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Sep 10, 2011

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Documentaries steal spotlight at Toronto Film fest
Reuters
U2's Bono and The Edge pose with director Davis Guggenheim at the gala presentation for the documentary film ''From The Sky Down'' at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival, September 8, 2011. By Cameron French TORONTO (Reuters) - They're not ...
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From Picasso to Elvis, Chinese buy up Western culture
Reuters
By Jordan Riefe LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The art world shook last February when a report by The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) revealed that China had overtaken the United Kingdom to become the world's second largest art market. ...
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For Sachs, US 9/11 response undercut war on poverty
Reuters
By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World-renowned development economist Jeffrey Sachs has made it his mission to improve the lives of the world's poor, a job he believes has been made harder by the US response to the September 11, 2001, ...
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U.S. scrutinizes foreign defense M&A
Reuters
No doubt, the horrible events of that awful day altered life in America and the world forever. Ten years later, it's a question worth asking, even if there is no simple answer: What's changed since then? LONDON (Reuters) - The outlook for renewable ...
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Venice film festival nears end, contest wide open
Reuters
By Mike Collett-White VENICE, Italy, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The Venice film festival ends on Saturday with the award of the coveted Golden Lion for best picture, but critics struggled to name their favourite in a year that had plenty of good films but few ...
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Hong Kong director calls markets "casino" in new movie
Reuters
By Mike Collett-White VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - The world's stock markets are a casino in which everyone wants to, or has to, gamble in Johnnie To's latest drama "Life Without Principle" set amidst the recent financial turmoil. ...
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Iraq: Victim or beneficiary of September 11 attacks?
Reuters
By Waleed Ibrahim BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ten years after the hijacked airliner attacks on the United States, Iraqis are swamped in the violent wake of a war launched on a tenuous premise and uncertain if they are headed to democracy or dictatorship. ...
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Reuters
5 ways 9/11 didn't change Hollywood
msnbc.com
(Lucy Nicholson / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation On March 10, 2011, Lindsay Lohan rejected a plea agreement offered by prosecutors that would have meant a guaranteed return to jail for the actress in her jewelry theft case. ...
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Photos: The Decade Since 9/11
National Journal
(Reuters/Pentagon; Reuters/Courtesy US News & World Report; Social Media Website viaReuters) View original. 18 Members of the public glance over as they walk past a member of a New York Police Department Hercules team on patrol near Penn Station in ...
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The world still thinks Americans are "coolest": Poll
The Express Tribune
PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE LONDON: They may be witnessing their global superpower influence decline in the face of challenges from other emerging players on the worldstage, but Americans have been voted the world's “coolest nationality” in aninternational ...
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The Express Tribune
Kiwis say 'Kia ora' to world
Independent Online
Performers participate in the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup at Eden Park in Auckland September 9, 2011. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen (NEW ZEALAND - Tags: SPORT RUGBY IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE) THE WORLD received a traditional Maori welcome in ...
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Independent Online
Twin Towers Attack Anniversary: How the Media Is Covering
Hollywood Reporter
"What Took So Long?" asks TIME magazine in a report investigating why the WorldTrade Center site is still unfinished. Reuters took a different approach, with a piece on New Yorkers and their desire to move on from the attacks. ...
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Hollywood Reporter
7 surprising discoveries at the Gadhafi compound
CBC.ca
Still image taken from amateur video shows Muammar Gadhafi relaxing with his granddaughter at the Bab al-Aziziya compound. Reuters 2. Gadhafi home videos: Reuters has recovered video of Gadhafi, dressed in a white track suit top, playing with his ...
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9/11 conspiracy theories
Malaysia Star
A combination photo shows United Airlines Flight 175 impacting the south tower of theWorld Trade Center in New York in this Sept 11, 2001, file photo. Conspiracy theories comb such images for anything that will back up their ideas. — Reuters You just ...
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Malaysia Star
A captured beast that reminds us of a remote past
The Guardian
Photograph: Reuters A crowd of people have gathered in a woodland whose leaves are turned deep fresh green by the water-sodden air. They line up quietly, so the photographer can use their numbers to measure a monster. In front of them, chained flat to ...
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The Guardian
Obama pushes jobs plan
IT Business Net
By GrabNetworks Summary of business headlines: President Obama faces tough sell on pivotal jobs plan; ECB Board member to step down according to Reuters; Bank of America reportedly talking job cuts; A moment of silence at the NYSE for 10th Anniversary ...
