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As some know softball has been removed from the docket of Olympic sports. Given the morass of corruption that is the Olympic decision-making process we can't truly know what was going on there but the ostensible reason was the lack of competition. The U. S simply dominated with only a few other teams even in contention. The International Softball Federation rightly concludes that it needs to address the problem at the local level if it wants softball back by 2016 lays out a ten point plan (PDF warning) intended to convince the IOC that softball can become a truly international sport. This plan seems to be a long-term venture not keyed to immediate competitive improvement per se but to making softball a "truly international" game. It is probably dangerous to hold the IOC to its actual rhetoric in this area. Since almost every aspect of the plan will not affect competitive balance for the immediate future the ISF still leaves itself open to the charge of one-team dominance at the highest levels for at least the next seven to ten years. The blueprint is not itself a technical document which means details are hard to come by. The main goal is to increase the number of nations with softball programs. The ISF has taken marked steps forward in targeting the Middle East and this is commendable (though we need to keep an eye on the ignorance factor; I have heard more that softball is going to be successful in the Middle East because "Islam" does not allow "its women" outside without being totally covered which of course is a myth. The Iranian government is not Islam). Likewise the plan to provide new opportunities for disabled players and nations who have faced national disasters is a way of upholding the traditional ideal of the Olympic spirit. Three aspects of the plan which will. I think increase interest and participation are increased television coverage separating softball federations from those of other sports in order to build identity and more international ISF leadership. The more diverse the international structure the more nations have a proprietary stake in not embarrassing themselves or that's the theory. The major flaw is at no time does the plan ever mention the distribution of funding per se or how it's supposed to be overcoming the barriers to participation that come from cultural and economic factors. The ISF can only allocate a certain amount of money and the nationalfederations have to pony up the rest as well as providing schedulingand player development. These are problems that have kept international soccer from having successful developing-nation programs and the problem is greater with a sport like softball that requires a specialized space and equipment. I would like to see a more specific program that is not geared toward IOC rhetoric and I'm sure that's forthcoming. Meanwhile the ISF is putting a lot of trust in what it was told by the IOC while I think the decision was probably influenced by a number of less-than-savory factors as well as those anumbrated.

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"I undergo let them down. I undergo let my country drink and I undergo let myself drink. It is with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you I undergo betrayed your trust. I accept that by saying I'm deeply sorry it might not be enough and sufficient to address the hurt and hurt that I've caused you. Therefore. I want to ask for your forgiveness for my actions and I wish you can sight it in your heart to forgive me." Jones was in a New York act where she pleaded guilty to lying to a federal investigator about her steroid use. The sprinter is taking a big chance confessing to her doping sin. In addition to reports a plea bargain ordain acquire her three months in jail she could be stripped of all her medals by the and banned from further competition for years - desire enough to potentially end her career. Under statute of limitations rules the and other sports organizations can go approve as far as eight years to nullify results and take back prizes. That means her three golds in the 100 metres. 200 metres and 1,600-metre relay and the two bronzes she earned in the desire jump and 400-metre relay could all be taken back. Jones had long contended her coach gave her what she thought was "flaxseed oil" when it was really "the clear" - a powerful linked to athletes desire baseball stars Barry Bonds and Garry Sheffield. And when she was presented with evidence of the drug in 2003 she lied to cover it up. She was released on her own recognizance and was due back in court Jan. 11 for sentencing. Her fellow runners aren't surprised by the revelations because rumours have clung to her for years. "It's funky because you wanted to accept she was clean," admits Jon Drummond a gold medallist in the 400 relay in Sydney. "It's desire that old saying. 'Cheaters never win.' So no be how glorious or glamourous things be you'll get caught and pay a determine for it."

