Double Header is Dominated by Women’s Tennis Once Again

Double Header is Dominated by Women’s Tennis Once Again

When it comes to tennis the no. 18 Virginia women’s team never fails to surprise tennis fans. Just this past weekend, when they played against Louisville and Norfolk state, they registered two impressive wins. They downed the Cardinals by a whooping score of 6-1 and another remarkable 7-0 against the Spartans.

The only game that went against Virginia’s luck was when Victoria Olivarez, a junior, was defeated 1-6 against AbbiePahz of Cardinal. Virginia’s match against Norfolk State was another to carry weight on. It devastated Virginia.

Another team of women that played notably was the Cavaliers, being their first outdoor match of this season. They quickly captured the doubles point and couldn’t resist the winning the single matches. Cavaliers’ most bejeweled star players, Julia Elbaba and Danielle Collins, both seniors, won 6-1, 6-1 and 6-0, 6-1 respectively in their games against Louisville.

Cavalier on the other hand had the best match of the day winning a 7-0 against Virginia. They also challenged Norfolk State massively in 84 games when they only dropped a mere 9. Winning these two games will definitely motivate the Cavaliers in their upcoming game against on Friday against no. 6 North Carolina. After they started the season on a low note, they will be expected to win this upcoming game to show that they are in the right direction to secure a top place on the tennis board.

Another huge win comes to UCLA women’s tennis team as Bruins win a 4-1 score against Bears. Tennis has never been more interesting before like this season.

On yet another single game Miller continued to impress in sets of 6-3, 6-4 against KiahGenerette. According to Sampras Webster, Miller has continued to build her confidence as she is sure of her shots. Her choices are limited now that Mia Magill has been benched due to an injury.

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Police Officer Famous for His Kindness Starts Basketball Cop Foundation

Police Officer Famous for His Kindness Starts Basketball Cop Foundation

Officer White of Gainesville whose video went viral on January15th 2016 after he responded to a noise complaint and found out that the noise was from kids in the neighbourhood playing basketball. White decided that this was not a crime and he joined the kids in playing basketball. If you cannot beat them in their game, join them!

His dash cam video recorded this act of kindness. Luckily it was not just viewed by 14 million people for entertainment,but it also touched the heart of NBA’s legend Shaquille O’Neal and he helped Officer White start the Basketball Cop Foundation.

This was the first but certainly not the last act of kindness that White was going to do for the kids. He upped his game recently when he built a basketball court for the kids in the backyard of one of the kids. The foundation has so far received donations not less than $3, 911.

With the help of Tobias, another officer who has been the Granville’s Police Department social media manager and spokesperson as well, White has been able to receive not just one but numerous basketballs and portable hoops.

He has also made trips to other neighbourhoods and contacted apartment complexes to either restructure their basketball courts or create one for those complexes that do not have one. With the help of O’Neal, he will also be donating basketball and portable hoops to these neighbourhoods. He is really going to another new level of transforming the community a child at a time.

One family lost all of their Christmas gifts and when White came to learn about this, he yet again surpassed his expectations and donated a brand new portable hoop and basketball to the family. He has also donated a couple of these to the Florida neighbourhood kids.

Officer White said they identify a place where basketball can be used both as a tool and as a resource for youth and they fund it with the help of the donations they receive.

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It Seems Like Donald Trump is Looking to Politicize Golf

It Seems Like Donald Trump is Looking to Politicize Golf

Trump National Doral Resort is hosting the renowned WGC- Cadillac Championship. Just like every other year, the PGA Tour could not resist making a stop at the resort.

Trump has always been known to make a grand entrance at the PGA’s Tourwith his arrival in a Trump emblazoned helicopter that makes everyone affixed on it. This has been how he amazes golf fans with his presence four years down the line.

This being the year of campaign, and Trump being a much sought out presidential candidate, he says he will only attend the event on Sunday. He further adds that he was not sure about repeating his history of ‘grand entrance in a helicopter’.

It looks like Trump is paving way for golf fans to focus on the golf pros. Or maybe it is a matter of security? Maybe it is because he has made some very bad comments about golf and immigrants on the campaign trail. Things politicians say to win might really amaze us!

The Tour has a long relationship with Doral Resort, trailing down to 53 years, but it said it will reassess its relationship with the resort since it boasts of accepting people of all kinds. This comes after Trump comments controversially about immigrants.

Last year the Tour issued a statement distancing themselves from Trump’s remarks on immigration alongside three other governing bodies in the US (PGA, LPGA and US Golf Association).

Trump has played fewer and fewer golf ever since the campaign got intriguing. Apparently a month ago at his West Palm Beach course was when he last played. I do not think we will be seeing much of him and golf soon.

Trump had this to say, “I love golf but when you finish making a speech in front of thousands of people, you most certainly are not in any mood to play golf… my primary focus at this moment is politics.”

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Kevin Dorsey Might Skip This Seasons Basketball Due to a Sexual Post on his Social Media Account

Kevin Dorsey Might Skip This Seasons Basketball Due to a Sexual Post on his Social Media Account

We all have that one thing that might make us lose our jobs once our employers see our social media posts. You never know who is reading your posts, be careful what you post on social media. You never know this might be the post that ruins your entire career.

As for Kevin Dorsey, a freshman guard of Gophers, his social media site had a sex act on Friday night. Dorsey alongside Nat Mason and Dupree McBrayer allegedly violated team rules and were held out of Sunday’s game, said a statement from the University of Minnesota.

His entire twitter account and the video as well has since been deleted. However Minneapolis police said they are not involved in any criminal investigation whatsoever. Chris Werle, the associate athletic director at the university said that they have seen some of the things on social media and that they are looking into it. He further said that there was not any reports or complaints against the school.

