By Gary Howard Continuing reports of gold reaching new record highs on practically a daily basis, is probably all the indication we need to realize that the economy is not as close to "recovery" as some would like us to think. Gold's rise is the mirror image of the dollar's drop . This is only good news to 1. Those smart enough to have stocked up on gold years ago, oh and the Wall Street...
Saturday November 21st HAYDOCK SA SUFFIT justified some confident remarks in the past as he came clear to win with a little to spare in the two mile handicap chase. I've gone on record as expecting him to rate as top Scottish based chaser this season and this performance didn't nothing to dispell the theory. James Ewart's after arce comments suggested that the horse is now stronger than last season...
There could be a new Olympic event for anyone trying to drive in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, or to Whistler during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in February - marathon traffic snarls.
HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An impressive list of world-class athletes, including a number of Beijing Olympic gold medallists, will compete in the 2009 East Asian Games (EAG) in Hong Kong from December 5-13. Heading the list are 2008 synchronised three-metre springboard Olympic gold medallists Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia, current Olympic badminton men’s singles champion Lin Dan, and 2004 Olympic...
View full size photo » "If there was an overriding theme for UFC 105 Saturday night, it was the coming-out party for British mixed martial arts. In a country that hasn't embraced major American sports like football, basketball or baseball, MMA, in two and a half years has become one of the country's most popular sports, with a fan base that matched crowds in the UFC's hometown of Las Vegas...
Bloomberg News via the Cincy Enquirer reports on government plans to create a "roadmap" (skymap?) for the flagging airline industry. Carriers in 2009 have offered the fewest flights in six years as demand slumped during the recession. The 9/11 attacks, record fuel costs and other hurdles have also buffeted airline earnings this decade. North American carriers are likely to lose $2.6 billion...
A year after a career-threatening injury, she defied the doubters to become our first world heptathlon champion. Here she reveals her seven steps to global domination A slightly smelly cupboard with no windows is a strange place to interview the darling of British athletics. But with the table tennis English Open on at Sheffield's English Institute of Sport, there is a shortage of space and even for...
The Paddy Power Gold Cup, a valuable handicap chase over 2 miles 4 1/2 furlongs at 15.35 CET, is the main event at Cheltenham today, and with 18 runners,looks very difficult indeed. After rain yesterday, more last night and more expected today, the ground will be soft, which will not suit some of the more fancied runners. One who will appreciate the going is Ballyfitz /Paddy Brennan) from Nigel Twiston-Davies´...
China's former world record holder Liu Xiang has easily won his third Asian 110 metre hurdle championship, posting a time of 13.50 seconds in a driving rain in the southern city of Guangzhou. The 2004 Athens Olympic champion led from the start late Thursday to win his second competition since returning from surgery on an Achilles tendon injury that kept him out of the 2008 Beijing Games. "I had...
• Weather experts predict up to 80mm to fall over weekend • Garde Champetre best bet on opening day of fixture Weather forecasters have once again became doom-mongers ahead of a major Cheltenham meeting, with officials at the course yesterday told to expect anything between 20mm and 80mm of rain from lunchtime today into Saturday morning. The clerk of the course, Simon Claisse, was understandably...
Looking ahead to 2010, marketers will be facing Olympic hurdles that will require steadfast agility just to stay in the game, much less to hit the finish line ahead of the competition. Here are 10 ideas, wrapped in Olympic glory...
NAIROBI, Kenya — The world's fastest man adopted the animal kingdom's fastest sprinter Monday, as Usain Bolt welcomed a new baby cheetah named "Lightning Bolt" into his life. The Jamaican sprinter's sponsorship of the three-month-old male cheetah is part of an effort to boost Kenyan conservation efforts of its famous wildlife, whose survival is threatened by trophy hunting, climate...
...As Liu Xiang's Shanghai teammate, Zhang Chong, found out when he got a little too overexcited by a good finish at the National Games and tried to convey that with a little man-on-man touching. According to China Hush : On the night of the incident, at around 18:30, Zhang Chong ran in the National Games men’s 400-meter hurdles final and won fifth place with the time of 51’63”....
KOCHI: A few years ago, Pinto Mathew went to the Pala Jumps Academy, a few miles from his home, to learn high jump. But V.C. Joseph, a seasoned coach, asked him to try out hurdling instead. His performance at the South Zone junior meet ...
Notre Dame 40, Washington State 14. Recap via und.com [ here ]. Box score [ here ]. Game notes [ here ]. Streaks. Notre Dame moves to 10-0 versus teams from the state of Washington. The Irish also move to 15-0 all-time on Halloween. Kicking. Speaking of streaks, freshman kicker Nick Tausch hit two field goals -- from 29 and 23 yards, respectively. Tausch has now connected on 14 consecutive field goals...
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