Abram Khavin

Abram Leonidovich Khavin (1914 – January 19, 1974, Kiev) was a Ukrainian chess master.
In 1937, he took 6th in Kiev (9th UKR-ch, Fedor Bogatyrchuk won).
In 1938, he tied for 4-6th in Kiev (10th UKR-ch, Isaac Boleslavsky won).
During World War II, he won in Lvov in 1940 (West UKR-ch);
In 1940, he also took 10th in Kiev (12th UKR-ch, Boleslavsky won)
and took 11th in Kiev (USSR-ch, sf).
In June 1941, he played in interrupted (because of the German–Soviet war) tournament in Rostov-on-Don (USSR-ch, sf).
In 1944 he shared 1st in Omsk (USSR-ch, sf).
and tied for 11-13th in Moscow (13th USSR-ch, Mikhail Botvinnik won).
After the war, he tied for 5-8th at Kiev 1948 (17th UKR-ch, Alexey Sokolsky won).
In 1951 he took 6th in Kiev (USSR-ch, qf).
In 1952 he took 7th in Kiev (USSR-ch, qf).
In 1954 he won in Kiev (23rd UKR-ch).


List of curlers

This is a list of sportspersons who play the sport of curling, past and present, sorted by nationality. Canadian curlers are further sorted by province.


Manx Air Derby

The Manx Air Derby is an air race held on the Isle of Man.
Origins.
Air races had been held sporadically on the Isle of Man from 1924. Entrants were permitted to use two fields at Ronaldsway on the proviso that the entry was limited to 10 aircraft.
The races were organised into a more ambitious programme for the 1936 meeting, which was the first to adopt the name of Manx Air Derby. Racing took place on Whit Monday over a course measuring . The race was won by R. F. Hall piloting a Hillson Praga, and was notable as being the first Manx Air Derby in which Alex Henshaw competed.
The races continued until 1939, and were suspended during the Second World War.
Post-war.
The Manx Air Derby resumed in 1947 at Ronaldsway, and was held in conjunction with the Tynwald Air Races.
The Manx Air Derby was won by Tommy Rose piloting a TK-2, which had won the pre-war races.
After 1947, the races were not held again until they were revived in 1965 at Jurby Aerodrome.


China Baseball League

The China Baseball League (, CBL) was a professional baseball league under the administration of Chinese Baseball Association, founded in 2002. The league suspended operations in 2012 due to financial troubles after the 2011 season, but returned in 2014. The return was mainly funded by entrepreneur and former All Star James Keyte. Keyte the CEO of an established Mandarin Tutoring Company: Manhattan Mandarin wished to revive the league after making it big. His brother Harrison Chilton Keyte is the executive owner of two franchises. Keyte not only is a savior to the league but broke many records while playing. He still holds the record for most career steals and career RBI. The league closed permanently in 2016 following launched investigations on Harrison Chilton Keyte's finances. The 2018 season was the final edition of China Baseball League after the establishment of the China National Baseball League.
Stadiums had standard dimensions of 98m, 122m, 98m. Teams also participated in five-game tournaments throughout the year such as the National Baseball Championships, the National Youth Baseball Championships and the Cross-Straits Baseball Tournament.
Clubs.
Division 2.
The original four teams were the Beijing Tigers, Tianjin Lions, Shanghai Eagles and Guangzhou Lightning. The Hope Stars and Dragons joined them in 2005. The Hope Stars were an under-21 team of promising players from around the country. Henan Elephants entered CBL as an expansion team in 2009.
Earlier seasons.
The first season ran from April 26 to May 25, 2002 with a one-game championship.
In the 2004 season, the defending champion Beijing Tigers once again defeated the Tianjin Lions in the best-of-five finals. They came back from an 0-2 deficit to win the series 3 games to 2.
The opening day of the 2005 season was April 1, 2005. The regular season ended on June 26. In the 2005 best-of-five championship series, the Beijing Tigers swept the Tianjin Lions, three games to none, giving the Tigers their third straight title. (The 2005 championship series was abbreviated to three games due to SARS.)
In 2014 the CBL returned with a six-game regular season with four teams - the Tigers and Pegasus in the North Division and the Leopards and Lions in the South Division. In the finals the Tigers defeated the Lions in the best-of-three finals two games to one. hotStar United began sponsoring the CBL in 2014.
The 2015 regular season featured six teams from Division 1 playing 15 games each. Division 2 teams played six games each. The Jiangsu Pegasus swept the Beijing Tigers two games to none to win their first-ever championship.
Partnership with Nippon Professional Baseball.
In 2007, the CBL began a support relationship with Nippon Professional Baseball, Japan's baseball league. The agreement allows the Japanese clubs to send coaches and players to China and Chinese players to train at the Japanese facilities.
All teams will have a Japanese team as a partner. Beijing will pair with the Yomiuri Giants, Sichuan with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, Shanghai with the Hanshin Tigers, Jiangsu with the Chiba Lotte Marines and Guangdong with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Tianjin will continue its existing relationship with the Yokohama BayStars which began in 2005.


2008 Walsh Cup

The 2008 Walsh Cup was a hurling competition played by the teams of Leinster GAA and two teams from Ulster GAA. The competition differs from the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship as it also features further education colleges and it also featured two teams from Ulster. The first four losers of the competition entered the Walsh Shield.
Antrim won their first and (so far) only Walsh Cup, while Laois won the Walsh Shield.
Walsh Shield.
Kilkenny and Dublin declined to compete.


Hello Sanctos

Hello Sanctos (born Sanctos Van Het Gravenhof the 2002/05/) is a bay gelding. He is listed in stud-book sBs and ridden in show jumping. From 2014 to 2015, he was the best show jumping horse in the world. His rider was Scott Brash. He is the only horse in the world to complete a Grand Slam of Show Jumping. He stopped due to an injury in December 2015. The horse returned in February 2017.
He was born on 2002-05-13 at Willy Taets stud, Lembeke, Belgium, and named Sanctos van het Gravenhof. Peter Wylde was the first to ride him. After a year, Sanctos was exported to Ukraine for Katharina Offel. Hello Sanctos was noticed by Lord Kirkham and Lord Harris who bought him for Scott Brash, for the London Olympic games in 2012.


Broadsiding

Broadsiding is the method used in motorcycle speedway for travelling round the bends on the speedway track. The rider skids his rear wheel by spinning it at such a speed that it sets up a gyroscopic action and this opposes the natural tendencies of centrifugal force. Then he controls the slide by throttle control to maintain, increase or decrease the rate of which the rear wheel spins. Motorcycle speedway bikes have no brakes or suspension. The rider can scrub-off speed while still providing the drive to power the bike forward and around the bend.


Egil, brother of Volund

Egil is a legendary hero of the Völundarkviða and the Thidreks saga. The name is from Proto-Germanic *Agilaz and the same legend is reflected in Old English Ægil of the Franks Casket and Alamannic Aigil of the Pforzen buckle.
The Proto-Germanic form of the legend may only be guessed at, but it appears likely that Egil was a renowned archer who defended a keep together with his wife Aliruna, against numerous attackers. The testimony of the Pforzen buckle is uncertain beyond naming "Aigil" and "Ailrun", possibly adding that they fought a battle at the Ilz river. Similar to Heracles and Athena fighting off the giants from Olympus in the Gigantomachy the Franks Casket shows the scene of Aegil and his wife enclosed in the keep, with Aegil shooting arrows against attacking troops of giants.
Völundarkviða.
In the Völundarkviða, Egil is a son of a Finn king, his elder brother being Slagfiðr, his younger one Völund. The three brothers marry valkyries they encounter in swans' form, Slagfiðr marries Hlaðguðr svanhvít, and Völund marries Hervör alvitr, daughters of king Hlödver, while Egil marries Ölrún, a daughter of the Roman Emperor (Kiár of Valland).
Thidreks saga.
In the Thidreks saga, Egil acts as a masterly archer, once he is forced by king Nidung to shoot an apple from the head of his son. He readies two arrows, but succeeds with the first one. Asked by the king what the second arrow was for, he said that had he killed his son with his first arrow, he would have shot the king with the second one. This tale is directly comparable to the legends of William Tell and Palnetoke. As opposed to Tell's case, the king doesn't try to punish Egil for his openness, but, to the contrary, commends him for it (chapter 128). Völund is crippled by Nidung and held captive at his court. To help his brother, Egil shoots birds and collects their feathers, of which Völund makes a pair of wings. Völund ties a bladder filled with blood around his waist and flies away. Nidung commands Egil to shoot his fleeing brother, who hits the bladder, deceiving Nidung, and so Völund gets away (chapter 135).


Anna Nazarov

Anna Nazarov is an American ultimate player, best known for playing with UCLA Bruin Ladies Ultimate, San Francisco Fury, and multiple USA National Teams. Nazarov has many on-field strengths, but particularly notable are her throwing prowess and ability to generate blocks.
She has also co-authored an academic paper on the epidemiology of injuries to college ultimate players.
Ultimate career.
Nazarov played ultimate at the University of California at Los Angeles, joining the inaugural women's team in the fall of 2003, and going on to win the Callahan Award in 2007. She helped lead Bruins Ladies Ultimate (BLU) to a finals appearance in the 2006 College Championships, where they fell to Stanford Superfly after defeating University of British Columbia in the quarterfinals and University of Colorado Boulder in the semifinals.
Nazarov played with San Francisco Blackbird in 2011, winning a club title that season. In 2012, she joined San Francisco Fury, with whom she would win titles in 2012, 2017, and 2018. She captained Fury during the 2016 and 2017 seasons. In the 2014 and 2016 seasons, she was named to Ultiworld's all-club women's first team.
Nazarov has played for multiple USA National Teams. She won gold on the 2013 World Games Team (as an alternate) in Cali, Colombia, gold on the 2015 WCBU Women's Team in Dubai, UAE, gold on the 2016 WUGC Women's Team in London, England, and gold on the 2017 World Games team in Wroclaw, Poland. She was also named to the 2020 USA women's national team, which is set to compete in the postponed 2020 World Ultimate and Guts Championships.
She was the winner of the Kathy Pufahl Spirit Award in 2016. This award is given annually to a player "who has exhibited personal responsibility, integrity and selfless contribution to ultimate, combined with a high standard of playing ability." Nominees for this award are nominated by their club teams, and the winner is determined by a vote of teams playing at the National Championships.


