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  Encyclopedia: 1997 in sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music.
Snooker table Snooker is a billiards sport that is played on a large (12 X 6) baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long cushions.
1997 in sports Exceller (1973 - 1997) is widely considered one of the best horses to race in the United States and not win a year-end championship.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1997-in-sports   (5765 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1997: Events March 17–May 28 Linda Finch, pilot, aviation historian, and San Antonio, Texas businesswoman, flying a restored and specially equipped 62-year-old Lockheed Electra 10E, recreates the 1937 Amelia Earhart flight to circumnavigate the globe solo.
Launched on May 14, 1997, the Star Alliance was the first, and remains the largest airline alliance in the world.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1997   (10231 words)

  
 Report Number 05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sport has infiltrated the great social institutions of family, school, municipality, and private enterprise, and it has also encroached upon all the major media to become one of the great social phenomena of the twentieth century.
Sporting goods factories are primarily engaged in the manufacturing of sporting, athletic and recreation equipment, including equipment for archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, cycling, billiards, bowling, curling, fishing, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, hunting (excluding firearms), lacrosse, skating, skiing (excludes boots), snowshoeing, squash, table tennis, tennis, tobogganing, and track and field.
Considering that tourism in Canada, in 1997, had an economic impact (GDP) of $29.2 billion2 (or 3.4% of the GDP) and generated 503,200 person-years of employment, the role that sport plays in attracting tourists is significant.
www.parl.gc.ca /InfoComDoc/36/1/SINS/Studies/Reports/sinsrp05/04-rep-e.htm   (17014 words)

  
 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Officials at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time invoke the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading (this was a very controversial move and prompted a quick change in the rule; trading stops will only occur when the DJIA drops at least 10 or 20 percent) (see October 27, 1997 mini-crash).
December 30 - In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December 30, 1997, 400 people are killed from four villages in the wilaya of Relizane: Khrouba (176 deaths), Sahnoun (113 deaths), El-Abadel (73 deaths), and Ouled-Tayeb (50 deaths).
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger in December 1997.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1997   (4126 words)

  
 Physical Education & Sport Sciences Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The focus of each entry is on a discussion of the history and development of the sport over time, but also includes the organization of it, the equipment necessary, and the social aspects of it.
The AEE is a professional organization with roots in adventure education, committed to the development, practice, and evaluation of experiential learning in all settings.
Sports Science Exchange and Sports Science Exchange Roundtable articles are available in full-text from 1993 to present.
www.library.vcu.edu /guides/sports.html   (2707 words)

  
 NCAC All-Sports Competition - 1997-98
The Big Red built a 1.5-point advantage after the winter season and finished strong with one championship and three second-place finishes in the spring to total 149.5 points and break the previous scoring record of 146 set by Wittenberg in 1995-96.
The Big Red improved their standing in 13 sports and added 31.5 points to their total from a year ago -- the largest point increase in a non- expansion season in conference history.
The All-Sports award is given annually to the school that performs the best across the NCAC's 22 sports.
www.northcoast.org /all-sports/allsports98.html   (319 words)

  
 NSIC Web Archive - The Sports Factor Transcript Index 1997
The sports stadium is a major icon of the modern city, and around the world there's a sports construction boom going on.
Nowhere else in the world is intercollegiate sport as important as it is in the U.S.A. In 1972, Title IX banned sex discrimination in higher education.
Margaret Lindley, one of the speakers at a conference on Gender, Sexualities and Sport, on why people have a kind of moral code that means anything to do with sport must be sex-free, as if to excuse the sheer pleasure and game in playing of it.
www.ausport.gov.au /fulltext/1997/sportsf/index.htm   (2659 words)

  
 1997 NAIG - The Sports Component
The Games will offer a combination of artistic, cultural, spiritual and sporting events for approximately 4,500 athletes, ages 13-21 and 500 senior athletes, age 22 and older.
The 1997 North American Indigenous Games is blazing a new trail and working towards the integration of athletes with a disability into this year's games.
Special Olympics was the first to come on board and since then, wheelchair, blind and cerebral palsy sport organizations have been keen to follow their lead.
firstnations.com /naig97/sports-component.htm   (239 words)

  
 Business Wire: Coyote Sports Inc. 1997 Operating Results. @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Consolidated gross margins for the year and quarter ended Dec. 31, 1997 were 20% and 14% respectively, compared to 23% and 23% for the same period in 1996.
Operating expenses were 30% and 29% of revenue for the year and quarter ended Dec. 31, 1997 respectively, compared to 42% and 34% of revenues for comparable periods in 1996 respectively.
Many of the losses in 1997 were a direct result of the costs associated with reorganizing, refocusing and rebuilding these companies.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:20435153&refid=ink_tptd_g1   (815 words)