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Encyclopedia's new chapter
Calgary Herald
By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters September 9, 2011 2:33 AM The Encyclopedia of Life features information - including photos and videos - about a vast array of the plant and animal life on our planet.As an online resource, it's designed to appeal to users ...
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US Open - Djokovic Vs Tipsarevic - Match Highlights (VIDEO)
International Business Times
Picture - Reuters. In one of just two quarterfinals played on Thursday, as the bottom half of the men's draw has been delayed due to rain, world number one Novak Djokovic was adjudged the victor after fellow-Serb Janko Tipsarevic retired with a ...
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International Business Times
Dalet Speaks a New Language with Nexidia's Dialogue Search
MarketWatch (press release)
Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA. Dalet is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital Media Systems. All other trademarks and products mentioned herein belong to their ...
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Retiring boomers create pricey skills gap for manufacturers
Crain's Cleveland Business (blog)
Reuters reports, though, that questions remain about restrictions on labeling and the need for more studies. The Food and Drug Administration advisory panel chaired by the Clinic's Dr. A. Michael Lincoff, on Thursday voted 9-2 to recommend approval of ...
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Egyptians attack Israel embassy, envoy flees
msnbc.com
A furious wave of protest finally swept Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak from power, sending a warning to autocrats across the Arab world and beyond. (Yannis Behrakis /Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation A spokesman for Egypt's higher military...
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5 Reasons to Bid Up Sotheby's
Motley Fool
There are a handful of art funds that sell shares in collections assembled by portfolio managers, butReuters' Felix Salmon has dispatched the rationale for those funds better than I could, and saved me the work. Short version: The underlying assets ...
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Hitachi Data Systems Acquires BlueArc
TMC Net
Reuters described BlueArc as a “struggling California-based network storage company.” The acquisition appears to “take advantage of the yen's strength,” Reuters (News - Alert) added. “The yen hit a record high 75.94 yen to the dollar last month, ...
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Street Life: The 9/11 diaries
CNN
"HRH prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, [told Reuters] Monday September 17 that he has great confidence in the economy of the United States of America. The Saudi self-made billionaire businessman ...
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Volkswagen says Porsche merger delayed
Reuters
Video WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, seeking to rescue a faltering economy and his own re-election prospects, began an uphill battle on Friday to win Republican support for a $447 billion jobs plan. | Video HONG KONG (Reuters) - US ...
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Reuters
Flashback to 2001: Taliban with a small “t” dream of Afghan jihad after 9/11
Reuters Blogs (blog)
Right after 9/11, Reuters editors asked correspondents with experience in Afghanistan and Pakistan if they wanted to go back there to report. Within days, I flew from Paris to Islamabad, a city I'd left 15 years earlier. Soon, I set up a temporary ...
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Reuters Blogs (blog)
Music Money Roundup: Lil Wayne, Birdman, EMI and Elvis
Forbes
As reported by Reuters earlier this week, Elvis Presley's estate has tapped a litigation-finance firm to sue Sony-backed Arista over German royalties. The suit alleges that the deal struck between Arista's precursor and The King's manager–a sale of ...
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Bieber goes Hollywood, Big Buff goes off his diet, and Bibi's wife faces new ...
Macleans.ca
she told Reuters. Speaking of misquotes, poet Maya Angelou says the one carved on the massive, new Washington monument to Martin Luther King Jr. makes him look like “an arrogant twit.” It reads: “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness. ...
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Flash content will run on your iPhone
Washington Post (blog)
By Hayley Tsukayama (PICHI CHUANG - REUTERS) Adobe's latest release of its Flash Media Server comes with a quiet capitulation to Apple:You can now run Flash content without running Flash. Apple and its chairman, Steve Jobs, have famously spurned the ...
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War-themed video games stir controversy, showing not all 9/11 wounds have healed
San Diego Source (subscription)
In April of last year, WikiLeaks released classified footage of a 2007 incident in Baghdad involving a US Apache Helicopter that left 12 men dead, including two Reuters employees. At the time Julian Assange, the website's co-founder, charged, ...
