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Student-athletes, baseball coaches will be honored at Union County Hall of Fame Dinner
MOUNTAINSIDE — The Union County Baseball Association will honor local student-athletes and baseball coaches for their accomplishments during 2011 and will induct four members into the Union County Baseball Hall of Fame during award ceremonies on Feb. 12. The 76th annual Hot Stove League Baseball Dinner will begin at 1 p.m.
Rugby in the summer just won’t work, warns Cotton
By Ian Stafford Last updated at 9:06 PM on 17th December 2011 Fran Cotton, whose mud-caked face became one of the defining images of rugby as a winter pursuit, last night kicked plans to convert the game in England into a summer sport into touch. Cotton, the former England, Coventry and Sale prop who is now a powerful voice within the game, insisted that instead of trying to rearrange the global calendar and play English domestic rugby primarily during the summer months, the Aviva Premiership clubs should instead be focusing on trying to get their own house in order
Rugby in the summer just won’t work, warns Fran Cotton
By Ian Stafford Last updated at 9:06 PM on 17th December 2011 Fran Cotton, whose mud-caked face became one of the defining images of rugby as a winter pursuit, last night kicked plans to convert the game in England into a summer sport into touch. Cotton, the former England, Coventry and Sale prop who is now a powerful voice within the game, insisted that instead of trying to rearrange the global calendar and play English domestic rugby primarily during the summer months, the Aviva Premiership clubs should instead be focusing on trying to get their own house in order
Celts’ Green to miss season for aneurysm (AP)
BOSTON (AP)—Boston Celtics forward Jeff Green will have surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm and will miss the entire season, the team announced on Saturday as it traveled to Toronto for its exhibition opener against the Raptors. Green is scheduled for an operation on Monday at the Cleveland Clinic
Bonds’ sentencing brings BALCO saga near a close (AP)
SAN FRANCISCO – The largest federal criminal investigation into sports doping began more than nine years ago with a tax agent digging through the trash of the now notorious Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. Barring an appeal, the government’s work comes to an anti-climactic end Friday when Barry Bonds — the probe’s highest-profile catch — is sentenced for obstruction of justice
Rugby. Lyons to Chair Cal Rugby Advisory Board
Dec. 9, 2011 – BERKELEY – Irving F. “Bud” Lyons III, who played rugby for the Golden Bears from 1968-71, ending with the team’s legendary tour Down Under in the summer of 1971 under coach Miles “Doc” Hudson, has accepted the chairmanship of the California Rugby Advisory Board
NBA: Owners didn’t get Paul trade nixed (AP)
NEW YORK (AP)—Even with a flurry of moves around the NBA, the focus remained on the deal that didn’t get done. Chris Paul is still in New Orleans, and there’s anger throughout the league about it
Spurs coach Popovich mum on roster (AP)
SAN ANTONIO (AP)— Tim Duncan(notes) went back to work Friday for what could be the two-time MVP’s final season.
Owners open doors to facilities (AP)
Chris Paul(notes) and Carmelo Anthony(notes) returned to work Thursday—and immediately were asked about working together.
Forget ’11 (or so Red Sox hope): Bobby V is coming (AP)
BOSTON – Players eating fried chicken and drinking beer in the clubhouse during games. If it didn’t bother Bobby Valentine as a baseball lifer, it would certainly offend his sensibilities as a self-proclaimed gourmet chef