Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with sports www.salem-news.com 2010 The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a document titled, “Reanalysis of Key Issues Related to Dioxin Toxicity and Response to NAS Comments”. This document is being described as part of the agency’s dioxin reassessment. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/dioxin-risks.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/dioxin-risks.php Tue, 22 May 2012 18:03:00 PDT The Surfrider Foundation will host the 4th annual Otter Rock n’ Roll Youth Surf and Beach Cleanup Challenge in celebration of International Surfing Day. Observed globally, International Surfing Day celebrates the sport of surfing and helps raise awareness about issues facing our oceans, waves and beaches. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/surf-contest.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/surf-contest.php Tue, 22 May 2012 00:13:00 PDT The Bien Hoa military airport in the southern province of Dong Nai has the world’s highest Agent Orange/dioxin contamination level, a meeting heard Thursday. The office of the national steering committee tasked with handling the consequences of toxic chemical used by the US during the Vietnam War reported at the meeting that the airport has more than ten hectares of heavily polluted soil. http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/bien-hoa-kc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/bien-hoa-kc.php Sun, 20 May 2012 00:55:00 PDT Travis Logie was ripping it up today at the Billabong Rio Pro in Brazil today. Riding SUPERbrand Surfboards by Nuno Matta shaped in Portugal, this South African pro is one of the top riders competing in the circuit on European surfboards. The world's top-ranked professional surfers are competing in this annual event that is the focus of the industry and sport and will continue to be over the next six days. http://salem-news.com/articles/may142012/travis-logle-billabong.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may142012/travis-logle-billabong.php Mon, 14 May 2012 12:51:00 PDT In a seminar yesterday, Vietnamese and US experts discussed the use of In-Pile Thermal Desorption (IPTD) technology in a US$43 million project to clean up dioxin contamination at Da Nang Airport. As part of the cooperative project between USAID and the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense, the IPTD environmental pollution treatment system would be used to clean up the toxic substance. http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/danang-airport-cp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/danang-airport-cp.php Thu, 10 May 2012 17:57:00 PDT There is an excitement surrounding Autzen Stadium – it's something in the air. I am pretty sure you can feel this energy 24/7. For Oregon Duck fans, it is LOVE. They love football, and most of all- Duck Football. For the majority of said fans, fall is a long way off. “We need to enjoy college football once again, albeit for a single spring day at the end of April!” http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/uo-football-springbk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/uo-football-springbk.php Thu, 10 May 2012 12:45:00 PDT If I were somehow able to address our Congress and Senate in assembly, I would have a few words to say: “One of your jobs is to support the men and women who serve and those who have served.” “If not for our Armed Forces, would America be a free sovereign Nation today?” http://salem-news.com/articles/may092012/agent-orange-jb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may092012/agent-orange-jb.php Wed, 09 May 2012 13:09:00 PDT One of the most toxic dumps in Oregon remains in legal limbo. A deal cut by the state with the company that owns the site has now been dropped. And the Department of Environmental Quality has no plans – or money – to clean it up. http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/oregon-agent-orange-vp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/oregon-agent-orange-vp.php Mon, 07 May 2012 18:26:00 PDT There is rarely 'good news' on the Agent Orange front, however today there is news that is promising. Len Aldis, staunch advocate in the UK, sent a copy of a letter from Vietnam objecting to the inclusion of Dow Chemicals as an Olympic sponsor. http://salem-news.com/articles/may052012/dow-vietnam-la.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may052012/dow-vietnam-la.php Sat, 05 May 2012 16:03:00 PDT The Culture Media and Sport Committee today publishes its Eleventh Report of Session 2010-12, News International and Phone-hacking (HC 903-I). Links below will lead you to the report on News International and Phone-hacking, the Inquiry: Phone-hacking, and additional information from the Culture, Media and Sports Committee. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/murdoch-parliament_.