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SPORTS, Athletics News, Jul 25, 2011


Commentary: Only a matter of time until Jeff Hathaway's time at UConn is over
Middletown Press
The moment the big ticket event ends, swimming and figure skating and soccer, too, are nichesports again and the rest of us go back to paying attention to football, baseball, basketball and hockey. ‰The decision by the LPGA to add yet another major ...
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Colleges looking for a competitive edge in sports
Times Herald-Record
Venerable Michie Stadium, home of the football and lacrosse programs, underwent the biggest changes. The $40 million Kimsey Athletic Center rises four stories on the south end zone, housing luxury boxes, meeting rooms, offices, an athletics hall of ...
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Football enlivens Georgia campuses
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Brant Sanderlin, bsanderlin@ajc.com 2010: Nancy King, senior women's administrator for Kennesaw State University Athletics, presents coaching legend Vince Dooley with a football helmet during a press conference announcing the findings of KSU's football ...
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What's Happening sports listings
San Jose Mercury News
925-473-5150, www.antiochyouthfootball.net Walnut Creek Sports League -- Walnut Creek SportsLeague Tackle and Flag Football Saturday nights, though Aug. 6. For boys and girls ages 5-14. Acalanes High School, 1200 Pleasant Hill Road, Lafayette. ...
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Abbott Tech awaits the fate of its sports teams
Danbury News Times
Groski, who also was a member of the two-time CSC champion boys soccer team, now plays basketball at Southern Connecticut State. He credits Abbott -- and its stellar athletic program -- with molding him into the person he is today. ...
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The Lancaster Scene
PennLive.com
Lampeter–Strasburg Athletic Department has the following coaching vacancies for the 2011–12 school year: junior high head football junior high assistant boys' soccer junior high assistant field hockey and varsity assistant boys' lacrosse. ...
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HPU Athletics 2010-11 Memorable Events: No. 14
HPU Panthers
... senior Jillie Johnston (Naperville, Ill./Naperville Central) connected on a header in the first period of extra time to deliver the High Point University women's soccer team a 2-1 win over UNC Asheville on Friday night in Vert Stadium. ...
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25 Hottest Makeovers in Sports
Bleacher Report
The Look: Blonde prairie girl determined to bring sports glory home to Canada. The Look: Prairie girl turned sophisticated stunner who is eyeing a post-soccer career in fashion. Judging by the pics on her Facebook fan page, she's got a shot. ...
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Bleacher Report
Youth camps, clinics and leagues
Green Bay Press Gazette
Forms at www.hssd.k12.wi.us/bayport/athletics/football. Dave Destache, 434-8295. WNFL and WTAQ Rich Bessert Free Camp for Kids: Saturday, Ted Fritsch Field, adjacent to Green Bay Notre Dame. Free camp open to boys, girls, ages 6-12. Check-in 9:30 am, ...
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Bona continues its competitive climb
Buffalo News
St. Bonaventure has 14 men's and women's varsity sports and those teams have combined to produce only one league champion -- men's swimming and diving in 2006 -- in the last five years. The men's basketball program, the pulse of the athleticdepartment ...
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Buffalo News
Keeping the Vermont-New Hampshire Twin State rivalry alive
BurlingtonFreePress.com
New Hampshire leads this year's matchups at 6-2, with football scheduled for next month. *Football: 58th annual Shrine football game, Windsor HS, Aug. 6, 2:30 pm Forrest Powers has been involved with the Lions Twin State Soccer Cup for all but three of ...
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Pritchard holds her own against the boys
The Daily Advance
By Will Harris With the majority of the sports consuming public being male, outside of the occasional big story like the United States soccer team, women's athletics in general are an afterthought when it comes to public interest. ...
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The 50 Best Game Winning Plays in Sports History
Bleacher Report
But for the sheer voltage that one athletic moment can deliver, you would be hard-pressed to find another in the last generation of college football. A lightning bolt struck Michigan Stadium, and while no one died, give or take the Wolverines career of ...
