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Nicklaus won two of his 18 majors at St. Andrews Associated Press LONDON -- Jack Nicklaus said Monday the British Open at St. Andrews in July will mark the end of his tournament career. The Royal & Ancient Golf Club moved up St. Andrews in the Open rotation to give the Golden Bear one last chance to play on his favorite links. Nicklaus, 65, will be playing the British Open for the last time. He hasn't played in the Open since 2000 at St. Andrews. The Royal & Ancient Golf Club moved up St. Andrews in the rotation to give Nicklaus one last chance to play on his favorite links. His son, Steve, will caddie for him at the July 14-17 major. "From a tournament standpoint that will be it for me," Nicklaus said during a promotional appearance in Britain. "I will play a few skins games and father-sons, but from any kind of tournament involvement, that's it. "Why St. Andrews?" he said. "I love St. Andrews. It's been a great part of my career." Nicklaus, winner of 18 majors, won at St. Andrews in 1970 and '78. Nicklaus played his last Masters in April, missing the cut by five strokes. On his last hole, he brushed away tears and hugged his oldest son, Jackie. "I expect I'll be just as emotional at St. Andrews," Nicklaus said. "I'm a sentimental old fool. I enjoy being part of history and what's going on, but I don't consider myself competitive any more. "Hopefully when I get to St. Andrews I will have some kind of game. It won't be great, but I hope not to embarrass myself. I will enjoy it." Nicklaus came to England to promote a golf and property development in Spain. http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=2061483&CMP=OTC-DT9705204233

I am with Gary and Collin on this, the best players should play. There is a whole world out there that the seemingly majority of Americans seem to believe they are better than just because. You guys have the best university system I have experienced, over here there is not a second though given to going to watch the football(soccer) team play, the attitude it is happens, who cares! due to this good system and the scholarships on offer the best players from overseas are likely to be drawn to it (with the exception of football in europe at least cause if you are good enough you will have been at a football academy at a professional club since you were 12, and if good enough turning pro at 16) International Diversity is a good thing, unless y'all are afraid of a lil competition!

RE Swimming....Do we have the facilities in place or would we need to build a 50 metre pool and diving pool? Just curious cause I cannot remember what swimming pools were available whilst I was there other than the Andros Pool!

Neither.... Not offical alumni as only attended for one semester on international exchange No Season ticket cause I live 3,500 miles away and that would be a ***** of a journey! (although I am planning it for the WVU game!) Given the chance I reckon a couple of season tickets would be a worth while investment cause in the years to come they will be a HOT commodity you have to disown your first born for!

If this is the fact, surely we should be advertising it and pushing it in order to sell more tickets?

NFL to probe Glazer's Man Utd bid The NFL finance committee will review Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer's bid to assume full control Manchester United for £790m. Glazer is set to buy a majority share at Old Trafford but there are growing concerns in the US about how he intends to pay back the £540m he has borrowed. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed there is a possibility Glazer intends to use the Buccaneers as collateral. "The committee is just going to look for issues of concern," Aiello said. Glazer bought the Buccaneers for £125m a decade ago and transformed the team, leading them to the Super Bowl in 2003. Last year, Forbes magazine valued the Florida team at £421m ($779m) which would go some way to financing Glazer's move for Manchester United. The Glazer family have pledged not to sell the Buccaneers and the team's general manager Bruce Allen insisted affairs at Old Trafford, "won't change anything we've been doing". He added cheerfully: "Throughout the world, they're going to be talking about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/4546479.stm