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/murdoch-parliament_.php Wed, 02 May 2012 03:35:00 PDT If you are like most of us you have your hands full with life’s daily routine and frequently that routine does not include fitness! If that’s the case for you, trust me it’s not limited to you! http://salem-news.com/articles/april182012/toughest-element-wu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april182012/toughest-element-wu.php Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:41:00 PDT Yacine Le Forestier (47) previously held several editorial and management positions at AFP both in Paris and Germany and speaks fluent German. His career as a journalist began in Berlin in 1989 until 1994. From 2000 to 2005 Yacine headed up the economic service in Frankfurt and then in Berlin. http://salem-news.com/articles/april112012/afp-leforestier.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april112012/afp-leforestier.php Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:36:00 PDT Friday, March 16 marks six months since Mark Bosworth went missing in Riddle, Oregon. Mark, age 54, was volunteering with Cycle Oregon when he vanished. To this day no clue has been found, but the Douglas County Sheriff's Office stresses that his disappearance remains an open and active missing person's case. http://salem-news.com/articles/march172012/mark-bosworth-ra.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march172012/mark-bosworth-ra.php Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:47:00 PDT We continue to hear about athlete after athlete testing positive for banned substances other that HGH or steroids. In some cases, the positive tests not only shock the close nit sporting community the athlete participates in but in some cases also the athlete! http://salem-news.com/articles/march152012/diet-supplements-wu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march152012/diet-supplements-wu.php Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:33:00 PDT Forsooth, what is meant by truth? This was the focus of a lively discussion held recently by a group of armchair philosophers here at Salem's Ike Box Coffeehouse. It bears repetition to our general public. We determined that many people are inclined to blindly use the term "truth" in order to try to authenticate what merely are subjective opinions. http://salem-news.com/articles/march152012/ego-truth-blc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march152012/ego-truth-blc.php Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:06:00 PDT As England's cricket team sets off for Sri Lanka, Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben De Pear asks whether the tour should be going ahead given the country's human rights record? Andy Flower has departed for Sri Lanka today as manager of an England team reeling after a test whitewash in the UAE to Pakistan and nervous about playing on yet more slow and turning pitches http://salem-news.com/articles/march102012/lanka-soccer-london.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march102012/lanka-soccer-london.php Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:35:00 PST In a few weeks, unless you take action, the Olympic Stadium will have been surrounded by a wrap comprising 336 giant panels made by a company responsible for deaths of many thousands. That company is Dow Chemical, whose record was known to each and everyone of you through the many court cases it has had brought against them in the US for disposing of tonnes of highly toxic waste into rivers and lakes near its plants. http://salem-news.com/articles/march042012/dow-boycott-lcc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march042012/dow-boycott-lcc.php Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:56:00 PST Imagine a handful of engineering students imprisoned in the tiny Gaza enclave taking on the cream of Europe's technical universities in a competition to build a race car and compete with it. They did it last year. And they’re planning to do it again this year – at least that’s what their students’ union tells me, and I’ve been trying to get confirmation. http://salem-news.com/articles/february242012/gaza-racecars-sl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february242012/gaza-racecars-sl.php Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:57:00 PST You've got to be crazy to consider something like this, yet every year Oregonians do the unthinkable, plunging into icy cold water at a number of locations, they say the event first got rolling in Bend. Our ace photographer Q Madp, known for his role as the founder of IraqWarHeroes.org, was on scene to record the action. http://salem-news.com/articles/february122012/polar-plungers-qm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february122012/polar-plungers-qm.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:38:00 PST Blue Surf Sanctuary, located in Mal　Pais / Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, is more than a destination for vacationers and surfers, it is a sanctuary for its two new owners, Kelly　Parmenter-Eck　and Aaron Moore. It is a sanctuary they want to share with you. Out of a desire to escape the everyday routine and wanting a simpler life, though being a business owner will keep the daily pace pretty quick,　Parmenter-Eck　said the twosome started researching businesses for sale to see if they could make this dream a reality. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/costa-rica-surf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/costa-rica-surf.