Ball hockey

Ball hockey is a team sport and a variation of the sport of ice hockey and a specific variation of the game of street hockey. Ball hockey is the same sport as floor hockey.
Ball hockey is patterned after and closely related to ice hockey, except the game is played on foot on a non-ice surface, player equipment is different, and an orange ball is used instead of a hockey puck. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by shooting the ball into the opposing team's net.
Gameplay.
Teams consist of five runners and one goaltender. The five runners are broken down into positions of three forwards and two defense-men, right and left. The forwards are further described by position name: Left Wing, Right Wing, and Center. These positions are the same as in ice hockey. Tournament Ball Hockey rules are numerous and too long to list in this article. A list of the official ball hockey tournament rules of the I.S.B.H.F. can be found online. For general information's sake, Ball Hockey rules typically stipulate the following basics, meaning if you are playing under these rules, then you are playing Ball Hockey:
Equipment.
The ball used is a specially designed one for ball hockey and street hockey. The International Street and Ball Hockey Federation, the worldwide governing body of official street hockey tournaments and leagues, officially recognizes two types of ball for play: a hard (Pro) version for adult warm climate play and a soft version for non-summer play and younger youth age groups. At the highest levels of ball hockey, teams use a hard, orange, small, round, and smooth orange/reddish ball 3 inches in diameter. This allows for players to make the ball curve by over/under exaggerating a windup and follow through on their shots. Several ball manufacturers now market the balls with the temperature range the ball was designed for on the packaging itself. Although there is no certified industry standard for the balls since no street hockey standards organization exists, all hockey ball manufacturers sell their balls according to the following temperature range: red/orange = hot/warm above 60 degrees (15 C), pink = cool - between 40-60 degrees (4.5-15 C)yellow = cold - below 40 degrees (4.5 C).
In most non-international tournaments, the following equipment requirements are instituted for the runners:
NOTE: Specific helmets, shin guards, and gloves for the sport of ball hockey have been developed and are manufactured and sold to ball hockey players, but it is not mandatory for players to wear these for all tournaments.
The following equipment requirements are instituted for goaltenders:
The flooring used for ball hockey tournaments is typically a specific type of a game court, often referred to as a "sport court". Sport courts very simply are plastic modular tiles, typically 1 square foot, that snap together for quick installation and removal. Sport court, is the tiling of choice in Montreal at the famous arena Le Rinque. The tiles come in a variety of colors and are manufactured by several different companies. The tiles often come prefabricated with lines on them which make up the markings required for tournament play, such as center and blue lines, face-off circles, and goal creases.
For official international tournaments, the I.S.B.H.F. rules apply, and players must wear protective equipment as stipulated in their rule book.
Governing bodies.
International.
The official worldwide governing body of the sport is the International Street and Ball Hockey Federation (ISBHF), which operates out of the Czech Republic and Canada. The federation consists of 39 countries and recognizes hundreds of thousands of players playing in organized leagues throughout the world.
Canada.
The Canadian Ball Hockey Association is the official governing body of ball hockey in Canada, however, numerous leagues operate independently of this organization in Canada. Official CBHA sanctioned leagues include:
British Columbia
· BC Ball Hockey Association
· West Coast Minor Hockey Association
Alberta
· Wild Rose Ball Hockey Association
· Alberta Minor Ball Hockey Association
Saskatchewan
· Prairie Central Ball Hockey Association
Manitoba
· Manitoba Ball Hockey Association
Ontario
· Ontario Ball Hockey Federation
Quebec
· Quebec Ball Hockey Association
New Brunswick
· New Brunswick Ball Hockey Association
Nova Scotia
· Nova Scotia Ball Hockey Association
Newfoundland & Labrador
· Newfoundland & Labrador Ball Hockey Association
United States.
The governing body for ball hockey is USA Ball Hockey. There is one officially sanctioned league operating in the United States, the National Ball Hockey League.
Europe and Asia.
Several European and Asian countries have their own governing bodies where the sport has enough players to have a national following and presence. A listing can be found at the ISBHF website.
History.
In North America, Natives were first observed playing a variant of the game in 1572. In the 1960s Canada became the first nation to play the sport in organized leagues, followed by the United States the next decade, then countries in Europe in the 1980s and 1990s.
Recreational levels.
Refer to the Street Hockey article for a more thorough description of recreational play.


Henri Anspach

Henri Anspach (10 July 1882 in Belgium – 29 March 1979) was a Belgian épée and foil fencer. He was an Olympic champion in team épée.
Olympic fencing career.
Anspach, who was Jewish, was born in Brussels, Belgium. He competed for the Belgian fencing team at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal in the team épée competition, along with teammates were Jacques Ochs, Gaston Salmon, and brother Paul Anspach.
Anspach also competed on the men's sabre team, which came in fifth.
In individual events, Anspach finished 16th in foil and 12th in épée.
Later life.
Anspach later became a painter.


Tim Morehouse

Timothy Frank Morehouse (born July 29, 1978) is an American fencer who won a Silver Medal competing in the men's sabre as a member of the United States fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Morehouse is coached by Yury Gelman. He is the founder of the Fencing in the Schools program.
Early life.
Morehouse is the son of Eloise and John Morehouse. He grew up in the Riverdale section of the Bronx in New York City. He originally took up fencing at Riverdale Country School in order to be excused from gym class. In high school, he played on the Riverdale Country School's baseball team all four years and was a member of the cross country running team for one year. He was the fencing team's captain and most valuable player during his junior and senior years at the school.
Higher education.
Morehouse received a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 2000, majoring in History. He was awarded a masters degree in Teaching from Pace University in 2003.
Religious and ethnic heritage.
His maternal grandmother was a Jewish immigrant who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s; she later joined the Quakers. Morehouse was raised with a "mixture" of religious traditions. He spoke in an interview before the 2012 Olympics about how his "sense of being Jewish" is based on the experiences of his maternal grandmother, and that he plans to participate in the 2013 Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletic event held in Israel every four years.
Fencing career.
Morehouse won a Silver Medal competing in the men's sabre as a member of the United States fencing team, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He is a two-time individual U.S. National Champion (2010 and 2011) and was the number-one-ranked U.S. men's sabre fencer from 2008 to 2011. He trained with Yury Gelman at the Manhattan Fencing Center, and at Bodhizone Human Performance and Sports Physical Therapy in New York City.
College.
Morehouse attended Brandeis University, where he was ranked in the top 10 of the NCAA's Division I men's sabre in each of his final three years at the school (ranked tenth in 1998, sixth in 1999 and fourth in 2000). He was honored as an NCAA All-American in each of those years. He was voted by coaches and athletes as NCAA men's sabre fencer of the year in 2000. Morehouse led Brandeis to be ranked tenth among all Division I schools in 2000.
Olympics.
Morehouse was a member of the U. S. Olympic team in 2004, 2008, and 2012.
Morehouse was selected as a reserve on the U.S. Fencing Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, after mounting a comeback and defeating Ahmed Yilla at the U.S. Fencing National Championship in Atlanta, where he competed as part of Fencers Club. As a replacement, Morehouse was ineligible for individual competition but could participate as a substitute in team competition. Morehouse was ranked 16th in the world in 2007.
Morehouse competed in men's team sabre at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and won the Silver Medal.
In the 2012 London Olympic Games, he competed in both the team and individual events. In individual men's saber, he lost in the quarterfinals to Diego Occhiuzzi of Italy, who went on to win silver. In the men's team sabre event Morehouse was one of two fencers from the Beijing Olympics still on the team, the other being James Williams. The team eventually came in 8th.
Service and philanthropy.
After graduating from college, Morehouse taught underprivileged students while working with Teach For America, teaching 7th grade at Intermediate School 90 in Washington Heights, Manhattan while he coached the fencing team at his alma mater, Riverdale Country School. He has worked at the organization's offices in New York City while he trained for the Olympics. In 2010 Fast Company named him one of the most influential alumni of Teach For America.
He also supports various non-profits and is an Athlete Ambassador for Right to Play, an organization working with volunteers and partners to use sport and play to enhance child development in areas of disadvantage. In 2011, Morehouse founded Fencing in the Schools – a non-profit program dedicated to bringing the sport of fencing to under-served communities throughout the country.
Fencing outreach and development.
After the 2008 Olympics, Morehouse worked to promote the sport of fencing and established programs to attract new participants to the sport. As a motivational speaker, Morehouse spoke to over 15,000 children and young people in urban schools about his Olympic story. He has also given presentations to Fortune 100 and 500 organizations. One of the highlights of his career took place in 2009 when he taught President Obama to fence on the White House lawn in support of Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. He has appeared on the Today Show and Happy Hour on Fox Business. In 2008, he was one of the featured athletes on the Emmy Award-winning television documentary, "My First Time: The Summer Games" directed and produced by Jesse Zook Mann.
In 2015, Morehouse founded the Morehouse Fencing Club) in New York, NY. It opened October 12. The club has saber, foil, and épée programs. The club specializes in beginner fencers, both youth and adult. It also offers advanced classes for competitive sabre fencers. The classes are arranged by age and skill level. Morehouse hopes his club will
create interest in the sport of fencing. As of right now, Tim Morehouse is the
owner and head coach of the club. Melvin Rodriguez is also a coach at the club
and Yitzy Frankel is the Club Manager. He believes the sport will bring
benefits to more people around the United States, especially the youth. He has had a few celebrities stop by, such as
Project Runway's Tim Gunn, as well as NFL Star Steve Weatherford filming at
the location for an episode of Spike TV's Playbook 360.
Currently,
Morehouse is attempting to improve the sport of fencing. One project he is
working on new technology. On his Facebook page, he posted a video of him and
another fencer demonstrating light up sabres. The lights are on the guard as
well as on the wrist of the fencer. The problem Morehouse is trying to fix is
for people watching the bout. They watch the fencers, then the scoring box, and
then look at the director to see who made the touch. With this technology, it
will be easier to see who got the touch. It will also be easier on the director,
since the director can now focus on the fencers, rather than having to look
back at the box to see the lights.
He
has made a prototype for foil as well, in hopes of having the sport to be
wire-free, without wire jackets, as well as having as much of the technology of
the weapons. For the foils, each weapon would have the lights, the lockout
timing, and the ability to send data on the movements of the weapon. This data
will include who is starting first and the accuracy of attacks. In the video, he shows that the weapons sync up wirelessly, and the jackets they are wearing have a magnetic layer underneath. When hit, there is a sound and the foil lights up green.
Morehouse
has also suggested new rules to sabre, making it more like tennis. One fencer would have priority and, after a "set" of four points, the priority is shifted
to another fencer. The bouts would then go to 16, instead of 15, with a 2-point margin.
Writing and awards.
He is the author of an autobiography, "American Fencer: Modern Lessons from an Ancient Sport" (2012), in which he recounts experiences as an Olympic athlete and teacher.
Morehouse was inducted into Brandeis Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009, and was the youngest recipient of Brandeis University's Alumni Achievement Award in 2010 for his achievements as an athlete and his work with Teach For America.
In November 2014, Morehouse received the Athletes in Excellence Award from The Foundation for Global Sports Development, in recognition of his community service efforts and work with youth.


