Larry Brown has made the trip to Lubbock before as a member of the TCU football team during the days of the Southwest Conference.
While the Texas Tech fans always proved to be a rowdy group and not something a visiting team looked forward to, he was excited about this year’s trip to the Hub City [...]
The cruellest corner of rugby’s lexicon is dedicated to damnation by faint praise, and it can surely hold no more withering euphemism than the ‘journeyman’ tag that is routinely applied to decent but clearly limited players.
Just ask Matt Mustchin, the 31-year-old Edinburgh forward to whom the term has had a limpet-like attachment for most of [...]
Croatia face a perfect test away to in-form Hungary in their final Euro 2008 warm-up on Saturday, assistant manager Aljosa Asanovic said on Friday.
“The match is the final assessment of our abilities before the European championship and it will show how much progress we have made in training,” Asanovic told reporters in Croatia’s training base [...]
The group were travelling by coach from their hotel in Chengdu to Wolong reserve for wild pandas on Monday when the earthquake struck. Another 31 British tourists who were caught in the zone have been located, according to the Chinese Government.
David and Diane Atkins, a retired couple from Portchester, Hampshire, are among those still missing. [...]
DENVER - Jerry York is fond of calling his team a meat-and-potatoes squad.”There’s no trickery with our club,” the Boston College coach said. “We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel at B.C. We just stay with the game plan.”As in, get the puck to Nathan Gerbe and let him work his magic.Gerbe’s hat trick helped [...]
He may be right about the desperation surrounding the Brumbies campaign that has them lying ninth with just three wins and four losses.
They need to get something going if they are to be playoffs contenders.
But there should be an equally desperate air about the Blues. Yes, they lie third, but they are in a poor [...]
As a youngster he would lie in bed and dream of playing the perfect innings at the spiritual home of cricket, the famous Lords ground in London, but through hard work, determination and a bit of luck, he joins a select club to actually get a chance to live the dream.
A colleague, and its difficult [...]
Lory Blanchard, a tough-as-nails forward in 16 tests for the Kiwis in the 1950s and the national coach from 1966 to 1972, received his award from NZRL chairman Ray Haffenden in Christchurch last night.
This is very close to my heart, Haffenden said.
Lory was my first coach at Linwood. New Zealand Rugby League only has 20 [...]
ZINEDINE Zidane, World Cup winner and three-time FIFA World
Player of the Year, will play a match in Australia in June.
Zidane, who won the World Cup with France in 1998 and was
sensationally sent off in the 2006 World Cup final after
headbutting Italian Marco Materazzi, will make a whirlwind 72-hour
trip to Sydney that will include an exhibition [...]
Coach Stu Jacobs was left wondering whether his side would ever put Auckland away after its winless streak against its northern rivals ticked over to 11 matches.
Its something like 10 losses and a draw and thats the most disappointing thing because we know we should have won today, he said. We were very good today [...]