Why Glazer wants Man United It seems safe to say a love of sport is not Malcolm Glazer's main motive for seizing control of Manchester United. The US tycoon is rumoured to have once celebrated a touchdown for his Tampa Bay Buccaneers gridiron side with great gusto - until someone told him he was cheering on the opposition. So it is unlikely Glazer initiated a £790m takeover just so he could sample the joy of soccer in the company of 68,000 fans who will certainly not be telling him to have a nice day. Manchester United is the richest club in the world, ranked top in terms of income by Deloitte and Touche for the past eight years. And Glazer appears determined to make it - and himself - even richer. United's board voiced concerns last month about the "aggressive" nature of Glazer's plans, which may give a hint of things to come. The 76-year-old is reported to have increased ticket prices at the Buccaneers in every season since he took over in 1995, and United fans expect him to do the same at Old Trafford. Current prices are low compared with some of United's main rivals, leaving room for manoeuvre, and corporate hospitality and refreshments are other possible target areas. Merchandising could be less profitable, as United's merchandising rights are now controlled by Nike. Glazer has a reputation for maximising corporate sponsorship. GLAZER AND TAMPA BAY Bought Buccaneers for $192m in 1995 Brought in new coaching team Ditched old mascot/changed team colour from orange to red and black New $200m stadium in 1998 Won Super Bowl in 2003 Bucs now worth four times as much as in 1995 United already have lucrative sponsorship deals with Nike, Vodaphone and Budweiser, but there is always the naming rights to Old Trafford. Tampa Bay's new stadium was named the Raymond James Stadium in 1998 in a deal with a financial company, and Arsenal's £100m link-up with Emirates highlights the potential for the Premiership's big guns. United have already made moves to maximise their global earning potential with tours to the United States and the Far East. Glazer's marketing expertise in the US would leave him well placed to promote United in his home country, but the number of major sports and teams competing for dollars makes it a tough market to crack. There is also the question of whether enough United fans in the Far East can afford to, or will choose to buy official merchandise when cheaper counterfeit goods are freely available. It is widely believed that Glazer's main battleground will be television rights. These are currently sold by the Premier League as part of a collective agreement with the 20 top-flight clubs, with the money shared out between them. It has been estimated that United could make £15m a year more if they sold their rights individually, as European rivals like Real Madrid and Juventus do. Fans of other clubs who are crowing about it should wait and see Football finance expert Alan Flitcroft Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore does not believe the other clubs would allow them to go it alone as a two-thirds vote would be required to change the status quo. The European Commission's dislike for collective agreements could offer Glazer some hope if he decided to mount a legal challenge to the current arrangement. But Alan Flitcroft, a football finance expert at Ernst and Young, told BBC Sport that problems with individual bargaining in Italy and Spain had softened the EC's stance. "More realistic would be to negotiate for a greater share of what is currently on offer," he said. "That could be done either by changing the way the current cake is allocated, or by pushing to be able to sell Manchester United's rights overseas. "But that is certainly not going to be easy for him to achieve." Hand in hand with Glazer's commercial masterplan has to be the need to keep Manchester United in the best possible shape on the pitch. "The first thing he has to do is pay interest on his debt just to stand still, which means diverting profit which would otherwise have been reinvested in the club," said Flitcroft. "He will have to find the right balance, but I'm not so sure it's a doomsday scenario. All the fans of other clubs who are crowing about it should wait and see." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/4543215.stm

They blew the lead, Houston scored 2 runs on a wild pitch in bottom of 7th 4-3 Houston

3-2 heading into bottom of the 7th

1. What was your favorite "Away" Game? (Any sport) Unfortunaley havent been to any...Best game was So Miss at RJS 2. What do you think will be your favorite "AWAY" Game in 2005-06 ? Won't be able to make any unfortunaley, the Miami on is intriging though, just so long as we win the WVU game cause I should be there! 3. Favorite USF Sport ? Football 4. Favorite sport you would want to play professionall - if able. Baseball - Get to sit on your ass for half a game and earn shedloads for it 5. Did you ever coach a sport ? Intermural 'Soccer' - The 'World Stars', woulda won it also if we hadnt all got deported!

3-1 Bulls - Middle of the 5th, Bulls runs scored with 2 outs in top of the 5th.

http://131.247.89.124/usfsid/softball/game8/xlive.htm 0-0 after the 1st Bulls, One out, one on, top of 2nd

LOL, that is what some people are planning to do! Create Manchester United AFC, only things is over here you cannot simply create a new team and start in the big leagues, they will have to start in the small sunday leagues and win promotion through at least 10 different divisions to reach the premiership, that gonna take at least 10 years assuming you win promotion every year! As for people shunning the games to hurt them through non attendence, the fan base is such they could sell out old trafford 3-4 times over so for every 20,000 who dont turn up there is plenty to take there place, however these wont be the die hard fans, these will be the glory hunters/corporate people (once described as the prawn sandwich brigade! as they make no noise at the games cause they are two busy eating their prawn sandwiches) who are only interested in being seen their/can tell there freinds they were there cause its the thing to be done. As for selling the ground I doubt this will happen cause I dont know what he will profit from doing so! the council definatley wont be building him a new one, EVER, plus the land it siis on is fairly worthless cause its in next to an industrial park and not in prime postion for housing. He might sell the naming rights to the ground, that would be bad enough, its been Old Trafford for at least 60 years and certainly dont need to be changed now. As for your comment about it being big business, thats just the problem, it seems that he is viewing the venture as just another business opportunity to profit maximise and not as a football club. One thing that might come back to bite him is, if he does renegotiate the TV deal makes more money for the club and gets every game on TV the attendence will likely suffer as it has in Italy, where every game is played in front of half filled stadiums. Granted they will probably sell out the big games but half empty stadiums for half the games in a saeson will probably hurt in the long run. In amendment to what I said earlier the second amount of £250m he is raising will not be guaranteed against the club but against his families money.