  
 1997 Sports Sponsorship Survey
It is also intended to assist sports personalities and sports organizations to identify those at tributes that make them potentially more valuable to a sponsor.
The Survey was completed in early 1997 and targeted US corporate sports sponsors and sports marketing/management agencies.
Less than half (47%) of sponsors who responded to the 1997 Sports Sponsorship Survey had moral clauses in their contracts with endorsers.
www.sportsmediachallenge.com /survey/CSsurvey.html   (742 words)

  
 Distribution of Cable Royalty Funds
After stating that it was ``recogniz[ing] the strengths and weaknesses'' of MPAA's and IPG's approaches, the Panel proceeded to summarily award IPG 0.5% of the 1997 cable fund and the remaining 99.5% to MPAA.
With respect to Dramatic Moments in Black Sports History, the CARP originally assigned it to IPG (as claimed by Litton) but was directed by the Librarian's June 5, 2001, Order to provide an explanation for this decision.
IPG's presentation operates from the assumption that every program retransmitted in 1997 has value and should be compensated from the royalty pool, and provides a sample survey that attempts to value each program based upon the royalty fees generated by television stations broadcasting the programming.
www.copyright.gov /fedreg/2001/66fr66433.html   (19675 words)

  
 1997 in sports - Articles about 1997 in sports
In what surely is the greatest reader service in the history of journalism, The All-American Sports IQ Test allows you to prove, once and for all, how......
Kenneth Shropshire, sports law and entertainment law attorney, is president elect of the Sports Lawyers Association, a nonprofit, international, professional......
Black athletes are represented in professional and college sports, but the number of minorities holding positions as coaches or athletic administrators......
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 Sports: September–December 1997
Dated and probably useless except for those interested in some kind of historical sports perspective.
I didn't attend the game (which was in the City), but I believe the score was something like 19-3.
Another really great sports Sunday, and I'm not just saying that because the Steelers came back from a 24-3 deficit.
www.siterev.com /~davison/sports/archives/archives9701.html   (3130 words)

  
 Search for 1997 In Sports - WordIQ.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
All the sports information you need including video, news, scores, schedules, fantasy leagues and analysis - all free at AOL Sports.
This sixth issue, Imagery in Sports, of Volume 2 of Coaching Science Abstracts reviews articles concerned with imagery and covert behavior activities that can be used in sports.
1997 in sports See also: 1996 in sports, other events of 1997, 1998 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'...
www.wordiq.com /web/1997+in+sports.html   (587 words)

  
 Researching In Kinesiology-Guides-McMaster University Libraries
Not limited to sports, it includes entries on the physiological aspects of activity, including nutrition, the heart, vision, etc. Bibliographies included at the end of articles.
Entries are primarily historical in nature and often include descriptions of key terms within the sport.
Focusing on people and events in sport since the end of World War II, this guide includes books, articles from magazines, journals and newspapers, conference papers, government publications, and other published sources.
library.lib.mcmaster.ca /research/kinesiol.htm   (544 words)

  
 Sport! Science: Ask Us a Sports Question   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
January/February 1998 - In some hockey telecasts, the path of the puck is shown in color.
October 1997 - What effect does the rim of a fisbee have on its flight?
July 1997 - Why does a rugby ball's flatter ends make it travel differently (through the air) than a football, when they are almost the same otherwise?
www.exploratorium.edu /sport/ask_us_sports.html   (108 words)

  
 Talkin' Sports - Feb 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But as much as I try to keep up on the latest sports cans, it is from the people at this one show that I actually acquire most of the cans I've been writing about.
Harley Davidson cans are here too, even though they aren't really sports cans- most sports can collectors just seem to include them in their collection.
But many will later want that 1997 set to go with the other three they worked so hard for, and they will pay a premium price to the entrepreneur who manages to put together complete sets of these 1997 cans.
www.zianet.com /spencer/tsfeb97.html   (629 words)

  
 Sports News -- February 1997
UA senior guard Michelle Chavanne (Columbus) broke her wrist in the first few minutes of the game on Monday against Kent and is out for the remainder of the season.
UA opens its 1997 season Friday, Feb. 28, at the University of California-Santa Barbara Tournament.
Kunkle served as as assistant coach during the '95 season at Morehead (Ky.) State and spent last spring as an assistant at her prep alma mater, Bethel Park High School.
www.uakron.edu /athletics/news/feb97.htm   (4933 words)

  
 Summer of 97: The summer of 1997 in sports
The awakening of a country to the season of its heartbeat coincided with the baseball season, and the totalitarian rule of America's pastime over summer recreation was twofold -- either you watched baseball during the summer or you played it.
The summer of 1997 illustrated just how vast and multifaceted the mosaic of American sports has become.
Summer is now a season of marquee championships, in hockey, basketball, golf, and tennis, and 1997 yielded captivating champions, both unlikely and predictable, unknowns and superstars, in blowouts and edge-of-your-seat finishes.
summer97.iwarp.com   (204 words)

