A Pewaukee development team is building a $10m indoor sports complex on 15 acres in the village of Sussex that will cater to competitive youth and adult organizations.
Called Engage Sports Center, the 130,000-square-foot center will have indoor courts and Astroturf-covered fields to accommodate basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, football and wrestling teams.
This year was sad for Woods with the death of his father. Nevertheless, his amazing domain in the golf course during the second half of the year, determined his selection as the masculine sports figure according to The Associated Press.
In the election that measured the opinion of the sports editors that belong to the press union in the United States, Woods received 260 points, beating the NFL player LaDainian Tomlison (230) and the tennis player Roger Federer (110).
After a three-month absence due to an ankle surgery, South Korean international soccer player Park Ji-Sung is ready to play again. Although he was not considered for Manchester United’s game against Manchester City, he will certainly play some minutes next match.
“Park is a great player to get back,” coach Sir Alex Ferguson said. “His versatility and movement off the ball is something we shall use over the Christmas period. He also gives us the option of resting our wider players in various games because he can play on both sides of the pitch.”
Swiss player Roger Federer defeated American player James Blake to win the Masters Cup in Shanghai. This is Federer’s 29th consecutive won match and his 12th title of the season. “Obviously, we're all chasing Roger,” Blake said. “It's no secret. He's playing head and shoulders above the rest of us.”
Federer won his third Masters Cup title 6-0, 6-3, 6-4. He has been ranked Nº1 since February 2nd, 2004. “To finish it off by winning the Masters Cup, the world championship so to speak, it's the perfect ending to an incredible season,” Federer said. “There's not much more I could have done.”
French tennis player Mary Pierce suffered a terrible knee injury during a match in Linz, Austria. Despite the six months to a year of rehabilitation she is facing, Pierce is already talking about returning and representing France at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The truth is she will not only have to overcome it physically but also psychologically.
Pierce had to be carried off the court during a match when she felt a terrible pain on her knee. The initial diagnosis was a ruptured ligament but she will be further examined to make sure there is only one ligament involved.
When he announced his retirement, everyone wondered what Andre Agassi would do after leaving professional tennis. The eight-time Grand Slam champion seems to have made up his mind about this point and has signed a partnership agreement with Steve Case’s luxury vacation club.
"In tennis ... you work, you train and all that so that you can maybe add something to somebody's life for those couple of hours," Agassi said. "And this is a great way of channeling that desire that I have to affect somebody for longer than that."
The doping allegations against ex-triple American Olympic champion Marion Jones have been discarded after the sprinter’s B Sample turned out negative. In June, Jone’s initial sample had tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) an endurance enhancer. The new findings mean the previous results cannot be taken as a proof and will be thrown out.
“I am absolutely ecstatic. I have always maintained that I have never ever taken performance enhancing drugs, and I am pleased that a scientific process has now demonstrated that fact”, Jones said in a statement.
BetOnSports informed its clients that the Directive Board of the company decided to cancel every sponsor contract in order to obey the restriction imposed by the Department of Justice of the United States. BetOnSports still has to comply with a part of the restriction order that requires the company to give back funds to its clients in the United States. It hasn’t been informed if they will do so or if they will wait for the audience on August 1st.
The House approved a bill to forbid credit cards and other similar forms of payment from being used to place Internet bets. The new legislation would clarify the current law by making clear that Internet gambling is illegal and would allow authorities and Internet providers to block the access to gambling Websites.
The biggest bookmaker in the United Kingdom goes back to the casino business after five years of absence with the opening of the Ladbrokes Casino and Sports Bar at London Paddington Hilton hotel.
