SPORTS, Athletics News, Aug 14, 2011

ODU's Selig had a busy first year, and there is more to come Daily Press By Dave Fairbank, dfairbank@dailypress.com | 247-4637 NORFOLK — Wood Selig's corner office in the Old Dominion Athletic Administration Building looks out over the baseball facility and soccerstadium — daily reminders of what he does and what lies ... See all stories on this topic »

As Luck would have it, Stanford's QB returns Greenwich Time Afterward, he grabbed a ham and egg sandwich on ciabatta bread with an iced coffee from "Jimmy V's Sports Cafe" inside the athletic offices and scarfed it down all while doing yet another interview with a reporter. Then it's off to class. Football ... See all stories on this topic »

Prep Sports: New laws designed to raise concussion awareness Carroll County Times Sparks said the MPSSAA provided informational magnets to 50000 families of student-athletes at the greatest risk - football, soccer, basketball, wrestling and lacrosse. Paul Welliver, sports medicine coordinator for Maryland SportsCare & Rehab and head ... See all stories on this topic »

Sports roundup Concord Monitor High has the following coaching openings for the 2011-2012 school year: girls' reserve soccer and boys' JV lacrosse. Send a resume, letter of interest and three letters of reference to Mark Searles,Athletic Director, John Stark Regional High School, ... See all stories on this topic »

WATTS Training Site Nears Completion WKBN/WYFX-TV ... Sports Information Director for Youngstown State University. Football, softball, baseball, soccerand track are just some of the athletic programs at YSU that will benefit from the nearly complete Watson and Tressel training site. ... See all stories on this topic »

SCHOLASTIC ATHLETICS: Mt. Markham sports boosters seeking members, support Little Falls Evening Times Among the programs cut were varsity wrestling, golf and indoor track as well as all of the junior varsity sports — including field hockey, soccer, football and volleyball. On behalf of the board, district Superintendent Casey Barduhn praised the ... See all stories on this topic »

BFboys soccer starts Aug. 22 Brattleboro Reformer Paperwork to be filled out includes a Parent Permission form, Athletic Medical Card, and Well Exam -- Sports Participation Clearance form. Every athlete must have had a physical within the past year and must have insurance -- either personal or school. ... See all stories on this topic »

USCB women's soccer team ready for its close-up Hilton Head Island Packet ... story updates and a fast-paced look at all the Lowcountry sports world has to offer by following Island Packet/Beaufort Gazette Sports on Twitter. Follow @Uscbsharkbites If you follow USCBathletics, you need to be following Shark Bites on Twitter, ... See all stories on this topic »

Soccer Tops Cincinnati In Exhibition Battle BallStateSports.com by Ball State Athletics \ MUNCIE, Ind. - - In its inaugural game at the Briner Sports Complex, the Ball State soccer team scored a 1-0 victory over Big East foe Cincinnati in exhibition play Friday afternoon. BSU also held an 11-7 advantage in shots ... See all stories on this topic »

UW-Platteville Athletics UW- Platteville Pioneers UW-Platteville plans to broadcast all home men's and women's basketball, football, soccer, volleyball and wrestling contests during the 2011-12 season. “We are very excited with this new addition to our department and the opportunity to showcase ... See all stories on this topic »

Football team completes scrimmage amid realignment rumors UM Maneater ... MU athletics director Mike Alden called the rumors “distracting” and frustrating.” “We're getting ready to kick off a great year at Mizzou, with football and soccer, it looks like we have a good chance to be pretty good in volleyball,” Alden said. ... See all stories on this topic »

Warriors Open Fall Season With Fresh Faces Patch.com "This is the biggest new group I've had in a while in the fall," Havre de Grace Athletic Director Heather Crawford told her coaches at a Thursday meeting. Greg Long takes over the varsity footballprogram as the new head coach after more than a decade ... See all stories on this topic »

Local Sports Briefs Lancaster Eagle Gazette Dodge coming to LHS: The Lancaster Athletic Department will host a Dodge Booster Club fundraiser as part of the Lancaster soccer preview Aug. 20 at Lancaster High School. Dodge will make a $20 donation to the Lancaster Athletic Department for each ... See all stories on this topic »

Courierarea Sports Shorts - August 13, 2011 Madison Courier Fall sports tickets and season passes are now on sale at Madison Consolidated High School at theathletic director's office in Salm Gym. Tickets for home football, girls and boys soccer and volleyball as well as a new family all-sports pass will be ... See all stories on this topic »

