CHINESE Sports News, Aug 21, 2011

Recipe for success China Daily "Sport should be part of education, and knowledge also helps in playing soccer and building up personality. Our players need knowledge. They can play while learning."China's soccer heads have started to pay attention to the country's talent deficit ... See all stories on this topic »

Chinese may revive Short Vine
Cincinnati.com
Chan and his father-in-law, Martin "Mop" Angiulli, traveled to China to pitch their plan: a $20 million investment to begin to transform the 2600 block. Angiulli owns Martino's, an Italian restaurant andsports bar that sits squarely in the center of ...
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Stanford's Lee discusses jealousy, chocolate and visiting China
Palo Alto Online
At the age of 13 Lee already had practiced many sports, ie volleyball, soccer, basketball. It was then that she decided to take swimming seriously. Born in New Jersey, she moved to Maryland to train with Bob Bowman, same coach of Michael Phelps. ...
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Sport Court® Is Big Player In Southern Viet Nam Tiger Street Football Tournament
RedOrbit
Sport Court is used in all Tiger Football tournament events. Fast action play on Sport Court® continues to delight fans of the 2011 Tiger Street Football Tournament, which moves to ChinaBeach’s Au Co Park in Da Nang on August 20-21. ...
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A restive air at P&G
Cincinnati.com
1:26 am Highlands has just shut out defending girls' soccer state champion St. Henry, 1-0 on the Crusaders' home field, despite being outshot, 7-4. Bluebirds goalkeeper... Let's recap today's titanic struggle…. FINAL Cincinnati 3 Pittsburgh 5 W: T. ...
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Welcome to the dog days of summer
Winnipeg Sun
REUTERS/Henry Romero (ARGENTINA - Tags: SPORT SOCCER ANIMALS) Maggie, a poodle, gets a pedicure at a dog spa in Cainta, Metro Manila July 19, 2011. While dog grooming is becoming popular in major cities in the Philippines, local reports say about ...
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Marilyn Monroe in the weekend mail? What a place this is!
Toronto Star Blogs (blog)
Basketball, football, hockey and soccer (and probably others) have a "coach," who is dressed in 'street clothes.' Baseball is (as far a I know, the only sport with a "manager" who wears the team's uniform, complete with a number! ...
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Local sports calendar: 8.21.2011
Corpus Christi Caller Times
Coastal Bend Women's Soccer Association is seeking women interested in playing soccer. For information, e-mail cbwsa@aol.com or go to www.cbsa.com. Competitive Soccer Tryouts for the Coastal Bend — see CBYSA's Web site at www.cbysasoccer.org. ...
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Prep football preview: No. 5 Lowell will hold annual pink jersey game Sept. 9
Detroit Free Press
9 activities will begin at 1:30 with a pep assembly and is followed by a volleyball match, a soccermatch and a cross-country meet leading up to the football game. The following morning there is a 10K run, and a 5K race and walk. ...
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6th Annual Ottawa Serbian Festival
Ottawa Start (press release)
Ottawa Serbian Fest wants to promote cross-cultural gamesmanship by offering up a variety ofsports activities. Specifically, there are tennis, soccer and golf tournaments. Don't miss the mandatory signup! Festival activities are created with ...
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GREECE News, Aug 21, 2011

Greek bailout could stumble on collateral debate: experts AFP "We've struck a deal with Greece and now it's up to the other eurozone nations to approve it," Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen told reporters Wednesday. Analysts at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research said that the deal between Finland and Greece ... See all stories on this topic » AFP

Skopje-Athens dispute: Who "owns" Alexander the Great? Monsters and Critics.com Every attentive student knows from history class that Alexander the Great belongs to Greece just like the Acropolis in Athens. And still Greek history professor Basi Gounaris in Thessaloniki says, 'This conflict is never going to be solved, ... See all stories on this topic »

Trojan horse BBC News Greece's minister of finance has declared that his government will make "a superhuman effort" to fulfil the conditions of the recent bailout. The declaration has a slightly ominous ring, and I can't help thinking back to one of the most ancient Greek... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Kadi joins Greek club KickOff During a chat from Greece, the former Bidvest Wits striker confirmed that he has put pen to paper on a short-term deal. “I have joined a Second Division team called Veria on a one-year deal,” he told KickOff.com. Kadi was loaned out by Wits to ... See all stories on this topic »

