Scottish sport is aiming for stars

The Scotsman;  March 26, 2003 ;     626 words ...SPORT'S potential for improving health and education, helping to...Executive yesterday at the launch of a new national strategy. 'Sport 21' has been devised jointly by sportscotland and the Executive and aims to make more sport more widely available to all as well as nurturing talent...

Commission set up to boost women's sport

Yorkshire Post;  July 23, 2008 ;     170 words ......today to address the current "crisis" in women's sport. Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Andy Burnham is due to unveil the Commission on the Future of Women's Sport, which has been set up to address the "inequalities...

Restrospection and ruminations on sport and physical education

Journal of Physical Education New Zealand;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......teachers in a contentious debate then suggest sport should be a part of the curriculum. Of...strong personal beliefs. Given the attention sport, in its broadest sense, receives from different...However irrespective of our personal view sport is currently a part of education. One role...

Motoring: Drive a red hot chilli or be the creature in the blue lagoon...

The Independent - London;  September 23, 2001 ;     696 words ......generation is now on the roads and the new T Sport is slick and attractive. Toyota has given...Celica 190, launched last October. The T Sport also has a rear spoiler to round off the...certainly worked well in the case of the T Sport. There are four colours to choose from...

The Interview Richard Caborn: Forget the in-fighting. Prescott's pal is...

The Independent - London;  November 25, 2001 ;     700+ words ......minister under siege. The relationship between sport and Westminster has never been worse. The...civil servants who supposedly look after sport's interests in Downing Street and further...leaders for the first time when he addresses sport's own parliament, representatives of the...

Boxing: ULTIMATE WARRIORS; BOXING MEETS WRESTLING IN THE SPORT WHICH IS...

Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  November 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Fighting Championships (UFC) have over taken every sport but the NFL. The sport has now gone global and - judging by viewing figures...bodies, UFC is the leading promotional outfit in the sport. That factor, as much as anything else, has helped...

Serving best 'Sport and the Community'

The Malay Mail;  April 19, 2006 ;     450 words ......theme for this year's IOC Trophy will be "Sport and the Community". Each year IOC presents...work being done to develop and promote sport within the community. "This award will...promoting and assisting the development of sport within the community and its commitment...

Sport is essential for pupils to have a healthy lifestyle; OPINION: Too...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  August 31, 2001 ;     552 words ...Byline: CHRIS WEBBER SPORT through appreciation and participation...and varied games programme is essential. Sport is for everyone so it should cater for...encourage performance, but participation in sport is uppermost, and therefore substantial...

AUSTRIA: 'SPORT: FUTURE' - POLITICAL LEADERS DISCUSS NEW PERSPECTIVES IN...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 5, 2007 ;     330 words ......following news release: The dialogue on the future of sport "SPORT:FUTURE" was launched on 29 October 2007 in the presence...Federal Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, Secretary of State for Sport Reinhold Lopatka and President of the Federal Sports Organisation...

Golf: Striking a balance for modern golfer.(Sport)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  January 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ......with forging a bright new future for the sport of golf, he has to marry the demands of...has made it his business to ensure the sport is in its prime. And after being seconded...The initiative comes at a time when the sport appears to be booming on the surface, but...

With 2010 approaching, girls and women in sport need fair share of...

Cape Times (South Africa);  May 16, 2007 ;     596 words ......2010 Fifa World Cup, women involved in the organisation and development of sport are calling on those with power, such as MECs, the national minister of sport and various sport and recreation portfolio committees, not to neglect the participation of...

New body will ensure fair play and keep sport out of court

The Independent - London;  April 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ...British sport is to set up an independent arbitration panel to keep...some sports lawyers who said it was an attempt to put sport above the law. Edward Grayson, a barrister and author of Sport and the Law, said: "I regard it as insidious. The law...

Sports active: The British government say chess isn't a sport. 109 other...

The Independent on Sunday;  May 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ...How do you define a sport? According to the Collins Dictionary...these terms, there is, for a change, one "sport" in which Britain - and England in particular...the Continent gather in Turkey for the sport's European Individual Championship, Britain...

Suzuki Sidekick Sport Erases Memory of Samurai

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 9, 1995 ;     699 words ......outfit, making offbeat small cars and primitive sport; utility vehicles like the dreadful Samurai, which...formidable because of its presence in the hot compact sport; utility market. Suzuki's older sport; utilities are the Sidekick two-door soft top...

Watson takes sport into Cabinet

The Sunday Herald;  December 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Alan Campbell finds the new minister for sport has been given a generally cautious welcome...s new Minster for Tourism, Culture and Sport, wasted no time in getting off the mark...cautious welcome. For a start, it presents sport with a direct seat in the Cabinet for the...