ...
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Talk of the Day -- US debt crisis triggers global mobilization
Focus Taiwan News Channel
In Taiwan, the head of the the central bank and deputy premier spent a nervous Sunday trying to avert a stock market sell-off on Monday that could affect the Taiwan dollar'sexchange rate. Following are excerpts of major Taiwanese newspapers' reports ...
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Focus Taiwan News Channel
After the Downgrade: Hedging U.S. Treasuries
Seeking Alpha
For the purposes of this example, let's assume our investor has $250000 in Treasury bonds. Since he's got $250000 in Treasury bonds, and we're using TLT as a proxy, the number of shares we'll enter will be $250000 / the most recent share price of TLT ...
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