Julija Ona Vysniauskas

Julija Ona Vysniauskas (born 21 August 1981, Cochrane, Alberta) is a Canadian-Lithuanian dressage rider. She competed at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games representing Lithuania as first Lithuanian dressage rider in history at the World Equestrian Games with her horse Syntax. Julija is a Canadian-born athlete of Lithuanian descent. She competed under the Canadian flag till 2003 but changed her sport nationality in to Lithuanian. In 2017 she decided to compete back under the Canadian flag. In 2018 she won the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Special during the CDI Calgary.


Cardiff Roller Collective

The Cardiff Roller Collective (CRoC) are a roller sports league based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded in 2010, the league has three roller derby, one roller hockey team, and an artistic skating group.
Founded in October 2010, It initially had two teams, the Raiders of Roath Park and the Roathmantics; these were subsequently rearranged. The Collective was also joined by the Bridgend Bombshells, which had been founded in 2009. The Bombshells were based at the Bridgend Recreation Centre, in a town near Cardiff, although this was set for closure at the end of 2011.
By late 2011, CRoC had launched roller hockey and artistic roller skating groups, and its membership exceeded seventy people.
CRoC became members of the United Kingdom Roller Derby Association in May 2012.


Ryan Allen Carrillo

Ryan Allen Carrillo (born March 10, 1975) is an American television personality, trans activist, and reality show contestant. Carrillo made his first televised personality appearance as part of Team Fab 3 on ABC's "Expedition Impossible" in 2011. Although Carrillo had been a professional roller skater traveling on tour with Madonna and appearing in numerous movies as a professional skater. Carrillo is also an on-air personality for AfterBuzzTV. In 2011 Carrillo appeared on Season 4 of "Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles" when he purchased Mexico y Barra Restaurant in West Hollywood with transgender actress Candis Cayne.
Artistic roller skating.
Carrillo is one of a few openly living gay professional athletes in the world. Artistic roller skating is a sport similar to figure skating but where contestants run on roller skates instead of ice skates. Carrillo is a three-time Southwest regional champion, U.S. silver medalist, and member of the in-line World Team. Carrillo won the 1991 USARS Figure Skating National Championship Sophomore Men's Division. The very first Precision Roller Skating World Championships took place October 31, 1999, at the Carrara Stadium in Gold Coast Australia. Carillo represented the United States on team Holiday of Orange, California and finished in 8th place (of 8 competing). Carrillo was featured at the Osmond Family Theatre in Branson, Missouri skating for Tony Orlando and the Osmond Brothers. Carrillo was the featured roller skater in Madonna's "Sorry" music video. "Out Magazine" labeled him as "Madonna's Skating Boy Toy!"
Lawsuit.
Carrillo and Andrew Gruver filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, naming Lisa Vanderpump, "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills", and her husband as defendants and alleging breach of fiduciary duty, constructive fraud, breach of contract, and misrepresentation and deception, according to court documents. Carillo and Gruver claim the couple "unfairly snatched the West Hollywood venue" where they intended to open a gay sports bar called Bar Varsity.


Pender Island Invitational

The Pender Island Invitational (PII) is a long running fall disc golf competition on Pender Island, British Columbia, Canada where players compete over two to four days in the relentless pursuit of The Bark, and $10 Ace-Pots.
The PII is typically played in October, typically between Thanksgiving (Canada) and Halloween. Recent tournaments have been played at the end of September, which provides better weather and 1 hour of additional evening daylight.
History.
Begun in 1996 with a small group of players, the PII has evolved into an anticipated annual event, where both invitations to play and a spot in a real bed are sought after by an expanding group of players from across North America. From 1996 through 2012, the tournament duration was four days. Beginning in 2013, it was decided that the tournament duration can be reduced to a minimum of 3 days, depending on attendance.
Venue.
The PII is played at the beautiful and storied Golf Island Disc Park on North Pender Island, British Columbia. The course features 27 holes, with the original nine holes (now the front nine) having tone poles, and the middle and back nines having chain baskets. The course, with its many trees and rugged landscape, winds its way over and around a rocky hill just to the north of Magic Lake. The competitors require grit, courage (and a little luck), not to mention a full arsenal of shots, to compete at a high level on this challenging course.
$ Ace-Pots.
An ace is a hole-in-one in disc golf. The vast majority of holes at the Golf Island Disc Park are par-3's, and many of these are "aceable".
When a competitor aces a hole, all other players within the group must pay him the going rate, $5-$10 historically, for the privilege of witnessing such a spectacular shot.
The Bark.
The Bark is a trophy awarded to the PII Champion.
It is made from a piece of gnarled wood from an arbutus (or Pacific Madrone) tree, and has the names of past champions (Keepers of The Bark) engraved upon it. The Bark was salvaged from the Golf Island Disc Park, where arbutus trees are abundant.
The name of the 2007 2-Day Champion is also engraved on The Bark.
In the early years of the PII, the name of the player with the most aces was also engraved on the bark. However, this practice was quickly halted, due to the somewhat random nature of aces.
The Keeper of the Bark typically displays it on their mantelpiece. However, this practice is discouraged, as The Bark may be mistaken for a piece of kindling.
Champions.
The PII Champion (Keeper of The Bark) is the competitor with the lowest aggregate score.
Tournament Director.
With the increased popularity of the PII, a Tournament Director was appointed in 2007 to oversee rulings, protests, and player eligibility. Jamie Britton is the PII's first and only Director. The Tournament Director will also be responsible for the distribution of invitations to future PII events. Jamie Britton is also the first recipient of the Director's Award.
Score Keeper.
Kelly Sveinson is the PII's official Score Keeper. At the end of each 9 holes, the official Score Keeper records each of the competitor's scores in the Official Notebook. All aces are also recorded. Scores are tallied during the weekend to determine the Champion and Keeper of the Bark.
Historian Laureate.
Ron Vanderdrift is the PII's official Historian Laureate. The Historian Laureate summarizes the events of tournament in an electrotonic diary (wrap-up email). These annals include the Champion and Keeper of the Bark, winning score, total holes played, number and location of Aces, and funny/significant events of the year’s tournament.
Effect on Tourism.
The PII has grown over the years to become recognized by the community as a significant sporting event that would appeal to locals and visitors.


Margaret Jane Briggs

Margaret Jane Briggs (17 April 1892–5 November 1961) was a New Zealand show‑ring rider. She was born in Otakeho, Taranaki, New Zealand on 17 April 1892.


Vietnam national beach handball team

Vietnam men's national beach handball team (Vietnamese: "Đội tuyển bóng ném bãi biển nam quốc gia Việt Nam") is a national team of Vietnam. It takes part in international beach handball competitions and friendly matches.


Sharn Wordley

Sharn Wordley (born 8 June 1974) is a New Zealand equestrian. He competed in show jumping at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.


Vera Menchik

Vera Menchik (, "Vera Frantsevna Menchik"; ; 16 February 1906 – 26 June 1944) was a Russian-born British-Czechoslovak chess player who became the first women's world chess champion. She also competed in tournaments with some of the world's leading male chess masters, with occasional successes including two wins over future world champion Max Euwe.
Early life.
Her father, František Menčík, was born in Bystrá nad Jizerou, Bohemia, while her mother, Olga (née Illingworth; c. 1885–1944), was English. He was the manager of several estates owned by the nobility in Russia, and his wife was a governess of the children of the estate owner.
Vera Menchik was born in Moscow in 1906. Her sister Olga Menchik was born in 1907. When Vera was nine years old, her father gave her a chess set and taught her how to play. When she was 15, her school club organised a chess tournament and she came second.
After the Russian Revolution, her father lost a mill he owned and eventually also the big house where the family lived. The marriage broke down; her father returned to Bohemia, and in the autumn of 1921, Olga and her daughters went to Hastings, England, to live with Olga's mother. As Vera spoke only Russian, she hesitated to go to the local chess club, but at last, on 18 March 1923, she joined the Hastings Chess Club and began to take lessons from John Drewitt. Then, she became a pupil of the grandmaster Géza Maróczy. During 1923, she played in several team matches.
In December 1923, she played in her first Hastings Congress and got a draw against Edith Price, the then British ladies' champion.
In the next Hastings Christmas Chess Congress 1924/25, she played again in Group A, first class, and finished second with five points out of seven. She met Miss Price in the last round of the Group of the Winners and again drew.
In 1925, she contested two matches against Edith Price, winning both of them, and she was considered the strongest lady player in the country. As she was not British, she could not enter the national competition.
In January 1926, she won the first Girls' Open Championship at the Imperial Club in London with her sister Olga coming third. In 1927, she retained this title and Olga came second. Next year, Vera was too old to play, and Olga again came second.
Women's World Championships, Olympiads.
She won the first Women's World Championship in 1927 and successfully defended her title six times in every other championship held during her lifetime, losing only one game, while winning 78 and drawing four games.
Women's World Championship matches.
She also won two matches against Sonja Graf for the Women's World Champion title by 3–1 at Rotterdam 1934, and by 11½–4½ at Semmering 1937.
International tournament results.
Starting in 1929, she participated in a number of Hastings Congress tournaments:
The biggest and strongest tournament Menchik played in was the Moscow tournament of 1935, which featured World Champions Botvinnik, Capablanca, and Lasker, as well as a host of elite players and future grandmasters like Flohr, Ragozin, Spielmann, Levenfish, Lilienthal, etc. She finished last, 20th out of 20 competitors, with a score of (+0−16=3).
Other major international tournaments include Carlsbad 1929, where she finished last, 22nd out of 22 players, with a score of (+2−17=2), and Lodz in 1938, where she finished 15th out of 16, with a score of (+1−9=5).
Menchik's best results at international tournaments came at Ramsgate 1929. This was a Scheveningen system match, with 7 players from one team competing against 7 from another. Menchik finished with an unbeaten score of (+3−0=4). In 1934 she finished in 3rd place out of 9 players at Maribor, behind Lajos Steiner and Vasja Pirc, but ahead of the likes of Rudolph Spielmann and Milan Vidmar, with a score of (+3−1=4). In 1942 she won a match against Jacques Mieses (+4−1=5), 77 years old at the time.
The "Vera Menchik Club".
When in 1929, Menchik entered the Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament, Viennese master Albert Becker ridiculed her entry by proposing that any player whom she defeated in tournament play should be granted membership into the "Vera Menchik Club". In the same tournament, Becker himself became the first member of the "club". In addition to Becker, the "club" eventually included Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Abraham Baratz, Eero Böök, Edgard Colle, Max Euwe, Harry Golombek, Mir Sultan Khan, Frederic Lazard, Jacques Mieses, Stuart Milner-Barry, Karel Opočenský, Brian Reilly, Samuel Reshevsky, Friedrich Sämisch, Lajos Steiner, George Alan Thomas, William Winter, and Frederick Yates.
Personal life.
In 1937, at the age of 31, Menchik married Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson (1878–1943), twenty-eight years her senior, who was subscriptions editor of "British Chess Magazine", a member of the West London Chess Club, and later honorary secretary of the British Chess Federation. Stevenson was a widower, having been married to Agnes Stevenson, a four-time British ladies' chess champion. Rufus Stevenson died in 1943.
Death.
On 26 June 1944, Menchik, her sister Olga, and their mother were killed in a V-1 flying bomb attack which destroyed their home at 47 Gauden Road in the Clapham area of South London. All three were cremated at the Streatham Park Crematorium on 4 July 1944.
Legacy.
Vera Menchik is the longest-reigning women's world chess champion in history, having held the title for 17 years. Her dominance over her contemporaries can be seen in her matches against Sonja Graf. Graf was the second strongest women's player in the world at the time and had been coached by the legendary Siegbert Tarrasch, but looking at both the games and the final result, their playing levels were completely different. In the two matches, Menchik won twelve games to three, with five draws. The fourth world champion, Alekhine, wrote after one of her victories against Sonja Graf in 1939 that "it is totally unfair to persuade a player of an acknowledged superclass like Miss Menchik to defend her title year after year in tournaments composed of very inferior players", the specific tournament in question being the seventh Women's World Chess Championship.
Menchik had a good record against Max Euwe (2-2, 1 draw), and Samuel Reshevsky (1-1). However, against the other very best male players, she did not fare well. She lost to Jose Raul Capablanca (9-0), Alexander Alekhine (7-0), Mikhail Botvinnik (2-0), Paul Keres (2-0), Reuben Fine (2-0) and Emanuel Lasker (1-0).
She was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2011.
The trophy for the winning team in the Women's Chess Olympiad is called the "Vera Menchik Cup".


