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Jury awards Gundlach $66.7 mln in TCW battle
Reuters India
Bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach testifies in court in Los Angeles August 11, 2011 in this still image from pool web video. By Mary Slosson LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Star bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach was awarded $66.7 million by a jury over his messy ...
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Plane crashes at Nevada air race, dozens injured
Reuters Africa
By Ben Miller RENO, Nevada (Reuters) - A vintage World War Two fighter plane crashed near the grandstand at a Nevada air race on Friday, killing at least two people, including the elderly pilot, and injuring more than 50 others, officials said. ...
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Edgy London takes over fashion season baton
Reuters
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) - London kicked off the British leg of the fashion calendar on Friday, with designers eager to lift the gloom on the high street with the glitz of the catwalk through some of the edgiest shows in the season. ...
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Stanford entrepreneur: If you're 20 and you haven't started a $1 million ...
Reuters (blog)
– Connie Loizos is a contributor for PE Hub, a Thomson Reuters publication. This article originally appeared here. – Recently, New York magazine featured Feross Aboukhadijeh in a piece titled “Bubble Boys”. Aboukhadijeh is a Sacramento-born, ...
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Gaddafi broadcasts are "sacred right" - TV chief
Reuters Africa
... Sept 16 (Reuters) - The head of a Syrian-based television channel which has become Muammar Gaddafi's last platform for the outside world said he had a duty to broadcast the ousted Libyan leader's comments and promised another video statement soon. ...
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Kelly shines in new Boston MFA contemporary art wing
Moneycontrol.com
By Ros Krasny BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston's Museum of Fine Arts opens a large new contemporary art wing this weekend in what curators say reflects a more forward-looking tilt to the city's arts scene. Anchoring the launch is the temporary exhibit, ...
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Tiger decision isn't only Presidents Cup one
London Free Press
(REUTERS/Jeff Haynes) PHILADELPHIA - On Monday, three players will be rewarded for two years of pounding balls and constant work on their games with a spot on the prestigious Presidents Cup team. Since Tiger Woods was given his spot sometime around ...
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Czech film master Vavra dies at 100
Moneycontrol.com
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech director Otakar Vavra, an inspiration and teacher to the most successful generation of Czech film makers died on Thursday at the age of 100. Vavra came to prominence before World War Two, helped launch what became known as the ...
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Rogers asked to fix game throttling problem
CBC.ca
Danny Moloshok/Reuters The CRTC has asked Rogers to "address and resolve" a problem that may result in online video games being unintentionally slowed down on its network. Rogers should file a plan by Sept. 27 for resolving the problem, ...
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Blinkx targets more advert revenue with Web channels launch
Computer Business Review
Online video search and advertising company Blinkx has introduced its Web channels for specialised advertisments by targeting at special interest groups. According to a Reuters report, the move would help the company improve its revenue earned by ...
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Netflix Experiences Huge Loss In Subscribers
RedOrbit
Netflix “can't have the perfect world where content stays cheap and people sign up at low prices,” Pachter told Reuters. “Netflix made a bad move, raising prices as much as they did.” While Netflix is losing out, it could be a good sign for others. ...
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United Tech seeks financing for big deal: sources
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose for a fifth day in a row on Friday and the S&P 500 scored its best week since early July on signs euro zone leaders were acting together to limit any damage from its sovereign debt crisis. | Video (Reuters) - President ...
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Artest becomes Metta World Peace
Toronto Sun
(REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/Files) The Los Angeles Lakers star formerly known as Ron Artest officially became Metta World Peace on Friday when a Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner approved the name change. World Peace, who will spend his off-season ...
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Mayweather has problems, but says Ortiz not one
San Antonio Express
REUTERS/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) Undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. shadow boxes during the grand opening of the Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas, Nevada April 17, 2007. Mayweather will challenge Oscar De La Hoya for the WBC 154 lb. title at ...
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Pearl Jam opens up on 20 years of rock fame
Reuters
By John McCrank TORONTO (Reuters) - Cameron Crowe's documentary "Pearl Jam Twenty" takes viewers on a 20-year behind-the-scenes journey with a band that has reached the top of the rock 'n' roll pantheon while refusing to embrace the spotlight. ...
