All Posts Tagged With: "university"
Lakers’ Gasol wins award as NBA’s top citizen (Yahoo! Sports)
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) Pau Gasol probably would have been a doctor if he hadn’t grown up to be 7 feet tall and awfully good at basketball. The Lakers forward sees his charity work with UNICEF and children’s hospitals as a different way to fulfill the dreams instilled in him by his medically minded Spanish family
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Sybase champion Pettersen loses in 1st round
By TOM CANAVAN | Associated Press – GLADSTONE, N.J.
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Cal rugby: Why Golden Bears are not vying for collegiate title
The national collegiate rugby crown will be settled on Saturday night in Sandy, Utah, and for only the seventh time in 33 years powerhouse Cal will not bring home the championship. The Golden Bears, who have won 26 national titles in traditional 15-man rugby, opted out of the premier division this season, uneasy with the direction of USA Rugby and determined to become more proficient at the seven-man game that will be played at the Olympics, beginning in 2016 in Brazil. “There’s a lot of opportunities, and it’s not time to think in the old ways,” long-time Cal coach Jack Clark said.
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Ex-Syracuse hoops coach’s wife: Life is ruined
By JOHN KEKIS | Associated Press – GENEVA, N.Y. (AP) — The wife of fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine claimed Wednesday that ESPN maliciously trampled her reputation by broadcasting salacious stories about her and about claims that her husband molested ball boys. Laurie Fine held a news conference Wednesday and threatened to file a libel lawsuit in federal court against the cable network and two employees.
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Arbitrator hearing set for May 30 in Saints case (Yahoo! Sports)
NEW YORK (AP) An arbitration hearing into whether NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has jurisdiction to punish Saints players for the team’s bounties program has been set for May 30. The players’ union has asked arbitrator Stephen Burbank of the University of Pennsylvania to rule if the players should be punished for the system that the league says ran for three years.
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VCU leaves CAA, announces move to Atlantic 10
By HANK KURZ Jr. | Associated Press – RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Commonwealth University went from “VCWho” to the biggest story of the 2011 NCAA basketball tournament when it made an improbable run to the Final Four
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Baseball fires Ryan Braun arbitrator – but NFL keeps him on bounty case
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball management has fired Shyam Das, the arbitrator who overturned Ryan Braun’s drug suspension in February. MLB informed Das and the players’ association of its decision last week. Das had been baseball’s permanent arbitrator since 1999, part of what technically is a three-man panel that also includes a representative of management and labor.
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BYU rugby poised for second national championship
BYU’s Hoseki Kofe runs with the ball during the Wasatch Cup rugby match at BYU in Provo on Saturday, April 7, 2012. BYU won. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News PROVO — Some call it real football
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Major League Baseball fires arbitrator who overturned Ryan Braun ban
By Ronald Blum, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – NEW YORK, N.Y. – Major League Baseball management has fired Shyam Das, the arbitrator who overturned Ryan Braun’s drug suspension in February. MLB informed Das and the players’ association of its decision last week.
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Dynamo wins stadium opener (The Associated Press)
HOUSTON (AP) Brad Davis scored the goal, ran over to the southeast corner of BBVA Compass Stadium and disappeared in a mob of cheering Houston Dynamo fans. It was their moment as much as it was his
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