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Bleacher Report
49er athletes take highest academic awards
Charlotte Observer
Soccer standout Megan Minnix was named an Atlantic-10 Scholar Athletes of the Year. Photos courtesy of UNC Charlotte athletics For the second straight year, Charlotte swept the Atlantic-10 men's and women's conference Scholar Athlete of the Year Awards ...
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Heights Church of the Nazarene Prepares for Memorable Centennial
Patch.com
Registration is going on for their nursery school/kindergarten programs as well as their fall sports, which include soccer, flag football and cheerleading. Wednesday nights are Bible studies and youth programs, starting at 7 pm On Sunday mornings ...
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Rock River Valley has rivals for sports tournament market share
Rockford Register Star
By Jeff Kolkey ROCKFORD — An economic analysis could determine whether it is worthwhile to expand and modernize Rockford area athletic facilities to ensure the region remains a player in the amateur sports market. It's a decision that will be made ...
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State Journal Senior Athlete of the Year: Meagan Walker
State-Journal.com
Also my sophomore year we beat Woodford County to go to the region. What did you expect fromathletics going into Western Hills? I was clueless going into high school. I continued with sports. At Bondurant I played basketball and soccer. ...
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Kentucky athletes brave scorching temperatures
WKYT
These high school soccer players are going for the gold at the Bluegrass State Games. Meanwhile, a team of athletic trainers makes sure they stay safe in the rising temperatures. "We have two certified trainers in every tent and we have five tents out ...
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The AD Q&As: Dody Garcia, West Ranch High School
Signal
Her quiet, polite and fair nature, as well as her wealth of knowledge of SCV sports have helped her earn that respect. In the following Q&A, Garcia gives some perspective, not only on her own school, but on high school athletics in general. ...
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On Campus:
GoErie.com
By JACOB TARR, Erie Times-News Corry's Sharon McCray helped Washington & Jefferson win the past three Presidents' Athletic Conference women's soccer championships. Now, her fame extends all the way to a small village in Africa. W&J recently donated the ...
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Lenoir-Rhyne experiences large growth through last decade
Hickory Daily Record
Lenoir Rhyne University has made many improvements over the past decade such as the MoretzSports Athletic Complex. Credit: Robert C. Reed | Hickory Daily Record Lenoir-Rhyne University has received large donations, such as the one for the Irwin Belk ...
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A&M "uncertain" about Longhorn Network, talk SECede
Examiner.com
Soccer has won at least a share of the conference title in six of the last 10 seasons. Overall, A&M has become better-rounded in athletics during its Big 12 membership giving Aggie fans pride in everysport.
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Two McCluer North Soccer Girls Headed to Division I
Patch.com
The JB Marine club player was recently named to play in the UMB Bank Senior All-Star Game sponsored by the Missouri Athletic Club. Her past reputation helped gain this honor. Jones was named Defensive Most Valuable Player in the 6-2 North win over the ...
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American dream for Merrie City footballers
Wakefield Express
A move to Leeds United's Academy followed for the goalkeeper before he returned to play for Normanton Athletic FC and most recently at Altofts. While studying at New College, he captained their football team in the British Colleges Soccer League. ...
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Wakefield Express
A Heads Up on Concussions
Patch.com
Members of the following MHS sports are required to take the baseline test every two years:football, field hockey, soccer, basketball, ice hockey, wrestling, baseball, softball and lacrosse. "If a concussion is suspected, the test is re-taken and the ...
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Thyagaraj Stadium the Most Sought After Venue for Major Events
Daijiworld.com
The Delhi Soccer Association is getting ready to hold its league next month on the soccer field in the complex spread over 16.5 acres, which also has an athletic track, five tennis courts and a state-of-the-art gymnasium. The venue administrator Sita ...
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1911: Sport Odysseys | Without their boots on
Livemint
Less than five months before the changeover of the Indian capital, Calcutta's Mohun Bagan AthleticClub defeated the all-British East Yorkshire Regiment team to become the first-ever Indian team to win the Indian Football Association (IFA) Shield. ...