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Syria braced for another Friday of protests
Ahram Online
Syrian opposition demonstrators living in Turkey wave their national flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad outside the Syrian consulate in Istanbul, (Reuters). Syria braced for another Friday of demonstrations a day after ...
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Ahram Online
Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters
WSB Atlanta
That's gotta be some sort of testament to Apple's build quality, right?" PC World wrote. Here's one lingering question in all of this: If you spend a grand on a laptop, why would you risk getting carrot juice all over the thing?
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Jackson fans angry at tribute concert price cuts
Arab News
By REUTERS LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson fans were up in arms on Thursday over reports that promoters of a planned tribute concert had slashed ticket prices and apparently offered 2-for-1 ticket deals to the October event. ...
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Sept 11 conspirators: Where are they now? Video
Bangladesh News 24 hours
London, Sep 09 (bdnews24.com/Reuters)- It took 19 men to hijack four airliners and crash them in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, killing nearly 3000 people. But a much larger network of conspirators was involved in planning, ...
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US ISSUES 9/11 TRAVEL ALERT / CREDIBLE TERROR THREAT VS NY, WASHINGTON
Philippine Headline News
US officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the threat involved Washington DC and New York City, which were targeted in al-Qaeda attacks a decade ago this Sunday that killed nearly 3000 people. A counter-terrorism official said ...
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Philippine Headline News
Net Insight Wins CSI Award for Best HDTV Technology Project
CisionWire (press release)
Net Insights Nimbra(TM) platform is the industry solution for video, voice and data, reducing operational costs by 50 percent and enhancing competitiveness in delivery of existing and new media services. More than 130 world class customers run mission ...
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Man dressed as Gumby tries to rob store
GMANews.TV
Gumby, a green humanoid figure who looks like an elastic stick of gum with limbs, was created in the 1950s by the late Art Clokey and his wife, Ruth. Gumby had a sidekick, the talking orange horse Pokey. - Reuters.
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SPORTS, Athletics News, Sep 10, 2011


John Bapst to induct eight into athletic hall of fame
Bangor Daily News
But in an effort to offset those costs for fans, said Vanidestine, a yearlong athletic pass is available to provide entry to all of the school's home athletic contests in sports for which an admission is charged — football, boys and girls soccer, ...
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Grace Christian will be first in Knoxville to install synthetic football ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
Grace Christian athletic director Johnny Cox said the project will cost between $350000 and $450000, but in the long run will save money in a number of ways. "We'll have the field lined forsoccer and football, and once we get it in, we can let youth ...
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New sports team in town hopes to provide more than athletics
Gaston Gazette
Richardson wants to see basketball follow the football season, then start up baseball in the spring and bring in soccer two or three years from now. Cheerleading started up when football practice began this summer. He got a jump start in football ...
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Division One women wrap it up
Orangeville Citizen
By BRIAN LOCKHART Sports Editor Athletic striker Jessica Keller - six goals for the season After an 18 game season the Orangeville Athletic women's team ended the year with a seventh place finish in the ten team York Region Soccer League's Division One ...
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Around Kentuckiana | U of L adds 5 to Hall of Fame; men's soccer, field hockey win
Louisville Courier-Journal
Otis Wilson (football, 1977-79) was a dominating linebacker for the Cardinals with 484 career tackles and went on to play for the Chicago Bears for eight seasons. Tickets are $40 per person. Call U of L Athletics at (502) 852-0706, ...
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OHS events already off; no word on football games
Oneonta Daily Star
BY DEAN RUSSIN SPORTS EDITOR Following the second straight afternoon of area-wide rainouts, The Daily Star asked Oneonta High athletic director Joe Hughes if the Yellowjackets were planning to postpone sports events scheduled for today and Saturday. ...
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Schoharie County High School Sports Cope With Irene Devastation
WTMM 104.5 The Team - ESPN Radio
... 'Indian Pride,'” said Schoharie athletic director Jamie Rockhill. Rockhill reports that 12 fall sportsteams, from varsity to modified, are taking a hit. Girls and boys soccer, girls volleyball, girls tennis, girls and boys cross country and golf. ...
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Reuters Sports Schedule at 0600 GMT on Saturday, Sept 10
Reuters Africa
(BASEBALL-RANGERS/, moved, pix, 250 words) - - - - SOCCER Premier League (1500 unless stated) Arsenal v Swansea City Everton v Aston Villa Manchester City v Wigan Athletic Stoke City v Liverpool Sunderland v Chelsea Wolverhampton Wanderers v Tottenham ...
