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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Aug 13, 2011


MonolithIC 3D Inc. Voices Concern that K-12 Science Framework Produces ...
RedOrbit
MonolithIC 3D Inc., a Silicon Valley company, says this hurts American competitiveness in scienceand technology, and calls for immediate revision. The new Framework for K-12 Science Education published last month by the National Research Council has ...
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University of Illinois researchers develop 'skin-like' electronics
CMIO
12 edition of the journal Science, researchers tell how they designed the ultra-thin, skin-like electronic patch with components for sensing, medical diagnostics, communications and human-machine interfaces. The patch can bend, wrinkle and stretch with ...
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Interest in Antarctic booty set to heat up
New Zealand Herald
China is also boosting its presence, backing its determination for greater say in the continent's affairs with studies of Antarctic resources and new equipment, including a new icebreaker, ski-equipped planes and helicopters, increased research and ...
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Bioenergy: A Growing Field
Energy and Capital
The grants will go specifically to studies of genomics research, as these groups attempt to determine genetic structure to increase yield, quality, and adaptability. Arranged by Plant Feedstocks Genomics for Bioenergy, a grant program put together in ...
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Sparing the rare earths Potential shortages of useful metals inspire ...
Science News
“A lot of old problems in permanent magnetism are being revisited with new tools,” says Oliver Gutfleisch, a materials scientist who studies magnets at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden, Germany. ...
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Rwanda: 70 More Girls to Obtain Science Scholarships
AllAfrica.com
A total of 71 girls are set to join institutions of higher learning to study science and technologyunder the Equal Opportunity Programme. The project is coordinated by the Ministry of Education and funded by the African Development Bank (ADB). ...
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Nail It then Scale It
Forbes
My research and writing is devoted to developing this new management science of entrepreneurship and translating it into practical insights. My most recent efforts include a book called “Nail It then Scale It,” the Lean Startup Research Project, ...
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Site seeks feedback from people with disabilities who are interested in science
PhysOrg.com
Users can share information about physical obstacles as well as the assistivetechnologies and resources they use or recommend. Duerstock, who also is a member of the Center for Paralysis Research at the School of Veterinary Medicine, said they also ...
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FREE Daily News Alerts
Inside Higher Ed
Most federal politicians have a staff member who is responsible for science andtechnology matters. As for combating the pervasive influence of lobbyists and well-funded political action committees, all we can really do is publish our research without...
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Inside Higher Ed
CBI calls for science education overhaul
Fresh Business Thinking
By Max Clarke As the economy prepares for growth, businesses keen to expand are facing desperate shortages in core skills, particularly in Science, Technology Engineering and Maths- or STEM skills. To combat this increasingly dire skills shortage, ...
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NIH Selects Emory-Children's Pediatric Research Center as Pediatric Heart ...
Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Created and funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, the PHN is a cooperative network of pediatric cardiovascular clinical research centers that conducts studies in children with congenital or ...
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Whatcom People: WWU names spring-quarter graduates
Bellingham Herald
Alison Charnell, BA, American cultural studies; Daquinn Cheek, BA, political science; Canny Chen, BA, business administration; Nina Cherkas, BA, physical education and health; Samuel Christian, BS, mathematics; Alatasi Clancy, MA, speech-language ...
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PBDE Flame Retardant Levels Among Californian Pregnant Women Highest In The World
Medical News Today
Northern California pregnant women have higher PBDE flame retardant levels than any other pregnant women worldwide, a new study published in Environmental Science & Technology reports. The authors added that they also found evidence that some flame ...
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Good for You, Indian River County, Aug. 14
TCPalm
Payge Pierson of Sebastian earned a bachelor's degree in paralegal studies. Steven Vigliano of Vero Beach earned a bachelor's degree in information technology. Jamie Cox of Vero Beach earned an associate of applied science degree in paralegal studies. ...