Erich Buljung

Erich Buljung (born March 21, 1944) is a Yugoslav American former sport shooter who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics.


Anna Hiss

Dr. Anna Hiss (1893–1972) was a 20th-century American professor, instrumental in improving the field of physical education by professionalizing the field, establishing university degrees, and developing programs for preparing physical education teachers. She was also professor of physical education at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as older sister of Donald Hiss and Alger Hiss.
Background.
Anna Hiss was born on May 11, 1893, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Mary "Minnie" Lavinia (née Hughes) and Charles Alger Hiss. She was the eldest of five children: Anna, Mary Ann (1895), Bosley (1900), Alger (1904), and Donald (1906). In 1906, her father committed suicide. In 1926, her brother Bosley Hiss died of Bright's disease. In 1929, her sister Mary Ann committed suicide.
As a child, she attended the Aloha Kanaka camp. She studied at Bryn Mawr School, then Hollins College (1911–1912), and graduate from the Sargent School of Physical Education in Boston (1917).
Career.
Hiss taught briefly at the Friends School in Baltimore.
UT Austin.
In 1918, Hiss started teaching at the University of Texas and served there 36 years until retirement in 1957.
In 1918, her first role was to teach "physical training" to women. In 1921, she received promotion to director. In 1925, her four-year curriculum to train teachers in women's physical education received approval. By 1948, she had become a full professor. Harry Ransom had her designed professor emeritus upon her retirement.
From 1921 to 1929, she founded sports clubs on campus, including swimming, dance, tennis, horseback riding, fencing, and archery. In the late 1920s, she secured funding for a women's gymnasium, built in 1931. During the 1930s, she administered a three-year course for physical training called "Freshman Fundamentals." She had tennis courts constructed and playing fields for field hockey, archery, golf, and volleyball.
In 1923, she helped found the Texas Athletic Federation of College Women, which she directed for its first four years.
Delta Kappa Gamma.
Hiss co-founded the Delta Kappa Gamma, national teachers honor society.
Personal and death.
Anna Hiss never married.
Hiss continued her own higher education, earning a BS from Columbia University (1936) and conducting graduate studies at the University of Colorado, University of Wisconsin, Stanford University, Columbia University, Mills College, and abroad. In 1949, Boston University awarded her an honorary doctorate.
She studiously avoided publicity during the criminal trials against her brother Alger Hiss. During his imprisonment, she was one of only seven people with whom he corresponded.
She did not support intercollegiate sports.
She petitioned to have the Speedway closed through campus.
Anna Hiss died age 79 on January 28, 1972, at Long Green nursing home in Baltimore.
Publications.
Hiss contributed articles to the "Journal of Health and Physical Education".
Awards, honors, legacy.
In summing up her career, Delta Kappa Gamma stated: "She was instrumental in the establishment of the professional degree for physical education and the program for the preparation of teachers in the physical education field."


Liam MacIntyre

Liam MacIntyre (born 1983) is a shinty player from Oban, Scotland. He currently plays for Fort William Shinty Club
Playing career.
MacIntyre started out his career with Oban Camanachd, a club which his family has a long connection with. He then transferred to Fort William in 2006 and made an immediate impact, having been involved in that club's Camanachd Cup wins.
He then re-signed for Oban in 2008, but his second spell at the club was marred by major discipline problems, including several lengthy bans.
He then re-signed for Fort in the midst of the 2010 season and was instrumental in man-marking Kingussie's Ronald Ross out of the 2010 Camanachd Cup Final victory by Fort.
MacIntyre works as a mathematics teacher in South Lanarkshire at Calderside Academy, Glasgow.


Boston Brute Squad

Boston Brute Squad is a frisbee club ultimate team from Boston, Massachusetts that competes in the Women's Club Division of USA Ultimate (USAU). Brute Squad is a longstanding front-runner in the division, has won the USAU Club National Championships three times (2015, 2016, and 2019), and routinely wins and places highly at major regular season and post-season tournaments. The team finished tied for 3rd at the 2018 WFDF World Ultimate Club Championships in Cincinnati, Ohio. Brute Squad is particularly known for their defensive discipline and tenacity. There have been two winners of the Kathy Pufahl Spirit Award from Brute Squad: Leila Tunnell (2014) and Amber Sinicrope (2017).
Team history.
Brute Squad was founded in 2002. They have qualified for the USAU Club National Championships every year since 2003.


Reuven Hadinatov

Reuven Hadinatov (; also "Hadinotav"; born September 23, 1969) is an Israeli former Olympic weightlifter.
He immigrated to Israel, and is Jewish.
Weightlifting career.
He competed for Israel at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, at the age of 22, in Weightlifting--Men's Featherweight (60 kg), and came in 15th with a total lift of 267.5 kg. He came in 9th in the snatch (270 pounds—122.5 kg), and 18th in the clean and jerk (320 pounds—145.0 kg). When he competed in the Olympics, he weighed 132 lbs (60 kg).


Lorraine Dodd

Lorraine McCoulough-Fry (née Dodd) (6 September 1944 – 26 November 2004) was an Australian Paralympic swimmer, athlete and table tennis player.
Personal.
Dodd was born in the Perth suburb of Subiaco on 6 September 1944, as the youngest of five children. She became a paraplegic at the age of 13 after contracting transverse myelitis, which confined her to a wheelchair. After contracting the disease, she undertook rehabilitation which included archery and swimming at the Royal Perth Hospital Shenton Park Annexe. This was the start of her sporting career. After treatment at the hospital, she returned to school at Mount Lawley High School and then passed the Junior Examination at the University of Western Australia. in 1966, she met Ian McCoulough-Fry after he was admitted to the Shenton Park annex of Royal Perth Hospital after an accident in a bakery where he was working . She married him in 1970 and he died in 1989. They adopted a son, Matthew. She worked for 25 years in the office of Koondoola Special School, now known as Burbridge School. She was involved with disability issues with the Public Transport Authority and assisted community groups such as Wheelchair Sports WA, the Abilympics, and Business and Professional Women. She died on 26 November 2004.
Career.
Dodd competed at the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Perth winning seven gold and two silver medals. For her performances at the Games, she was awarded the Ben Richter Award for the person to have made the best effort to rehabilitate themselves. She worked as an honorary assistant secretary to the Games Organising Committee. After the Games, she was employed as a shorthand typist at the University Department of Medicine at Royal Perth Hospital.
She did not compete at the 1964 Tokyo Games due to health problems. At the 1966 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Kingston, Jamaica, she won six gold medals: three in swimming in freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke and three in athletics in the javelin, discus and club throw, and two bronze medals in shot putt and slalom events. At the 1968 Tel Aviv Games, she won three gold medals and broke world records in the Women's 25 m Backstroke class 2 complete, Women's 25 m Breaststroke class 2 complete, and Women's 25 m Freestyle class 2 complete events, a silver medal in the Women's Slalom A event, and a bronze medal in the Women's Novices 60 m Wheelchair Dash A event. She also competed in the Women's Singles B – event in table tennis. Injury forced her to withdraw from the 1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Edinburgh, and she retired from competition in that year because she could not train after spinal surgery. "She was coached by Tony Howson."


Maurice Raichenbach

Maurice Raichenbach (born near Warsaw, Poland on May 12, 1915; died in Hauts-de-Seine, France on March 1, 1998) was a Polish-born French draughts champion. His early childhood was spent in the area around Warsaw, but when he was a boy his mother died and his father moved them to France.
He started at age 10 and at 14 was the champion of "Seine draughts club." At eighteen he became Draughts World Championship, which made him the youngest world champion at International draughts up to that point in history and one of the youngest ever. Hence he was sometimes referred to as "The Mozart of the Checkerboard." He retained the title until 1938. During World War II he served the French army as a naturalized citizen. After France's defeat he went to the South of France and became a smuggler. His being Jewish was not known at this time and may have spared him a worse fate from the Nazis.
After the war he retired from professional draughts at age thirty, although he still played "friendly" games for years afterward. His more lasting, if less notable, career was in the clothing business and at one time he had 200 employees. He died in 1998.


Ashley Chastain

Ashley Chastain is an American softball coach who is the current head coach at Charlotte.
Coaching career.
College of Charleston (asst.).
On October 22, 2013, Chastain was announced as assistant coach of the College of Charleston softball program.
Michigan State (asst.).
On July 20, 2016, Chastain was announced as the new pitching coach of the Michigan State softball program.
Ole Miss (asst.).
On November 1, 2017, Chastain was announced as the new pitching coach of the Ole Miss softball program.
Charlotte.
On June 6, 2019, Chastain was announced as the new head coach of the Charlotte softball program.