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Georgia Women's Soccer Defeats Mercer in Overtime to Highlight Bulldog Sports Week
Dawg Sports
(Granted, we occasionally wish we could forget football, too.) Briefly, before Saturday's SEC opener between the hedges, let us pause to note some of the week's events in those other athleticendeavors: Following the first round of play at the Carpet ...
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Christian Faith HS adds four new teams to athletic department
PNW Local News
The private school in Federal Way has added four new sports for the 2011-12 school year, including a pair this fall. Christian Faith student-athletes now have the option of competing in boys soccer and girls swimming, as well as boys and girls golf and ...
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Texas ready for more Div. I soccer programs
FS Houston
Sure college athletic departments are focused on the revenue sports like football and basketball but one wonders how institutions like Texas A&M, UH and others can say they are truly international institutions without the true "world game" on the men's ...
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Off The Pitch: Julie King
Auburn Tigers
Day in and day out, it is academics first and athletics second. To me, obviously, I am here to get a degree as well as play soccer. It's very important to me, and it gets tough with soccer, but I strive to do well in all my classes. ...
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Leading Muslim girls onto the field
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Athletics, Osman believed, could be the ticket to building confidence and bridging cultures. "That's why I stepped up," she said. "I knew it would be hard work, as a single mother, but I knew my community needed me." But Osman doesn't just coach soccer ...
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Mooney appointed athletic director
Lamron
Since joining the Geneseo community in 1985, Mooney has held a variety of different positions at the college including residence director, head men's soccer coach, instructor, director of intramurals and recreation, sports and recreation facility ...
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Ashley High School's success on fields slowly catching up to their city rivals
StarNewsOnline.com
“Such a huge thing of every school I've ever been in is the culture of the year is established early in the fall in the successes of your athletic programs,” Turner said. “I've seen when the football team is 3-0, 4-0, and the soccer and volleyball team ...
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Oregon Ducks hire associate athletic director from LSU
OregonLive.com
Pintens was promoted to associate athletics director and served as the sportsadministrator for men's soccer. He also established attendance and revenue records in both men's and women's basketball, with the University ranking in the top-ten nationally...
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Irene affects sports schedule
Norwich Bulletin
The Connecticut Association of Schools Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CASCIAC) requires that all state schools have 14 days separating its first practice from its first game. It means the girls soccer team's game against Northwest ...
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Enfield hall to induct 16th class
Journal Inquirer
By Journal Inquirer Staff Five individuals, one state champion high school team, and a hard-working service organization will be honored when the Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame inducts its 16th class next week. The Class of 2011 includes Joel Arnold, ...
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Obama fights to win soccer games in Pennsylvania
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
For the soccer team, those new challenges aren't stopping the Academy team from aiming high, with a potential Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association state playoff berth on the line if it can get past the likes of City League favorite ...
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Joe Paterno has kept Penn State successful on the field and off it. (Dave ...
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
I haven't had much to say about this year's college football season, mainly because I've been so busy with soccer that I don't know how many games I'll get to this fall. I'm already certain that I won't be at any of the local college football coaches' ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Ron Higgins: Football, basketball fortunes will determine if Hart was good pick
GoVolsXtra
At Tennessee, Hart inherits basically three new coaches in the major men's sports – second-yearfootball coach Derek Dooley, and new basketball and baseball coaches Cuonzo Martin and Dave Serrano. As previous athletic director Mike Hamilton discovered, ...
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Strike puts college athletics in limbo
Kawartha Media Group
The big fear is for the fall sports like soccer, rugby and fastball, who's seasons are contingent on the weather. Each week the season is delayed tightens the timelines for the OCAA to provide adequate time to qualify a representative for the canadian ...
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Notre Dame girls soccer shuts out Newfield
Elmira Star-Gazette
Do I squeeze NEWFIELD -- Hannah Haskell and Megan Herrick each scored a goal to lead the visiting Notre Dame girls soccer team to a 2-0 victory over Newfield Friday in an InterscholasticAthletic Conference match. Haskell scored the winning goal in the ...
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Always an athlete: what it means to graduate
Guilfordian
However, it will be the last leg of Harmen's soccer career at Guilford College. The games will be the graduating seniors precious last few. The athletic lifestyle can define a students college experiences: from how to schedule their time to which ...
