Sumo wrestling has been hit by the economic downturn. The Japan Sumo Association formally decided on Monday to cancel a sumo exhibition tour to London originally scheduled for next autumn due to the severe economic conditions.
Man Utd players celebrate Pic by Dai Kuokova/EPA
The Jaguars had two chances to tie the score, but both drives ended
with sacks. Garrard drove Jacksonville to the 7-yard line with 29
seconds remaining, but Maurice Jones-Drew sprained his knee on a
reception, and since the Jaguars had no timeouts, 10 seconds ran off.
Garrard misfired on first down, then got sacked by Dwight Freeney to
end the game.
Peyton Manning threw for 364 yards and three touchdowns, helping the
Colts secure the No. 5 seed in the American Football Conference
playoffs.
In the half-decade since the women from Austin started a nationwide revival, the online archive Derby Roster has counted 348 amateur leagues as far-flung as Fairbanks, Alaska; Jacksonville, Fla.; and New Zealand. At an event billed as the Northwest Knockdown in Portland, Ore., last month, the Gotham Girls squad from New York was awarded a national championship.
The girls only sport of roller derby was actually started by a man! At the turn of this century in Austin, Texas, musician Daniel Eduardo Policarpo, known to many as Devil Dan, managed to recruit dozens of women to a highly disorganized organizational meeting at a playfully sinister bar called Casino el Camino.
The version of roller derby that Devil Dan envisioned, as he described it in "Hell on Wheels," a 2007 documentary released on DVD in September, would have involved "a crazy circus with these clowns unfortunately stabbing each other, these bears on fire on these unicycles."
"This wasn't my vision, it was Dan's original vision," April Ritzenthaler, 37, a founder, said in a telephone interview. "But once he checked himself out of it, we were the ones who took the reins."
By Ritzenthaler's account, the split with Policarpo involved circumstances familiar to anyone who has ever started a rock band: there was money, there were egos, there was no money and then there were disputes.
The girls only sport has inspired books, reality TV shows, and a forthcoming Drew Barrymore Roller Derby movie.
Golf fan Brad Clegg displays his camera after it was smashed against a tree by John Daly, right. Photo: AFP
Tony Romo #9 of the Dallas Cowboys throws a fourth quarter pass while playing the Pittsburgh Steelers on December 7, 2008 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh won the game 20-13.(Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
"You're still my idol," Pacquiao told him after the fight.
"No, you're my idol," De La Hoya said.
Two of the three ringside judges scored all eight rounds for Pacquiao, while a third gave De La Hoya only the first round. The Associated Press scored every round for the winner.
If De La Hoya's career is over, it will be the end of a remarkable story that began when he won the Olympic gold medal in Barcelona in 1992 and went on to become the biggest box office attraction in the sport. But while he sold tickets, De La Hoya hadn't won a big fight in six years, and there were whispers long before the fight that he had nothing left. Pacquiao earned his biggest purse ever, a guaranteed $11 million, while De La Hoya was expected to make at least twice that in a fight by the time all the pay-per-view revenues are totaled up.
