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Bruce Clarke

His past guitar students include Mick Harvey, Robert Goodge (of I'm Talking), Pierre Jaquinot,Laszlo Sirsom (sirsom.wix.com), Mark Cally, Anne McCue, Doug de Vries, Dominic Kiernan, Barry Morton, and Andrew Pendlebury (of The Sports).

The Boys Are Back in Town: Live in Australia

The opening acts for the concert were The Sports, Jon English and Wha-Koo, though these acts do not appear on the CD or some of the video releases.


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1954 FIFA World Cup

The final scene of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film The Marriage of Maria Braun takes place during the finals of the 1954 World Cup; in the scene's background, the sports announcer is celebrating West Germany's victory and shouting "Deutschland ist wieder was!" (Germany is something again); the film uses this as the symbol of Germany's recovery from the ravages of the Second World War.

1990 Presto Tivolis season

Arnie Tuadles was awarded by the Sports and columnist organization of the Philippines (SCOOP) as the Most Outstanding Player of the All-Filipino finals series.

1999 Pan Arab Games

Two of the sports were held and concluded before the opening ceremony: the athletics and basketball competitions were held early to allow the athletes to prepare and attend the 1999 World Championships in Athletics and the 1999 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship, respectively, which clashed with the dates for the Pan Arab Games that year.

A.C. Palazzolo

Between 1989 (when it acquired the sports title of G.S. Telgate of Telgate) and 1996 the club played a total of 4 seasons in Serie C1 and 3 in Serie C2.

A.S.D. Città di Giulianova 1924

A new club was immediately refounded in the summer 2012 as A.S.D. Città di Giulianova 1924, acquiring the sports title of Eccellenza Abruzzo club Cologna Paese, based in Roseto degli Abruzzi.

Armin Scholz

In 1994-1995 and 1997-2001 he was a student at the Sports Department of the Leipzig University.

Bernd Dießner

After retiring he has worked as a coach in the sports club LAC Erdgas Chemnitz, for André Pollmächer among others.

Bob Valvano

His show also features the Sports Radio Match Game regularly, based upon the 1970s edition of Match Game, complete with audio from the show.

Bught

The sports fields are used as the home grounds for Inverness Blitz American football home games.

C103

Monday's features include Nutrition & Health queries with Nutritionist Anneliese Dressel and towards end of final hour the Sports Roundup with Paudie Palmer.

Carlos Carbonell Pascual

He studied with world champions and Olympian medalists as Kate Howey or Daniel Lascau as well as with some of the Sports Directors of the European Judo Union (EJU).

CJRN

In addition to its regular schedule of tourist information programming, CJRN acted as the radio broadcast home for the sports teams of Buffalo, New York's Canisius College, including men's and women's basketball and hockey.

Curt Chaplin

He began his career as a radio news and sports reporter in New York City in the 1970s, later becoming a New York radio personality, working with Howard Cosell, Don Imus, Howard Stern and many others, and was the sports reporter/sidekick on WNEW-FM's popular Rock 'n Roll Morning Show from 1986-1991.

CV Productions, Inc.

“The Sports Museum has brought to light the central role that Pittsburgh has played in the sports of boxing and wrestling, focusing on such greats as Bruno Sammartino and Kurt Angle,” said Anne Madarasz, co-director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum.

David M. Granger

After graduate school, Granger held positions as executive editor of Adweek and Mediaweek; he worked on the launch of The National Sports Daily and served as its executive features editor; he helped launch Sports, Inc., the Sports Business Weekly, and worked as an editor at Sport Magazine and Family Weekly prior to that.

Don Nehlen's Tales from the West Virginia Sideline

Don Nehlen's Tales from the West Virginia Sideline (ISBN 1-59670-022-X) is a late 2006 book written by Don Nehlen, former head coach for the West Virginia Mountaineers, and Shelly Poe, the Sports Information Director at West Virginia University.

Georgetown Tigers

The Georgetown College Tigers are the sports teams of Georgetown College located in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Goodwin Sports Centre

The pitches sit on top of former water reservoirs: The sports pitches on Whitham Road opposite Weston Park Hospital are the site of Godfrey Dam, built in 1790 and extended in 1853.

Heli-Sport CH-7

It was developed by Josi and Claudio Barbero and, with the help of the sports car designer, Marcello Gandini who produced a new, enclosed, cabin, marketed from 1992 as the CH-7 Angel.

Herbert Mayr

Mayr studied sport in Bologna during the mid-1960s, at the end of the 1970s was a professor at the University of Innsbruck and from 1987 until 1994 was the chairman of the sports club SSV Bozen.

Hyper V-Ball

This game was featured in the "sports game section" of the October 1993 issue of Nintendo Power magazine where the producer of the game McO'River was humorously confused for a new trout burger at McDonald's.

Jarun

Development increased in 1987 due to the building of the sports and leisure center (because of the Universiade in Zagreb the same year).