Previously it was owned by the fans and anyone as it was a listed company, Magnier and McManus were just large share holders but didnt get involved in the running of the club. Prior to Glazer taking over the club the club was the just about the most efficiently run in the world, all investments were made without the need to borrow funds therefore the club has no large debts. Glaser is funding his takeover using a £250m (~$450m) loan that has been borrowed based on the future earning of the club, as soon as he reaches the 75% mark he is going to transfer this debt so that it become property of the club and not himself any longer, also he is planning to raise another £250m by issuing debt against the club, therefore the club is going from a position of no debt to £500m of debt overnight. Ticket prices are the first thing that will be raised in order to cover these costs, why should we have to pay for him to buy our club? Also his 5 year plan that allows £100m of transfer funds to be made available is insufficient, £20m a year just aint enough to buy a single top player, one player we bought last summer cost £27m, the best palyer in England Also this takeover has repurcussions for the whole of football, in order to maximise his revenue streams he is likely to break the collective TV agreement for the whole of the premiership and try to negotiate a single deal for United, yes they might end up with more revenue from it but at the expense of the smaller clubs, as the smaller clubs have less TV money they have smaller transfer kitty's to purchase players in the lower leagues therefore less money trickling down.

How is the game going? the game tracker isnt working for me

The views of people in the UK... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4541487.stm

Fans rage at Glazer takeover move Glazer has a 62% share after securing the 28.7% stake of Irish racing tycoons JP MacManus and John Magnier. Nick Towle, chairman of fans' pressure group, Shareholders United, claimed he has ripped up his season ticket. He said: "I am very sad - I still love the club but I refuse to put a penny into the company. And I believe as many as 20,000 fans may also leave Man Utd." Fans have begun to gather around Old Trafford, and some have marched around the ground with a huge "Not For Sale" banner. There has also a "sit-down" protest with fans blocking a main road next to Old Trafford - while others have burned season-ticket renewal forms in a gesture of defiance. Supporters are concerned about the level of debt involved in Glazer's bid and fear for the club's future. Oliver Houston, vice chairman of Shareholders United, told BBC Radio Five Live that Glazer is "no Roman Abramovich". Chelsea's Russian billionaire owner, Abramovich, has invested over £200m on players since taking over, bankrolling the club to the Premiership title this season. Glazer buying Utd is just another nail in the coffin of football as we know it From NS Have your say on 606 Houston predicted an entirely different scenario at United. He said: "He's not turning up with a suitcase full of his own cash. "He is, in effect, asking Manchester United fans to pay for his takeover, to pay for increased ticket prices and increased merchandising." Shareholders United, which represents 17% of the club's stockholders, still hopes to prevent Glazer reaching the 75% level of shares he needs to make his offer unconditional - and essentially own the club. But Towle admitted: "It's looking like an uphill battle for us." Fellow member of Shareholders United, journalist Michael Crick - biographer of United manager Sir Alex Ferguson - believes Glazer's "hard-nosed business record" spells danger. He said: "He is going to be much keener to boost profits, particularly as he's going to have to borrow so much to buy the club. If Glazer does get control, we will up sticks and form a new club Jules Spencer, Independent Manchester United Supporters Association "I can only see that it's the fans who are going to lose out here in a big way." MP Tony Lloyd, who represents Manchester Central and is also a Manchester United shareholder, told Five Live: "I'm a very modest shareholder, I wish I had more so that I could do my best to block what I think is an unwelcome bid. "I think most football supporters in this country will see this as being an undesirable move because it's not in the interests of the game of football." Jules Spencer, chairman of the Independent Manchester United Supporters Association is ready to take radical action. "If this is to be the end then we will go down kicking and screaming," he said. "If Glazer does get control, then we will up sticks and form a new club which will continue the traditions and heritage and the legacy of 125 years of Manchester United. "We don't want Malcolm Glazer, we want a club run for the fans - and that is what we will do." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/4541093.stm

Can he not take a hint that he is not wanted?

With some of the QB's we got coming in/potentially (schaffer sp?) coming in, could be the case here soon also!

Bottom of inning, Man on 1st, 0 outs

10 - 5 Bottom of 7th, 2 out, man on 3rd and 1st

9-5 - Bottom of 7th, 2 out, man on 1st

8-4 Middle of 5th

How about a UK one????

How about....... Goldmember King Midas A Block of gold?