Boys soccer: Teams to watch News & Observer Durham Jordan: The Falcons held Charlotte Myers Park without a shot on goal in Jordan's 2-0 victory in the NC High School Athletic Association 4-A finals in 2010. Jordan's state championship team was 25-0 and posted 15 shutouts. ... See all stories on this topic »

NCAA approves USC Upstate DI certification Spartanburg Herald Journal We're excited to be full-fledged Division I members now,” Upstate athletic director Mike Hall said. The Spartans' men's soccer team and softball team have been allowed to compete in postseason play the last two seasons because of a fast track rule that ... See all stories on this topic »

High school notebook: Hillers to debut football-related show on Internet Washington Observer Reporter ... on athletic and academic scholarships. Tatsch batted .350 during his junior and senior years at Monessen, plus he led the Greyhounds in steals and walks. A two-sport standout, Tatsch played in the WPIAL All-Star senior soccer match last fall. ... See all stories on this topic »

Must win? Western Star ... is due to the athletic abilities, not necessarily the soccer skill, of all involved. “When we started this year our team wasn't very good,” he admitted. “Not all of us aresoccer players, some of us play other sports ... but our team really came ... See all stories on this topic » Western Star

At times, fairness wins out Kansas City Star Rules are made to be broken, which is why the multisport rule in picking the Tara Peck Female Athlete of the Year nominees for the 2010-11 academic/high school athleticyear was ignored. Olathe South's Natalie Knight, Olathe Northwest's Jacinda Ramos ... See all stories on this topic » Kansas City Star

MCHS fall sports teams start practicing Monday Craig Daily Press The first varsity football game is scheduled for 7 pm Aug. 26 at Evergreen High School, 29300 Buffalo Park Road. The boys varsity soccer team will practice at 6 am at Woodbury SportsComplex, 350 S. Mack Lane, and again at 5:15 pm at Loudy-Simpson Park ... See all stories on this topic »

Soccer Jamboree provides tests for area teams Evansville Courier & Press Castle will meet Central in the girls' opener at 5 pm today at EVSC Fields, then face defending Southern Indiana Athletic Conference champion Memorial at 6. Mater Dei and Castle will meet in the boys' opener at 5. Each SIAC boys' and girls' team will ... See all stories on this topic »

Your high school fall sports preview News & Observer Broughton's girls tennis team, led by Katie Kane, is likewise loaded. Previews of area volleyball teams, as well as cross country, girls golf, girls tennis and boys soccer squads, can been found here. High school football gets its own preview on ... See all stories on this topic »

V-Reds to launch ticket campaign CanadaEast.com An all-event season pass, which includes all regular season and exhibition/tournament games in allsports, costs $150. However, the pass isn't valid for the Mark Jeffrey Memorial hockey game or playoffs in any sport, including the AUS women's soccer ... See all stories on this topic »

Hill Stadium overhaul nearing completion Biddeford Journal Tribune But right now our plan is to play day football.” For the fall, the stadium will be used for football,soccer and field hockey. Stevens said every coach had a hand in the design of the field. “Coaches gave me input in what we were going to have in terms ... See all stories on this topic »

Football: New surface thrills optimistic Bloom-Carroll Lancaster Eagle Gazette The football team will practice on the field whenever there is not a game taking place. Bloom-Carroll's boys and girls soccer teams will play home games there, and youth football teams also will play on the field. The Bloom-Carroll Board of Education ... See all stories on this topic »

A game for all ages! Deccan Herald Meanwhile, Alex Ferguson, knighted for his services to soccer, was caught on camera the moment his team, United, scored a late goal to win the Community Shield, the traditional curtain raiser to the English soccer season, last Sunday. ... See all stories on this topic » Deccan Herald

Reuters sports schedule at 1330 GMT on Saturday, Aug 13 Yahoo! Eurosport UK (SOCCER-FRANCE/, expect by 1900, 300 words) JOHNS CREEK, Georgia - Unheralded Americans Jason Dufner and Keegan Bradley will take a joint one-shot lead into Saturday's third round at AtlantaAthletic Club where eight players trail by no more than two ... See all stories on this topic »

MCCC alum Ogborn-Haywood excited about her new women's soccer coaching gig The Times of Trenton - NJ.com She ended up playing soccer (Drake also coached that sport) and basketball (when then-new and current women's coach Mike Tenaglia saw her shooting baskets in the gym and convinced her to join the program), there too. She remains active as a coach and ... See all stories on this topic » The Times of Trenton - NJ.com

