| Panthers QB Moore practices after concussion By MIKE CRANSTON 2010-09-15T22:45:16ZCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Just three days after getting knocked out of Carolina's season opening loss with a concussion, Panthers quarterback Matt Moore practiced and expressed confidence he'll play Sunday against Tampa Bay.... hosted.ap.org |
Report: Nets front-runner to acquire Nuggets' Anthony According to an ESPN report, it's only a matter of time before the Denver Nuggets part ways with star forward Carmelo Anthony. rssfeeds.usatoday.com |
Iredell ballpark complex nearing start An interesting thing happened this summer after planners announced a $25 million Mooresville youth baseball training facility called America’s Park. feeds.bizjournals.com |
Martin Kelner: Delhi is wonderful for daytime TV Appreciative athletes are a sight more uplifting than unhappy families in a sensation-seeking environmentProfessionally, I ought to watch some daytime TV, but not being in need of an ambulance-chasing lawyer, or an online bingo account, I choose not to. All right, Aerobics Oz Style occasionally when I need a workout, and sometimes an old episode of Frasier with breakfast, but that is more or less it.The Commonwealth Games, however, have driven me back to the TV before the sun is over the yardarm, and I note the Jeremy Kyle Show is still on. I read somewhere that Kyle was cashing in on the US TV trend for odious Englishmen and taking his show over there, which some would say serves them right, and others that it is a terrible trick to play on the nation that gave us the Simpsons and Tamla‑Motown. But no, he is still with us, a git in a suit haranguing people in economy‑priced leisure wear.Kyle has two get-out clauses. Number one is to snarl into the face of whichever hapless inadequate he is strafing: "Listen, sweetheart, there is a child involved here. I don't care about you, but ..." And so on, because that is really what Kyle is all about, protector of the nation's children.His second is to say: "Go off and join our aftercare team. They'll look after you." Will they? Is there any evidence that anyone's messed-up life has ever benefited from an appearance on Kyle's show?Call me an old cynic, but I do wonder how long-lasting that "aftercare" commitment is.Anyway, one of the victims threw something at Kyle last week. Unfortunately, it was only an envelope containing DNA results, but it is a start.If you are puzzled why I am watching Kyle instead of the Games, it is because he is on ITV2 in the afternoon, and I flip. This is a male thing.I think there may be a synapse connecting the penis in some way with the digit that operates the remote control, but if you have a man around the house you will know that the only circumstances in which we will remain on one channel for any length of time is if the remote has slipped down the back of the sofa and needs mining from deep.That said, the restlessness of my flipper finger provides an opportunity to compare and contrast the bright, healthy, highly motivated young people competing at the Games with the shiftless specimens misguided enough to participate in Kyle's horror show.The first thing that distinguishes the Commonwealth Games crowd from the Kyle mob is that these young folk are sensible enough to use condoms, if the latest plumbing reports from Delhi are to be believed. More importantly, they display a joie de vivre notably absent on the other side.Regular readers of this column will know I consider swimming to be not so much a sport, more a highly efficient method of not drowning, and there has been an awful lot of it in the Commonwealth Games, but watching the unalloyed joy and pride in achievement of swimmers like Ellen Gandy and Jemma Lowe after winning medals in one of the races was quite uplifting.Almost without exception, the athletes give lovely interviews, acting as a kind of mouthwash after 10 minutes with Kyle.I like the BBC's coverage of the Games, too. If you are tired of the Sky Sports News format of an attractive young blonde woman with a rather older man, try young Jake Humphrey alongside Sue Barker at the Games, which more than reverses the trend.I think Humphrey may have had a haircut because he is looking younger than ever, so, with the greatest respect and not wishing to be all AA Gill about it, it does sometimes seem the Games are being presented by a young boy and his nan.The multiple world and Olympic champion sprinter Michael Johnson, an excellent pundit for the BBC – Mark Foster and Ian Thorpe are good on the swimming as well – summed up one of the main appeals of the Games when, commenting on the absence of Jamaica's top sprinters, he said: "There is enough quality here – not top quality – but enough quality."He is spot on. It is a little like watching non-league football. Because it does not all seem so much of a matter of life and death, presenters and pundits feel free to josh, and the viewer can enjoy it for what it is; which is what I shall continue to do – sometimes maybe for even more than seven minutes at a stretch.Commonwealth Games 2010Sport TVJeremy KyleMartin Kelnerguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
AP source: anti-hunger group to sponsor Gordon car By JENNA FRYER 2010-10-25T17:32:53ZCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon will be sponsored next season by an anti-hunger campaign coordinated through the AARP Foundation.... hosted.ap.org |