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The NASCAR Sprint Cup race held Labor Day weekend at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana will be moved to October starting next year, speedway President Gillian Zucker said Monday. This year's race, the Pepsi 500, is Aug. 31 but that will change to Oct. 11 in 2009, as part of a three-track swap on the Cup schedule, Zucker said. The two-mile Auto Club Speedway oval also stages a Cup race in late
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Chase Utley
Since 1897, the universities of Michigan and Ohio State have faced off in what has become the most hotly contested rivalry in college football, if not all American sport. This Michigan Vs. Ohio State Documentary DVD takes a look at the origins of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry, as well as how the contest evolved through the decades into the all-encompassing rivalry it has become today.
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NCAA Football
Ohio State Buckeyes
Michigan Wolverines
The Irish are going to Ireland for a head start to their season.
Basketball season, that is.
Notre Dame left Tuesday for a 13-day trip that will include six games before the football team plays its first. The Irish started practicing Aug. 4, four days before the football team and two months ahead of the traditional October start of basketball practice.
"We're so far ahead right now," said ...
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NCAA Basketball
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
The Bears on Thursday announced the launch of a new advertising initiative featuring the special bond between the city, team and its fans. The “One City. One Team.” brand campaign kicks off during Saturday night’s Bears-Seahawks preseason game on WFLD-TV beginning at 8 p.m. Chicago time.
Bears fans take a starring role alongside players and coach Lovie Smith as the campaign focuses on the
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NFL
Chicago Bears
The five former Fighting Irish head football coaches whose teams won one or more consensus national championship at the University of Notre Dame will be honored during the 2008 Irish home football season.
Each of the five coaches - Knute Rockne (championships in 1924, '29, '30), Frank Leahy (1943, '46, '47, '49), Ara Parseghian (1966, '73), Dan Devine (1977) and Lou Holtz (1988) - and/or ...
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NCAA Football
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Lou Holtz
Hall of Fame
The Blackhawks are proud to announce their first ever Training Camp Festival, which will take place at the United Center on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 8 am to 4 pm. The Festival will include a 5K Run/Walk/Skate, a 3-On-3 Street Hockey Tournament and a public Blackhawks Practice, plus live music and an interactive games area.
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NHL
Chicago Blackhawks
United Center
The Chicago White Sox will give young fans the opportunity to obtain autographs from players and/or coaches at a "kids-only" pregame autograph session scheduled for Thursday, August 14.
The special autograph session is being added to the schedule to make-up for a Kids Day session that had been previously canceled due to weather.
Children, 13 years old and younger, will be allowed to ...
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MLB
Chicago White Sox
Bismarck Enterprises at the United Center has the following P/T positions available for talented Team Members to join us for the 2008-09 season the of Chicago Blackhawks and Bulls: Bartenders, Servers, Hosts, Cocktail Servers, Barbacks, Bussers/Runner, Suite Attendants, Press Lounge Attendant; Concessions Stand Workers; Cooks, Dishwasher, Porters; Retail Sales Associate; Laundry Room ...
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NBA
Chicago Blackhawks
United Center
Chicago Bulls
GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME), announced that it will host “Madden Mania” events on Monday, August 11, 2008, at over 3,000 of its U.S. GameStop stores for the launch of MADDEN NFL ’09 by Electronic Arts. The festivities mark the beginning of the NFL video game season and celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the game with MADDEN NFL ’09 tournaments, tailgate events and a variety of contests leading up ...
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John Madden
• This Week’s AT&T; Chevrolet at Watkins Glen International … Jeff Burton will race chassis No. 249 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Cup Series stable. Built new for 2008, Burton raced this car earlier this season at Infineon Raceway where he started 20th and finished 13th.
• Watkins Glen Summary … In 14 NASCAR Cup starts at The Glen, Burton has posted two top-five and three top-10
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Autos
Jeff Burton
Richard Childress
The Chicago Bulls will tip off their 43rd season on Tuesday, October 28, when they host the Milwaukee Bucks in their season opener at 7:30 p.m. at the United Center.
