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Two Iraqi soccer teams face off in the Rashid Olympics Masafee Hayy Championship Soccer Game, July 31. Rashid District Council leaders met with Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers to promote the event in the name of Iraqi pride and camaraderie. Photo by Staff Sgt. Brent Williams. FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON — The Rashid Olympic Games are underway in southern Baghdad as 14 teams compete in a local soccer tournament for the chance to become champions. Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers played a key role in the event, working as advisors to the local community leaders and, best of all, observing...

PORT O'CONNOR, Texas (Army News Service, May 5, 2008) - More than 125 wounded Soldiers and their Families were able to forget about hospitals, doctors and physical therapy during a day of fishing, relaxation and old-fashioned Texas barbeque Saturday. About 135 local fishermen volunteered their time and boats during the second annual Warrior's Weekend to take wounded warriors from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Walter Reed Army Medical Center in D.C., Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Bragg, N.C., out on the Gulf of Mexico while cheering town residents greeted the six buses of troops with flags, signs, hugs...

FORT HUACHUCA — The 304th Military Intelligence Battalion and Army Morale Welfare and Recreation host Fort Huachuca’s first Army combatives tournament at 6 p.m. Aug. 10 at Barnes Field House. The tournament is free and open to the public. Sierra Vista native and mixed martial arts legend Don “The Predator” Frye will be on hand at Barnes Field House, along with members of the International Fight League’s Tucson Scorpions, to meet tournament participants. A certificate will be awarded for the top team, and the top three fighters will be awarded a trophy. Winners will represent Fort Huachuca at the second...

Tonight is the night that March Madness ends in the National Championship Game between The Gators of Florida vs. The Buckeyes of Ohio State.

A fish kill involving more than 580 dead bass that coincides with a recently completed FLW Tour event in the La Crosse, Wisconsin area, has Department of Natural Resources Officials at a loss to explain. Especially since it's the second consecutive year there's been a higher-than-normal incident of dead bass following the area's largest and most lucrative tournament. Last year, the fish autopsied following the die-off were found to have been suffering from largemouth bass virus. That disease causes death in bass, especially if they're stressed. According to sources in Wisconsin, more than 98 percent of the bass collected from...

Remember the earlier days of the NCAA tournament, before the days of the mega-conferences? As a conservative, I miss the old days, and I still find myself routing for the old nine-team Big East. I happen to like Pittsnoggle and the current West-Virginian team, but I’m not prejudiced towards them the way I am for the old Big East, and the way I sense many people root for given conferences. So, may I present to you, a fictional wrap-up of the NCAA tournament, the way it would’ve been with all these “newfangled, whippersnapper, Wal-Mart conferences.” (Imagine me saying that in...

Grand Valley State University has been conducting a Tournament of the Presidents over the last several weeks, and they are down to the semi-finals. The 4 Presidents left in the tournament are: Washington vs Lincoln, & FDR vs Reagan; at this moment Lincoln leads Washington 57% - 43%, and FDR leads Reagan 60%-40%. I thouoght it might be nice to freep this tourny/poll.

After a column Oct. 16 in which I wrote that a seemingly never-ending string of professional bass fishing tournaments on the Potomac River did nothing for the health of the bass but instead only lined the pockets of greedy out-of-town contest operators, readers' e-mails began to arrive. My decision not to help these outfits any more by publicizing their big-money events was pushed by a concern for the Potomac's sizable largemouth bass population. It has been a magnet for well-heeled tournament operators who flock to the Potomac even on the hottest days of summer, allowing bass to be kept in...

DETROIT -- The world is a stage and next year, Major League Baseball will be at the center of it. For the first time, Major League players will be eligible to compete in international play when the inaugural World Baseball Classic opens its 18-day run next March 3, Commissioner Bud Selig and Don Fehr, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, announced at a Monday morning media conference on the eve of Tuesday's annual All-Star Game at Comerica Park. The landmark field of countries invited includes Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan,...

KILLEEN, Texas Jul 3, 2005 — A computer goof has Robert Guinther headed for a seat at the World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas later this week. Guinther, 65, entered what he thought was a $10 online poker tournament, but midway through he realized that he had accidentally clicked on a World Series of Poker satellite tournament with a $100 entry fee and it was too late to back out. He went on to win, defeating 180 other competitors and earning a spot in the WSOP $10,000 no-limit championship. The tournament, which begins Thursday, will involve more than...

The Bucknell Bison shock the Kansas Jayhawks. HUGE upset in March Madness!

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The NCAA men's basketball tournament will offer a lot to keep fans in the state of Iowa interested. Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa all got into the tournament, which begins on Thursday. Iowa State is the highest seeded team of the three, going in as the number nine seed in the Syracuse Regional. The Cyclones will play eighth-seeded Minnesota in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Friday. Iowa is the 10th seed in the Austin Regional and will play seventh-seeded Cincinnati in Indianapolis on Thursday. Northern Iowa is seeded 11th in the Syracuse Regional. The Panthers will play sixth-seeded Wisconsin in...

National Science Decathlon is a loose affiliation of parents, teachers and community volunteers dedicated to promoting science education by organizing competitive, science-based tournaments throughout the United States. Each Science Decathlon tournament is made up of ten Team Events and up to four Pilot Events which sport names like Bridge Breaking, Water Rocketry and Ick! Thyology for each division. Division A events are for 9th -12th grade high school students. Division B events are for 6th - 9th grade junior high, middle school and intermediate elementary students. Science Decathlon students are encouraged to participate in groups, or teams, but are not...

It's March to Victory for Students for Bush! Watch this space from March 18 to April 5 as students from different states square off in the Bush Volunteer Tournament to see who can sign up the most students! CHECK THE BRACKETThe Bush Volunteer Tournament kicks off March 18, as 32 states begin competing for Sweet Sixteen bragging rights. Will Iowa fend off Missouri in the Midwest bracket? Can Ohio shock Pennsylvania? Check out the latest, up-do-date Bush Volunteer Tournament bracket! Help your state advance to the next round. Sign up as a Bush Volunteer and select your school!

But Chicago firm says tourney good for workplace morale That giant sucking sound ringing in the ears of employers throughout the country is the estimated loss of $1.5 billion in worker productivity caused by the distraction of the men's NCAA tournament, according to a study by a Chicago-based job placement company. "You don't need a television to watch the game any more," said John A. Challenger..... "Everybody's got computers on their desks and they are streaming the games right in." But don't blame computers alone. Challenger said water-cooler talk, office betting pools, long lunches, Internet downloads, television breaks and telephone...

IRVINE, Calif. - The idea was innocent enough: A group of young men organize a holiday football tournament and give their teams such innocuous names as "4th and Goal" and "1988'ers." It was some of the other team names that raised eyebrows: Intifada, Soldiers of Allah and Mujahideen. The furor that followed has forced some teams to change their names and a handful of players to quit. It also sparked a debate that threatens to overshadow the tournament, which was planned primarily for young Muslims and scheduled for Jan. 4. "This was really just supposed to be about the youth...

(OMED: Certain references to national socialism in the text below were taken directly from signs carried by pseudo-feminists in public demonstrations between 1960 and 2003.) Femi-Nazi Martha Burke, National Charwoman of the National Council of Women’s Organizations said during a mid-February PBS Lehrer News Hour interview, “Television is still a media run by men.” The interview itself was about the idiotic attack on the men’s golf club that hosts the Masters tournament (April 7-13), one of the most important competitions in the sport. The female fascists of the extreme left have already frightened half of America’s males into giving up...