Trophy News from West Virginia, USA
Heisman Trophy to be in Green Valley on Thursday
The Heisman Trophy, which will be presented to this year’s best college football player, will be on display at Cole Nissan on Thursday from 8:30 a.m.- 7 p.m. The 25-pound Heisman Trophy will be in Green Valley as part of ESPN’s two-month Gridiron Blowout Trophy Tour.
Originated from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Trophy News from New York, NY
Oscar trophy trend, fact or fiction?
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt almost certainly are strong contenders in the best actor award category — shining, word has it, in their respective upcoming movies, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “Revolutionary Road.”
But they and others might be up against a subtle force they can do little about in the best actor race: Oscar award voters tend to favor actors playing real people.
Trophy News from the Lancashire Telegraph………
Rhyddings Business and Enterprise School head leaves at ‘pinnacle of career’
RHYDDINGS Business and Enterprise School headteacher Barry Burke gave his farewell prize night speech last night.
Mr Burke became head of the Oswaldtwistle school in 1999. In 2005 it was named as one of the fifth most improved schools in the country.
At the end of this term Mr Burke will leave to take up the post at a new inner city academy in Manchester.
Mr Burke told patrents and pupils: “Tonight is the last time I’ll speak to you as headteacher of Rhyddings Business and Enterprise School.
“As you know, I’ve been given the opportunity to take some of the ‘Rhyddings Magic’ and plant it in a new school in Manchester.
“So you see, it’s really your fault I’m leaving at the end of this term.
“After all, you’ve demonstrated to the world that Rhyddings’ students improve their performance year on year with your year group achieving the best all round set of results ever, and that makes me look good!
“And just like Joe Calzaghe’s decision to ‘quit’ while he’s at the top, I’m able to leave Rhyddings at the pinnacle of my teaching career – all because of your outstanding success.”
Mr Burke thanked pupils, staff, governors and parents and added: “I’ll take my Rhyddings ‘snapshots’ with me to make me happy when times get tough and call on the support of my friends when I inevitably meet those apparently insurmountable obstacles.
“Standing on the shoulders of giants, like those in Rhyddings, has made me successful but, more importantly, happy.”
>> PRIZEWINNERS
100 per cent attendance: One year, Katie Collins, Kirsty Evans; five years, Daniel Duckett; Art and Design: Aqsa Munir; Business Studies: Daniel Duckett; Engineering: Liam Koral; English Language: Farheen Mohammed; English Literature: Nafisa Tahir; French: Rebecca Entwistle; Geography: Katie Collins; Health and social care: Leanne Slattery; History: Farheen Mohammed; ICT: Kirsty Ormerod; Mathematics: Daniel Duckett; Media Studies: Sameena Waheed; Performing Arts: Emma Ward; Physical Education: Danny Wilkinson; Religious Education: Zisham Abid; Science: Rebecca Entwistle.
Technology (Catering): Katie Collins; Graphics: Louise Pike; Product Design: Aqsa Munir; Technology, resistant materials: Drew Owens; Textiles: Zakkeha Begum; Travel and Tourism: Louise Pike; Urdu: Zisham Abid.
School Trophies: Moore Trophy for service to the school: Mark Braysford; Governors’ Trophy for service to the community, Annabel Johnson; Rhyd-dings Trophy for effort, Moinuddin Anwar; Banks Trophy for achievement, Emma Ward; Mim’s Trophy for extra-curricular perfor-mance, Christopher O’Connor; Rhyddings Trophy for outstanding academic achievement, Rebecca Entwistle.
Originally posted by Catherine Pye
Trophy News from Lennoxville, Quebec, CANADA
Laval quarterback Benoit Groulx Quebec nominee for Hec Crighton Trophy
LENNOXVILLE, Que. — Laval Rouge et Or quarterback Benoit Groulx won the Jeff Russel Trophy as the Quebec conference’s player of the year on Monday.
The Montreal native also becomes one of the four nominees for the Hec Crighton Trophy as the top player in Canadian university football, which will be awarded Nov. 20, two days ahead of the Vanier Cup trophy in Hamilton.
Originated from DeKalb, GEORGIA
Trophy, top seed lost by Fort Payne
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The Top Cat Trophy — sponsored by the Times-Journal and the Scottsboro Daily Sentinel — also changed hands in Fort Payne’s first loss to Scottsboro (5-4, 4-3) in four years in the 73rd meeting between the two teams. Scottsboro clinched the region’s final playoff spot with the win.
Trophy News From Philadelphia, PA
The bottle in his hand was already half-empty, but Cole Hamels seemed a bottomless source of bubbly.
In the soggy celebration of Philadelphia’s World Series championship, Hamels stood before the plastic shield protecting his locker, giddily drenched in sparkling wine. The bottle bore the label of Domaine Ste. Michelle, a French-sounding brand imported all the way from Washington state, and the 24-year-old pitcher had been branded the Series’ Most Valuable Player.
“This will be a trivia question for the next couple hundred years,” Hamels said, happily. “And I get to be a part of it.”
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Trophy News from New York, NY
2009 Lifetime Achievement Awards Ticket Information: www.nationalwca.org/awards/ticketinfo.html
WOMEN’S CAUCUS FOR ART ANNOUNCES the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) is proud to announce the recipients for the 30th Annual Lifetime Achievement Awards: Maren Hassinger, Ester Hernandez, Joyce Kozloff, Margo Machida, and Ruth Weisberg. The WCA will honor the recipients during their annual conference, held in conjunction with the College Art Association conference in February 2009. The awards ceremony and dinner honoring the recipients will take place at the Wilshire Grand Hotel, 930 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday, February 28, 2009. LAA dinner is at 6:30-7:30 and the ceremony is at 7:30-9:00pm. The ceremony and dinner are open to the public.
Trophy News from Philadelphia, PA
AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research
Nominations for the 2009 Award are open.
Award Nomination deadline: Thursday, October 30, 2008, at 4:00 p.m., United States Eastern Time.
Learn more about the 2008 AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research recipient, Dr. Harald zur Hausen.
Trophy News from Louisiana, USA
Tech’s Harris semifinalist for Draddy Trophy
Buzz up! The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame has announced that Louisiana Tech’s senior linebacker Quin Harris has been selected as a semifinalist for this season’s Draddy Trophy, presented by HealthSouth.
“The Draddy Trophy is one of college football’s most sought after and competitive awards,” said NFF Chairman Archie Manning whose sons Peyton (Draddy winner) and Eli were named NFF National Scholar-Athletes in 1997 and 2003, respectively.
