ARTS & CULTURE (East Bay Express) Alameda County Fair : This year's features include the Action Zone (a sports and fitness expo), the second annual Cooking Academy, the Community Heroes Program awards, a parade, talent competition, opening-night fireworks, and live music by Bo Diddley, Crystal Gayle, the Spinners, War, and Night Ranger....more...Sprint Academy in Tvm (The Hindu) KOLLAM: National athletics coach Olympian Suresh Babu has said that the Kerala State Sports Council has approved a proposal from the Athletics Federation of India to start a sprint academy at Thiruvananthapuram. He was talking to media ......more... Sports and entertainment festival fun for all (SaukValley.com) STERLING - At the whistle, the competitors from Team Culvers and Team Country Financial ran up to six kickballs in the center of the grass court, grabbed what they could and took aim....more... Eastler: '04 Olympian back for one last walk (The Lewiston Sun Journal) Kevin Eastler gravitated to racewalking by following the crowd. He returned to the sport as an Air Force Academy senior, in part, to get away from that crowd and gain a measure of freedom....more... Sports and recreation briefs (The Marion Sentinel) See what's happening with area sports. ...more... SPORTS BUZZ/Jon Buzby (Newport Daily News) Forget the outcome. Forget the incessant criticism about the use of his driver on Sunday from analysts Paul Azinger and Tom Watson ? which, by the way, seemed to work OK the first three days when the weather was worse....more... Class of '08 inducted into Joliet Hall of Fame (The Bolingbrook Sun) A track star, golfer, pioneering bowler, baseball legends and community leaders are among the class of 2008 inducted into the Joliet Area Sports Hall of Fame Friday evening. ...more... Free running craze sweeps Britain (Guardian Unlimited) Schools embrace free running despite its critics, as world championships come to London...more... Pizarro: S.J. to host Olympics party (San Jose Mercury News) Not all of us got to travel to Beijing for the Olympics this summer. Yes, I'm talking to you, Mark Purdy and Ann Killion....more... |