LAU Jbeil hosts Extreme Sports Day to open year (The Daily Star Lebannon) To mark the start of the 2008-2009 academic year and as part of activities to welcome new students, the Extreme Club at the Lebanese American University's Jbeil campus held an Extreme Sports Day on Monday. The activities included rappelling, in which participants slid 25 meters down a rope suspended from crane. us.rd.yahoo.com
ASEAN COUNTRIES REDUCE EXTREME POVERTY IN REGION (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News) SINGAPORE, Oct 13 (Bernama) -- Asean countries have made strong progress in reducing extreme poverty and hunger in the region, said Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports Yu-Foo Yee Shoon. us.rd.yahoo.com
Community Spotlight: Extreme devotion (Arizona Daily Sun) When it comes to helping someone in need, Nickademus Hollon is more than willing to go the extra mile. us.rd.yahoo.com
Tony's new show just doesn't rock (Miami Herald) Launched in 2006 as an all-telenovela network, low ratings have reduced MyNetworkTV to a wasteland of beat-them-bloody extreme sports and tawdry reality shows. So give credit to The Tony Rock Project, the comic revue that debuts Wednesday -- at least it's aimed at viewers whose age and IQ total more than the price of a gallon of gas. us.rd.yahoo.com
Fox Slides to Victory (New York Times) Sports reigned supreme on Sunday night. us.rd.yahoo.com
Isle of Wight: Kiteboarding Park Jam (Isle of Wight County Press) THE UK’s first-ever Kiteboarding Park Jam at Bembridge failed to get off the ground because of a lack of wind. Conditions were good throughout the week leading up to the weekend of fun competition, but the summer-like weather which bathed the Island did not suit the extreme sports fans. us.rd.yahoo.com
St. Louis court moves to protect valuable sports signatures (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Pat Barge, an archives clerk, preserves the 1909 circuit court divorce papers for George "Rube" Waddell on Monday at the Missouri State Archive in St. Louis. us.rd.yahoo.com
Ratings: FOX Sports Sunday's Best Numbers (Zap2It) Football, baseball broadcasts give the network a win Fast National ratings for Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008 us.rd.yahoo.com
Human rights protest makes memorable moment at 1968 Olympics (Quad-City Times) Editor’s note: 1968 was a watershed year for the United States: The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, escalation of the Vietnam War, and racial and political turmoil that touched city streets, college campuses and even the sports world. This is the fourth in an occasional series looking back at significant events of that year. us.rd.yahoo.com
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