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The Media never ceases to Amaze me. Take the Entertainment Media for example, if an Artist smashes up a Hotel Room, the Media applauds it and says the Artist is living the life of a Rock star, if an artist beats up his Girlfriend/Wife in a drug induced rage, the media says "the artist needs helps in balancing his awesome music with his private life. If an artist in their mid 20's has sex with someone underaged, its celebrated and put on the Internet. If an artist and mother of two chooses to go out and do the party rounds...

The origins of ice-skating have been traced by scientists to the frozen lakes of Finland about 5,000 years ago, when people used skates made from animal bone. Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University have calculated that skating on the primitive blades would have reduced the energy cost of travelling by 10 per cent, suggesting that it emerged as a practical method of transport and not as recreation. Southern Finland has been identified as the most likely home of skating through an analysis of the shape and distribution of lakes in central and northern Europe, which shows that the early Finns would...

Kickoff was still six hours away, and Arthur Blank was already having the kind of day that sends lesser men hurrying into retirement.for his role in a dogfighting operation. And now, Bobby Petrino, a college coach Blank had lured away from Louisville with a five-year, $24 million contract, was wondering whether he was cut out for the rough-and-tumble pro ranks. What a day for "Monday Night Football" cameras to be in town to show his stumbling team's game against New Orleans. Blank needed some good news. The Falcons' owner called Petrino into his expansive family foundation office in Buckhead, not...

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before. FOOTBALL FACTS Thanks for joining us once again as we look at some football facts. This time we’ll look at "From a regional to a National sport. From 1930-1958" In the early 1930s, the college game continued to grow, particularly in the south, bolstered by fierce rivalries such as the "Third Saturday in October"—a rivalry between Alabama and Tennessee. While prior to the mid-1920s most national powers came from...

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NEAH BAY, Wash. (AP) — An injured California gray whale was swimming out to sea Saturday after being shot with a machine gun off the western tip of Washington state, officials said. Coast Guard Petty Officer Kelly Parker said five people believed to be members of the Makah Tribe shot and harpooned the whale Saturday morning. The extent of the whale's injuries were not immediately known. Tribe members were being held by the Coast Guard but had not been charged, said Mark Oswell, a spokesman for the law enforcement arm of the National Marine Fisheries Service. A preliminary report said...

Sixty miles up, you sit in a chair on the open deck of a small rocket, admiring the stars above, the Earth far, far below. The vacuum beyond your visor is cold, but it would boil your blood if your pressure suit failed. You give your parachute straps a reassuring pat. It’s utterly silent. Just you and your fragile body, hovering alone above the Earth. “Space Diver One, you are go,” crackles a voice in your ear, and you undo your harness and stand up. There’s nothing for it now: You paid a lot of money for this. You breathe...

"Striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, absent from the Swedish national side in recent months, will be available for selection for their Euro 2008 championships qualifier against Northern Ireland, the Swedish football association said on Friday. Sweden were without the striker for their Group F Euro 2008 championships qualifying matches against Iceland and group favourites Spain in October. The 25-year-old Inter Milan forward has not played for his country since Lagerbäck cut him from the selection against Liechtenstein, after he went out partying on the eve of the September 6 Euro qualifier. Sweden face Northern Ireland on March 28 in Belfast."

Sport fears over sweat virus risk People involved in contact sports are urged to be cautious A potentially fatal liver virus could be spread in sweat during contact sports, say Turkish researchers. They are calling for more compulsory testing for Hepatitis B in sports such as wrestling. The study of 70 male Olympic wrestlers, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found eight who had the virus in their sweat. However, British experts say that catching it through sweat, rather than via blood, remains extremely unlikely. Hepatitis B causes a serious, chronic infection in approximately 5% of adults who...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, one of the most spectacular soccer players ever, comes from the infamous, Muslim dominated area of Rosengård in Malmö, Sweden's third biggest city. He presently plays for the major European club of Inter Milan and has formerly been contracted by Juventus, Ajax and Malmö FF among others. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, known as "Ibra" to Italian soccer fans, is one of the very few Muslim immigrants from the Malmö region who've made major success in any area of life (another exception is Hip hop artist Timbuktu - not especially well known in the US though). Many Rosengård Muslims strive to...

Czech ski jumper fighting for life after crash at World Cup event ZAKOPANE, Poland (AP) - Czech ski jumper Jan Mazoch was fighting for his life in hospital after crashing at a World Cup won by Rok Urbans of Slovenia off the large hill on Saturday. In difficult wind, Mazoch appeared to bounce off the hill during his second jump. He was taken to hospital unconscious. "The injuries he sustained are very dangerous and threaten his life," Sylwester Kosinski, deputy head of the city hospital in Zakopane said on TVN24. He said the people in charge of the 22-year-old jumper...