  
 International Vegetarian Union - Sports & Physical Activity
Report on bicycle tour in Sweden, July 15th to August 2nd, 1997 (EVU 1997)
Sports and Fitness People - at the World Vegetarian Congress 1996
Vegetarian / Vegan Ironman and Ironlady (EVU 1997)
www.ivu.org /articles/sport.html   (296 words)

  
 1997 in sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sports * [fr]1997 en sport [ja]1997年のスポーツ [sv]SportÃ¥ret 1997
Jarden Sports Therapy Clinic was founded in 1997 and has had to date successes with treating commonwealth swimmers, journalists and members of the public from all walks of life.
In 1997, Winchester and Nosler, two of the most prominent names in the shooting sports industry, combined their considerable expertise to provide hunters with the most advanced bullets ever produced.
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=1997_in_sports   (1154 words)

  
 Talkin' Sports - Aug 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This month's oddball sports can photo is a bank-top can put out by Ball Canning for the William and Mary TRIBE's homecoming football game versus Brown University, Nov 6, 1982.
At the BCCA Richbrau Chapter show in Charlottesville, VA in July, there were a couple new sports cans I hadn't seen before.
As for the 1997 Michelob golf cans, there still appears to be only two DRY cans produced-5th Hole Pinehurst, and 16th Hole Warwick Hills.
www.zianet.com /spencer/tsaug97.html   (335 words)

  
 Talkin' Sports - Dec 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And most of the new ones have been from Miller, who seems to have taken over from Coors in the sports can field.
If you have sports cans in a separate display, it looks great to have some of these older sports-related tabs, flats, and cones scattered among the aluminum.
First there’s the Dodger and Twins cans, a must for the true sports collector, even though there will always be discussion whether these are TRUE sports-related cans.
www.zianet.com /spencer/tsdec97.html   (645 words)

  
 Sports News -- January 1997
The MAC and Motor City Bowl have signed a perpetual contract assuring the MAC and the Bowl of an affiliation for as long as the bowl and the conference both exist.
Bowl officials noted that while everything is in order, the game awaits official NCAA certification and a waiver to play in 1997.
The new class of inductees participated in five sports and cover a period from 1958 to 1986.
www.uakron.edu /athletics/news/jan97.htm   (3412 words)

  
 Current Baseball Publications: 1997
Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Facilities.
Sports Source ($ 22.45) 9-997-68822-8; for college bound baseball players.
Louis: The Sporting News (479 pp., photos, $ 19.95 p) 0-89204-570-1; a new publication from The Sporting News, premiere edition.
www.sabr.org /committ/biblio/cbp1997.htm   (5997 words)

  
 1997 in sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 1997 Baseball Encyclopedia Update: Complete Career Records for All Players Who Played in the 1996 Season (Serial)
Other books like Total Baseball give the same information but none are able to deliver it with the clarity of Macmillan.
Davis Cup by NEC: The Year in Tennis 1997 (Davis Cup: The Year in Tennis)
www.freeglossary.com /1997_in_sports   (954 words)

  
 MDO - Sports - 02/10/1997
On Saturday night, about 20 minutes after the Gophers hockey team wrapped up a sweep of Northern Michigan with a 2-1 win, Minnesota players began filtering out of the locker room wearing their usual dress pants, shirts and ties.
In a stunning display of heroism, junior Kipp Williamson leapt back into the Gophers lineup Sunday, sparking a 28-7 Minnesota triumph over Penn State at the Sports Pavilion.
With only two home meets scheduled this season, the Gophers men's gymnastics team was counting on a victory Saturday in their home gym.
www.mndaily.com /daily/1997/02/10/sports   (343 words)

  
 Marshall University Libraries - ESSR Research Guide
A bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts in physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, sport sociology/psychology, health education and physical therapy.
Within each sport (more than 200 make the cut), individual entries vary in length and depth depending on popularity and/or importance, and for the major sports they are quite extensive.
This Empowering Women in Sports report is a publication of the Feminist Majority Foundation's Task Force on Women and Girls in Sports.
www.marshall.edu /library/guides/essr.asp   (1766 words)

  
 Sports Illustrated - 1997 Swimsuit Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
To be fair to all, we will either offer the movie on a first-come, first-serve basis, or place the movie on our auction site if there are a high number of requests.
Sports Illustrated dedicates this years entry in the Swimsuit Competition to the celebration of the bikini.
Join host Rob Schneider as he leads you behind the scenes of the most exhilarating issue this magazine has produced.
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