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Lisa's Laws: From Title IX to cheering for women's soccer on TV
Times Herald-Record
Soccer, we realized, since it's the only sport with teams so simply named outside the Olympics. Walking out I glanced at the TV and saw that the players were women and that the men at the bar were cheering for, well, what the men in my family a ...
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Hitting back at concussions
Loudoun Times-Mirror
Cummings also noted that, during the next couple of years, LCPS will be instituting ImPACT testing for all athletic sports. An ImPACT test is administered for athletes before they are permitted to play a sport. The test measures normal brain function ...
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Not so big changes for the Big South
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
The league's already extremely segmented, with only five sports (men's and women's cross country, women's soccer, men's basketball and baseball) contested by all 11 members. There are also six playing football at the FCS level (Charleston Southern,...
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The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
All-State week
Muskogee Daily Phoenix
By Kenton Brooks Phoenix Sports Writer Like the Fort Gibson High School athletic director does every year, he was compiling the photos of this past year's school's athletes which were to be pictured in the All-State program. ...
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Sometimes on Sundays: Move to Pac-12 will find Utah Utes playing more Sunday games
Deseret News
The Utes and other MWC schools did play a few games on Sunday — mostly women'ssoccer and baseball. Among the major sports, the only contests outside of NCAA Tournament games played on Sunday were an occasional Sunday game for TV purposes, ...
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Deseret News
New track facility could push Salukis to new level
The Southern
... constructed in the next two weeks, senior associate athletic director Jason King said. When the new infield is completed, it will be shared by student recreation leagues, King said, and will have the ability to be lined up for football or soccer. ...
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Keller High students work to make Quidditch a UIL-sanctioned sport
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Polaski and Hunter Hampton, another Keller Quidditch Club member, traveled with Clemmons to Austin on June 14 to speak to the University Interscholastic Leagueathletics committee about making Quidditch an official sport. ...
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
July flashback: Maris outpacing home run record
Leader-Telegram
After 12 years as basketball and football coach at Marinette Catholic, Marty Crowe takes the job of basketball coach at St. Nazianz JFK. Max Sparger, athletic director and former football coach at UW-Stout, is named Wisconsin State University ...
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What, Where, when
Hutchinson News
27- Sand Creek 2 mile in Newton at Newton Athletic Park at 8 am July 29- Hutchinson YMCA Fall Leagues for boys and girls age 3 through grade 7. Register at the YMCA, 716 East 13th or call 662-1203. Aug. 15- Early application deadline for Club Azzurri ...
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Jason Corriher Named Assistant Athletic Director - HERDZONE.COM ...
Corriher will oversee the Thundering Herd Sports Information Department while ... the opportunity to represent Marshall University Athletics," Corriher said. ... he worked with the women's soccer, track, men's tennis and rifle teams as ...
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Lindenwood University Athletics - Lindenwood Announces 2011 ...
Lindenwood University's fifth Athletic Hall of Fame class will have 10 members ... class of 2011 are Sharon Lawson Bickel (soccer), Joe McKinney (football), ...
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SPACE, Astronomy News, Jul 25, 2011


Enormous Water Reservoir Identified in Space
Christian Post
By Daniel Blake | Christian Post Contributor Astronomers have reported the discovery of a huge water vapor cloud floating around a black hole in space. The cloud is so big that scientists estimate it holds 140 trillion times the mass of water in the ...
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Astronomers discover hydrogen peroxide in space
Cordis News
For the very first time, astronomers have discovered molecules of hydrogen peroxide in interstellar space. This new information, presented in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, could help scientists shed new light on the chemical link between water...
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Cordis News
Bizarre Dwarf Planet Wrapped in Water Ice
Space.com
[Video: Dwarf Planet Veiled in Water-Ice] "Crystalline ice is what we all have in our fridges — the molecules of water are aligned in lattices," researcher Benoit Carry, an astronomer at the European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid, told SPACE.com. ...