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Synergy: News Corp. Attacks EPA For Cutting Air Pollution
Media Matters for America
In 1998, the agency finally complied, delivering a comprehensive report to Congress detailing the health impact of numerous pollutants, including mercury, which by then had been linked conclusively in multiple studies to serious cognitive harm to ...
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Reviewing Industry Research Before Picking a College Major Can Benefit Students
U.S. News University
Review industry studies before picking a college major! a recent report by the US Department of Commerce's Economics and Statistics Administration shows thatscience, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees can help college graduates ...
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U.S. News University
Medical tools
CNET
The research is described in detail in the journal Science Elizabeth Armstrong Moore is a freelance journalist based in Portland, Ore. She has contributed to Wired magazine, The Christian ScienceMonitor, and public radio. Her semi-obscure hobbies ...
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Meeting on promoting public discourse on media content held
The News International
... Media and Communication Studies from International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), Ms. Ismat Waseem, coordinator BS-MS/SS programme at Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute ofScience and Technology (SZABIST) Islamabad, and Shujaat Ali Khan, ...
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Knust to introduce scholarship for the physically challenged
Myjoyonline.com
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) will soon establish a scholarship scheme to enable physically challenged persons to pursue higher education in the university starting from the 2012 – 2013 academic year. ...
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W&M receives a visit from its 'sister'
William and Mary News
by Erin Zagursky | August 12, 2011 Students and faculty members from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) – William & Mary's new “sister university” – visited Williamsburg in July and August to take classes, make friends ...
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William and Mary News
South Africa: SA Students to Get Agriculture Skills in China
AllAfrica.com
"I have also been made aware that all these successful candidates are going to enrol for postgraduate studies at Masters and PhD levels. "This is good because this will enrich South Africa's research knowledge in the area of Agriculture, Forestry and ...
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Spherix Announces Second Quarter Financial Results
PR Newswire (press release)
In addition, D-tagatose alone continues to show efficacy in the treatment of high triglycerides and other metabolic disorders in preclinical studies. We are becoming more confident of the potential for these drugs as our research progresses, ...
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National curriculum & 18th Amendment
Pakistan Observer
(vi) The curriculum must include latest development in Science and Technology to meet current and foreseeable challenges of the century. (vii) It should meet the national goals of sustainable development plans of the country. ...
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U of M, Crookston classes to begin Aug. 23
Crookston Daily Times
Along with several new faculty members in both the Business Department and the Math, Science, and Technology Department, facilities updates have been taking place across the campus. A laboratory installed last spring in Dowell Hall uses immersive ...
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Why BlogHer'11 Got Me Angry
Huffington Post (blog)
That talk about business, politics and science are of greater importance than talk about mothering, marriage or creating beautiful moments among family and friends. This is so ingrained in our culture that most of us see this as simply "the way things ...
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Could Tobacco Be On Its Way Back?
Bay Net
Belson, of Port Tobacco, has a law degree from Harvard and two degrees in agriculturescience from the University of Maryland. They got to talking and from those discussions began the road that could lead to tobacco's return, a real rags-to-riches ...
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Bay Net
A Case For BioHydrogen
Science 2.0
There are many promising technologies in development that will cheaply harness solar output, like next generation photovoltaics, advanced wind turbines, tidal power systems, wave energy generators, solar thermal collectors, biofuels, solar fuels, ...
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Do You Know The Best Upcoming Conferences To Attend?
Life Science Leader Magazine
Case studies from leaders revolutionizing clinical development will be presented. 3. USP's Science& Standards Symposium on Biologics & Biotechnology, October 3 – 6, Seattle, WA. This event will bring together and international panel of experts to ...
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New York City Space Camp
The Moral Liberal
During the school year, the Center for Space Science Education serves as a lab for students to learn about science and technology, writes Matthew Van Dusen at Tchnologist. In the summer, though, it serves as a Space Camp for aspiring astronauts....
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The Moral Liberal
New Ruthven-Ayrshire staff profiled
Spencer Daily Reporter
In 1994, they moved to Terril, where he began teaching and currently serves as the high school science instructor at Graettinger. Their son, Zach, is currently enrolled in a summer research program at Iowa State University and intends to begin classes ...
