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Viet Nam preps for Indoor Games (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is revving up for the third Asian Indoor Games to be held in provinces and cities nation wide next November. Ha Noi will be the main venue for 11 sports, along with HCM City, Hai Phong, Bac Ninh, Hai Duong, Quang Ninh, Phu Tho and Dong Nai.
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Fight club: Boxers spar in underground gym (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)
Tucked away in the basement of 614 Mass. Ave., training fighters and budding martial artists weave, kick and punch between the sound of buzzers and their coaches’ instructions.
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Local fighter gets big kick out of sport (Calgary Sun)
Scott (Bulldog) Clark doesn't worry much about where his opponent hails from. While Muay Thai boxers from different backgrounds may differ in their style of attack, Clark's game plan never changes.
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Iza Calzado’s one bizarre wish (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - Actress Iza Calzado has one bizzarre wish—to become a gay icon.
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Tainui Waka Sports Awards To Showcase Elite (Scoop.co.nz)
Waikato-Tainui today announced the finalists for the 2008 Tainui Waka Sports Awards, to be presented at a dinner hosted at the Tainui Endowed College on Friday 14 November.
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Now in their 50s, Def Leppard are still ferocious (The Japan Times)
Legendary English rock band Def Leppard brought the circus back to town last week. Paired up with fellow hair-metal survivors Whitesnake, the group began a four-date Japan tour with two nights at the prestigious Nippon Budokan in central Tokyo on Oct. 23 and 24. The two behemoths of 1980s pop metal have each weathered rather differently with age, and it showed on the opening night. While ...
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After 31 years, teaching martial arts still hobby for Tarpein (Quad-City Times)
Do something you love, and you never will work a day in your life. Nick Tarpein does what he loves. And at 55, he’s been doing it a long time. Tarpein began martial arts training in 1972 at the age of 19. After six months, he began fighting. Five years later, he opened his own gym.
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Verona native packs a punch (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
By day, Mark DeLuca stacks cases of beer at a distributor in Penn Hills. But the power of DeLuca's slender but sturdy 139-pound frame can pound much more than beverage cases.
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Punching outside the box (Daily Vidette)
This past week I learned that the difference between Muay Thai and mai tai is more than a few letters; it's intense physical pain. Having been familiar with only the latter, (a delightful tropical libation) and not the former (hardcore Thai kickboxing) I was quite surprised when I walked into my trial Muay Thai class.
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Kickboxing can kick-start training program (SouthtownStar)
BANGPLEE, Thailand - As my 30th birthday approached, my fear of becoming a middle-age woman plagued with mystery ailments, huffing and puffing up flights of stairs, finally started to outweigh my exercise phobia.
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