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unusual facts about Sportsmen's Lodge


35th Young Artist Awards

Winners will be announced on Sunday, May 4, 2014 at the annual ceremony and banquet dinner held in the Empire Ballroom of the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City, California.


2012 US Open – Men's Singles final

Many fellow players current and former, took to Twitter in order to congratulate Murray, including Rafael Nadal, Pat Cash, Laura Robson, Victoria Azarenka, Jo Durie and Colin Fleming, as well as a host of other sportsmen and celebrities such as Gary Lineker, Sir Chris Hoy, Gordon Reid, Stephen Fry and Sir Alex Ferguson.

Anthony Minichiello

Biviano starred in the first season of WAG Nation, a reality show that documents the lives of five wives/girlfriends of Australian sportsmen.

Arras Memorial

Those listed on this memorial include the following sportsmen: Isaac Bentham, Walter Tull, Sandy Turnbull, James Williams.

Bartley Green

Bartley Green has produced sportsmen and women including Fliss Johnson, a former pupil of Woodgate Primary School, who became the English Ladies Amateur Golf Champion in May 2005 and won the BBC Midlands Sports Woman of the Year Award.

Bowthorpe

Also, it has been home to a few sportsmen, including Paul McVeigh.

British Volleyball Federation

A student of Canadian James Naismith, William G. Morgan, wanted a less energetic game for older sportsmen in 1895.

Castelldefels

The town is famous for its long beach (more than 5 km), for being the place of residence of many famous sportsmen and for being the city which inspired the creation of the character "El Neng de Castefa" who used to appear on the late night show called "BFN" hosted by the showman and presenter Andreu Buenafuente.

Centre Tola Vologe

The facility is named after Anatole Tologe, commonly called Tola Vologe, who was a Lyon sportsmen and was murdered by the Gestapo during World War II.

Craig MacLean

This programme challenged Craig and fellow British sportsmen Jason Gardener, Dean Macey and Dan Luger to qualify for the British Championships in Italy, with only 10 days training.

Elena Tchaikovskaia

The Russian Academy of Theatre Arts has a special faculty for former sportsmen and figure skaters who are willing to become coaches.

Goans in sports

Goa is a tiny region along the west coast of India, and is known for its many sportsmen.

Hadi Abbas

He was one of many sportsmen who held memberships with the Iraqi Communist Party that were rounded up and imprisoned by the new Baathist government after the bloody coup of February 8, 1963.

Hayley Turner

Hayley is also one of few top class sportsmen or women, who admit to suffering from Coeliac Disease.

Jan Kal

His range of styles and subjects is wide, including love poetry, religious poems, and occasional poetry (notably celebrating sportsmen Ard Schenk, Joop Zoetemelk and Johan Cruijff).

Jock's Lodge

Meadowbank Stadium, immediately to the west was the location for the 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games.

John Lade

They live on, however in literature: for example, in Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated Regency novel Rodney Stone, the mature Sir John Lade, a leader of the "Corinthian" set of gentleman-sportsmen, serves to represent the London life the pugilist-hero immerses himself in, and is introduced by means of a race from Brighton to London.

Lomagundi College

Lomagundi has produced some great sportsmen and women over the decades, such as Greg Lamb (Cricket), Sean Ervine (Cricket), Brendan Taylor (Cricket) and Margaret Odendaal (Athletics).

Londrina Esporte Clube

Londrina was founded by a group of sportsmen who, after watching a friendly match between Nacional and Vasco da Gama in Rolândia, decided that they did not want to go to Rolândia to watch football.

Matthew Borden

He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Down Town Association, Jekyll Island Club, Merchants Club of New York, Metropolitan Club of New York, New England Society, New York Yacht Club, Players Club of New York, Republican Club of New York, Riding Club of New York, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Skull and Bones, South Side Sportsmen's Club, Union League Club of New York and the Whist Club of New York.

Matthew Boyce

He was inspired to raise awareness of depression after the suicides of sportsmen Gary Speed and Peter Roebuck and, although not suffering himself, he was frustrated by the lack of understanding people have of how depression can impact on people from all walks of life.