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Space.com
Desert skies
BBC News
Astronomers say the images it produces will be 15 times sharper than those sent to earth by the Hubble space telescope, and might eventually help us find signs of life on other planets. The European Southern Observatory (ESO), which operates Paranal, ...
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BBC News
Capelo Praises Wesleyan's MA Astronomy Program in Astrobites
Wesleyan Connection (blog)
Holly Capelo, a graduate student in the Astronomy Department, wrote a contribution to “astrobites,” an e-newsletter for students and others interested in astronomy. In her article, titled “Careers, LikeSpace Missions, are Tricky: How a Master's Degree ...
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Posted On Monday, July 25, 2011 at 06:12:20 AM
Pune Mirror
Kabra, an ardent astronomy lover, has set up a portable planetarium inside his own house, having had set up planetariums in places like the Science City Space Theatre in Kolkata, AB Birla Planetarium in Hyderabad, Meghnad Saha Planetarium in Burdwan, ...
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Neighbor Galaxy Caught Stealing -- Stars
HULIQ
"Using observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope," he told Astronomy, "we were able to get a complete census of the stellar populations in the LMC. With the ground-based observations, we could determine the properties and motions of a large sample...
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HULIQ
2011 Canadian Space Summit
SpaceRef Canada
The Canadian Space Summit is THE place to learn about the latest trends, technologies and political issues taking place in the space industry. With technical sessions on everything fromastronomy to Earth orbit, from life sciences to law and policy, ...
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Local Briefs
The Durango Herald
A family-friendly astronomy program will be held at 8 pm Aug. 6 at the Hawkins Preserve in Cortez. Take Verde Vu Drive to Cedar Street and turn left to the Hawkins Preserve parking lot. AstronomerBill Nietfeld will bring telescopes and a laser pointer ...
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Pittsburg State students will travel to Germany to study abroad
Pittsburg Morning Sun
David Heins, who also is a senior in physics said he wanted to advance his knowledge ofastronomy. “I also want to experience German culture,” he said. Kathryn Whitbeck is a senior in communications, but her emphasis is on Earth and space science. ...
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Cosmic approach to astrophysics
24 Hours Vancouver
A consultant to the once-popular science fiction TV series X-Files, Matthews is a principal investigator with Canada's space agency and travels the world working with other experts in the field of astronomy. He's off soon to Vienna and Spain for his ...
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Study finds new nebula
ScienceAlert
Originally found by Matthias Kronberger, a member of an amateur astronomy group known as the Deep Sky Hunters (DSH), the role that Douchin and De Marco played was integral to ensuring the accuracy of the discovery. There are roughly 3000 planetary ...
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ScienceAlert
Everything is relative in families, science
Hattiesburg American
In doing so, he destroyed our notions of space and time. How does that work? See you then! Christopher Sirola is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at USM. Contact him at christopher.sirola@usm.edu.
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Weekly agenda
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
@CO AGENDA body:Astronomy Night at Providence Canyon State Park: Presented by the Coca-Cola Space Science Center and Columbus State University9-11 pm today. A PowerPoint presentation and telescopes will be set up for viewing different stars, ...
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After the space shuttle
Toledo Blade
The shuttles had two crowning achievements: launching and repairing the Hubble Space Telescope, whose breathtaking images have revolutionized astronomy, and assembling the space station, a prodigious engineering feat. But the shuttles never lived up to ...
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NASA SPACE NEWS: Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir ...
By Gabriella Brianna
Astronomers expected water vapor to be present even in the early, distant universe, but had not detected it this far away before. There's water vapor in the Milky Way, although the total amount is 4000 times less than in the quasar, ...
NASA SPACE NEWS
Astronomers discover hydrogen peroxide in space ~ COSMOS TV LATEST ...
COSMOS TV LATEST NEWS ... Astronomers discover hydrogen peroxide in space ... This new information, presented in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, ...
www.cosmostv.org/.../astronomers-discover-hydrogen-peroxi...
So long, space - Astronomy.com blog - Astronomy.com - Online ...
But I think it's clear the days of American leadership and dominance in space are long-gone. That might be good news for the private industry, ...
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