Jennie Gow

In 2001, she became Traffic and Travel presenter on BBC Radio Solent, and then moved to the sports team as a journalist covering Southampton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth.

John Hollinger

Hollinger spent the next three years as the sports editor at OregonLive.com, developing an intimate understanding of the inner workings of the NBA, both as a game and a business.

John Lillywhite

In 1863, members of the family established the sports outfitters Lillywhites.

John Steigerwald

John worked on the sports anchor team at WTAE-TV (ABC), along with other Pittsburgh notables such as Myron Cope and Bill Hillgrove.

Jorge Gabriel

Later he worked to the sports section of the Rádio Comercial, where he stayed more than three years, returned to Rádio Mais and collaborated in the TSF sports programs.

Julie Zwillich

Zwillich was a host on the popular TVOKids live broadcast from 1999–2002 and went on to host BrainBounce! on TV Ontario and Discovery UK, and the sports show SWEAT on OLN and TSN.

Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck

Back in 1958, von Groddeck moved from Wiesbaden to Hamburg to work for Axel Springer AG as a journalist in the sports section of a newspaper.

Ken Singleton

After retiring as a baseball player, Singleton began his broadcasting career as a sportscaster for WJZ-TV in Baltimore in the middle 1980s and, has worked for TSN (The Sports Network) as a television color commentator and as a radio color commentator on Montreal Expos broadcasts and as a color commentator for Fox Sports.

Kunwara Baap

The Sports Day, a major scene in the movie, is shot in Bishop Cotton Boys' School

Larry Coon

In July 2011 Sports Illustrated named Coon to their Twitter 100 which lists the 100 most essential people in the sports world to follow on Twitter.

Matti Hautamäki

The help of his new coach Pekka Niemelä, whom he met at the sports school in Kuopio, also quickly helped him advance.

MillsporT

Millsport became the sports sponsorship and motorsports consulting and activation division of fellow Omnicom agency The Marketing Arm in 2004, a move that triggered several personnel moves within the agency.

Navy Children School Mumbai

The current council has many capable members like the sports captain, Bosco Chiramal, a state level football champion in Maharashtra.

Neil Brooks

He once read the sports news segment while inebriated, and was then involved in a drunken argument with the Nine Network's Australian rules football pundit Sam Newman.

Patliputra Sports Complex

The sports complex was inaugurated on March 1, 2012 with the inauguration of the first Women's World Cup Kabbaddi Championship in India.

Ronald Reng

The Keeper of Dreams, the story of the German non-league goalkeeper Lars Leese who ended up playing for Barnsley Football Club in the Premier League, won the Sports Book of the Year Award in 2004.

SC Komet Berlin

A number of athletes from the sports club participated in the 1908 Olympic Games held in London, England with runner Arthur Hoffmann coming away with a silver medal as part of Germany's men's medley relay team, the country's best result in athletics at these games.

Sébastien Frey

In the battle, Frey gets a blunt trauma to the tibia that does stay out of the playing fields for a few months, forcing the sports director purple Pantaleo Corvino to return to the market to hire a replacement, then signed Bogdan Lobonț.

Sports Performer Awards

The Sports Performer Awards, supported by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and presented by Colonial First State, are one of the most prestigious and lucurative prizes in Australian sport, first awarded in 2007.

Super Agent

In each episode the sports agents were given assignments that allowed them to demonstrate their skills and talents as agents for Cody as he deliberated on which agent would ultimately be hired to manage his multi-million dollar American football career.

SV Esternberg

The youth section of the SVE organizes since 1991 each year the Juniors Indoor Soccer Cup for all age groups in the youth field in the Sports Hall of Schärding.

Sydney Adventist College

Some of the sports include: Aqua Aerobics, Tennis, Laser Tag, Skateboarding, Golf, Self Defence, Ice Skating, Soccer, Surfing, Basketball, Weight Training and Cycling.

Taïeb Mhiri

The sports stadium, Stade Taïeb Mhiri in Sfax, is named for him, as well as the street, Avenue Taieb Mhiri, in Tunis.

Tebesa Nemine

Due to his record setting performance at the Sports Festival, He was awarded 6 million naira ($39,000) by the Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan; 500,000 naira ($3250) for every gold medal won.

Vágseiði

The football stadium of FC Suðuroy and the sports hall Vágshøll are located on Vágseiði, 100-200 m from the cliffs.

Vivacom

In addition to the three main stations, the Bulgarian National TV (BNT), bTV and Nova Televizia, the package includes bTV Cinema, bTV Action, bTV Comedy, Fox Life, Diema, CNN, Euronews, DW; the sports channels Eurosport and RING.bg; Fiesta TV, Animal Planet; the musical channels MAD, City TV, T rock, Planeta Folk, Fen TV, Balkanika; and the children's channels Е-KIDS and Super 7, among others.

Walt Hriniak

When basketball great Michael Jordan surprised the sports world in 1994 by signing a minor league baseball contract with the White Sox, Hriniak was brought in to help him with his batting technique.