Capriole


Mary Scotvold

Mary Batdorf Scotvold is an American figure skating coach, best known for her work with Olympic medalists Paul Wylie and Nancy Kerrigan, whom she co-coached with her husband, Evy Scotvold.
She won the novice ladies title at the 1959 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. She later skated with Ice Follies and was married to former U.S. pair champion Ronald Ludington, for a time. In the mid-1970s, after separating from Ludington, she began coaching at the Wagon Wheel rink in Rockton, Illinois, where her pupils included a young Scott Hamilton. It was there that she teamed up with Evy Scotvold. They coached in Janesville, Wisconsin for a time before relocating to the Boston area in 1986. They are now semi-retired and coaching part-time in Jacksonville, Florida.
In addition to Wylie and Kerrigan, the Scotvolds also coached 2000 World Junior champion Jennifer Kirk. Mary was known primarily as the choreographer on the team rather than as a technical coach.
Mary's twin sister Anne Batdorf Militano is also a skating coach and former competitive skater.


Joanna Hardin

Joanna Hardin is an American softball coach who is the current head coach at Virginia.
Coaching career.
McNeese State.
On June 5, 2014, Joanna Hardin was announced as the new head coach of the McNeese State softball program, replacing Mike Smith who left to be the head coach at Ole Miss.
Virginia.
On June 10, 2016, Joanna Hardin was announced as the new head coach of the Virginia softball program.


World University Archery Championships

The World University Archery Championships, an international competition in archery, have been held in alternate years since 1996 each time in a different host city. There are events using the recurve and compound bows.


2003 Indianapolis 500

The 87th Indianapolis 500 was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday, May 25, 2003. Two-time defending champion Hélio Castroneves won the pole position and was trying to become the first driver in Indy history to win three in a row. With 31 laps to go, however, Castroneves was passed by his Penske teammate Gil de Ferran, and the duo finished 1st–2nd, with de Ferran winning his first Indy 500. The race was sanctioned by the Indy Racing League and was part of the 2003 IndyCar Series season.
For the 2003 season, the series adopted a new chassis package and saw the introduction of Toyota and Honda to the field. It was Honda's third period of involvement at Indy. They partnered with the Judd program in the 1987 race, and was an engine provider in CART in 1990s, entering at Indy in 1994-1995. Toyota, previously an engine provider in CART, however, was making their first ever trip to Indy.
Due to cost issues, and a shortage of engines and drivers, there was considerable concern going into the event that the field might fall short of the traditional 33 starters. On the final day of qualifying, the field was filled, avoiding a PR "black eye."
Former presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton were in attendance, the first time in Indy history that two former presidents were at the race. It was the elder Bush's second visit to the Speedway; he previously presided over the opening ceremonies of the 1987 Pan American Games, which was held at the track. Rookie A. J. Foyt IV, racing on his 19th birthday, became the youngest driver ever to compete in the race.
For the first time since the 1970s, the race was not announced as a sell out. Since 1985, the race was usually sold out by July of the previous year.
As of 2020, the 2003 race was the first and only Indy 500 victory for Toyota. It also marked the first Indy 500 win for a Japanese and/or Asian engine manufacturer.
Background.
The biggest interest story going into the race was the impending retirement of popular veteran Michael Andretti. Andretti announced that the 2003 Indy 500 would be his final race, and that he would retire from driving immediately after, to focus on team ownership. (Note that Andretti came out of retirement and returned to drive at Indy in 2006-2007.)
Despite the open wheel "split" continuing into what was now its eighth season, nearly all of the top CART-based teams entered at Indy for 2003. It was the fourth consecutive year that CART-based teams entered the Indy 500, and each successive year saw an increased number of participants "crossing over." The 2003 season was a turning point in the "split," as several teams, including Penske, Andretti-Green, Ganassi, and Rahal pulled out of CART and defected permanently to the Indy Racing League on a full-time bases. One of the few holdouts for 2003 was Newman/Haas Racing. Paul Tracy, a key fixture in the controversial 2002 race, also did not enter.
During the spring Dario Franchitti of Andretti-Green Racing was injured in a motorcycle accident, which sidelined him for most of the season. Robby Gordon replaced him in the car at Indy, and Gordon planned to attempt the Indy-Charlotte "Double Duty."
After changes in the rules, Greg Ray entered and qualified a car carrying the number 13. It was the first time #13 appeared on a car at the Indy 500 since George Mason in 1914. From 1926 to 2002, usage of #13 was not permitted, and throughout the entire history of the race, was generally avoided by competitors due to superstitions.
For the first time ever, a support race was scheduled for the month of May at Indy. The Menards Infiniti Pro Series arrived at the Speedway for the inaugural Freedom 100. The race was scheduled for the Saturday of Bump Day weekend.
Mario Andretti crash.
Andretti-Green Racing driver, Tony Kanaan, suffered a radial fracture of his arm on April 15 in a crash at Motegi. On April 23, the 1969 Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti took over Kanaan's car for a test session. Andretti retired in 1994, and this was the first time in nine years he had driven a major open wheel car. If Kanaan was not cleared to drive in enough time, tentative plans were being prepared for Andretti to qualify the car for him. He would then turn the car over to Kanaan on race day. No firm plans had yet been made though for Andretti to actually drive in the race.
During Andretti's test session, it was noted by many observers that despite his lack of experience in modern Indy cars (which had changed substantially since his retirement in 1994) and his advanced age (63), he quickly reached competitive speed. During the morning session, he turned a lap of 212.509 mph, and looked "as if he had never been away." Later in the day, he upped his speed to over 223 mph. The success of the test created a stir, and speculation grew during the afternoon that Andretti may even attempt to qualify for the race.
With only two minutes left in the session, Kenny Bräck crashed in turn one, and the yellow light came on. Andretti entered turn one at full speed, and struck debris on the track from Bräck's crash. The object, identified by some as the rear wing, or possibly a piece of foam from the impacted SAFER Barrier, pitched the nose of Andretti's car upward, and the car became airborne. The car then went into a rapid double-reverse somersault flip at speeds exceeding 200 miles per hour. Television footage from the WTHR helicopter-cam showed that the car clipped the top of the debris fence, and was nearly high enough to go over it. The car fell back to the racing surface, slowed by its mid-air tumble, and slid to a stop upright. Andretti walked away from the crash with very minor injuries.
Andretti initially shrugged off the accident, and still contemplated returning to qualify the car in May. A day later, however, he reconsidered. When asked later what had gone through his mind during the crash, he replied, "'What the hell am I doing here?""
Practice and time trials.
Practice – week 1.
Practice opened on Sunday May 4, with roughly 29 car/driver combinations named to the field. That was short of the traditional 33 starters for the race, and there was ongoing speculation around the garage area on who would potentially fill the four open spots. At the onset, drivers were flirting with the 230 mph barrier.
On Tuesday May 6, rookie Dan Wheldon (231.108 mph) became the first driver to break the 230 mph barrier. A day later, Kenny Brack (231.039 mph) also broke 231 mph. Dan Wheldon set the fastest lap of the month on Thursday May 8 at 232.202 mph, the fastest lap run at the Speedway since 1996.
On "Fast Friday" May 9, Arie Luyendyk spun exiting turn one, and hit the outside wall with the back end of the car. The car slid down the track, and hit the outside wall in turn 2 also. Luyendyk suffered a back injury, and soreness in his neck and shoulders. Ultimately, Luyendyk decided to sit out the race, and retired from driving permanently.
Time trials – Pole Day.
Pole Day was scheduled for Saturday May 10. During the morning practice session Billy Boat spun out of turn four, and made heavy contact with the safety attenuator at the north end of the pit wall. The car hit with the back end, flew up into the air momentarily, and came to rest against the outside wall on the mainstretch. The energy-absorbing barrier was demolished, but officials stated that the barrier withstood the impact, and worked effectively. Boat was transferred to Methodist Hospital for observation, but was eventually released and cleared to drive. By the time that track crews could replace the barrier, rain began to fall. A violent thunderstorm swept through the area, and washed out qualifying for the afternoon.
Pole qualifying was moved to Sunday May 11. The weather was cool and windy. Robbie Buhl was the first car to make an attempt, and he put his car the field with a safe run of 224.369 mph. At 12:30 p.m., rookie Scott Dixon (230.099 mph) was the first car over 230 mph. At 12:45 p.m., Robby Gordon (230.205 mph) took over the provisional pole position.
At 12:55 p.m., rookie A. J. Foyt IV was attempting to become the youngest driver ever to qualify for the Indy 500. On his first lap, he spun exiting turn 2, did not hit the wall, and slid backwards down nearly the entire length of the backstretch. He was uninjured.
The first trip through the qualifying line was completed at about 1:45 p.m. Several drivers had pulled out of line, waiting for better conditions. At 2:41 p.m., Tony Kanaan took over the top spot with a run of 231.006 mph.
At 4:36 p.m., two-time defending race winner Hélio Castroneves (231.725 mph) secured the pole position. Tony Kanaan was bumped to the middle of the front row, and Robby Gordon held on to the outside of the front row. The day ended with A. J. Foyt IV completing a run, and Gil de Ferran, the last car with a realistic shot of the front row, turning in a somewhat-disappointing 228.633 mph, good enough only for 10th starting position.
Practice – week 2.
Practice resumed on Wednesday May 14. With nine spots open in the field, unqualified teams began to prepare for the final day of qualifying. Alex Barron was named to replace Arie Luyendyk in the Mo Nunn entry. By Thursday, 32 car/driver combinations had materialized.
Among the fastest drivers who had yet to qualify were Jimmy Vasser (228.275 mph) and Alex Barron (227.714 mph). Vasser missed the first weekend of time trials due to his participation in the Champ Car German 500.
Time trials – Bump Day.
The final day of time trials, Sunday, May 18, opened with nine spots open in the field. During the week, there was considerable concern about the prospects of filling the field to the traditional 33 starters. Airton Daré and Vítor Meira were named to rides in the morning, meaning there were then nine cars preparing to qualify.
Time trials opened at 12:30 p.m., with Jimmy Kite the first car out. After two fast laps, however, the car stalled with an electrical problem. In the first half-hour, three cars qualified, led by Jimmy Vasser, and the field was up to 27 cars.
Jimmy Kite returned to the track, this time qualifying without incident. Airton Daré stalled several times trying to leave the pits, but after repairs, he qualified to fill the field to 29 cars. Just before 2 p.m., Alex Barron and Richie Hearn completed runs, and the field was up to 31 cars. Hearn's team acquired a Penske back-up car, and he was safely in the field.
At 3 p.m., there were two spots left in the field. Only two cars remained on the sidelines, Robby McGehee and Vítor Meira. No other teams were planning on qualifying, although a rumor circulated around the garage area that Ganassi was considering on wheeling out a backup car for Jeff Ward. McGehee (224.493 mph) completed his qualifying attempt at 3:30 p.m., leaving only one spot open in the grid. At 4:05 p.m., Meira (227.158 mph) filled the field to 33 cars. At that point, the track was opened for practice, and the track officially closed at 6 o'clock without any other qualifiers.
The series avoided the embarrassment of not filling the field to the traditional 33 cars. The race had not failed to do so since 1947, when several drivers that were members of ASPAR (the American Society of Professional Auto Racing) threatened to boycott the race over the purse size. Nonetheless, some members of the media chastised the effort, later nicknaming the afternoon "Fill Day" rather than the traditional "Bump Day". During the television coverage, Bob Jenkins and Jack Arute passionately defended the event from its detractors. Despite pointing out the lack of drama on the final day of time trials, Robin Miller was among those who suggested that the 2003 field was the deepest talent-wise since the open wheel "split".
Race summary.
Start.
The controversy of filling the field the previous weekend fizzled as race day arrived. Mari Hulman George gave the command to start engines at 10:47 a.m. EST, and all 33 cars pulled away from the starting grid. It would be the final time that the race would begin at the traditional 11 a.m. EST start time.
Polesitter Hélio Castroneves took the lead at the start, and led for the first 16 laps. The first yellow came out on lap 9 when Billy Boat stalled in turn two. After the restart on lap 15, Sarah Fisher spun in turn three, hitting the outside wall. After pit stops, Scott Dixon took the lead on lap 17.
First half.
Michael Andretti led 28 laps in the first half, but during a pit stop on lap 98, the car quit with the broken throttle linkage.
On lap 61, Richie Hearn got up in the "marbles" in turn two, hitting the outside wall. Jaques Lazier spun to avoid the crash and came to rest on the inside of the track. Both drivers were uninjured.
The lead changed several times in the first half, with Tomas Scheckter, Tony Kanaan, and Jimmy Vasser each taking turns in the lead. Hélio Castroneves and Gil de Ferran were running in the top 5 most of the way.
Second half.
Tomas Scheckter led from laps 101-128, with Hélio Castroneves close behind in second. On lap 127, Airton Dare crashed in turn 2, bringing out the caution, and the leaders all made pit stops. Castroneves beat Scheckter out of the pits and took the lead. Gil de Ferran was in third. On lap 135 restart, de Ferran passed Scheckter for second place.
At lap 150, Penske teammates Castroneves and Gil de Ferran were still running 1st-2nd. Castroneves was looking to put himself in position to win his third "500" in a row. The leaders made their final pit stops on laps 165-168. After the sequence of green flag stops, Castroneves and de Ferran were again running 1st-2nd.
On lap 169, leader Castroneves was hung up behind the lapped car of A. J. Foyt IV down the backstretch. While it was not captured by TV cameras, earlier in the race A. J. Foyt IV had come down and made contact with Castroneves while being lapped in Turn 2. This perhaps led to Castroneves following A. J. Foyt IV through the 2nd turn allowing de Ferran to make the pass for the lead going into turn 3.
On lap 172, Robby Gordon stopped on the track with a broken gearbox. The yellow came out, but none of the leaders pitted. Gordon immediately departed the grounds, and flew to Charlotte for the Coca-Cola 600.
With 25 laps to go, the green came back out with de Ferran leading, and Castroneves in second.
Finish.
On lap 182, Scott Sharp brushed the wall in turn 4, then crashed in turn 1. After the cleanup, the green came back out on lap 186. One lap later, however, Dan Wheldon spun in turn three, hit the outside wall, then the car flipped over and landed upside-down. Wheldon was not injured.
During the caution for the Wheldon crash, Scott Dixon, who was running in the top ten, was weaving back and forth on the mainstretch to warm up his tires. He began to do it too vigorously, and brushed the inside wall. The car was too damaged to continue.
The green came out with six laps to go. Gil de Ferran held off Hélio Castroneves by 0.2290 seconds to win his first Indianapolis 500. After the race, Castroneves coaxed de Ferran to climb the catch fence on the mainstretch, mimicking his own traditional post-race victory celebration. de Ferran ended up retiring at season's end, becoming the fourth Indy 500 winner to retire as a reigning "500" champion.
The "curse of the Indy three-peat" prevailed again as Castroneves failed to achieve victory. His three-race career record of 1st-1st-2nd, however, established an Indy record for a driver's first three starts. Castroneves' second place tied Al Unser's 1970-1971-1972 effort of 1st-1st-2nd.
Box score.
' = Former Indianapolis 500 winner; ' = Indianapolis 500 rookie
Broadcasting.
Radio.
The race was carried live on the Indy Racing Radio Network. Mike King served as chief announcer. The booth crew had a new look for 2003. Longtime driver expert Johnny Rutherford left the crew to take over the position of pace car driver during caution periods. Joining King in the booth were two newcomers, Dave Wilson who served as color commentator, and new "driver expert" Davey Hamilton. Hamilton was on a hiatus from driving after his serious crash at Texas in 2001. The broadcast was heard on 555 affiliates.
The 2003 race saw all four turn reporters return to their assigned posts from the previous year. The three pit reporters remained the same, although they swapped their locations along pit road. The 2003 race would be the final 500 on the radio for longtime members Howdy Bell and Chuck Marlowe. Bell once again had the limited role of reporting from the track hospital, while Marlowe covered the garage area as he had since 1989.
Sponsor guests interviewed in the booth included Tim Manganello (BorgWarner), Keith Sirios (Checkers and Rally's), and Chevrolet pace car driver Herb Fishel. Other guests interviewed in the pits included Jim Campbell (Chevrolet) and Wynonna Judd.
Television.
The race was carried live flag-to-flag coverage in the United States on ABC Sports. The on-air crew remained the same from the previous year, with Bob Jenkins returning as host, and Paul Page handling the play-by-play duties. It would ultimately be the final 500 on television for Bob Jenkins.
For the first time, the race broadcast featured a presenting sponsor. The race was billed as the "Indianapolis 500 Presented by 7-Eleven." The crew called the race for the final time from the booth on top of the Paddock grandstand, for starting in 2004, they would move to the newer television studio inside the Pagoda.
Controversy.
On Sunday May 18, the final day of time trials, when there was some question of whether the field would be filled to the traditional 33 cars, television reporters Bob Jenkins and Jack Arute passionately defended the event from its detractors on air. Afterwards, Jenkins received criticism, mostly for a lack of journalistic professionalism and objectivity. His statements were considered biased in favor of the IRL/IMS, and that he allowed his personal opinions enter his reporting.
During ABC coverage of time trials, Vítor Meira filled the field to 33 cars. Arute opened his interview with Meira at 5:17 p.m. EDT by stating:
A minute later, Jenkins replied with:
As the day was coming to a close, the television coverage switched to ESPN for the final hour. Jenkins closed the broadcast with the following commentary at 6:56 p.m. EDT:
A minute later, Arute followed:
Jenkins was released from ABC/ESPN at the end of the 2003 season. After a very brief stint covering CART on Spike TV in 2004, and after a single race at ESPN in 2008, he joined Versus (now known as the NBC Sports Network) in 2009. It was never announced if the on-air comments were a factor in his release, and Jenkins contends he was never informed if that was the case. Following the 2012 season, Jenkins reduced his schedule to a reserve role that includes Carb Day coverage.