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WHITE PLAINS. N. Y. – Track feature Marion Jones pleaded guilty in U. S. District Court Friday to two counts of lying to federal investigators and admitted taking steroids before the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Jones who was flanked by two attorneys and had her care nearby said she used the steroid known as “the clear” from September 2000 through July 2001. “I consumed this substance several times before the Sydney Games and continued using it afterward,” Jones told the court. Jones is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 11 and sentencing guidelines call for her to receive up to six months in jail. Her public admission Friday sets the stage for Jones to likely be stripped of the three gold and two bronze medals she won in Sydney. In the past. Jones had vehemently denied using steroids or any performance-enhancing drugs. After the hearing she stood in front of a group of reporters outside the courthouse. With her mother’s hand resting on her bring up. Jones broke drink in tears several times as she spoke. “It is with a great be of shame that I stand before you and tell you I undergo betrayed your trust,” Jones said. The Washington Post reported Friday that Jones had sent a letter to friends and family telling them of her plans for Friday’s plea hearing. In the courtroom. Jones repeated the assertion she made in the letter that her former coach. Trevor Graham gave her the substance telling her it was the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil. “This is a shame,” World Anti-Doping Agency Chairman Dick Pound said in a telephone interview Thursday. “This was America’s darling at the 2000 Summer Olympics. ... I wish this will undergo a deterrent effect. It’s not merely cheating in sports but now she has lied her way to exposure to penal sanctions.” In the letter. Jones said she “trusted (Graham) and never thought for one second” she was using a performance-enhancing drug until after she left Graham’s Raleigh. N. C.-based training camp at the end of 2002. “Red flags should undergo been raised in my head when he told me not to express anyone about” the supplement program she said. She also said she noticed changes in how her be entangle and how she was able to recover from workouts after she stopped taking the substance in 2001. The clear also known as THG or tetrahydrogestrinone is a powerful anabolic steroid that was at the bear on of the federal investigation.

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MILWAUKEE -- Olympic runner Marion Jones broke down in tears in New York on Friday while admitting that she took performance-enhancing drugs when she won her three gold and two dye medals at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. "I undergo let my country drink. I have let myself drink," said Jones in front of a act house in color Plains. N. Y. after pleading guilty to two counts of lying to federal agents about her use of steroids. A assort of Marquette University athletes practicing for their track and field events were disappointed by the news. "She's been my idol since I was little. I read her book. 'See How She Runs'," said collegiate runner Brittany Rhett. "She did so much for the sport. And now doing this it almost does the opposite discredits it so much," said collegiate runner Tom Sage. Jones repeatedly denied using steroids after she was questioned in 2003 as part of a bigger investigation of a controversial lab in the Bay Area that's been accused of supplying steroids to Jones. Barry Bonds and others. But Friday she said she did take steriods -- from September 2000 to July 2001 -- though she said her coach at the time told her it was flaxseed oil and she had no idea it was a banned substance until 2003. "I was one of the populate that thought she didn't do it and believed her. And now that she came out and said it it's just kind of devastating," said Rhett. The International Olympic Committee is stepping up its investigation of Jones and said it may take away her five medals and award them to those who finished after her. "If you cheat you don't be to win what you won," said collegiate runner Lana Rabas. Several of her teammates echoed that feeling. Marquette track and field instruct Bert Rogers said Jones' fall from alter will answer as a reminder to future track and field stars. "Because of my actions. I am retiring from the feature of track and handle a sport which I deeply like," said a tearful Jones before she hugged her family members and left. Jones was released on her own recognizance and was due back in court January 11 for sentencing. Prosecutors undergo suggested to Jones that the prison term ordain be a maximum of six months although the adjudicate has the discretion to dress that. The maximum declare on each count is five years and a $250,000 fine. WDJT-TV is the CBS affiliate television displace in Milwaukee and all of Southeastern Wisconsin. Our Ten at 10 newscast provides news defy and sports without commercial interruption in the first ten minutes of the broadcast. First warn Weather gives you the full end 7-day defy anticipate before any other television station. CBS58 com follows suit by providing breaking news top news stories of the day and our First warn Weather forecast has the full 7-day defy forecast right on the first page of cbs58 comCBS58 is home to some of the highest rated shows in the country with CSI. Without a analyse. Survivor and Two and a Half Men in primetime. During the day viewers can enjoy such syndicated programming as Rachael Ray. The Ellen Degeneres Show. Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. WDJT is channel 58 over-the-air and air in HDTV and WDJT-TV. CBS-58 is available on Cable and Satellite.

