| Fleming College abounds in athletics | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:10:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sir Sandford Fleming College athletic director Fred Batley has every reason to be smiling these days. Not only does the college have new state of the art athletic facilities in the Sport and Wellness Centre, but student participation in sports is also burgeoning. “For a small to medium college, we are doing very well," Batley says. “We are ranked seventh out of 30 colleges and the top six are all much larger schools. This is incredible because we have only recently had access to a gym of our own. As well as the new sports facility at the Peterborough campus, the Lindsay campus field house is now a permanent structure."Fleming College has men's and ladies' varsity teams in a myriad of different sports, including basketball, curling, volleyball, skiing, snow-boarding, cross-country running, outdoor soccer and golf.... | |
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| | | Rick Wolff: Travel Teams Can Be Dangerous Area | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 1:12:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Travel teams are in the process of changing the entire landscape of youth sports in this country. It's not for the better. Parents have to be aware that anybody can start a travel team. That's important because unlike having a team within a youth organization where there is structure, rules and policies, a travel team can set up its own priorities. There are no rules, no licenses, no background checks. .... | |
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| | | College sports in future for seniors | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:09:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | ALEXANDRIA - Nathan Mutsch thought he had a chance to play baseball in college when he was on the high school team in eighth grade. Not only is he playing in college, but the Bishop Brossart senior is going Division I after signing with Xavier University Wednesday, Nov. 8. He will be the fourth Mustang baseball player to sign in college in the past six years, and the second to go Division I. .... | |
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| | | College sports in brief | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:51:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Damin Altizer, a 5-foot-11 guard from Bath County High School, has been added to the Virginia men's basketball team following walk-on tryouts. Altizer was a three-time All-Pioneer District selection at Bath County, where his teammates included John Phillips, a tight end on the UVa football team. UVa coach Dave Leitao also announced the selection of 6-5 Bob McCormick, a conference player of the year in Chicago, and 6-3 David Noel from Houston. Noel is a freshman and the other two are sophomores. W&L volleyball team reaches Sweet 16 HOBOKEN, N.J. -- The fifth-seeded Washington and Lee volleyball team reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division III Volleyball Championship for the first time with a 25-30, 30-28, 30-19, 29-31, 15-13 victory over top-seeded New York University.... | |
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| | | College sports' fuzzy math | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:38:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | You don't need an 800 score on your math SAT to know that college sports is big business. But just how big a business might still surprise you. The National Collegiate Athletics Association estimates that all college sports teams generated $4.2 billion from its fans and various partners, such as broadcasters and sponsors. .... | |
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| | | XOS Technologies and Digital Orchid Help College Sports Fans 'Go Mobile' With New Cell Phone Features of Their Favorite | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:10:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | Just in time for the start of basketball season and as football season begins to heat up, Digital Orchid and XOS Technologies, Inc. today announced the availability of exclusive wireless collegiate sports content for mobile phones. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20061107/LATU063LOGO ) Since the initial partnership between the two companies was announced in July 2006, XOS and Digital Orchid have worked in concert to provide exclusive content for fans of more than 150 top sports programs at universities nationwide. College sports fans can now download exclusive mobile content to their cell phones including wallpapers, ringtones, video and other unique mobile features. Wallpaper downloads currently available include a variety of team logos, school mascots and player, team and coach photos.... | |
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| | | Sweet perks attract big gifts to college sports | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 3:41:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | Two weeks ago, Tom and Joan Skoro joined more than 140 other Oregon State football fans on a trip to Tucson. They flew by charter, enjoyed a barbecue reception with athletic director Bob De Carolis and cheered the Beavers to victory over Arizona -- all compliments of OSU athletics. The trip was a thank-you to the donors on board, all of whom gave at least $8,000 to the OSU athletic department this year. "These little perks, it's like a Christmas present," Joan Skoro said. Flying to a road game or dining with the football coach used to be intimate, invitation-only affairs reserved for a handful of high rollers. But as college athletic departments seek ever-larger annual donations to cover escalating costs, they are sweetening and standardizing their perks.... | |
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| | | Top 10: Most affordable college football towns | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:27:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | Tulsa, Oklahoma is the most affordable, big-time college sports town in the United States, according to an annual survey released Tuesday by Coldwell Banker. The Coldwell Banker College Home Price Comparison Index looks at the home towns of 119 Division 1-A college football programs to see how much the same type of house costs in each market. The benchmark: a 2,200-square foot single family house with four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, family room and two-car garage in a middle-management type neighborhood. (See top 25 tables below.) Jim Gillespie, Coldwell Banker's CEO, who dreamed up the index, points out that college towns can be good places to live. "They're more affordable than many major markets," he says. "College towns have so much to offer residents, such as employment, continuing education, cultural opportunities and, of course, sports," Gillespie said in a release.... | |
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| | | College Volleyball: Saints drop 4-game match to Martin Luther | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 3:26:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Martin Luther took advantage of a slow start by the hosts and went on to an Upper Midwest Athletic Conference volleyball victory over Presentation College at the Strode Center Friday night. The visitors won by scores of 30-26, 30-20, 29-31, 30-28. The slow start was not typical of the way the Saints have played in the past, said PC coach Raftyn Birath. "It just wasn't how we normally come out," said Birath. "We had a lack of focus and the players weren't ready to play all the way around. When you get down early, it's tough to turn the switch on to get going. We played hard defensively, which is always expected." Birath said the Saints had to contend with two of the better players in the UMAC in hitters Rachel Meyer and Danielle Kramer, who combined for 37 kills for the visitors.... | |
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| | | GoTV Offers Verizon Subscribers Mobile Content | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:19:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | GoTV Networks Inc. has signed a deal with Verizon Wireless to provide mobile sports content on cellular phones, according to an executive. David Bluhm, CEO for the mobile television network, said in an interview that GoTV will support Verizon Wireless subscribers with sports shows for cellular phones. Content includes fantasy sports that allow fans to track teams, player statistics and scores. "We'll produce most of the content for Verizon's VCAST Sports," he said. GoTV produces the majority of content it broadcasts at its studios in Sherman Oaks, Calif., including The Front Page, Today in College Sports, Sporting News and College Game Recaps and VCAST Sports Trivia. "Some of the more popular content we develop includes comedy, sports, and music news like undiscovered artists and special interviews," Bluhm said.... | |
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