POSTED: Wednesday May 18th 2011FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Munich 2018 pledges to meet challenges identified at Copenhagen Olympic Congress Lausanne, 18 May 2011: In a powerful climax to their Technical Presentation to IOC members in Lausanne this morning, the Munich 2018 Bid Committee pledged to help the Olympic Movement rise to the challenges identified at the [...]
It sounds like an old joke that the coach of a downtrodden high school boys’ basketball program would mutter in a moment of gallows humor. Why can’t we ever just get some 6-foot-5 exchange student from Germany who can play? For the last three years at Point Pleasant Beach, that was no joke. It was [...]
One of my favorite bloggers, Kelli Lawrence of State of the Skate, just had a book published. Skating on Air: The Broadcast History of an Olympic Marquee Sport is a look at the history of skating coverage on television. The book includes interviews with skaters such as Janet Lynn, Kurt Browning and Scott Hamilton. I just [...]
May 27 2011 by Gordon Bannerman, Perthshire Advertiser Friday PERTH and Kinross County captain Lenore Kyle has announced her team for the 2011 North Divisional County Team Championships at Inchmarlo. writes Gordon Bannerman. And Team GB Olympic curler Eve Muirhead, from Blair Atholl and playing out of Pitlochry, is swapping her winter sport for golf [...]
BY MIKE WALSH For Sun-Times Media May 28, 2011 12:03AM Reprints E-Mail Print Purdue pitcher Suzie Rzegocki, of Lemont. | Supplied photo As Purdue’s softball team lost to Big Ten and instate rival Indiana 4-0 on May 14 on the Hoosiers’ home field, it marked the culmination of the playing career of Purdue senior pitcher [...]