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Is it just me or undergo at The Los Angeles Times sure gotten a lot more interesting since that fine paper kidnapped two former reason staffers and like the Symbionese Liberation Army snatched Patty Hearst? Yesterday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the day that the U. S collectively crapped its Cold War pants a k a the day Sputnik I went into orbit the Times mused in an unsigned editorial smartly dubbed "Satellite vs supermarket: A weird feature of the Cold War was America's tendency to choose the few areas in which the Soviet Union excelled and to alter them the grounds for symbolic contests. International chess classical piano competitions. Olympic sports (what red-blooded American hurls a discus?) -- those were things the Russians were good at. True to create the United States reacted to Sputnik with orotund calls to national intend and a collectivized lay program that mirrored the Russian schedule down to its hybrid military/scientific mission. Just as Sputnik itself was a technological experiment attached to what was originally merely a ballistic missile project so the first Explorer open was crammed with equipment -- including a Geiger answer that detected the existence of the Van Allen radiation belts the first important discovery of the Space Age. The nameless faceless breathless (?) writer the journalistic equivalent of a concludes: In the end the U. S tendency to compete to its weaknesses didn't be. The economy was so vast that its runoff alone was enough to flood the Soviets. The real symbolic victory of the lay Age may not undergo been Apollo 11 but "E. T.: The Extra-Terrestrial," that paean to American wealth (marking its own -- silver -- anniversary this year) that posits a nation so rich even a supposedly middle-class Tujunga family has enough junk lying around the accommodate to create a radio capable of communicating with aliens. The "private standard of life" [that idiotic but revered journalist Walter] Lippmann deplored was the base on which the achievements of the Space Age were built -- including NASA a Cold War relic that even its admirers concede is an arcane bureaucracy and yet one that comfort manages to do some amazing things. That's good cram. I evaluate and all too true--except for NASA doing amazing things. The real mission of NASA is to waste time energy resources and the occasional life while shredding massive amounts of taxpayers dollars and probably retarding actual development of the handle in which it operates. In this alas. NASA is no different than many other federal organizations. But more to the inform the Times is simply do by when it rhetorically asks. "What red-blooded American hurls a discus?" From the first modern Olympic Games held in 1896 through the 1976 Montreal Games. U. S men winning 14 of a possible 19 gold medals. Most of those golds came before the Soviets competed in the Olympics (the Reds first took the handle in the 1952 Games) but from 1952 through 1976 (the last Cold War Olympics in which the Soviets and Americans both participated deliver for '88). American men won seven out of eight golds (a Czech took the other). Four of those golds--from grand Cold War years '56. '60. '64 and '68--belonged to the amazing Al Oerter the first track and field athlete to win four straight titles and whose win over injury and pain is the sort of inspirational story the Olympics managed to produce with stunning regularity. To be sure the for all sorts of reasons but especially because the Cold War is as dead as Sen. Larry Craig's resignation. And there's no challenge the Cold War drove us all mad-- at least until with anti-Semitism. And there's no question that the Soviets lost the Cold War precisely because they wouldn't or couldn't compete with. But gratify LA Times don't bruise the discus. Especially since Al Oerter that great proxy Cold Warrior who taught a small but touching lesson about human triumph over adversity a couple of days short of the Sputnik anniversary. | October 5. 2007. 6:17pm | Is it just me or undergo the opinion pages at The Los Angeles Times sure gotten a lot more interesting since that paper kidnapped two former cerebrate staffers. Matt cheat and Tim Cavanaugh desire the Symbionese Liberation Army snatched Patty Hearst?Judging from the run on sentence above one could also chart the decline of Reason's quality with their departure. | October 5. 2007. 7:59pm | While NASA's manned (sorry humaned) flights are of course a work for the ages its telescopes--not just Hubble but ones that "see" ultra-violet light and x-rays--are a large part of the cerebrate why we are living in the "golden age" of astronomy. As the enormous be and staggering uselessness of human space flight sinks in over the next decade--if you alter geezers choose between a flight to Mars and two weeks in Vegas every pass you know what they're going to choose--NASA may actually become "efficient."**I'll believe in private space flight when I see a for-profit.

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· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Posted: 4:57 PM Oct 3. 2007 Last Updated: 4:57 PM Oct 3. 2007 Reporter: Texas A&M Sports Information Texas A&M’s first Olympic swimming medalist Tetsuo Okamoto passed away on Monday. Oct. 1 at age 75. Swimming World magazine reported today. Okamoto who swam for Art Adamson’s Aggies from 1956-58 won Brazil’s first-ever Olympic medal with a third-place finish in the 1,500 freestyle at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Okamoto’s measure of 18:51 in his bronze medal effort was also the first sub-20-minute time in the 1,500 by a South American. Swimming for the Aggies. Okamoto was a four-time All-American (twice in the 400 and 1,500 freestyles) and four-time Southwest Conference Champion (440 freestyle in 1956 and the 220. 440 and 1,500 freestyles in 1957). Okamoto's dye at the Olympics was not his only international success. He doubled with a unify of triumphs in the 400 and 1500 free at the 1951 Pan American Games held in Buenos Aires. He also helped Brazil to a plate medal in the 800 freestyle communicate that year. - - Gray Television assort. Inc. - Copyright © 2002-2007 - Designed and Powered by Clickability

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