Khari Bowen Monmouth University Freshman

SOMERSET, N.J. - Monmouth University freshman Khari Bowen (Monroe, N.J./Monroe Township) was named Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week, league officials announced Tuesday.  The New Jersey native, who claims his fourth NEC honor, paced the Blue and White last weekend at the Princeton Invitational. 
Bowen finished the 8k (5-mile) race with a time of 25:36 that placed him 37th overall in the field of 139. His mark also sets a new Monmouth freshman record at Princeton and lists him fourth all-time in program history on the West Windsor Field course. 
Monmouth returns to action on Saturday, October 29th, as it hosts the Northeast Conference Championships at Holmdel Park in Holmdel, New Jersey.  The men's race begins at 10 a.m. followed by the women's race at 11:15 a.m.

Tsunami coming? - Warner plans telling revelation on FIFA corruption today

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Austion 'Jack' Warner has promised that he will reveal the details of corruption within FIFA that would "turn stomachs", perhaps finally delivering his vow two months ago that he would unleash a tsunami on the shady dealings of the world governing body of football.

The former FIFA vice-president said in a letter to the Trinidad Guardian newspaper yesterday that he will speak out also about his role in the sport's world governing body and the changes he sought while he served on the executive committee.

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"FIFA has tried to muzzle me with threats of a worldwide suspension," he wrote.

"They have said that they will close down the FIFA Development Office in Trinidad by year end. They have advised that they will terminate my son's 2012 contract at the end of this year. They have retaken the World Cup TV rights, a matter for which they have not heard the last. They have refused to give me any of my 29-year pension. They continue to do such things like revealing a video in the hope that they can embarrass me to lie down on my belly."

He asserted: "Never, I repeat, never, regardless of the consequences."

Warner, the former CFU and CONCACAF president, seemed to have been incensed by the release last Thursday of a video recording in which he told CFU officials it was acceptable to receive payments from candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam ahead of the election for FIFA resident last June.

His comments came just three days after FIFA handed down a swathe of suspensions and reprimands to Caribbean Football Union officials over the cash-for-votes scandal that prompted Warner's resignation and the world body to impose a life ban on Bin Hammam.

"I will talk about the bitter elections for the FIFA presidency in 1998, when Sepp Blatter faced his most telling rival in Lennart Johansson," wrote Warner.

"We took him on a worldwide crusade begging for support for him, and he won."

Warner added: "That was the first time I met the present deputy chairman of FIFA Ethics Committee, Petrus Damaseb, at the time, the president of the Namibia FA.

"I will tell the world what gift Bin Hammam gave to him then, which was not a bribe then as he has ruled today."

Warner, the Trinidad and Tobago Minister of Works and Infrastructure, also disclosed that he never knew what Blatter's salary was during his time at FIFA.

"In spite of serving on the finance committee for over eight years, I was never able to determine the quantum of money given to him for the office of FIFA president," wrote Warner.

Warner also accused FIFA of institutional racism. He noted that Joao Havelange was the only non-European to rise to the seat of power in the game.

"I will reveal the circumstances under which I told Blatter that blackness in football must not be only on the field of play but also on the field of the FIFA administration," Warner said.

"I will talk about the Zionism, which probably is the most important reason why this acrid attack on Bin Hammam and me was mounted."

Warner also wrote: "Three (FIFA presidents) were English, one was Belgium, the incumbent is Swiss and two were French. Is it that people of colour cannot administer football? Or is it that only Europeans possess the skill to do so? Is this why Platini is being groomed as heir apparent?

"For the last FIFA election, the last count before the election showed that Blatter had 90 votes and Bin Hammam had 85 in a 209 FIFA membership."

The newspaper said it would carry Warner's disclosure letter in Today's edition.

Reid to get financial aid from Great Britain

BY PAUL A REID 

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

FORMER Jamaican jumper Julian Reid is one of five athletes who changed allegiances to Great Britain recently to be promised financial aid as they get their Olympic campaigns underway.

A report carried on the website of The Mail newspaper earlier this month said Reid, who switched allegiance this year, after last appearing for Jamaica two years ago at the World Championships in Berlin, will receive funding from the National Lottery, one of the main sponsors of British sports.

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World Class Performance Programme packages, given to athletes in the top funding band, are worth around £70,000 a year in living expenses, medical support, travel costs and use of high performance centres.

Reid, who competed at the Supreme Ventures National Trials in June, failed to make the minimum standards in either the long or triple jump to compete at the IAAF World Championships, but represented Great Britain at the World University Games in China.

Meanwhile, another Jamaican, high jumper Germaine Mason who won an Olympic silver medal for Great Britain, was axed from the lists, along with several other British representatives.

The other four who were receiving funding for the first time are American-born 400m runner Shana Cox, American-born hurdler Tiffany Porter, Cuban-born long jumper Yamile Aldama and Anguillan-born long jumper Shara Proctor.

The controversial decision saw several other British athletes, including Mason, Olympic bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton and double Commonwealth Games gold medallist Leon Baptiste among 34 who were cut from the funding.

Charles van Commenee, Britain's head coach, was quoted by the newspaper as defending the move by saying it was a "results-driven business".

"We operate in a results-driven business in which clear decisions have to be made if athletes are not performing to the high standards we set," said Van Commenee, who has set a target of eight medals, including one gold, in London.

The wholesale wooing of athletes into the British set-up has not gone over well in some quarters and they have been dubbed 'Plastic Brits'.

Khari Bowen Monroe High School NJ..

USA based Khari Bowen Representing Jamaica in Track & Field.

MONTEGO BAY, St James — When he lines up in the final of the Under-20 boys 5,000 metres final tomorrow afternoon at the Montego Bay Sports Complex, New Jersey-based Khari Bowen will be the first overseas-based athlete to represent Jamaica at the CARIFTA Games in decades.

Bowen, who attends Monroe High School in New Jersey, won the event at the CARIFTA Trials in 15 minutes 46.93 seconds to book his ticket to the Games which began yesterday morning.

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While the other Caribbean territories often call on their US-based athletes for the CARIFTA Games, the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association (JAAA) depend on local-based athletes to make up the team that compete at the three-day meet.

Most of the overseas-based Jamaicans who are eligible for the national teams are colleges students who are busy representing their schools at the time of the Trials, but are often included in global championships such as the Junior Pan-American, IAAF World Youth or World Junior events.

Competing in Montego Bay will represent a full circle for young Bowen, whose father, Clement, hails from Salt Spring, a community just outside of Montego Bay, and represented Cornwall College in the middle- and long-distance events.

Khari comes from good stocks as his father, who was nicknamed 'Tino", also represented the University of the West Indies, Mona, at the Inter-campus Games under Constantine Haughton, and was one of the founders of the development meet, which eventually became the Milo Western Relays.

The younger Bowen, who will turn 18 later this month, also runs for Juventus Track Club in Philadelphia, where he is trained by former Vere Technical and Santos football player Derick (Jughead) Thompson.

Khari is a nationally-ranked high school athlete and is at number eight indoors in the two-mile event in the USA and ran a personal best 9 minutes 18.80 seconds at the New Balance National Indoors and 8:36.00 in the 3,000m. He has also run 1 minute 58 seconds over 800m.

This weekend, Coach Thompson is expecting Khari to go under 15 minutes in the 5,000 — a time that should see him atop the podium at most CARIFTA meets.

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