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Rising seas to wash out key beaches
Reuters India
Video Scenes from various glaciers in the Austrian Alps. Slideshow A surfer walks out of the ocean as the sun sets on New Year's Eve on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California, December 31, 2010. By Emmett Berg SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Rising seas ...
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Video: Stubborn resistance in Gadhafi stronghold
msnbc.com
(Youssef Boudlal / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation Rebel fighters fire from a 130mm Howitzer cannon at pro-Gadhafi forces east of Sirte on Sept. 16. (Asmaa Waguih / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation An anti-Gadhafi fighter shouts...
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Morning Links: It's a Boy for January Jones, Brad Pitt Didn't Mean to Call Jen ...
BlackBook Magazine
[Reuters] ● Brad Pitt didn't mean to call Jennifer Aniston boring, he says. “The point I was trying to make is not that Jen was dull, but that I was becoming dull to myself — and that, I am responsible for.” Everybody else, however, they are mostly ...
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Grim Reader, Sept. 16, 2011: Cliff Robertson, Wade Mainer and John Calley
Obit-Mag.com
FATHER OF POP ART: Britain's Richard Hamilton was “regarded by many as the father of pop art,” says Reuters. Hamilton was “Britain's answer to Andy Warhol,” say the Associated Press, which notes that his works included an image of Tony Blair as a...
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China seeks to tether the microblog tiger
Reuters India
By Chris Buckley BEIJING (Reuters) - Mao Zedong famously said a single spark could start a revolutionary prairie fire. That fear is now driving his Communist Party successors to grapple with how to tame China's expanding legions of microbloggers. ...
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Elon Musk's week in the spotlight
Good Morning Silicon Valley (blog)
After NASA shut down its space shuttle program in July, the United States planned for its astronauts to hitch rides on Russian shuttles — for more than $50 million per person, according to Reuters. Since Musk brought it up, and amid the increased ...
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Beetel launches touchscreen mobile phone for Rs 3300
The Mobile Indian
GD 470 offers "Beetel World" packed with a number of social networking and infotainment features like Facebook, Snaptu, Mig 33, Yahoo, ibibo, Vuclip, Reuters, Hungama and Penguin. This mobile phone has Indian calendar feature so that users can check ...
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The Mobile Indian
Plane crashes at Nevada air race, at least 3 dead
StarPhoenix
By Ben Miller, Reuters September 17, 2011 1:44 AM RENO, Nevada — A vintage World War Two fighter plane crashed near the grandstand at a Nevada air race Friday, killing at least three people, including the elderly pilot, and injuring more than 50, ...
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Wallabies blow as Pocock pulls out of Ireland clash
SBS
AUCKLAND (Reuters) - Australia suffered a major blow on the morning of their key World Cup Pool C clash with Ireland when flanker David Pocock was ruled out of the Eden Park match through injury on Saturday. In order to use the SBS Video Player you ...
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Australia face Irish as All Blacks head to Christchurch
SBS
AUCKLAND (Reuters) - Tri-Nations champions Australia face a tricky test against Ireland at Eden Park in the rugby World Cup on Saturday knowing defeat in their Pool C clash would likely leave an unenviable path to the final. ...
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SBS
US reexamines anti-terror strategy
Interaksyon.com
Osama bin Laden's successor as Al Qaeda leader, the Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, is seen in this still image taken from a video released by the terror network to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the US. (Reuters) CAMBRIDGE - A top US ...
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DTN Iran: Turkey "may act with Iran against PKK in Iraq" – Reuters ...
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NewsDaily: Plane crashes at Nevada air race, at least three dead
NewsDaily: Your best source for breaking news ... 17, 2011 (Reuters) — A vintage World War Two fighter plane crashed near the grandstand at a Nevada air race on Friday, killing at least three people including the elderly pilot and injuring more than 50 others, officials said. First responders and people help victims in this image taken from a video after a vintage World War Two fighter plane crashed near the grandstand at the Reno Air Races in Reno, Nevada September 16, 2011. ...
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France bans street prayers (Reuters) - News on Feeds
Reuters - A French ban on praying in the street came into force on Friday, driving thousands of Muslim worshippers in northern Paris into a makeshift prayer site in a disused fire brigade barracks, angering a small but vocal minority. Yahoo! ...
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Reuters Raises Profile With Marquee Hires, Editor Aims To Become ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The current management team has loftier ambitions. "Our mandate at Reuters is to become the best journalism organization in the world," Adler said. That's the kind of swagger one expects to hear in the hallways of Bloomberg News, another ...
