The International Amateur Boxing Association voted yesterday in favor of including Women's Boxing in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Boxing is the only sport out of the 26 summer sports that does not include female athlete's. AIBA president Ching-Kuo Wu said...
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The Vancouver Sun published a set of predictions this year and they included the words of Andrew Keen, notorious skeptic of the amateur. When he's not drumming up controversy to peddle his book about the...
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Don Sanderson, a 21 defenceman for the Whitney Dunlops has died in hospital after sustaining a head injury during a hockey fight on December 14. He had been playing in the Ontario Hockey...
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Going to UK as a footballers is a dream of many young Nigerian, and woulld be an attractive way to escape poverty. But the bad guys were taking advantage for this kind situation. " An undercover BBC...
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Well four years is a long time but I saw a TV programme that suggested Da Vinci himself took even longer to get that smile right... perhaps decades!" Madcap artist John Williams has finished his painting of the...
A man from Illinois, Steve Kreuscher, wants a judge to allow him to legally change his name to 'In God We Trust'."Kreuscher (CROY'-shir) says the new name would symbolize the help God gave him through tough...
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"Microsoft has launched a community driven service that will let amateur creators build and distribute games.At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco,Microsoft’s Chris Satchell, said that it will allow ten million people to play games creater by amateur...
"A group of amateur film-makers believe they may have proof that ghosts really do exist after one of them caught something strange on camera.
George Gunn said he captured pictures of a ghostly apparition while out walking along a footpath in Outwood, near Wakefield, West...
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"Jérôme Kerviel is finding it difficult to deal with his new-found fame. In the space of 24 hours, the Breton-born amateur yachtsman, judo expert and dog lover has become one of most talked-about Frenchmen in history."
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"One of the 20th century’s most abiding mysteries could soon be solved when British scientists carry out DNA tests on recently discovered bone fragments said to belong to the two missing children of Tsar Nicholas II.Russian forensic experts have been examining the remains,...
Call it the mainstreaming (MSMing?) of dear old 'citizen journalism', but it seems that it is the Main Stream Media who are finally beginning to realize that having access to better technological tools to report...
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You can practically hear these MSM guys quaking with fear and anger-- and not just at the prospect of having to deal with 'citizen journalists', but at even having to accept their very existence. But as Faye...
The $US2.5 billion that
Japanese individuals lost last month was just a minuscule fraction
of the nation's overall household savings, say some analysts."It's comparable to what Japan spends in two weeks on...
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"HAVANA - Cuba won’t send a boxing team to the world championships in Chicago, heeding Fidel Castro’s fears about future defections after two fighters abandoned their teammates during the Pan American...
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