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D.C. Sports Bog (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson, celebrating during Iceland's win in the handball quarterfinals. (By Lee Jin-man - AP) When I went to the Icelandic men's handball training today, in advance of the team's epic semifinal against Spain Friday night, I intended to ask about three things. 1) The magic Elves. I heard magic Elves were big in Iceland. "Ahhh, yah yah, yah yah," Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson said. "Some people...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Jerome Fernandez is splitting two defenders when one grabs him around the shoulders and pulls him to the ground. Teammate Bertrand Gille is getting tossed around like a pinball. Joel Abati's jersey is stretching left and right. A friendly game of basketball,...
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Out Of Left Field (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
It's a good thing Stubby Clapp is retiring after Beijing because, as you likely know, baseball has been booted out of the Games for 2012. It's quite the accomplishment actually. The last sport to be removed was polo--you know, horses, rich people, Prince Charles, that polo. Sadly, the IOC also decided to remove softball fastball from the Games as well, thus taking away the biggest prize
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Last month, we admired reader's photograph of a mural showing a train car and the bold words "Queens is the Future!" The mural's co-creator, Joshua Frankel, emailed us to let us know he and Eve Biddle designed it for the handball court at I.S. 45 in Jackson Heights, Queens, and it was painted as part of NYCares Day last year. More recently, Frankel and Biddle designed three murals at P.S. 54 in Bedford-Stuyvesant,...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
The Sierra Leone handball team's dream of competing in their first international competition after 30 years may be shattered if the government, financial institutions and other organizations doesn't come to their aid.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
This year's East African inter-schools' games will cost an estimated Frw116 millions, organizers, the ministry of Education have confirmed.
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
For 45 years, almost half a century, Max Esses and Steve Shaper have been playing weekly games of handball, and Gaitz has been a regular addition since the late '60s. The Johnny-come-lately, Mike Lamson, joined in 1996.
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Discount Voucher (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
WilliamHill is one of the leading names in bookmaking today. Every bettable sport available can be found on WilliamHill. From horseracing to handball and everything else in between it can be found here. William hill have a gaming section too with plenty of amusing choices to while away your spare time! WilliamHill also provide you with live horse and greyhound racing, football and other regular sporting...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Chennai: Tamil Nadu athletes, who won the overall championship at the National Combined Events and Jumps Championships held at Bangalore on July 18 and 19, were felicitated here on Saturday by the Tamil Nadu Athletic Association. Of the eight ...
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Indian shooting received a shot in the arm with Time magazine mentioning Athens Olympics silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore...
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NBC11.com - Local News (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
The first reunion of American Olympians began in downtown San Jose, the same day that Olympians competing in the 2008 games began receiving gear and undergoing medical testing at SJSU.
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Twelve years ago, an Iranian schoolboy named Ehsan Hadadi took aim at goal in a school handball match and threw the ball with such power it broke the goalpost.
