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OSU Alums Fowler, Mahan The Latest Athletes To Pitch In For Tornado Relief Efforts05 / 23 / 13Golfers Rickie Fowler and Hunter Mahan, who both played collegiately at Oklahoma State Univ., have "announced plans to personally help out with relief efforts" following this week's tornadoes in Oklahoma, according to Will Gray of GOLFCHANNEL.com. Fowler yesterday "explained plans to enhance a ... Tags: Sports in Society |
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Brazil Readying For World Cup, Olympics
Last night's edition of CBS' "60 Minutes" examined Brazil's thriving economy with CBS' Steve Kroft reporting while "most of the world is consumed with debt and unemployment, Brazil is trying to figure out how to manage an economic boom" and with the World Cup and Olymp ...
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McCormack's Archives Go To UMass
By Bill King , Senior Writer, SportsBusiness Journal The Univ. of Massachusetts’ sports management program announces a landmark gift and corresponding new name today when it becomes home to the massive archival collection of sports marketing pioneer Mark McCormack. Renamed the Mark H. McC ...
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Differences In Giants, Rangers Fans
By Terry Lefton , Editor-At-Large Baseball is a sport filled with aphorisms, and after four games of the ‘10 World Series and two months of dominance by the Giants’ pitching staff over MLB hitters, “good pitching always beats good hitting” is one that’s more indeli ...
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Sports Fan Coalition Lobbying For Fans
Brian Frederick recently was named Exec Dir of the year-old nonprofit Sports Fans Coalition, and it is now his job to find and organize a "diverse and unwieldy group of dedicated bu ...
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Musburger Blasts Media Coverage Of Steroids
Musburger Claims Writers Are In Too Deep With Steroid Coverage ESPN announcer Brent Musburger Tuesday while speaking at the Univ. of Montana said steroids "could be used at the profess ...
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Charity Stripe
In L.A., Carla Hall noted Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt last week promised to give the 10,000 men and women of the L.A. Police Department "vouchers for four tickets apiece." Dodgers VP/PR & Broadcasting Josh Rawitch said that the 40,000 tickets are worth about $1.25M-1.5M. Rawitch: &quo ...
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DC's Stars Could Help Charity Giving Increase
The "philanthropic push" in DC "could get a big boost from the arrival of a new slate of stars and genuine excitement across the prospects" of the Redskins, Wizards, Nationals ...
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Charity Stripe: Heat Staff Travel To Haiti
In Miami, Michael Wallace noted Heat coach Erik Spoelstra and former NBAers Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway last weekend "led a contingent of 40 volunteers and relief workers who traveled to Haiti to deliver supplies" for earthquake relief efforts. The ...
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Supreme Court Rejects Delaware Betting Case
Delaware's "last-ditch bid to have Las Vegas-style sports betting met a quiet but certain death Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear the state's case," according to Cris Barrish of the Wilmington NEWS-JOURNAL. Delaware Gov. Jack Markell's administration wanted the Suprem ...
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Brandt Andersen Makes A Difference In Haiti
By Brian Helfrich , Assistant Managing Editor Andersen (r) Helping Rebuild Haitian Orphanage Destroyed In Earthquake With his Utah Flash in the midst of a four-game homestand las ...
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