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Spencer Daily Reporter
Pharmacy school opening in 2012 will offer clinical trials management
ModernMedicine
Nemire, who was associate dean for professional education and professional engagement at Touro College of Pharmacy, New York, NY, and director of clinical drug trials research at the Center for Neurology Studies in Lubbock, Texas, believes that ...
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ModernMedicine
Ralph H. Nielsen receives HR "Russ" Ogden Award.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)
August 12, 2011 - Ralph H. Nielsen, a primary expert in chemistry of zirconium extraction and purification, received 2011 HR "Russ" Ogden Award, which honors outstanding accomplishments inscience and technology of reactive and refractory metals and ...
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Zamboanga Del Sur SPES grads excel in the 2011 Commencement Exercises
Philippine Information Agency
Joining the two achievers are Mae Ann Celeste C. Dacut who graduated Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education at the Southern Mindanao Colleges and Joel Quirubin who finished Bachelor ofScience in Information Technology at the Eastern Mindanao ...
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FreedomProject Education: In the Tradition of the Founders
The New American
With over 100 adjunct faculty members and impressive technology, the program teaches courses in math, science, English, literature, history, philosophy, American studies, economies, logic, humanities, biblical studies, Latin, and Spanish, ...
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Satellite launch for Pak signals China's growing space ambitions
The Hindu
“We encourage and help the countries to start their satellite industries from small-scale satellites,” Zhao Xiaojin, who head the aerospace department at the China AerospaceScience and Technology Corporation, told the China Daily in a recent interview ...
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The Hindu
Moral Jeopardy: Good and Bad America
Christian Post
(Sources used for this news article: Science and Religion, Population Studies at Stanford, Conservative Daily News, Academic Blog.) Be the first of thousands of iPosters by sharing your news, views, and analysis.
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SPORTS, Athletics News, Aug 13, 2011


Brandi Chastain celebrates

Soccer, while a noble sport, has real problems being fully accepted by ...
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
Parents are more apt to have their children play soccer growing up because it doesn't have the violent aspect that football has, its pace is faster than baseball and it doesn't require the pure athletic talent that basketball does. ...
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Meet the Wildcats set for Aug. 24
Hattiesburg American
PRCC fall athletics begin Aug. 16 with the soccer schedule. The Wildcats' men and women play at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala. The home openers for the soccer teams will be Aug. 26 against Northwest. The Wildcat football team opens its season ...
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Year begins early for VVHS athletes
St. George Daily Spectrum
While football got the jump on everyone on Thursday, the remaining eight fall sports teams at Virgin Valley High School will officially open practices on Monday. Boys and girls soccer, boys and girls tennis, boys and girls cross-country, volleyball and ...
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Indians track, soccer star Hamby still competing 15 years later
Napa Valley Register
The book didn't close on Keri Starr (Nelson) Hamby's athletic career after four years at Napa High School and an additional four years in college. She wasn't done with soccer, so she played on two semipro teams, the Sacramento Storm and San Francisco ...
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Augustana Athletics Multimedia
Augustana College Vikings
Live event statistics during Viking athletic events are available for all home contests for football, volleyball, soccer, men's basketball, women's basketball, wrestling, baseball and softball, and for select home competitions for men's and women's ...
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Texas Tech Soccer, Volleyball Promotions Announced
TexasTech.com
Olympic Sport Passes are also now available and include admission to all homesoccer, volleyball, softball, and track and field events. Passes are $30 each or two for $50 and can be purchased online or by calling the Athletics Ticket Office at (806) ...
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Men's Soccer Selected Fourth in NJAC Preseason Poll
Kean University Athletics
Pitman, NJ (8/11/11) – The Kean University men's soccer team was recently picked to finish fourth in the 2011 New Jersey Athletic Conference Preseason Coaches Poll. Kean University received one first place vote. After placing sixth in the regular ...