Lions Soccer Team Has High Hopes For 2011 Season Patch.com Zumwalt East, who finished the 2010 season with a 16-9 overall record and placed second the Gateway Athletic North Conference with a 6-1 mark, lost seven seniors to graduation last spring. The losses include center midfielder Tommy Vitale and sweeper ... See all stories on this topic »

PORTER COUNTY SPORTS BRIEFS: Hammer throw clinic Friday nwitimes.com 21 Boone-Wheeler football game. Tickets for the show are $7 for adults and $4 for students, and will be available in the Boone Grove athletics office. VALPARAISO | Valparaiso University track and field coach Ryan Moore will conduct a hammer throw ... See all stories on this topic »

Exercise Training Reduces Groin Injury Recurrence for Years Medscape Thirty-nine of the participants were soccer players (83%), and those athletes showed an even greater level of a sustained improvement (P = .012). There were no significant differences in improvement according to age, present sports activity, ... See all stories on this topic »

Your Game calendar for the week of Aug. 13 Greensboro News & Record Information: www.summerfieldrec.org Adult flag football league: The Greensboro Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club's league is for adults 25 years and older. Information: Athletic director, 215-7277. Registration continues for 2011 Stokesdale American ... See all stories on this topic »

Watson, Cook named to USC's athletic Hall Charleston Post Courier Only two of the school's 17 sports, softball and men's soccer, were allowed to compete for postseason play. The other Spartans programs had to wait until certification was complete. Besides being eligible for the postseason in all sports, ... See all stories on this topic »

Lower Paxton Township gym focuses on 'real work' with retro workouts PennLive.com At the other end of the athletic spectrum, Mike Musser is sweating himself back into shape after discovering he was no match for his soccer-playing 6-year-old son. “I was out there running with him, and I was just gassed,” admits Musser, 42, ... See all stories on this topic » PennLive.com

Flash Mobs, Jim Thorpe, and Mighty Little Leo Voice of America (blog) Carried to the extreme one day, the New York Yankees will sign a child who's still in the womb of a highly athletic woman. The US Soccer Federation pays Leo and his wife to CONCEIVE the next superstar. These are a few words from this posting that you ... See all stories on this topic » Voice of America (blog)

Notes for a Saturday afternoon UKAthletics (blog) Amazingly, this weekend marks the end of the off-season for UK Athletics. With women's soccerkicking off its season next Friday, this weekend is the final one of the summer without an event, game or match for any Kentucky team. ... See all stories on this topic »

Clemson in mix as SEC expansion rumors continue to swirl Myrtle Beach Sun News Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips and Clemson president James Barker would take the lead in exploring any conference jump, though the Clemson Board of Trustees are typically consulted when Barker considers a major decision. ... See all stories on this topic »

Football - News - Texas A&M Official Athletic Site ... Texas A&M. aggie sports ... Season Tickets On Sale Now. athletics department ... 9-ranked Texas A&M football team donned full pads for the first time on Saturday and face the first .... AggieSoccer Live Audio. Sat. 8/13 @ 5:45 pm CT ... www.aggieathletics.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM...

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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Aug 14, 2011

Eurozone debt: Grave threat to US economy or imaginary boogeyman? Christian Science Monitor Pessimists worry that the problems besetting some of the nations with weaker economies – such as Greece, Ireland, and Portugal – start to spread to larger nations such as Italy, Spain, and France. Under a worst-case scenario, once those nations start ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

'Gov't failed to anticipate the crisis,' UK Economics professor says Buenos Aires Herald In addition, Greece features a huge budget deficit, which may be as high as 30% of GDP. In the other periphery Euro zone countries the situation concerning the sovereign debt is similar but less severe. Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain repetitively ... See all stories on this topic »

Spanish towns face funding crisis, rack up debts The Associated Press The nation could be next in line for a bailout after Greece, Ireland and Portugal — and some in Moratalla say the example of their town shows Spain will need help from the European Union, despite pledges by federal officials that Spain won't need a ... See all stories on this topic » The Associated Press

Consider economic shocks with a cool head BusinessLIVE Change the country's name and the figures and you've got a boilerplate piece on Ireland, Portugal,Greece, Spain or Italy. We all read these articles, but few of us think critically about what they are saying. US gross debt was $13.4-trillion last year ... See all stories on this topic »

'Green shoots' nipped in bud by capitalist contraction The Militant Standard & Poor's downgrade of the US government's credit rating and the banking crisis sweeping Europe—from Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, and now to Italy, Spain, and beyond—are symptoms of an ongoing worldwide contraction, not its cause. ... See all stories on this topic »

