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Midnight Basketball

More than a dozen U.S. cities offer midnight basketball programs to urban youth. The program not only lets at-risk teens play basketball, it also teaches them responsibility and decision-making.
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On the Record

Quote BeginningI'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. ... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.End Quote

Jackie Robinson, former U.S. baseball player; the first black player in the U.S. major leagues

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    American Girls and Women Go for Sports

    Between 1971 and 2005, female participation in collegiate sports increased 456 percent. In the same period, female participation in high school sports increased more than 900 percent to about 3,000,000.

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Indian Premier League

Indian Premier League

Opinions divided over IPL's impact

While modern day greats were visibly excited by the IPL, those from the past fear the latest innovation could ruin Test cricket.

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    Bindra: No player trading in 2009

    The IPL’s governing council has made it clear that they will allow owners to only "barter" and not "trading" of players in 2009.

  • Mohammad Asif

    Pakistan International

    Asif still under detention

    Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif continues to be under detention in Dubai pending reports of his urine and other tests.

  • Brendon McCullum

    New Zealand International

    McCullum fit to keep

    New Zealand are confident Brendon McCullum is fit enough to keep wickets in the third Test against England starting Thursday.

  • Dean Ashton

    Premier League

    Ashton pens new deal

    Striker Dean Ashton has signed a new five-year contract to keep him with Premier League side West Ham United until 2013.


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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Gretna resigns from Scottish Football League amid financial turmoil

Gretna resigns from Scottish Football League amid financial turmoil


GLASGOW, Scotland — Gretna's future looked in doubt Tuesday after the club resigned from the Scottish Football League.

Heavy debts had forced the club into financial administration in March.

Gretna shot from non-league soccer to the top flight between 2002-07 and reached the 2006 Scottish Cup final.

Gretna has been struggling to survive since owner Brooks Mileson fell ill in March and was forced to withdraw his financial support.

The club was deducted 10 points while being forced to let players go and was relegated from the SPL to division one. Gretna was demoted to the third division by the SFL after the club could not guarantee it could complete another season in the first division.
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Tenth victim of Liberia-Gambia football crush dies: hospital

MONROVIA (AFP) — A tenth person has died from the effects of heat suffocation after too many people crammed into a stadium to see Liberia's weekend World Cup qualifying match against Gambia, the hospital said Wednesday.

"Another person has passed away," Winnie Scott, the medical director of Monrovia's John F. Kennedy hospital were the injured are being treated, told AFP.

According to Scott another 16 people who were injured in the crush at the Samuel K. Doe football stadium are still being treated but "they are not at risk of dying".

Eyewitnesses said the stadium was already packed at noon local time on Sunday with many people coming early to find a seat for the match.

It is thought that illegal ticket sales and poor security led to many more people being crammed into the stadium than the seating capacity allowed.

Both the Liberian government and football's governing body FIFA have announced they will launch a probe into what caused the tragedy.

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LUC BOURDON PASSES AWAY
NHLPA member and Vancouver Canucks defenceman, Luc Bourdon was killed in a motorcycle accident in northern New Brunswick last Thursday, at the age of 21. More than 2000 people attended Luc's funeral on Monday, held at the Shippagan, New Brunswick rink where he learned to play the game of hockey. The NHLPA has made a donation through the "Goals and Dreams" fund to the Shippagan, New Brunswick minor hockey association in Luc's memory.
FLEURY JUST ONE OF THE KIDS IN PITTSBURGH
Youth is definitely being served in Pittsburgh this spring. The Penguins, a team built around a core of young stars, finds itself in the Stanley Cup Final with the Detroit Red Wings. One of the key components of this youth movement is goaltender, Marc-Andre Fleury. The young net-minder has returned from an ankle injury earlier this season to act as a solid, last line of defence for the Penguins. Fleury looks poised, calm and focused and his stellar play might just carry the Penguins to the title.
IGINLA PROUD TO BE PEARSON FINALIST
There is not much that Jarome Iginla does not do for his hockey team. The Calgary Flames captain is a leader, a dynamic goal scorer, tough as nails and never takes a night off. Capable of playing in all situations, Iginla once again dazzled fans around the league in 2007-08 with his pure skill and sheer determination to lead the Flames to victory. His efforts have garnered him a nomination for the 2008 Lester B. Pearson award, an award he won in 2002.
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