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FIU's Eric Reyes Makes International Debut with Puerto Rico
Boxscore News
About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 17 different sports, and is a proud member of the Sun Belt Conference and an affiliate member of Conference USA (men's soccer). Athletic events are played in seven ...
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Abby: Dad and daughter disagree about her love for soccer
Houston Chronicle
By ABBY, UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE My dad and I have been arguing over whether I should play soccer. I don't want to because I don't like the coach, the sport or having Dad yell at me for every little mistake I make. He says I'm good at the game and ...
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Third-Ranked Florida Tech Gets By No. 7 LR, 2-1, In Women's Soccer Showdown
Lenoir Rhyne College Athletics
Hickory, NC - In a contest of two of the top NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Teams, third-ranked Florida Tech (4-0) prevailed over No. 7 Lenoir-Rhyne (1-1) by a 2-1 score Friday evening at the Moretz Sports - Athletic Complex. ...
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Lenoir Rhyne College Athletics
Sports calendar
Newton Kansan
6 pm (Fox Soccer Channel). PRO FOOTBALL — Kansas City @ Detroit noon (KWCH, ch. 12). To area administrators: If your school's events are not listed, we still need your schedule. Please fax it to the Kansan at (316) 283-2471 or e-mail it to ...
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Tie insignificant for grieving App. St. team
Charlotte Observer
The women's soccer team and athletics director Charlie Cobb were among them. Catawba's men's team came from Salisbury - Indians coach Liam Farrell was a former Mountaineers assistant under Pendleton. "That's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my ...
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Soccer AM: Sisters are doing it for for Posh
Peterborough Today
By DAVID SEYMOUR Sisters Jess and Chloe Weaver will be doing it for the Posh when they appear on Sky Sports' Soccer AM show on Saturday. Miss Posh, Jess Weaver (25), will be proudly modelling a Peterborough United T-shirt alongside her sister, ...
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Peterborough Today
Lyman volleyball out to prove its worth
Norwich Bulletin
“I can't really do anything with my feet, I'm more of a hands person because I play basketball, too, sosoccer was out of the question,” Tacchi said. At Lebanon Middle School, Tacchi didn't play a sportbut she knew she was athletic and chose to play ...
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High school soccer notes: Elyria-Elyria Catholic clash today
Chronicle-Telegram
Keystone's boys and girls soccer will play a Patriot Athletic Conference doubleheader against Fairview on Wednesday. The boys take the field at 5 pm with the girls game to follow at 7. It will also be LaGrange Youth Soccer Association Night, ...
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Shippensburg, Big Spring football games to be played Monday
The Shippensburg News-Chronicle
The Bulldogs' boys soccer team will take on Northern at 7:30 pm after the football game at the stadium, athletic officials said Friday morning. Numerous other fall sports have been postponed and rescheduled as a result, according to school officials. ...
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Area Sports Events Calendar Sept 10-16
Stamford Advocate
The Greenwich Dept of Parks and Recreation has begun registration for its Town sponsored FallSoccer program. The program is open to boys ages 3 through 11 years old and proof of age will be required for anyone new to the program. ...
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Long time Marple Newtown coach Ronnie Braverman leaving position
Delco News Network
After coaching soccer since 1988 with the last nine years being at Marple Newtown, Braverman has decided to move on. This was not an easy decision for Braverman and not one for him to take lightly.Soccer is a demanding sport that requires several ...
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A View From The Booth: Navy at Western Kentucky
NavySports.com
Last Saturday, as you may know, we introduced men's soccer captain Sam Miller. If, like many fans of full-contact, full-collision American football, you regard futbolers to be a bit fragile, Miller should make you reconsider. In a sport aka The ...
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Sports Roundup: Hornets Bask Under Sunny Skies
Patch.com
Edina High School athletic squads competed under sunny skies in their mid-week competitions on Wednesday and Thursday. The Edina girls soccer team posted its second-straight scoreless tie at Anoka on Thursday, as the Hornets and Tornadoes engaged in a ...
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High School Sports News | BayouPreps.com
Today and Saturday's Prep Sports Calendar. by hcpreps - Sept. 9, 2011, 11:37 a.m.. Here is a list of are high school athletic events for today and Saturday. ...
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