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Allied World, Transatlantic call off deal (Reuters) | Sports, News ...
By Blog495
(Reuters) – Reinsurers Allied World Assurance Co Holdings Ltd and Transatlantic Holdings Inc called off their merger on Friday in the face of overwhelming opposition, leaving the fate of Transatlantic uncertain amid two larger, unsolicited ...
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The euro zone shuns Geithner | Felix Salmon - Reuters
By Felix Salmon
Tim Geithner has experience flying around the world to address finance ministers and instructing them on how to solve their problems. ... This is really bad news: Europe's private sector seems incapable of acting in unison, with the public sector being just as bad. This crisis exists on a pan-European level, and can only be solved at that level. But so long as Europe's ... Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see...
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EU warned of credit crunch threat, French banks hit | Reuters
WROCLAW,Poland/PARIS (Reuters) - European finance ministers have been warned ... Plane crashes at Nevada air race, at least two dead | Video ... People walk over a world map engraved in marble in Lisbon, September 14, 2011. .... Christian Noyer said the Moody's action on French banks was relatively good news, ...
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New al Qaeda head hails Arab uprisings, says U.S. ... - Yahoo! News
News. DUBAI (Reuters) - New al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri voiced support in an Internetvideo for popular revolts shaking the Middle East, saying Arabs no longer feared the United ... The information is online for the whole world to see. ...
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SPORTS, Athletics News, Sep 17, 2011


COLUMN: More sports to come
The Statesman
What I'm trying to say is if you slacked off the first two weeks of class, you have a week to re-evaluate and get out and cheer on Utah State athletics. Let me give you even more reasons to attend the next home football or soccer game. ...
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Late Goals Lift Soccer To 2-0 Victory Over Marshall
BallStateSports.com
by Ball State Athletics MUNCIE, Ind. - The Ball State soccer team scored two goals 1:08 apart late in the second half to secure a 2-0 victory over Marshall in non-conference play at the Briner SportsComplex Friday afternoon. The victory improves the ...
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Glynn athletic park to get 2 new children's playgrounds
Florida Times-Union
The playgrounds will complement the baseball and softball fields, soccer and football fields, walking track and lake at the growing park. More than $4 million in sales tax funds have been spent on what is the county's main recreation park, with another ...
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Wamogo forfeits boys soccer game against Litchfield because of 'incident'
Torrington Register Citizen
By STAFF REPORT LITCHFIELD — The Wamogo boys soccer team was forced to forfeit its home game against the Litchfield Cowboys Friday due to an “incident,” a source said. Litchfield boyssoccer coach Rob Andrulis and Wamogo Athletic Director Roberto ...
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Stevens Announces 2011 Hall of Fame Class
Stevens Institute of Technology
As a soccer player, Barnhart led the Ducks to an overall mark of 61-18-5 in her four years on the squad and three appearances in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Women's Soccer Championship from 2002-2004. ...
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Sports briefs; Sept. 16, 2011
Times Record
BRUNSWICK — Thursday's heavy rains caused havoc with the high school sports slate, with several games postponed. Today, the Brunswick boys soccer team visits Lewiston in a key Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference contest at 6 pm, while the Wiscasset ...
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UVI launching soccer program despite no field
Virgin Islands Daily News
It's one of three home matches this season for the UVI soccer team, which was added to the school's athletics program in March. Construction of a proposed three-field facility was supposed to start in May. "Right now, it looks like the project will be ...
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Virgin Islands Daily News
Alumni Follow Lead of Jack Cummins to Create Soccer Alumni Scholarship
DePaul Blue Demons
The Soccer Alumni Endowed Scholarship is one of DePaul Athletics' 29 endowed scholarships. In 2010-11, nine new endowed scholarships were added to provide additional opportunity for Blue Demon student-athletes across many sports. ...
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BANNING: How about Bob's Stadium?
Press-Enterprise
The opening of a new stadium for football, soccer and track and a full-size pool finally brings Banning on par with other schools in the region: Beaumont, Hemet, West Valley and Tahquitz high schools. The $19 million athletic complex, which followed ...