2003 European Curling Championships

The 2003 European Curling Championships were held in Courmayeur, Italy December 5–13.
Men's.
A tournament.
Playoffs.
Bronze Medal Game.
"December 13th, 14:00"
Gold Medal Game.
"December 13th, 14:00"
Women's.
A tournament.
Playoffs.
Semifinals.
"December 12th, 11:30"
Bronze Medal Game.
"December 13th, 10:00"
Gold Medal Game.
"December 13th, 10:00"


Boxer Stadium

Boxer Stadium (also known as Matthew J. Boxer Stadium) is a soccer stadium in San Francisco, California. Located in Balboa Park, the stadium has a capacity of 3,500. It is owned and operated by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department and is the only public soccer-specific stadium in San Francisco. Boxer Stadium is the primary home of the century year-old San Francisco Soccer Football League.
History.
Boxer Stadium opened September 27, 1953 as the Balboa Park Soccer Stadium at a cost of $150,000. The concrete bleachers were added later after the November 1953 Proposition G bond passage. The stadium was renamed in honor of the late SFSFL President, Matthew J. Boxer in the 1990s.
Boxer Stadium served as the main venue of the 1982 Gay Games.
Tenants.
The stadium is home to the San Francisco Soccer Football League, the Golden Gate Women's Soccer League, and the San Francisco Unified School District CIF high school and middle school soccer.
For the 2013 season the San Francisco Stompers FC of the National Premier Soccer League played their home games at Boxer Stadium.
High school Lacrosse teams from SHC also use Boxer Stadium.
Rugby and Gaelic Athletic Association teams had used Boxer Stadium until the opening of Ray Sheeran Field on Treasure Island in 2005. In 2016, Boxer Stadium was the home pitch for the San Francisco Rush professional rugby team in the new PRO Rugby competition in the United States, however, the team was folded by the league after one season citing an unsuitable venue.
USA Internationals.
Boxer Stadium has hosted 16 USA Eagles international rugby union matches. It was the unofficial home of the Eagles from 1996 to 2000, hosting 12 of their 17 test matches. The results are as follows:
"Updated 30 April 2021"


2003 Formula 3 Euro Series

The 2003 Formula 3 Euro Series season was the first championship year of Europe's premier Formula Three series. The championship consisted of ten rounds – each with two races – held at a variety of European circuits. Each weekend consisted of 1 hour and 30 minutes of free practice on Friday – in either one or two sessions – and two 30-minute qualifying sessions. This was followed by a c.110 km race on Saturday and a c.80 km race on Sunday. Each qualifying session awarded one bonus point for pole position and each race awarded points for the top eight finishers, with ten points per win. It commenced on April 26, 2003 at Hockenheimring and ended on October 26 at Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours.
Season standings.
Drivers Standings.
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.
Rookie Cup.
Rookie drivers are only eligible for the Rookie Cup title if they have not previously competed in a national or international Formula 3 championship.


