Just a few items from the sports world I thought were worth pointing to…
Were you aware Alan Webb set a new American record in the mile? He did it at a small Belgium meet last week, after 8 years of preparation. Pretty cool little soccer facility as well.
The Amputee Football Federation of Liberia is providing a means for some of the 100,000 former soldiers, many of them former child soldiers, to heal and reconcile.
On New Year’s Eve, LASA played its inaugural match, against a team from Sierra Leone, and was soundly trounced. But the team placed second of five teams at a tournament in February, and, after they returned home in glory, the U.S. government donated $30,000 in uniforms, cleats, crutches and other goods. The league has since expanded to 150 players and six teams, including the Brewerville Young Invaders, the Monrovia Giants and the Island Warriors of Bushrod Island.
Former Southwest Missouri State basketball Coach Steve Alford, now at the University of New Mexico, isn’t impressing Richard Stevens - With a name like Alford, Lobos expect attention - as he removes Iowa from the Lobo’s basketball schedule and is trying to take Texas Tech off of it as well. Who knew he was so shy.
And finally, a TV suggestion - Following Sean a son who meets the obligations of adult life as his father, a hippy from Haight-Ashbury chronicled with his then 4 year old son in 1967, shakes his head over the turn his son’s life has taken. P.O.V. offers this updated documentary on OPT Channel 13 Tuesday at 9:30 pm.
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