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Wheeler highlights newest Marietta Hall of Fame class
Marietta Daily Journal
A 2001 Marietta graduate, Eble Agee was a two-sport letterwinner in volleyball and soccer, earning all-county honors in both sports during the 1999-2000 season and she was a member of the Lady Blue Devils' state volleyball finals teams of 2000 and 2001 ...
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Longwood women's soccer falls at home to visiting Radford, 1-0
Potomac Soccer Wire
Longwood University dropped a difficult 1-0 women's soccer decision to in-state school Radford University of the Big South Conference Friday night at the Athletics Complex in Farmville. Julie Ruh'e scored the decisive goal in the 79th minute for the ...
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WSU officials open new Rinzler Student Sports Complex in ceremony
Dayton Daily News (blog)
By Kyle Nagel | Friday, September 16, 2011, 07:01 PM Wright State academic, athletic and community officials officially opened the new Rinzler Student Sports Complex with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday before a women's soccer game at updated ...
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Fanfare
Newton Kansan
HUTCHINSON — The Hesston College women's soccer team received a forfeit win against Hutchinson Community College Thursday. Hutchinson Community College self-reported the use of an ineligible player in a 9-0 win over Hesston Monday in Hutchinson. ...
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Tailgating: Fresno State vs. North Dakota
Fresno Bee
The Bulldogs women's soccer team has won two games on the artificial surface, which cost theathletic department $1.2 million to install in the offseason. But it likely won't be until tonight'sfootball game between Fresno State and North Dakota that ...
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Montebello temporarily backs off plan to charge kids $25 to use athletic fields
Whittier Daily News
By Thomas Himes, Staff Writer MONTEBELLO - City Council-appointed commissioners temporarily retreated Thursday night from a plan that would require every youth baseball, football and soccerplayer to pay a $25 fee for using the city's sports fields. ...
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Benedetto revels in S. Dakota's win
Northwest Herald
Goal-oriented Torman: Marengo grad Alexa Torman was named the Northern Athletics Conference's first Women's Soccer Student-Athlete of the Week this season Sept. 5. In D-III Rockford College's wins against Robert Morris-Lake County (6-0) and Finlandia ...
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Soccer challenges Neighborhood Longhorns students
TexasSports.com
This was not only an athletic event but an educational event as well. There were five stations set up for the kids to rotate through. Four stations were soccer drills, while the final station was a math station, and each station featured at least two ...
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Lyon sends kudos from Hong Kong
Napa Valley Register
... contributions to the school's athletic programs. Abbott ran three years of cross country and four years of track. Hamby played soccer and ran track. Abbott also ran four years of cross country and track as a two-sport athlete at Sacramento State. ...
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Women's Soccer | Team looks to boost support
Tufts Daily
Once that was in place, the name — Fan the Fire: Spirit, Sports, Service — soon followed. In many ways, it is the project's connection to citizenship that separates it from past initiatives to garner support for the athletics department. ...
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Report: Beachwood Schools Athletic Fields Suffer From Overuse
Patch.com
Landscape architects and site planners RJ Priest and Associates conducted the safety study on the baseball, softball, football and soccer fields August 16 and 18 and reviewed the fields after both rain and clear, warm conditions. The football field ...
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A Pacifist College Considers the National Anthem
New York Times
“That included some folks in the athletic department, and the reason was that for sports — socceris a bit of a different animal, but for baseball, golf and particularly basketball — Goshen College recruits students who aren't from a Mennonite or ...
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HOF welcomes four new members
St. George Daily Spectrum
GEORGE - Heather Dahl recalls the day when she asked the athletic department and then-Dixie State football coach Greg Croshaw if the recently formed women's soccer team - of which she was the coach - could play at Hansen Stadium. ...
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Local roundup: Crusaders bury 'Jackets
Idaho Press-Tribune
Crusader women's soccer falls in conference opener: The Western Oregon women's soccer team defeated Northwest Nazarene 3-0 on Thursday afternoon in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference opener for both teams in Monmouth, Ore. NNU men's soccer team ...
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Testimony That Helped Change Youth Sports
Patch.com
According to a study by Dr. Leslie Seymour and Jon Roesler at the Minnesota Department of Health,football tops the list nationally for the most concussions per season. Girls soccer, boys soccer, girls basketball and wrestling round out the top five ...
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The low down on UP's grounds(keeper) s
The Beacon-University of Portland's student-run newspaper
With one small bounce of the ball or one slip of a cleat, the entire complexion of a soccer or baseball game can instantly change. The fields used for sports greatly matter, and the athletics department at UP fully recognizes this fact. ...
