A Celebration of Home-Grown Soul
The News Review:
- A Celebration of Home-Grown Soul
- Tennis needs a ‘jermaine’.
- SportingNews.com – Your expert source for NBA Basketball stats,…
- House votes to end offshore drilling ban
- World Cup a big yawn in soccer-hating US
- How did 7 July change politics?
A Celebration of Home-Grown Soul
Washington Post – Jun 30, 2006
Hudson, from Gary, Ind. , started to achieve success in Chicago and eventually became a longtime Washington resident. Also on the program: veteran ensembles the Velons, Skip Mahoney & the Casuals, the Jewels, the Winstons Orchestra and vocalist Jay Wiggins, and newcomers Shadz of Soul, Step 4, Nu Era, H… ) Plus, the Intruders had a No. 14 R&B hit in 1969 with "Sad Girl," a memorable ballad written and recorded in 1963 by another of tonight’s DC Allstars, Jay Wiggins. You can find Wiggins’s original version on Rhino Records’ "Beg, Scream & Shout: The Big Ol’ Box of ’60s Soul. "Another great Rhino box set, last year’s "One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found," is the place to hear the Jewels’ "Opportunity. The single reached No. 64 on the R&B chart; the followup, "But I Do," didn’t do nearly as well, and the label folded a year later.
Tennis needs a ‘jermaine’.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 30, 2006
(From Nottingham Evening Post) Role model will inspire kidsHE will almost certainly be too preoccupied with events in Germany this summer to notice what is happening at Wimbledon – but Jermaine Jenas has been highlighted as the sort of role model capable of transforming tennis in Nottingham. The city already houses one of the finest tennis centres in the UK, as well hosting the country’s third most prestigious tournament each year. But according to Nottingham’s head coach, Martin Weston, the city is still short of that home-grown hero to really capture the imagination of would-be tennis stars of the future. Weston has spent time deploying coaching methods from around the world to improve the quality.
SportingNews.com – Your expert source for NBA Basketball stats,…
SportingNews.com – Jun 30, 2006
“These are stressful times,” Marissa Carcioppolo of Parma said after buying a silver Cavs basketball for her 5-year-old niece’s birthday at the club’s team shop at Quicken Loans Arena. “Everyone is a little bit stressed out that he’s going to leave us, but LeBron has said he wants to stay in Cleveland. He’s home grown, and I feel like he wants to be here. James planned to stay in town for the next few days, but he didn’t know if the Cavs would be meeting with his agent, Leon Rose, soon. James even joked about his high-profile agent, who represents Andrea Bargnani, taken No. 1 overall by Toronto, and Philadelphia’s Allen Iverson, rumored to be on the trading block.
House votes to end offshore drilling ban
MSNBC – Jun 30, 2006
Jeff Bingaman, also of New Mexico, criticized the House-passed bill, saying it would eventually create “a huge hole in our federal budget and undermine environmental protections on our lands and off our coasts. ”Environmentalists, for their part, turned their focus to the Senate. “Instead of catering to Big Oil and Gas, the Senate will have a chance to focus on the many faster, cheaper and cleaner ways to meet our energy needs — renewable sources of energy like home-grown biofuels, greater fuel efficiency in our vehicles, smart-growth policies, and wind and solar energy,’’ said Karen Wayland, legislative director of the Natural Resources Defense Council. The group said the bill would exempt seismic testing and individual oil and gas lease sales from environmental impact statements; reduce the amount of royalties that oil and gas companies must pay for tar sands and oil shale development; and no longer require companies to remove offshore drilling rigs when they are done drilling. The House vote was a huge victory for Pombo, two Louisiana lawmakers — Republican Bobby Jindal and Democrat Charlie Melancon — and Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa. , who spearheaded the drive to lift the moratorium.
World Cup a big yawn in soccer-hating US
Washington Post – Jun 30, 2006
9 millionAmericans watched the 2002 World Cup final, out of 1. 1 billionworldwide. By comparison, nearly 91 million viewers watched thisyear’s Super Bowl, the glitzy climax to the season forAmerica’s home-grown form of football. Nearly 39 millionwatched the Academy Awards, Hollywood’s big night, in March and36 million tuned in for last month’s finale of “American Idol,”a TV talent show. And on ABC’s sports cable network, ESPN, which presumablyattracts more serious sports fans, the World Cup has had evenfewer viewers, averaging around 1. 75 million on channels thatreach 91 million homes. No surprise then, that a poll by the Global Market Insitemarket research service found only 11 percent of Americanssurveyed were “definitely” interested in the World Cup,compared with 45 percent of respondents world-wide.
How did 7 July change politics?
BBC News – Jun 30, 2006
Little would anyone have guessed that four months later Tony Blair would suffer his first Commons defeat as prime minister as he sought to push through much tougher anti-terror measures than those which the other parties felt they could agree to. “Normal” politics, with all its arguments, claims and counter-claims was back. But it did not mean that home-grown suicide bombers did not change British politics.