Maxwell School

Maxwell School has produced Malaysian sportsmen including Zainal Abidin Hassan, E.C. Dutton (national goalkeeper) S.A. Azman (national tennis player) and national cricket players.

Michael Don

Michael Don's restaurants are often visited by well-known public persons: movie stars, politics, sportsmen: Presidents of Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk and Viktor Yuschenko), President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, French nutritionist Pierre Dukan, Stephen Webster – famous jeweler, etc.

Mikhael K. Pius

He had been good friends with many of the top Assyrian football players from his days in Habbaniya such as Aram Karam, Youra Eshaya and Ammo Baba and interviewed many of the top sportsmen in football, boxing, hockey, and tennis that came from Habbaniya.

New Albany Hotel

A 1941 postcard promotes the town as "the world's greatest paper shell pecan center", "the bird dog capital of the world", "mecca for sportsmen in this field" and noted that the "famous Radium Springs resort is one of the most beautiful natural springs in the South".

Norm Hadley

Stormin' Norman was later named in Britain's glossy Total Sport Magazine (August 1997 issue, "The Blood and Guts, Hard Issue") as one of the World's 12 Toughest Sportsmen alongside Lance Armstrong and F1 racer Johnny Herbert.

Osgood Gamekeeper's Lodge

The Osgood Gamekeeper's Lodge is located along State Highway 133 near Redstone, Colorado, United States.

Outdoor Life Conservation Pledge

The pledge was written to remind readers of Outdoor Life magazine and other sportsmen of the vigilance needed to preserve the natural world.

Percy Stout

Several of Stout's brothers were high profile sportsmen, and he followed younger brother Frank in joining association football team Gloucester City.

Pete Bostwick

Son Pete Jr. was one of the best and most versatile amateur sportsmen in American history who won two National squash titles and hard racquets Open Championships and who also excelled at golf, ice hockey, court tennis and Lawn Tennis.

Remington Model 30

However, this was unnecessary on a sporting rifle and the Mauser M98 and M1903 Springfield type cock-on-opening bolt was preferred by American sportsmen so the action was developed accordingly.

Rugby Club Luxembourg

The club has recently recruited several local sportsmen from other sports, including Stéphane Gillet, former Luxembourg national football team goalkeeper, as a back row.

Sasha Siemel

He is a legend among sportsmen, having successfully hunted more than 300 jaguars — or “tigres,” as the big cats are colloquially known in parts of Latin America—in the Mato Grosso jungles of Brazil.

Shad Planking

The site is the wooded property of a sportsmen's club near U.S. Route 460 near the incorporated town of Wakefield in Sussex County, about an hour southeast of the Virginia State Capitol at Richmond.

Singapore Cable Car

It played hosts to the contestants of the Miss World Pageant when it was held in Singapore in 1989, as well as the sportsmen and officials who were there for the Southeast Asian Games in 1990.

Socialist Workers' Sport International

Discussions lingered on within the Lucerne International, but after communist sportsmen had made a public protest at a German Workers Sports Festival in Karlsbad in 1924, it was decided that the Sportintern would be barred from the Workers Olympiad.

Steward's Lodge

In 2005, a spokeswoman for Bertie Ahern stated he had no interest in using it, and he remained resident in his private home in Drumcondra in Dublin.

Taoiseach

However, in 2008 it was reported that the former Steward's Lodge at Farmleigh adjoining the Phoenix Park would become the official residence of the Taoiseach.

Victor Beamish

He was the eldest of the Beamish brothers who were all accomplished sportsmen and RAF officers; his brothers being George, Charles and Cecil.

Villa Agnelli and Villa Pesenti, Forte dei Marmi

Many important artists, actors, sportsmen and prominent cultural figures have spent their vacation in the villas of the Augustus Hotel&Resort: Jimi Hendrix, Charlton Heston, Oriana Fallaci, Eugenio Montale, Francesco Messina, Mario Monicelli, Paul Anka, Vittorio Gassman and many others.

Wrecclesham

This is where Jonny Wilkinson and Graham Thorpe started careers in their professional sports as well as many sportsmen of some generations before such as Billy Beldham and Vic Cannings.


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