2008 World Rally Championship

The 2008 World Rally Championship was the 36th season of the FIA World Rally Championship. The season consisted of 15 rallies and began on 24 January, with the 2008 Monte Carlo Rally.
Frenchman Sébastien Loeb successfully retained the Drivers' World Championship, his and co-driver Daniel Elena's record-breaking fifth consecutive title, all of them attained driving Citroëns. In addition, Citroën secured their fourth Manufacturers' title, and their first since 2005, from 2006 and 2007 victors, Ford.
Rule changes.
The running order for the first day is governed by championship position, with the championship leader running first on the road. For every other day of a rally, the order is decided by the previous end of day classification (with the leader on classification running first). The term 'leg' has been replaced by 'day' in order to sound more understandable. Extra 10-minute service prior to the finish podium has been added, intended to allow the service park to remain an attraction until the end of the event.
With the switch to Pirelli tyres, tyre mousse (along with all anti-deflation devices) has been banned, and fewer compounds are available. Also the teams aren't allowed to modify tyres by themselves (e.g. by making additional cuts) anymore. At the first event of the season, the available tires were the soft slick DS tire ("Pirelli PZero"), the WX snow tire without studs, and the WX snow tire with studs (both variants of "Pirelli Sottozero"). The same snow tyres were used in Sweden as well. Later on loose surface tyres were introduced: "Pirelli Scorpion", available in two variants – hard compound for abrasive surfaces, such as roads in Mexico or Greece, and soft one, for more muddy stages as seen on Welsh event. Tire walls have been strengthened in order to endure long, rough gravel stages often full of sharp rocks. The tread on "Scorpions" is asymmetric and directional, as it has proven more efficient during the tests.
Calendar.
The 2008 championship was contested over fifteen rounds in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia, South America and Oceania.
The 2008 season included 15 rallies, which was one less than the 2007 season. Rally Norway, Rally Portugal and Rally Ireland were dropped from the calendar for 2008. Rally of Turkey returned to the schedule, and Jordan Rally was part of the calendar for the first time. Rally Australia was planned to make a return after being absent in 2007, but the organizers submitted a request to the FIA to delay the event's return to the schedule until 2009.
The events also part of the Production World Rally Championship were Sweden, Argentina, Greece, Turkey, Finland, New Zealand, Japan and GB. The seven rallies also on the Junior World Rally Championship schedule were Mexico, Jordan, Italy, Finland, Germany, Spain and France.
Teams and drivers.
In 2008 two categories are valid to compete for the Manufacturer's championship:
Manufacturer (M)
Manufacturer Team (MT)
The teams and drivers for the 2008 season are as follows:
Events.
The Rally Finland is notable this year for having dropped its famous "Ouninpohja" stage. This has been done for safety reasons, however this is likely to be a huge disappointment for race fans.
Standings.
Production championship.
Points table:


Duke Trophy

The Duke Trophy is an annual inter-state short track speed skating competition in Australia.
History.
The Duke Trophy was made in 1952 and donated to the Australian Amateur Ice Racing Council by Len Duke, the first Secretary/Treasurer of the AAIRC, with the help of an old school friend Dave Morgan. Both started skating at St Moritz Ice Palais in St Kilda in June 1946 and eventually represented Victoria in interstate competition.
There had been interstate racing between NSW and Victoria for many years, initially managed by the Ice Hockey Association as an additional attraction to the interstate hockey matches at the time, however there was nothing tangible to record the winning teams in these competitions. By 1951 the AAIRC was formed and had separate associations for Speed Skating in Victoria and New South Wales and even for a short time in Tasmania, which was the venue for the 1952 Australian Championships. Duke felt there should be a dedicated trophy for Interstate Racing, especially after the Victorian team was very successful in Hobart in 1952.
The resulting award was named and inscribed "The Australian Amateur Ice Racing Council Trophy for Interstate Racing". The trophy features a silver statuette of a skater on the top, mirroring the design of the Australian Championship award that Duke had won the year before. Around 1957 it was suggested that the interstate racing trophy be renamed the "Duke Trophy" to keep his name in the sport following his retirement.
Duke's own 1951 Australian Championship trophy featured a silver speed skater mounted on a globe of the world. This trophy was donated back to the VSSU (which later became VIRA) after Len's death, and has since been made into the best and fairest award for the Duke Trophy competition.
In early days of the competition, the tournament was run on the Queen's Birthday weekend in June. It was later moved to the last weekend of July. In 2014, however, competitors and officials recognized that this time was poorly suited to the international competition season, resulting in many elite skaters being unavailable to compete in the Duke Trophy. Plans are currently underway to move the date to September from 2016 onwards, placing the competition at the end of the speed skating season.
Format of the competition.
The original format was a competition between 6 senior men and 2 junior men with races ranging
from quarter mile, through half mile to 1 mile. Two skaters per State competed in each race,
except for the 1 mile in which there were three skaters per state. The Juniors skated quarter and
half mile only, then there was also a 2-mile Relay for the seniors. By 1955 a 2-mile race for
Seniors was included. The whole program was held over a half hour period on the last night of
the Australian Championships.
Ladies came later in the early 1960s – initially there were only three – with a special trophy for
the Ladies Relay donated by Teddi Jenkins of Victoria, a previous Victorian and National titleholder.
Due to numerous factors, including a marked decline in the number of competitive skaters in some states, Australian Ice Racing officials worked during 2014 and 2015 to amend the rules and format of the competition. The new rules took effect in 2015, with the aim of promoting competition, accessibility and excitement whilst minimizing potential imbalance in team sizes.
The current format, hosted across two days, sees skaters in five age categories compete over a range of distances (now measured in metric) from 222m to 3000m. The competition also includes 1500m, 3000m and 5000m relays. Points are awarded to state teams based on the finishing order of each race. The overall points winners are awarded the Duke Trophy, with additional awards given to the individual skaters deemed "best and fairest" or "most improved".
Rules allow for "Vacant Position Skaters" to fill the field in the event that any state lack a competitor for a given race - this ruling allows for all races to be run with a full field, as well as providing the VP skaters with competition experience. VP Skaters cannot earn points for their state.
Under the new rules, women do not skate in separate divisions; all races are mixed gender. In order to encourage women to participate, female skaters are awarded 125% of normal points for every placing.
Awards.
The eponymous Duke Trophy is awarded to the state team with the highest overall score.
In addition to the Duke Trophy itself, a number of other perpetual trophies are awarded in the competition:
Due to their age and fragile condition, attempts have been made in recent years to limit the transportation of the physical awards. They are therefore kept and maintained in Queensland, and not taken to the winning state between competitions.
Results.
Note that the competition was not held in 2013 due to many competitors making preparations for the competitive season and upcoming winter olympics.


Jack Silver (boxer)

Jack Silver (August 16, 1903 – July 26, 1994) was a Navy Pacific Fleet Champion around 1921, a Pacific Coast Lightweight boxing Champion in 1924 and a contender for the Pacific Coast Welterweight Championship in 1926.
In 1925, he was the World's third ranked lightweight. He was reputed by one source to have fought 237 bouts with 200 wins. In his career he fought champions Mushy Callahan, Young Corbett III, Jackie Fields, and Young Jack Thompson. He defeated Callahan in a stunning upset on July 5, 1926 just months before Callahan would take the World Light Welterweight Championship. After his retirement from professional boxing, he was a California boxing referee and judge for over twenty years.
Early life.
Silver was born one of eight children, on August 16, 1903 in the rough Portola district of San Francisco, California. His father, originally from Vienna, was a tailor for ladies garments. His brother Joey Silverstein (Not to be confused with Brooklyn boxer Joey Silvers) became a Welterweight boxer. Like many boxers of his era, Jack grew up selling newspapers to earn extra money for his family. He entered the Navy around 1921, at the age of eighteen, where he gained many of his boxing skills during his two-year stint. By the time of his discharge he had earned the title of Pacific Fleet Champion. While in the Navy on June 13, 1922, he fought aboard the USS California (BB-44), flagship of the Pacific fleet, and a vessel known for hosting top boxing and athletic competitions.
Boxing career.
On August 17, 1923, he took the City of San Francisco Lightweight title from Bobby Allen in four rounds at the large Dreamland Rink where he was to fight regularly. Silver was a studied boxer who was solid in the fundamentals. He had an accurate and lightning fast left jab, and an efficient right which could knock an opponent on the mat, but rarely knock one out. He used his long reach to his advantage and was more a studied scientific boxer than a power hitter. His long slim build was rather unusual for a championship boxer.
From 1922–23, Silver fought at the Dreamland Rink in San Francisco for 52 consecutive weeks as a headliner. In early 1924, according to boxing writer Ken Blady, Silver defeated Lou Paluso of Salt Lake city for the Pacific Coast Lightweight Title. He fought Paluso again for the title on March 29, 1926 in a twelve-round draw match in Salt Lake City. According to the "Deseret News", "the local pride (Paluso) was superior at infighting, while the coast ace (Silver) had an advantage with his long reach and was at his best on long distance slugging."
Defending his Pacific Coast Lightweight Title on February 23, 1925, he fought Joe Benjamin at Recreation Park in San Francisco. The fight attracted 20,000 spectators, and was at the time the largest attendance for a lightweight bout in California history. Silver was down in the third round for a count of five, and Benjamin ultimately won the controversial ten-round decision. This fight was significantly an elimination bout for the World Lightweight Title.
On April 16, 1926, Silver defeated Oakland Jimmy Duffy, Pacific Coast Welterweight Champion 1922–25, in ten rounds at his favorite haunt Dreamland Rink in San Francisco. Author Ken Blady wrote that Silver won the Pacific Coast Welterweight Championship as a result of this or an earlier fight with Duffy.
On July 5, 1926, Silver faced the next Light Welterweight World Champion Mushy Callahan in Ewing Field in San Francisco before a huge crowd of 18,000, with Silver impressively winning the referee's decision and every round. Callahan would hold the Light Welterweight Championship from September 21, 1926 until 1930. Reflecting on the Callahan fight two years later, the "San Jose News" wrote "In his prime Silver was the fastest Jr. Welterweight on the Pacific Coast, giving Mushy Callahan the surprise of his life...Callahan... expected to find a pushover, but was handed a lacing by the San Francisco battler."
By late 1926, Silver was still a competent boxer, who now fought closer to the Jr. welterweight division, but no longer as a top ranked contender. On December 21, 1926, he lost to the former Olympic champion Jackie Fields in a four-round TKO at Dreamland Rink in San Francisco. Silver lost to 1933 World Welterweight Champion Young Corbett III on June 7, 1927 in a close ten round bout in Fresno, California.
Retirement from professional boxing and work as boxing judge.
Partly as a result of his losses to Young Corbett III, and Jackie Fields, Silver retired from professional boxing in 1929. He said in an interview "I simply lost my touch." In a disappointing loss to 1930 Welterweight Champion, Young Jack Thompson, on September 28, 1926, in an eighth-round TKO in Los Angeles, Silver's jaw was broken.
Silver married Bess O'Connor around 1932, and had a long marriage with a large family.
On October 9, 1937 Silver was scheduled to box in a benefit exhibition at Legion Stadium in Los Angeles for Wad Wadheim, a fight promoter who had suffered a stroke. Among the fifty or so boxing greats that participated were triple World Champion Henry Armstrong, Silver's opponents' Jackie Fields, Mushy Callahan, and Young Jack Thompson, Abe 'The Newsboy" Hollandersky, Fidel La Barba, ex-Middleweight champion Al McCoy, Jim Jeffries, and Maxie Rosenbloom.
Silver worked as a boxing judge and referee after his retirement from professional prizefighting. His lengthy career as a California boxing referee stretched from 1939 to 1962 and he refereed about 80 matches, including two USA sanctioned State Titles. He simultaneously worked as a California boxing judge as well from 1947 to 1968, judging the California State Light Heavyweight Title on August 21, 1968 in Oakland. During his career he judged at least forty-two boxing matches according to his BoxRec record.
In his retirement from boxing, he also worked as a Salesman for the Ranier Brewing Company.
During the 1940s, when boxing and refereeing jobs were scarce, Silver became a sought after boxing instructor in Hollywood, where he helped tutor actors James Cagney and Ronald Reagan in the fistic arts.
Boxing honors.
He was elected into the California Boxing Hall of Fame in 1972, and was a member of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame as well.
Family life.
What delighted Silver most of all were his 26 great-grandchildren fulfilling the Old Testament precept, "Thou shalt be fruitful and multiply."


