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04-16-2007 When Friday Night Lighs meant more than just a sporting event (Plainview Daily Herald)Friday Night Lights is currently a weekly TV program that depicts an era of high school football and some of the things that took place. This program is fiction but is based on just what took place in regards to high school football and the impact it had on the community.

Transcript: Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, CEO, Hong Kong Jockey Club (CNN.com)It's a typical Wednesday night at Hong Kong's Happy Valley race track.

Soccer: UEFA face tricky choice (International Herald Tribune)The governing body of European soccer votes Wednesday on the host for Euro 2012. Will it opt for the safe option, Italy, or try to spread its wealth by choosing one of two joint bids from eastern Europe?

Arena football: Is it America's fifth major sport? (USA Today)ESPN's Mike and Mike calling the action. Team boss Jon Bon Jovi in the owner's box. Overhead speakers pumping Fans catching and keeping football that land in the stands. It's a busy night for the Arena Football League in Philadelphia, an evening that satisfied fan Lea Fosco calls "adorable." Well, "adorable" probably isn't the word league commissioner David Baker would prefer, but he'll take it. .

Ross heads trio of Texas DBs ready to storm NFL draft (USA Today)Know thyself, Socrates said. Aaron Ross does. The Texas cornerback, one of the top prospects at his position available in this month's NFL draft, fully understands his gambling ways on the field, accurately assesses the risk-reward factors and does not hesitate when asked if he or his girlfriend Sanya Richards, a gold medal winner in the Athens Olympics is the better athlete. "She is," Ross says.