Polish govt suspends FA board in corruption row Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:25 PM GMT19 By Patrick Graham WARSAW, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Poland suspended the leadership of its national football association on Friday after another high-ranking official was detained in a match-fixing investigation that stretches back almost two years. Prosecutors in the southern city of Wroclaw detained Wit Zelasko, FA board member responsible for referees and a well-known TV personality, bringing the total number accused in the scandal to about 60. After the board refused to resign, Sports Minister Tomasz Lipiec said he had appointed Andrzej Rusko, chief executive...

IBRA: "HAPPY FOR INTER AND ADRI" Saturday, 13 January 2007 22:59:16 TURIN - Zlatan Ibrahimovic spoke on Sky Italia after Inter's record twelfth consecutive Serie A victory against Torino at the Stadio Olimpico. "Each time we have come on the pitch, we have never thought about the record of victories, we always try to win," he said. "We're just very pleased to have started the new year well, and we have to continue like this. But no one is perfect and there are always things you can improve. " Adriano has started scoring again? He is very important for us....

Poland rallies past Russia to remain unbeaten Poland rallied from two sets down to beat Russia 3-2 on Tuesday to remain unbeaten at the 2006 men's volleyball World Championship. Lukasz Kadziewicz and Grzegorz Szymanski combined to score 32 points to lead the Poland team to the 19-25, 19-25, 25-22, 25-20, 15-11 victory. Mariusz Wlazly and Daniel Plinski added 12 and 11 respectively. Semen Poltavsky led Russia, runner-up in 2002 World Championship, with 19 points but could not save Russia from Poland 's big comeback, Alexander Kosarev had 16. Poland, who kept a perfect 8-0 win-loss record, now ranked first in...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Newberry College has agreed to drop its "Indians" nickname and has been taken off the list of schools facing postseason bans because of hostile or abusive logos and mascots. The school was taken off the list Friday after it told the governing body about the planned change, NCAA spokesman Bob Williams said Sunday. Newberry will host a first-round NCAA Division II football playoff game against Albany State on Saturday. Newberry said Sunday it had informed the NCAA that it was examining its nickname and hoping to resolve its dispute with the organization by the fall of 2008....

Pole holds on to WBC Light Heavyweight title 09.10.2006 Polish World Light Heavyweight Champion Tomasz Adamek has once again out boxed his Australian challenger in a bout in Rosemont Illinois over the weekend. The win secures Adamek’s world championship title, not to mention an opportunity to become a Polish boxing legend. Bogdan Zaryn reports Deemed as the fight of the year, Polish World light heavy weight champion Tomasz Adamek won the 12 round fight by decision, out pointing his opponent Australian Paul Briggs. Tomasz Adamek otherwise known as Goral is 31 – 0 with 21 knockouts. After the bout` in...

American football comes to Poland 04.10.2006 October is the time when American football enthusiasts in Poland can play their beloved sport. Over the past decade more and more Poles have really taken off with American football. They have already established professional teams and leagues. This report is by Agnieszka Bednarska. Well you don’t have to go stateside to play American football anymore. NFL style football has come to Poland. When the Warsaw Eagles played their first game two years ago, they just got some curious looks. Now they’re part of what’s known as the Polish – American football league, the...

Kubica makes history for Poland 10 September 2006 Robert Kubica has become the first Polish driver to score world championship points - and achieve a Formula One podium finish - after his third place for BMW Sauber in Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix. The race was only Kubica’s third Formula One start after he was promoted to Jacques Villeneuve’s race seat last month. Having qualified fifth on the grid, Kubica made an excellent start, quickly moving up to third place. From there he spent much of the afternoon locked in an intense battle with the Ferrari of Felipe Massa, the pair...

As far as I am concerned, the happiest days of the year began Saturday night with Notre Dame’s first game, down in Atlanta, against Georgia Tech. I just love to watch Notre Dame play football — hate when they lose. But win or lose, the next 12 weekends (I think there is an open date) are going to have a purpose and a center. I have a nephew, Joseph (Joe), who is just back from the Philippines, and in few months on his way to Indonesia — he works for the State Department. At the Sunday afternoon dinner (a family...

Turkish Grand Prix organisers have been summoned before world governing body the FIA, accused of breaching Formula One rules. Controversy erupted after organisers put forward Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat to present the winner's trophy to Felipe Massa in Istanbul on Sunday. The Turkish-controlled area of northern Cyprus is not recognised as a separate country by the United Nations and the FIA expressed anger that their political neutrality had apparently been compromised. Now the Turkish federation TOSFED and race organisers MSO have been called to a special meeting of the FIA's world motor sport council where they will face charges...