European Stocks Soar Friday, with US Markets Also Advancing Voice of America (blog) Interest rates on those bonds soared last week, increasing investor fears that Italy could be forced to join Greece, Ireland and Portugal in needing to secure international assistance to deal with its debt problems. Italy's finance minister said ... See all stories on this topic »

Weekly Wrap: Exhausted Investors Look Ahead CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog) On top of the growth concerns, there is a real possibility that the European debt crisis could spread from the smaller economies of Greece, Portugal and Ireland, to some big ones like Italy andSpain. It's unclear whether the EU has the monetary ... See all stories on this topic »

Gold drops as market end whipsaw week on a high eStocksDaily Europe has been plagued with debt problems this year with Greece being bailed out for the second time after Ireland and Portugal both needing helped. Those fears heightened once Italy and Spain started to produce so negative numbers which lead some to ... See all stories on this topic » eStocksDaily

World view bleak but picture looks brighter in the Middle East The National Europe has its own set of ills to contend with, most prominently a crippling sovereign debt crisis that started in Ireland, Greece and Portugal but now threatens to spread to Spain and Italy. The European Central Bank recently kept interest rates at ... See all stories on this topic » The National

Making sense of the US mess Inquirer.net Other than the downgrade, there was the long nagging fear of the much more debilitating debt incurred by European countries like Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain (PIIGS). While these countries' collective debt was less in absolute amount than ... See all stories on this topic »

The Policy-Driven Gold Rush Big Government Germany and the ECB stepped in to bail out Greece, only to watch the problem spread to the slightly larger economies of Ireland and Portugal, and then to the much larger ones of Spain andItaly. The choices these governments face seem stark: Either ... See all stories on this topic »

It's the Politics, Stupid! Huffington Post (blog) ... mostly Protestant and Nordic North, led by Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, is willing to subsidize the less advanced (and more corrupt) economies that with the exception of Ireland are in southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal). ... See all stories on this topic »

Texas Rocks! Maybe … DesMoinesRegister.com (blog) The global economic crisis – Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and now Italy – are not going to turn around their dreadful economies. This week France showed zero economic growth! BUT do Americans really want to see cutbacks in health services, ... See all stories on this topic »

Olive: There's lots we can do to fix the debt crisis Toronto Star And speculators have begun driving down the price of bonds issued by what they perceive as potential deadbeats Spain and Italy — major players, compared with the peripheral Greek, Irish and Portuguese economies already rescued in bailout schemes. ... See all stories on this topic »

Record levels of unemployment for Europe's youth World Socialist Web Site In second place in the European rankings is Greece, the first country to be bailed out by the European Union and to install austerity measures, with a rate of 40 percent. In third place is Italy (28 percent), followed by Portugal and Ireland (27 ... See all stories on this topic »

More austerity could be flashpoint for Italy, France Globe and Mail In particular, France's exposure to debt in the euro zone's troubled nations (includingItaly, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain) has come under intense scrutiny this week. A downgrade of France's credit rating would make it extremely costly for ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

UK Chancellor, Italy Economy Minister Propose “Outright Fiscal ... By MichaelVail A new poll for the Bild am Sonntag newspaper on Saturday showed 31 percent of Germans believe the euro will be gone by 2021. Common Bond Madness. The idea there would not be mess if “only we had common bonds” is madness. Had there been “ common bonds” Germany and France would have undertaken all the fiscal problems of Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Ireland. Note that French banks are directly under attack. That would have happened sooner if France and Germany ... StratRisks

Eurozone Agrees To Huge Spain & Italy Bailouts ! | Before It's News Eurozone Agrees to Huge Spain, Italy Bailouts. MASSIVE ACTION WOULD DWARF THOSE INGREECE, IRELAND, PORTUGAL. By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff ... beforeitsnews.com/.../Eurozone_Agrees_To_Huge_Spain_Ital...

All eyes on Germany in Europe debt crisis - Story Analysis by BuzzBox LA Times: World News — The country is already bearing much of the bailout ... The US, Spain,Italy, Greece, Ireland and Portugal all need bank bailouts. ... www.buzzbox.com/news/2011-08-12/ireland:portugal/?...

Austerity and the Destruction of Democracy - The Real News The Real News needs your support. Make a $10 donation by texting realnews to ..... of austerity in places like Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, ... therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com...id...

Italy, Spain will not need bailout: EU's Rehn - Yahoo! UK ... Italy, Spain will not need bailout: EU's Rehn. ... Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance ... Greece, Ireland(Berlin: IIK.BE - news) and Portugal. Italy and Spain ... uk.finance.yahoo.com/.../Italy-Spain-need-bailout-EU-afp-34...

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