Three days later, Chicago will take to the road for the first time when they travel to Boston and face the NBA Champion Celtics at 7:00 p.m.
For just the second time in team history and the first since 1997.98, the 2008.09 ...
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NBA
Chicago Bulls
Milwaukee Bucks
United Center
Boston Celtics
Cleveland Cavaliers
The NFL implemented a new code of fan conduct Tuesday, warning that spectators who misbehave will be ejected from stadiums and barred from coming back.
The policy, first recommended by commissioner Roger Goodell at league meetings in April, is aimed at conduct that the league said "detracts from the gameday experience."
It includes bans on:
• Behavior that is unruly, disruptive, or ...
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NFL
Roger Goodell
Richard Childress is still looking for the right driver to add to his Cup team.
He said earlier this year that Richard Childress Racing plans to add a fourth Cup driver for next season, joining Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton and Clint Bowyer. But the search has dragged on longer than Childress expected.
"You've got to find the right person," Childress said Sunday. "You don't want to mess up the
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Autos
Richard Childress
Jeff Burton
Josh Childress
Kevin Harvick
Clint Bowyer
The Chicago White Sox have invited a Gurnee man who lost his eye in a fight with three Cubs fans to attend a game of his choice this season with his fiancee.
White Sox spokesman Lou Hernandez told The (Crystal Lake) Northwest Herald that 32-year-old Robert Steele and his fiancee April Bieze would be guests of the team.
Three Chicago Cubs fans face felony charges in McHenry County after
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MLB
Chicago White Sox
Chicago Cubs
Nine participants in the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympic Games, which will be held in Beijing, China from Aug. 8-24, have ties to the University of Notre Dame. All nine competitors are former, current or future Fighting Irish student-athletes. Six of the athletes are female, which matches an all-time high for Notre Dame from the 2004 Olympics.
The Notre Dame women's soccer program boasts four
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NCAA Football
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
USA
Freddie Prinze, Jr., a long-time fan of World Wrestling Entertainment, joins WWE’s creative team. Prinze, Jr. will now have a behind the scenes role contributing to WWE’s weekly television and pay-per-view programs.
“Freddie Prinze, Jr.’s passion, energy and creativity make him an excellent fit for WWE,” said Chairman Vince McMahon.
"Bringing on board an experienced Hollywood writer, actor ...
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USA
A group of former Chicago Bears players will be spending a day on the links at Saint Xavier University’s 12th Annual Golf Classic on Aug. 5 at Silver Lake Country Club in Orland Park.
Former Bear Bruce Herron will join guests’ foursomes as a fifth player, as will Bears alums Dan Hampton, Otis Wilson, Robin Earl, Wendell Davis, Mickey Pruitt, Bob Parsons, Brian Glasgow and former Atlanta ...
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Chicago Bears
Xavier Musketeers
Dan Hampton
Chicago Cubs
USA
2007
Schlitz Snipers over Patches O'Houlihan 3rd Place: Dukes of Hazzard
2006
Dukes of Hazzard over Wolverines 3rd Place: Coral Reefers
2005
Code Brown over Monkey Boy 3rd Place: Schlitz Snipers
2004
Matadors over Packers Suck 3rd Place: Dukes of Hazzard
2003
Monkey Boy over Packers Suck 3rd Place: ?
2002
Eyes Wide Open over Blue Irish 3rd Place: Dukes of Hazzard
2001
Dukes of Hazzard
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Sports fans in Chicago unite! The UFC is coming to town and it is bringing the world's greatest pound for pound fighter, Anderson "The Spider" Silva, for a middleweight title fight against his number one contender, Patrick "The Predator" Cote. The UFC will make its historic first trip to Chicago this fall when it presents UFC 90: SILVA vs. COTE live from Allstate Arena on Saturday, Oct. 25, ...
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