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:11:00 PST I believe there should be a new police investigation into the kung fu martial artist Bruce Lee’s mysterious and inexplicable sudden death at the young age of only thirty two. Echoing an immortal line from Bruce Lee’s film Fist of Fury, "How could a Fit Man Die?" Why would the Fittest Man in the World, take to carrying a gun about with him in his last few months on Earth? http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/bruce-lee.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/bruce-lee.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:56:00 PST State media reported renewed scuffles between security forces and demonstrators- including hardcore soccer fans like the Ultras, who were on the frontlines of last year's protests against the military. The Ultras played a prominent role with anti-government activists in the uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak a year ago. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/soccer-violence-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/soccer-violence-ae.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:00:00 PST On several occasions recently, TV hosts have conducted random street interviews revealing that the average American is incredibly uninformed. For instance, when one passerby was asked “Which state does KFC come from,” he answered, “What, the chicken? I don’t know. I really don’t know.” http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/street-smarts-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/street-smarts-pb.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:15:00 PST U.S. and Canadian athletes, some of whom swam for UCLA, others that were on the Canadian National Swim Team, are drawing attention to the implications of Dow Chemical's Olympic Sponsorship. http://salem-news.com/articles/january192012/dow-boycott.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january192012/dow-boycott.php Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:26:00 PST Eric Akiskalian has made a name for himself over the past two decades as a dedicated big-wave surfer, promoter, photographer, the owner of Towsurfer.com, Founder of the Association of Professional Towsurfers, 2X Billabong XXL Global Big-Wave Award Nominee, Producer of Big-Wave Addicts, and now an award winning journalist. Akiskalian recently received the high honors and recognition as the Journalist of the Year for his interview with big-wave surfer, Marcio Freire from Maui, Hawaii. http://salem-news.com/articles/january112012/eric-akiskalian.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january112012/eric-akiskalian.php Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:39:00 PST Continuing his crusade to increase awareness to Track and Field's restrictive logo regulations, 2008 Olympic Team member, Nick Symmonds, is auctioning off advertising space on his left shoulder. Symmonds, the four time defending USA Outdoor Champion and the defending Olympic Trials Champion has created an auction to encourage corporations and fans of the sport to join in his quest for Olympic gold... http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/nick-symmonds.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/nick-symmonds.php Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:17:00 PST Nobody has said it in 95 years, Pac-12 champions for three years in a row, the Oregon Ducks are this year's Rose Bowl Champions!. The game with Wisconsin Badgers was non-stop excellent action; several records were set and both teams performed well from beginning to end. http://salem-news.com/articles/january022012/rose-bowl-ducks-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january022012/rose-bowl-ducks-tk.php Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:04:00 PST After 15 years of National and International powerlifting competitions with training 3 to 4 days a week, 2 to 3 hours a day, 50 weeks of the year, I am convinced recovery is the key to enjoyment, performance and exercise longevity! Recovery includes, sleep, rest, eating, hydration and may also include the use of ice, heat, therapeutic massage and/or active release. http://salem-news.com/articles/january022012/exercise-recovery-wu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january022012/exercise-recovery-wu.php Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:45:00 PST I have been Powerlifting for 15 years and a member of the National Masters Powerlifting Team for 3 out of the last 6 years. I finished 6th at the World Championships in the Czech Republic in 2010 and placed in the top 10 in 2005 and again in 2009. http://salem-news.com/articles/december272011/health-over-40-wu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december272011/health-over-40-wu.php Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:11:00 PST When the charts in the Pacific Northwest read 10'-12' @ 17-19 seconds out of the NW with light easterly winds there are a handful of big wave chargers that live in the area, know where to go and what to do. As was the case on December 17, 2011 when the swell was in full bloom, with clear sunny skis and mysto waves breaking on the outer reefs. http://salem-news.com/articles/december232011/nw-waves-ea.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december232011/nw-waves-ea.php Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:48:00 PST