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HS fall sports start times announced
Foster's Daily Democrat
Both sessions are mandatory; Any questions, contact Athletic Director Kevin Hebert at 332-0757, x-243, or by e-mail at hebert.k@rochesterschools.com. SOMERSWORTH — Below is the list of start times for all Somersworth High School fall sports. Football ...
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Points moves up leaderboard at PGA
msnbc.com
In 1977, when English soccer club Liverpool sold two-time European player of the year Kevin Keegan to Hamburg they charged the German club a 500000 pound transfer fee. Olympic officials should consider moving the London 2012 Olympics if the riots and ...
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Will Conlon and Jenny Mason join Athletic Training staff
HPU Panthers
Her specific sports responsibilities included football, track & field, baseball and cheerleading. The Statesville, NC native spent the last two summers working Appalachian State summer camps, serving as a first responder for men's soccer, wrestling, ...
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Springfield Township Board of Commissioners hears opposition to soccer ...
Montgomery Newspapers
“The sports' clubs plans would destroy the spirit of our passive park and the surrounding neighborhood.” Both athletics clubs gave presentations Monday, and lacrosse club coach Lisa Geyer also spoke at Wednesday's meeting about the clubs' intentions ...
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Thursday's Sports in Brief
SI.com
ZURICH (AP) - Delving further into a scandal that shook the sport, FIFA will investigate 16 Caribbeansoccer leaders about a bribery scandal involving former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam. The officials are suspected of being offered or ...
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CGA Picks Texas A&M Man For Athletic Director
Patch.com
Fitzpatrick graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden-Sydney, Va. and a master's degree in sports administration and facility management from Ohio University. He has been the athletic director at Texas A&M ...
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Many All League Players Return to Capital Christian's Fall Sports Season
Patch.com
“We have a lot of things to look forward to this year,” said Suzanne Baker, athletic director for Capital Christian. “We have fall sports coming up most immediately though, which includes boyssoccer, football, cross country, girls golf, ...
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NCAA Grants USC Upstate Full Division I Certification
USC Upstate
Upstate fields 17 athletic teams which compete for A-Sun Championships and appearances in NCAA Championship events. The university fields men's teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis and indoor and outdoor track & field. ...
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USC Upstate

The cruelest cuts
Chicago Tribune
"It's tough when you have (an) 18-year-old boy break down and start tearing up in front of you," said Jim Konrad, athletic director and head soccer coach at Naperville North. "All they want to do is be on the team and you have to be the one to tell a ...
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Create a Separate Football Ministry
GhanaWeb
What this means is that while Ghana may want to continue maintaining a Sports Council and aSports Ministry, nevertheless, it can hardly be gainsaid that it is in the sub-discipline of soccer (or Association Football) that the country has creditably ...
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Rogers helps keep Chargers on field
Superior Telegram
Athletics were always a big part of his life growing up, and he participated in soccer, track and field, baseball and his true love, basketball. As a kid he had dreams of playing in the NBA, but two ACL operations and a third ACL injury during high ...
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Sports Briefs
Longview News-Journal
If you are interested in volunteering, we are looking for coaches and referees for the soccer league. For further information, visit our web site: The DeKalb Bears Athletic Boosters will hold a Meet the Bears night on Thursday to introduce all of the ...
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Minnesota Twins, Toro team up to rebuild sports fields
Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board maintains hundreds of multi-purpose neighborhoodathletic fields for youth and adult activities, including baseball, softball, soccer, football, rugby, lacrosse and cricket. Toro and the Minnesota Twins donated ...
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Former Eagles Heading to College, Athletic Scholarships In Hand
Patch.com
Two other Osbourn alums received athletic scholarships for a fall sport other than football. Zach Hoover and Jordan Tatum will both be continuing their soccer careers at the next level. Hoover was awarded a $22400 scholarship from Virginia Tech ...
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Sports Camp in Aberdeen Promotes Christian Fellowship
Patch.com
Boys and girls ages 7 to 18 can participate and learn athletic fundamentals in soccer, football and basketball. Bibles, snacks and prizes are also provided. Antonio Fliggins, former New York Jets player, is one of the celebrity coaches providing ...