A Euro tragedy….can Zeus fly to the rescue? Malta Business Weekly Greek prime minister Papandreou gained enough votes to win the crucial vote of confidence in Parliament, which will help him pass the latest austerity measures, so Brussels and IMF now have little choice but to cough up the cash. ... See all stories on this topic »

Party girl Tara Reid ties the knot with her fiance in Greece Monsters and Critics.com Newlywed Tara Reid has taken to Twitter to share her honeymoon photos. The 'American Pie' star wed Zack Kehayov after getting engaged just hours earlier on theGreek island of Santorini. Now she is showing off her honeymoon by posting pictures online. ... See all stories on this topic » Monsters and Critics.com

Local creative thinkers recount artistic journeys both at home and abroad Columbia Daily Tribune The group spent five weeks in Greece, learning modern Greek in the mornings and then splitting into various writing workshops — fiction, poetry, translation and food/travel writing — in the afternoon. Most evenings, the group was enlightened by ... See all stories on this topic »

UMD Calls For Greek Metropolitan's Excommunication - OpEd Eurasia Review “This rhetoric is barbaric and injurious to Greece, the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the GreekOrthodox Church. Instead of promoting Christian values of peace, tolerance and togetherness, Anthimos uses his position of trust to incite the Greek nation to ... See all stories on this topic »

Is Merkozy's damp squib really a hand grenade? Irish Independent Three countries (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) are in financial rescue programmes, unable to borrow as the markets have priced in high probabilities of default. Several other countries, including much larger ones, are now threatened with the same fate. ... See all stories on this topic »

Bacalis: The traditional meaning of 'icon' Richmond Times Dispatch This comes directly from a Greek word that also means image or picture. The second definition references the Eastern Orthodox Church use of the word icon as a sacred image of Jesus, Mary, a saint or a scene from Scripture. ... See all stories on this topic »

Belgium adds to call for euro bonds, bigger bailout (NEWS.GNOM.ES) NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release) Bickering over the latest Greek bailout and lingering disappointment over Wednesday's Franco-German summit helped drag European shares to near two-year lows on Friday. Fears that major world economies are heading for recession are adding to worries ... See all stories on this topic »

Lender or borrower? DAWN.com ... now, the effect is not be limited to Greece. Ireland and Portugal, Spain and Italy are not far behind. Default would mean the end of the dream. So the pressure was mounted on the Greekgovernment to pass austerity measures and accept more debt. ... See all stories on this topic »

Panicky investors surely can't be expecting a quick cure for this malaise The Guardian Anxious bond investors demand austerity, austerity, austerity: Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Italy and now even France have lined up to offer civil servants' scalps and taxpayers' hard-earned cash to convince their creditors they're back on the straight ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Euro crisis and China Times of Malta Many believe China actually has a game changing presence in Europe now. It is reported to have focused on the Mediterranean and south-eastern EU member states most in need of Chinese cash. Figures suggest Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain now represent ... See all stories on this topic »

REIN IN THESE ROGUE BANKS Express.co.uk RBS's fi gures reveal that it managed to lose £733million through holding Greek bonds. So how did RBS manage to lose so much? Why can't this state-owned bank do better? How on earth did it miss the news that Greece was in trouble? ... See all stories on this topic »

Greek stock market tumbles - Yahoo! News Read 'Greek stock market tumbles' on Yahoo! News. ... Debt-ridden Greece became the first European Union country to seek an international bailout last year, ... news.yahoo.com/greek-stock-market-tumbles-101009263.html

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100 Libyan gov't troops captured -- Al-Jazeera

TRIPOLI, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- One hundred Libyan government troops, including a high-ranking air force officer, were captured by rebels as months-long clashes edged into the Libyan capital of Tripoli, the pan-Arab al-Jazeera television reported on Sunday.

The television said rebels in the western towns of Zawiyah and Zliten said they are just 27 km away from the capital.

Rebels have already seized four eastern neighborhoods of Soug Jomaa, Arada, Tajourah, and al-Sabaa in Tripoli.

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