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Let’s
talk San Jose sports
Hi.
I’m Dean Munro, executive director
of the San Jose Sports Authority. May
I come into your Inbox and chat for
a few minutes?
There’s
a lot going on at the Sports Authority,
and SportsLines is our new way of letting
you know about our youth programs and
the great events we are hosting. You’re
receiving SportsLines because of the
interest you’ve previously shown
in what we’re doing to promote
our city as a host for premier spectator
and participatory sports events as
well as supporting youth and amateur
sports in the community. We hope you’ll
enjoy these monthly updates and encourage
your friends with an interest in San
Jose sports to register for their own
free subscriptions on our Web site
at www.sjsa.org.
We
are just completing a very busy year
as San Jose hosted nine events, including
U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Judo and
Taekwondo and also in Rhythmic Gymnastics
and Trampoline. In addition, the Sports
Authority has secured seven future
events, including the San Jose Regionals
of the 2007 NCAA Men’s Basketball
Tournament (the third time we’ve
hosted this event in 10 years), and
the new Dew Action Sports Tour, a youth-oriented
annual competition that will bring
live network TV coverage and draw 100,000
fans downtown over four days of competition.
We’ll
send you SportsLines every month to
keep you up to date on everything new.
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| Hall
of Fame inducts Brodie, Chow, Rambis
and Tillman |
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| 2004 inductees (L-R) John Brodie,
Amy Chow and Kurt Rambis. |
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Four
athletes who left indelible marks
on Santa Clara County sports were
inducted Thursday, Nov. 4 into
the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame’s
10th Anniversary Class.
The
inductees were: John
Brodie, star quarterback
with both Stanford and the San
Francisco 49ers; Olympic gymnast Amy
Chow of San Jose,
who won gold and silver medals
at the Atlanta Games; Kurt
Rambis, a product
of Cupertino High and Santa Clara
University who was a key player
on four NBA championship teams
with the Los Angeles Lakers,
and Leland High’s Pat
Tillman, inducted
posthumously, who left the NFL
Arizona Cardinals for military
service in Afghanistan, where
he gave his life for his country.
More
than 700 people attended the
Hall of Fame’s annual dinner
and induction ceremony at HP
Pavilion.
Click
here to read more about this
year’s inductees.
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| NBC
Sports’ Dew Action Sports Tour
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More
than 100,000 fans and national television
exposure are part of the package that
comes with landing a stop on the Dew
Action Sports Tour beginning next year.
The
four-day action sports event, created
by NBC Sports and Clear Channel Entertainment – Motor
Sports, is part of a five-stop professional
tour with competition in skateboarding
(street and vert), BMX (street, dirt
and vert) and freestyle motocross.
The Sept. 7-11 stop in San Jose is
the fourth of a season that also will
include events in Louisville, Ky.,
Denver, Portland, Ore., and Orlando.
The
competitions and accompanying festival
activities – including live music,
video gaming and other interactive
elements – will cover more than
a million square feet indoors at HP
Pavilion and outdoors in the adjacent
parking areas. [ more ]
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| Pac-10
women’s hoops tournament extends
run |
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The
Pacific-10 Conference, which will hold
the State Farm Pac-10 Women’s Basketball
Tournament at HP Pavilion for the third
consecutive year in March, has decided
to extend its run in San Jose an additional
three years. That means the conference
championship will be decided in San Jose
through the 2008 season.
Sports
media from up and down the West Coast
visited San Jose on Oct. 26 to bone
up on Pac-10 women’s basketball
in preparation for season openers later
this month. Stanford and Arizona were
picked as co-favorites for the conference
championship following interviews with
all 10 head coaches and selected players
from each school.
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| T.J.
Maxx Gymnastics Tour draws large crowd |
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Eight
thousand fans – one of the
largest crowds on the tour so far – turned
out Oct. 24 at HP Pavilion for
the 2004 T.J. Maxx Tour of Gymnastics
Champions.
San
Jose was the 26th stop on the
38-city tour, which featured
many of the stars of the U.S.
men’s and women’s
teams at last summer’s
Athens Olympic Games. San Jose
hosted the U.S. Olympic Team
Trials in Rhythmic Gymnastics
and Trampoline in June at the
Event Center at San Jose State
and is a bid city for future
U.S. Gymnastics events, which
would be held in HP Pavilion.
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| Eagles golf
program reaches 200 youth |
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That’s
how many kids participated in the
spring, summer and fall sessions
of the Eagles at Rancho del Pueblo
youth golf program this year. For
the first time the program expanded
to include intermediate level golfers
and a 12-member youth team, whose
home course is Los Lagos Golf Course.
The team’s first competition
will be at 12:30 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 20 at Santa Clara Golf and
Tennis Club.
Look
to SportsLines for a future Eagles
partnership announcement that
will further expand this program’s
outreach to underprivileged youth
including even more participants,
curriculum enhancements and expanded
course access.
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| REACH
Youth Scholarship Program gears up |
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Ex-49er Ronnie
Lott and Michael Smith of
the San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs
have begun planning for the 2005 REACH
Youth Scholarship Program breakfast,
which will award scholarships to local
high school students who overcome adversity
to excel in sports and academics.
Bridge
Bank will be the title sponsor of the
program, which awarded a total of $9,000
in scholarships last year to five Santa
Clara County seniors. They were chosen
from a list of 47 nominees from high
schools in the county.
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| 5
Olympic sports award events to San
Jose |
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The
national governing bodies of five
Olympic sports have awarded state,
regional and national competitions
to San Jose during 2005.
The
full year of Olympic-style competitions
includes national championships
in high school and college judo,
an event organized by USA Judo;
the Junior Olympic fencing championships
of the Pacific Coast Section
of USA Fencing; USA Wrestling’s
California Championships for
school athletes; the boys’ junior
national championships in water
polo, staged by USA Water Polo;
and the U.S. Taekwondo Union’s
senior national championships.
San
Jose has established itself as
a center of the Olympics’ martial
arts sports by hosting the Titan
Games in 2003, which included
international competition in
fencing, judo, taekwondo and
wrestling, and last summer’s
U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Judo
and Taekwondo.
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