Gophers lost 84-71 and their coach, Richard, did not comment further on the reason for this loss. Seeing that the three player were cut off just an hour before the Sunday’s game. Pitino avoided addressing the suspension on his weekly radio show on 1500-am but he had this to say, “When you suspend three guys, that is the talk of everything”.

People who reportedly saw the video included, several users of gopherhole.com and a KSTP-TV sports reporter, Darren Wolfson. Ever since Pitino took over in April 2013, there have been series of player-related troubles. This raises a lot of questions on his credibility.

Zach Lofton was dismissed last season for failure to meet the team’s obligations last season. A month or so later, Daquein McNeil was arrested on allegations of assaulting his girlfriend. Carlos Morris was also dismissed earlier February for detrimental conduct and Dorsey had been suspended on November for failure to meet his academic obligation.

The team however seemed to be turning a corner on Sunday’s game, hopefully to turn around the bad 14 game losing record.

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Pitch has Been Vandalized by Unknown Person(s), $5000 Reward Offered!

Pitch has Been Vandalized by Unknown Person(s), $5000 Reward Offered!

Skinner Reserve’s pitch in sunshine was vandalised just before the match between Kingsville Baptist Cricket Club and Sunshine Heights. Kingsville would have qualified for the finals had they won this match. Although we might all be suspecting Sunshine Heights to have been the accused, they are so much in the clear since they are next to last in the ranking and hence they had nothing to gain from for the vandalism act.

Since there was no match the game was declared a draw and Kingsville lost their chance to be among the top four who are proceeding to the finals. They only needed 140 runs with nine wickets to in the match that did not happen to get to the finals.

Authorities have issued a reward of $5,000 for any information on the perpetrators who caused the ruthless act.

The pitch was destroyed beyond recognition, some say it reminded them of a ploughed field. The covers were drawn back, some section of the field was also dug up and oily substance spread across the surface of the whole pitch.

If another club is found to have any involvement in the vandalism or any knowledge of this act prior to its occurrence, they will face starkconsequences, was what McNamara said in a statement.

He also apologised to Kingsville Baptists CC for the dreadful act. He went ahead and said that that was not the case they were familiarised to at the great game of cricket and that anyone who came forward would be helping the cricket community to catch the people accountable for the act.

Peter Hardeman, Kingsville club treasurer said that it was clearly an act of sabotage. He told Tripple M that the person who did this act knew what they were doing because they pulled the covers off. This was an act by someone who knew the covers were there.

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China Spends Over $300 Million on Foreign Players.

China Spends Over $300 Million on Foreign Players.

The football scene has been known to boast of spending the most on the purchase of new football players. Currently the whole world in general is focused on electing the next FIFA president while China is focused on buying the most expensive players for this season. So far it has spent over $300 million on foreign players.

The only players that China could not lay their hands on are the ones in the most expensive teams and those who are in newly signed contracts. Apparently it is rumored that they are spending on players to please the president Xi Jinping.

In the most recent January- February transfer window of 2016, China’s league clubs have spent $366 million. The fee paid for these transfers by China is exceeding that of the English premier league teams by more than $100 million and has quadrupled China’s last year transfer budget.

This spending is also more than the spending of other leagues combined like Italy, Germany, France and Spain. China has really decided to shock us all by going on this new expensive shopping spree. These were the analysis according to Transmarkt.

This is now known as the ‘gold rush’ where most of the world’s top players are rushing to. The most celebrated top players, Ramires-formerly of Chelsea, Jackson Martinez- formerly of Atletico Madrid and Alex Teixeira- formerly of Brazil were the players that cost China the most for them to win their bids.

These players are only rushing to play for China because they will have double the money they were earning yet it is damaging for their career because they will not have stiff competition on the pitch as they did before. Others like Teixeira are being paid about $10 million annually by China yet they never even made it to big teams and games like the English premier league.

European club owners have reason to be concerned because China has the ability to move a whole European league to China. Arsene Wenger, Arsenal’s manager said that if China’s intentions were political in their move to buy these players then there was reason to be concerned.

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Soccer Fans Want More Women In Charge At FIFA.

Soccer Fans Want More Women In Charge At FIFA.

Members of the FIFA’s voting congress will be electing the organization’s next president on Friday, in Zurich. However, out of all the voters, women will only make up less than 1% and this is what soccer fans around the world want a change in.

In a recent survey conducted on soccer fans from all over the world, 64% of respondents want the number of women in key positions increased.

The Anti-corruption organization transparency international, together with the fan group Forza Football conducted a poll in 28 countries, where they surveyed around 25,000 soccer fans.

Most of the respondents in the 28 countries except Russia, believed that FIFA should have more women.

Some of the countries that registered the highest percentage of respondents in favor of the idea include Costa Rica with 83%, Colombia with78%, and Spain with 76%.

Coincidentally, Costa Rica and Spain made their first appearance at the Women’s World cup in 2015 while it was the second consecutive appearance of Colombia into the tournament.

On the other hand, 69% of British and 72% Americans support the idea of adding more women to FIFA’s voting congress that consists of delegates from FIFA’s209 member associations

An increase in the number of women in FIFA’s Executive committee will be voted on by the members on Friday as it is on the broad package of reforms.

Moya Dodd, who is an Australian and one of the few women on the committee came up with a provision that would require women to hold 6 of the 36 executive committee seats.

Dodd said, “This is an unexploited marketfor the world’s most popular game, where half of the world’s population have not really been given a full opportunity to participate. Hence adding more women will be a great step forward and will alsoenhance culture change. “

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