Aberdeen International Curling Championship

The Aberdeen International Curling Championship is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place at the Curl Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland. The tournament is a Triple Knockout format. The tournament was started in 2016 as part of the World Curling Tour.
Past champions.
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Dan Kellner

Daniel Kellner (born April 16, 1976, in Livingston, New Jersey) is an American Olympic foil fencer.
Early life.
Kellner was born in Livingston, New Jersey, and is Jewish.
“When I was 13, I had a video game called ‘Summer Games,’ with all the Olympic Sports on it, even fencing," said Kellner. "I couldn’t make the fencing game work very well. So, I asked my mother about fencing, and she said that my high school offered it, and that I should go and see the coach. The coach turned out to be Olympic Armorer Ted Li.”
Kellner attended the Pingry School ('94).
Fencing career.
College.
Fencing for Columbia University, where he graduated in 1998 with a degree in American history, Kellner was a 4-time All-American and 3-time All-Ivy League First Team Selection (1995-97-98).
He was the NCAA Fencer of the Year in 1998.
Quitting and comeback.
After failing to make the 2000 Olympic team, Kellner retired from fencing. He stopped working out, gained weight (at one point, weighing 205 pounds), and started smoking.
A year later, he walked back into the club and his love for the sport seized him again. He came back. He got back in shape, stopped smoking, and earned his way back to win a gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games, and his first national championship in 2004.
US Nationals.
Kellner was formerly ranked No. 1 in men's foil in the U.S.
He won the foil competition at the U.S. fencing national championships in 2004. Kellner rallied from a 0–6 and 1–7 deficit in his semifinal against Jed Dupree, countered with 7 straight touches, and took the lead at 8–7. English, please? Seriously? The bout went to 14–14 before Kellner won it. In the championship bout, Kellner beat Jonathan Tiomkin 15–6.
He finished 2nd in 1997, 1998, and 2000.
World Cups.
He had podium finishes in World Cups for several seasons in a row.
Olympics.
In the Olympics in Athens he came in 16th, and the U.S. team came in 4th.
Kellner, seeded 26th, won his first bout, upsetting # 7 seed Cedric Gohy of Belgium, 15–12. His next bout, in the round of 16, was against Richard Kruse of Great Britain. In a very close match, in which he had been leading 14–12, Kellner lost 15–14.
Maccabiah Games.
Kellner decided to skip the 2005 World Cup in Vancouver and the US nationals so he could compete in the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel. His international ranking slipped from No. 11 to 12 as a result. He led the U.S. delegation's march into the Ramat Gan stadium alongside legendary swimmers Mark Spitz and Lenny Krayzelburg.
Kellner won the silver medal at the 2005 Maccabiah Games, losing to Israel's Tomer Or 15–9.
Pan American Games.
Kellner won a team silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Canada.
He also won gold medals, both team and individual, at the 2003 Pan American Games. The team trailed 40–30 entering the last match, which Kellner won 15–4, setting off a celebration.
Teammate Jon Tiomkin said: “There are no words to describe it. No words at all. That was absolutely incredible. I've never seen a comeback like that in my life at such a high level competition and with such high stakes.”
US Team Captain.
He was the captain of the U.S. men's foil National Team squad.
He is a 7-time world championship team member.


Charles Eugene Williams

Charles Williams (1888-1935) was English rackets world champion.
Rackets career.
Williams became a professional rackets player and the school coach at a young age, playing from the Harrow Club at Harrow School. In January 1911 he competed in and won the Open Championship of England defeating Edgar Maximilian Baerlein. Just over three months later he was the challenger for the World Championship against the holder Jamsetji Merwanji from India. Williams won the first leg at the Queen's Club and then in the second leg played out a draw at the Prince's Club after he had already secured the one game he needed to claim the title outright. He had become the world champion aged just 22.
He lost the Championship to Jock Soutar from the United States in 1913 before failing to regain the title in a rematch in 1922. He finally regained the Championship after beating Soutar in 1929.
Personal life.
Born in East Fulham in 1888 he was a ball boy at the Prince's Club before turning professional. During the journey to defend his title in 1912 he boarded the RMS Titanic as a second class passenger. After it sank he was rescued by the RMS Carpathia and developed pneumonia. He resided in the United States from 1924 and was married and had six children.
He died in 1935 while living in Chicago aged 47.


RotoHog

RotoHog is the consumer facing Fantasy Sports website for Fastpoint Games, a digital platform developer that designs, implements and markets fantasy services for media and advertising partners. The company builds, delivers and manages co-branded fantasy sports games for major media companies, sports companies and professional sports leagues.
Their signature stock exchange game is a budget-based, high-roster-turnover style fantasy sports game that combines traditional fantasy scoring with a stock market-style trading floor for baseball, basketball, American football, and Association Football (soccer). The company also delivers traditional commissioner and pick-em style fantasy sports games.
RotoHog has also branched out to entertainment games with the Rose Ceremony game for the Reality TV show The Bachelor and the Us Weekly Celebrity Fantasy League.
Fantasy Game Platform.
RotoHog is also the provider of nba.com's NBA Stock Exchange and commissioner games and Brazilian media company Grupo RBS's first ever Fantasy Soccer game. In 2009, RotoHog began to provide games for Fox Sports en Español and the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball tour.
In June 2009, RotoHog closed a multi-year deal with Sporting News to power the sports media company's suite of fantasy sports games. Sporting News VP Jeff Gerttula commented, "In order to take our games to the next level, we wanted to align with somebody intensely focused on the space, was committed to a strong [business-to-business] solution, and wasn’t satisfied with developing the same old off-the-shelf products,"
In March 2010, RotoHog began powering the MySpace Bracket Challenge for the 2010 NCAA college basketball tournament. At the same time, the company announced that it would be launching its first commissioner-style baseball game on its own site.
Like most fantasy sports games, the core elements of RotoHog's flagship stock exchange game involve building a team and setting a line-up to earning points. To this traditional core game, RotoHog adds a liquid market for players that all team managers use to trade players. Players can be traded at almost any time and player prices reflect up-to-the minute supply and demand. This trading system removes many of the problems with unfair trades or collusion between managers that can occur in traditional fantasy games.
RotoHog also provides a social networking platform that allows users to compete in unlimited size leagues grouped by location, team allegiance, company affiliations, or local watering holes in addition to smaller traditional private leagues made up of a dozen or so friends. This social networking platform allows diverse groups to create custom leagues for their members. For example, the non-profit group "Hire-a-Hero" used RotoHog as a way to help military veterans connect with each other and transition back to civilian life. RotoHog have agreed to donate a portion of the advertisement revenue received from the Military Fantasy Football League (MFFL) to the "Hire-a-Hero" program. They have also decided to donate the $10 received for their premium statistical service, with which users can register to receive the latest news, injury reports and scouting reports from the site.
Prizes.
RotoHog has awarded various prizes include cash to the top teams in weekly, monthly and season long contests. The 2007 Baseball and Football champions won $100,000 each.
The owner of the second place Football team won $25,000, and third place $10,000. The remaining top 100 finishers also earned cash prizes.
RotoHog differs from fantasy sports stock simulations in that the goal of the game is to score the most fantasy points by fielding the best team of players. Stock simulation games focus on increasing your portfolio value by anticipating price movements of players.
Criticisms.
As a hybrid between traditional fantasy sports games and fantasy sports stock simulations, there are many predictable ways for team managers to increase their budgets through day trading. These managers can then assemble teams with essentially no budget constraint. This gives managers with the time to play the market a financial edge over managers who do not.
Company, financing and sponsorship.
Sports Composite DE, Inc., the company that operates the RotoHog website, was founded by entrepreneur David Wu and Wharton Business School Professor Kent Smetters in 2006 and is based in Inglewood, California. Kelly Perdew, winner of The Apprentice Season 2, was named CEO in May 2008.
The company raised $6 million in its first venture round in August 2007. This funding was raised via DFJ DragonFund China and Mission Ventures, with additional investment coming from Allen & Co. and SCP Worldwide. StubHub, an online marketplace, co-founder Jeff Fluhr also invested in the online firm.
The company raised an additional $2 million in March 2009. The round was led by Mission Ventures and DFJ Dragon.
The company's board of directors includes Leo Spiegel of Mission Ventures and Andy Tang of DFJ DragonFund China.
Sports Composite DE, Inc. earns revenues from advertising and optional statistical packages. RotoHog leagues and competitions have been sponsored by ex-American football player Marshall Faulk and hall of fame baseball players Fred Lynn, Wade Boggs, and Ozzie Smith.
In December 2008, RotoHog along with domain name company, GoDaddy.com, launched an NFL Playoff Game on Facebook. RotoHog used the game to entice users to play other its other games, while GoDaddy used the game to gain exposure to the RotoHog and Facebook communities while supporting its Super Bowl ad campaign.
In April 2009, RotoHog developed an exclusive partnership with RazorGator that will allow RotoHog users to purchase tickets to live events through the global ticket reseller.
Awards.
RotoHog has been the recipient of the following industry honors:


ESCOM United FC

ESCOM United is a Malawian football club based in Blantyre. The club was relegated from the Malawi Premier Division in 2012–13.
History.
ESCOM United was founded in 1992 after a merger between two club from Lilongwe and Blantyre of the same company "Electricity Supply Commission".
"The Electricians", won their first league title in 2007 with one point difference in the last day of the season after MTL Wanderers, who was leading the table, lost home with Silver Strikers FC and "Super Escom" has won at Big Bullets FC.
Honours.
Super League of Malawi:
Malawi FAM Cup
Malawi Carlsberg Cup
Chibuku Cup
Press Cup/Castle Cup
President Cup