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Women's Soccer Preseason Honors Announced
Southwestern Athletic Conference Official Athletic Site
... named the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Women's Soccer Preseason Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, the conference announced today. Preseason honors were voted on by the league's head coaches and sports information directors. ...
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Mizzou, Missouri Army National Guard Announce Partnership
MUTigers.com
The sports of football, volleyball, soccer, men's and women's basketball, softball and baseball will all be featured in this new program and will prominently display the Missouri National Guard logo in Mizzou's black and gold s. ...
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Gamecocks practice at Williams-Brice Stadium Friday
WIS
Fans are invited to hang out with Cocky, the cheerleaders, and several fall sports student-athletes from football, women's soccer, men's soccer, volleyball, and cross country for the annual Colonial Life Fan Appreciation Day. The free event is Sunday, ...
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Pirates' field ready — New Pinckney facility open for use
Livingston Daily
The end zones of the new Pinckney High football field proudly display the Pirates' name. Photo by GILLIS BENEDICT/DAILY PRESS & ARGUS Tedd Bradley, Pinckney High School athletic director, stands in front of the entrance to the new Pirate Stadium. ...
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FGCU shut out from hosting any A-Sun tournaments this year
Naples Daily News
John Roberts, the A-Sun's director of sports services, said the schools that submitted bids to eachsport are considered and allowed to give presentations at the annual meetings. Representatives — usually the athletic director — of each school then ...
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Women's soccer ready to go
Drexel University The Triangle Online
As the days start to get shorter and the vengeful summer heat slowly starts to give way to the cool promise of fall term, life returns to the Vidas Athletic complex on 42nd and Powelton streets. For Drexel women's soccer head coach Ray Goon and his ...
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US way behind in player development
Fox News
The value for the boy is that he, presumably, gets a first-class soccer education -- consider it private schooling for sports. Also, remember that turning teenagers into commodities is at the heart of college athletics, which are the foundation of the ...
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HC men's, women's soccer teams picked to win GPAC
Hastings Tribune
Hastings College's defending national champion men's and national tournament runner-up women's teams were picked to win the Great Plains Athletic Conference in the league's preseason coaches poll that was released Thursday. ...
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Busy park takes time out for upgrades
Vancouver Courier
... president of the Meraloma sports club, says upgrades to Connaught Park, where numerous sportsare played, are long overdue. With close to 700 members aged five to 75 playing rugby, soccer, cricket and fastpitch, the Meraloma Athletic Club has more ...
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Tournament split into two classes
Indianapolis Star
This year's state tournament will use a two-class system for the first time since the Indiana High School Athletic Association began sanctioning the sport in 1994. The format change is a result of support from the Indiana Soccer Coaches Association. ...
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Women's soccer primed to score on last season's success
UKAthletics (blog)
(photo by Joey Wilkinson, UK Athletics) Those new players, in addition to a pair of key veterans in Alyssa Telang, Laura Novikoff, Jenna Goblirsch and Kelly Browning, allowed Lipsitz to return to an attacking style that was successful in his coaching ...
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Saint Francis adds four to Hall of Fame
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
A wide receiver who helped the football program rise to national prominence. A four-year starter insoccer. The best hitter in the history of the softball program. It's a notable 2011 class that will be inducted into the Saint Francis Athletic Hall of ...
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Wiley College's AD hire makes history
Shreveport Times
Eaton, a former women's basketball coach at the school, is taking over the NAIA athletic program. "We've got men's soccer starting this year and women's soccer starting next year," Eaton said. "We're definitely expanding sports. ...
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LIFESTYLE News, Aug 13, 2011

Also in Lifestyle
Irish Independent
By Ronan Abayawickrema It was the day when people who thought a googly was something on the internet suddenly became cricket fanatics. On March 2, the Irish team pulled off a stunning victory in the Cricket World Cup against England. ...
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