Soccer

A high level of soccer will be on display for the first time in northwest Ohio when a men's amateur team kicks off its inaugural season on Saturday. The Pacesetter Super 20 team, a club consisting primarily of the area's top local college...

McClatchy-Tribune Informa, 7:18am ET

Kenyan Refs to Officiate Liberia Versus Senegal Qualifier in Monrovia

Kenyan referees led by Davies Omweno have been picked by world football governing body, Fifa to officiate next month's 2014 World Cup qualification match between Liberia and Senegal in Monrovia. Omweno will be assisted in the Group 'F'...

All Africa Global Media, 2:38am ET

Colony survives, Dimond thrives at boys soccer championships

For five straight seasons the Juneau boys have ended Colony's bid for a state soccer title, but in Thursday's first round of the state high school tournament the Knights finally got the better of the Crimson Bears with a 2-1 overtime victory at...

McClatchy-Tribune Informa, 7:13am ET

Dimond withstands scare from South; Service romps in girls soccer

For more than a half Thursday, the undefeated Dimond girls tested and probed, searching for some way to penetrate a reinforced South defense that had not broken and had barely even bent. All it got the Lynx was a one-goal deficit....

McClatchy-Tribune Informa, 7:13am ET

The Beat Is Here Video Unleashed

MABEL Zulu, a Livingstone-based singer, has released a video on the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) general assembly theme song - The Beat is Here. The video has so far received accolades from many Livingstone residents....

All Africa Global Media, 7:08am ET

CNW Daybook for Friday, May 24, 2013

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CNW Group, 7:03am ET

Level 3 selected by FOX Networks to broadcast the UEFA Champions League soccer final in US

Provider of communication services Level 3 Communications Inc (Nasdaq:LVLT) on Thursday announced that it is providing video broadcast services to enable the FOX Network to deliver the live feed of the Union of European Football Associations'...

M2, 6:53am ET

High-school tennis: Foreign-born players fill rosters

Pepper Pike Orange junior Max Kan lost just five games in four matches on his way to the Division II singles championship last year. Even competitors such as Columbus Academy coach Jeff Warstler took notice of the performance....

McClatchy-Tribune Informa, 6:28am ET

Media Advisory - TO2015 and Partners Celebrate Progress at Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium

The TORONTO 2015 Pan American/Parapan American Games Organizing Committee (TO2015) and its government partners will discuss progress made to date on the brand new Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium on Friday, May 24. To celebrate the new...

CNW Group, 6:08am ET

Boost Fellowship Hosts Fund-Raising Dinner

A NON-PROFIT making business focused organisation, Building Opportunities on Student Talent (Boost) in partnership with Enactus will early next month host a fund-raising dinner during which it will also honour KPMG Zimbabwe with the Global...

All Africa Global Media, 5:58am ET

Modesto student with learning disability embraced by fellow youngsters

Brock Blakeley struggles with schoolwork, but making friends comes easy -- especially when kids such as fifth-grader Andres Guerrero take the first step. At Freedom Elementary in north Modesto, Andres and a groups of schoolmates have made...

McClatchy-Tribune Informa, 5:38am ET

St. Joseph salutatorian focuses on future

Annie Gilliam is a prime example of an all-American girl. She's a well-rounded fusion of feminine and tomboy. She wears her long, blond hair straight; some days using her aviator sunglasses as a headband. A longtime community...

McClatchy-Tribune Informa, 5:38am ET

Tearful testimony at killer's sentencing hearing

Maria Rodriguez wept in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. Nearly seven years after her boyfriend was gunned down by two men carrying AK-47s, Rodriguez tearfully recounted Thursday how she later broke the news to their young daughter that...

McClatchy-Tribune Informa, 4:58am ET

Time to Fight Against Doping in Sports

MOST serious athletes will tell you that the competitive drive to win can be fierce. Besides the satisfaction of personal accomplishment, athletes often pursue dreams of winning a medal for their country or securing a spot on a professional team....

All Africa Global Media, 3:43am ET

EDITORIAL: Hospitality taxes provoke wasteful, wishful spending by Columbia, Richland County Editorial: Hospitality taxes provoke wasteful, wishful spending by Columbia, Richland County

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- WHEN COLUMBIA and Richland County first adopted the 2 percent tax on prepared food, we warned that it could one day lead to unprecedented wasteful and wishful spending. If the city and county hadn't reached that point...

McClatchy-Tribune Informa, 3:43am ET