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Central Pennsylvania high school athletic directors assess damage in the ...
PennLive.com (blog)
“What makes our situation unique is that we only host football here in the fall. So we're dealing with Lower Paxton Twp., City Island and HACC.” The soccer team usually plays at City Island — or at least it did until the field disappeared under the ...
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Notre Dame wins battle of girls soccer unbeatens
Elmira Star-Gazette
Rachel Lamoreaux broke a 1-1 tie with a goal 22 minutes into the second half to lead Notre Dame to a 2-1 victory over visiting Waverly Friday in a battle of unbeaten Interscholastic Athletic Conference girls soccer teams. Hannah Haskell put Notre Dame ...
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Salem aims to level the pint-sized playing field with new rec league draft
Roanoke Times
It's fall, and that means the lights are on in sports-loving Salem - the stadium lights, that is. Any weeknight, they're shining down on hundreds of pint-sized footballplayers, pigtailed cheerleaders and ponytailed soccer players, each team hailing ...
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Roanoke Times
Grand Valley State women's soccer team to play first home night game
MLive.com
AQUINAS SOCCER GOALKEEPER Kelsey Duley is the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference player of the week. The Cadillac native recorded 10 saves in her only start of the week, a 3-0 loss to Spring Arbor on Sept. 7. Duley is averaging 6.3 saves per game. ...
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Reuters Sports Schedule at 0600 GMT on Saturday, Sept 17
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
(GOLF-TROPHY/, expect by 1730, by Norman Dabell, 400 words) Sept 16 - The Detroit Tigers clinched the American League Central on Friday with a 3-1 win over the Oakland Athletics, capturing their first division title since 1987. ...
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BC--AP Sports Preview Digest
SI.com
A full Sports Digest will be sent about 3 pm All times EDT. - OAKLAND, Calif. - Detroit can clinch its first division title since 1987 with a victory over the Oakland Athletics preceded by a Texas win over Cleveland. Tigers start 10:05 pm - BOSTON ...
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Soccer kicks season off early
Drexel University The Triangle Online
The Drexel women's soccer team has had a very respectable beginning to their 15th season under head coach Ray Goon. Currently, the Dragons sit at fifth place in the Colonial Athletic Association standings with a 2-2-2 overall record. ...
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NPD Releases Global Sports Estimate Report 2011
PR Web (press release)
*Estimate based on sales of athletic footwear, active apparel, sports equipment, and bicycles in USD. “Sales of running, hiking/walking, and football/soccer products are the primary drivers behind this growth,” said Renaud Vaschalde, global sports ...
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Monsignor Bonner soccer falls to Archbishop Ryan, 4-1
Delco News Network
By Dan McCarty Despite the teachers being on picket lines and limited time spent in the classroom, some Archdiocesesan high school sports teams managed to persevere through the teacher strike and hold their originally scheduled athletic contests. ...
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Sports Roundup: Wildcats Sweep Eagles In Mid-Week Matchups
Patch.com
By Tom Carothers It was a light, but tremendously successful mid-week schedule for the Eaganathletic teams as the Wildcats swept Bloomington Kennedy on the soccer pitch and volleyball court on Tuesday. A 2-1 win at Kennedy upped the seventh-ranked ...
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Soccer Collies to appear at Leland Under the Lights
StarNewsOnline.com
Lukas said any dog who is ball motivated can be trained to play soccer. “Patience and persistence are what dogs show humans and that's what you need to do to train them,” Lukas said. Training a dog to play soccer can be an athletic benefit and mental ...
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Sports briefs: Sunbirds post sweep in GSAC volleyball opener
Fresno Bee
Fresno Pacific swept San Diego Christian 3-0 in El Cajon to hand new volleyball coach Kelly Winter her first Golden State Athletic Conference victory. The Sunbirds won the conference opener 25-17, 25-8, 25-18 and at 4-3 overall are above .500 for the ...
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Lindsey Wilson College to Induct ... - Lindsey Wilson Athletics News
Dover (left) and Hale will be inducted into the LWC Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday. COLUMBIA, Ky.-- A pair of formerbaseballgreats will be inducted into the Lindsey Wilson College Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, ... Women's Soccer - JV ...
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