Think globally, act locally. That type of thinking helped David Waxman, co-founder of internet-based ad agency Spot Runner tap into the multi-billion local TV ad market. While other firms were concentrating on the big fish and networks, Waxman and his partner Nick Grouf saw a huge opportunity in aggregating the...
The human dynamo otherwise known as Jen Hendershott tumbled, flipped and bounced her way to victory at the 2008 Fitness Olympia on September 26 with all the subtlety of a Vegas nightclub and twice the energy. With 2007 winner Adela Garcia sitting out after tearing her right ACL...
A new field record for a European tournament was set last week in a somewhat unlikely spot. The provincial Belgian town of Namur, about 50 miles from the capital Brussels, was mobbed by 843 players for the 1,500 (1,200) Belgium Championship. This was 43 up on the previous record set...
Just missed The Alameda High School boys cross country team just missed qualifying for a spot in the California Interscholastic Federation state championships on Nov. 29 in Fresno. The Hornets finished fourth in the North Coast Section Division II boys championship race in Hayward on Nov. 22...
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- BYU men's cross-country came in ninth at the NCAA National Championships while Kyle Perry earned his third All- American title as the Cougars led a large contingent of Utahns in the race. Coming in 10th out of 255 runners in the men's 10K...
The Week in Radio The two best pieces of acting on the radio this week both came in an edition of Crossing Continents (Radio 4, Thursday) on the Liberian orphan trade. One of the consequences of a couple of decades of civil war in Liberia has...
The Legend Returns With TECMO BOWL: KICKOFF For NINTENDO DS[TM] TORRANCE, Calif. -- Video game developer and publisher Tecmo([R]) announced today the release of TECMO BOWL([R]): KICKOFF for Nintendo DS[TM]. Based on the wildly popular Tecmo Super Bowl[TM], TECMO BOWL: KICKOFF adapts the old-school style and revitalizes it...
City powers Washburn Rural and Topeka West combined to earn seven of 11 first-team spots on the 2008 All-City cross country team, selected by city coaches. Washburn Rural, which won city and Class 6A regional titles, placed three runners on the All-City team, led by freshman Jacob...
Gaspari Nutrition Inc. has signed an exclusive marketing agreement with Chapman Media Group, leaders in fitness video production and creators of The Fit Show, to produce a comprehensive product-education and training DVD for release this year. Filmed in high definition, training footage featuring President and CEO Rich Gaspari...
No one quite believes it, but the new Guns N' Roses album is finally coming out. Axl Rose has been working on it for 17 years, demonstrating, as rarely before, the fine line between perfectionism and padded cell. It is a reminder, though, that in these busy times quite a...
Toyota's Timo Glock has said that he feels he has made great progress this season during his first full year at the pinnacle of the sport. Glock, who won the GP2 title in 2007, was handed a rare second crack at F1 by the Cologne-based squad this year...
GLOUCESTER 25 DRAGONS 20 Gloucester are odds-on favourites to make it through to the knock- out phase of the fourth and last EDF Energy Cup, not least because their final pool opponents, Newcastle, have no remaining interest in the competition. Yet their victory over a weakened...
The race for the individual championships in the 3A state cross- country meet came down to three words on Wednesday afternoon: Confidence. Faith. Fury. The Ogden High motto enabled Tiger runners Jacob Barton and Sarah Callister to claim the individual titles. Barton, a junior,...
GOLF Spain's Alvaro Quiros won the Oceanico Portuguese Masters at the Victoria Club in Vilamoura after holding off a determined challenge from Europe's form player, Robert Karlsson. The 25-year-old from Cadiz pocketed the pounds 395,000 winner's cheque - the largest of his career - after a final-round 68...
FORMULA ONE: Lewis Hamilton had no qualms about Ferrari's 'stunt' which set up a world-title showdown in Brazil for the second successive season. Hamilton won yesterday's Chinese Grand Prix and now heads to Felipe Massa's Sao Paulo backyard with a sevenpoint cushion over the Brazilian, and with one...
Casey Stoner fought through the pain barrier just to finish Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix, where sixth place in suffocating conditions was enough to seal the runner-up spot in the 2008 MotoGP world championship with a round to spare. With some of the hottest, most humid conditions the MotoGP...
After a Chinese Grand Prix in which Felipe Massa had to be 'gifted' second place by team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in order to boost his ailing title chances, the Brazilian's race engineer Rob Smedley hinted that neither of Maranello's drivers may in fact be the quickest in Formula 1 - suggesting...
Nico Rosberg has acknowledged that in remaining at Williams he is risking his 'market value' in Formula 1 falling and his career losing momentum should the team endure another low-key season in 2009 - as he confesses the multiple former world champions have 'probably just done a bad job' this...
Fernando Alonso may continue to play down his chances of taking a third victory in a row in 2008 in the Chinese Grand Prix this weekend, but after qualifying fourth in Shanghai, just such a possibility cannot be altogether discounted. The Spaniard has been impressive from the 'off'...
NEWCASTLE'S Westgate Centre for Sport was again the venue for the annual Great Northern Open Judo Championships. Competitors from across the UK, teams from Italy, Ireland and individuals from several other European countries competed in the tournament, a joint collaboration between Washington Judo Club and the Juno Michi...
Articles 2008-10-15
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