Challenges In The News - 03/23/08

Harness racing has a king, although the queen gave him a good run. Donato Hanover held off a challenge by the talented filly Pampered Princess on the final turn and fended off Adrian Chip down the stretch to capture the $1.5 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands Racetrack on Saturday.

Expectations are raised for UCLA quarterback, and he feels up to the challenge. Ben Olson's college football career has been out there waiting and waiting and waiting and, yes, waiting.

ORTH Adelaide coach Andrew Jarman will tonight prepare dynamo debutant Matt Wright for his next challenge - backing up after his four-goal entrance to SANFL.

Posted: 8:10 AM- FARMINGTON - The Utah Supreme Court gave a Utah man the right to challenge the adoption of his son, which he argued was done before he could reasonably file for paternity.

Residents met the challenge to donate fans to those in need Wednesday, netting 16 fans and $765.48 in cash to purchase more. In the process, participants walked away with a warm fuzzy feeling, while getting an idea of what people without air conditioning endure.

Dear Greg: Here's a challenge for you involving Microsoft, Circuit City and eMachines/Gateway. Yesterday was the day of reckoning for participants in the Somerset Slim Down, a county-wide challenge to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks. At the end of 2006 and early 2007, Microsoft announced a free upgrade for Windows Vista with the purchase of a Windows-Capable PC system. A Circuit City ad clearly stated that the eMachines/Gateway PC would get the Windows Vista upgrade as Microsoft promised.

Trusting another woman ? a perfect stranger no less ? to carry her baby may be the most difficult challenge of Jerri Christensen?s life.

Palmer's Kevin Vig isn't quite sure what inspired him to tackle a two-day hiking challenge unlike any other. Perhaps the idea arose while he slogged on snow during the Little Su 50-kilometer race, the companion to the Susitna 100.

Ace archer Dola Banerjee overcame a stiff challenge from China's Juan Juan Zhang to claim the women's recurve individual gold medal at the Meteksan Archery World Cup in Dover, Great Britain, today.

The city faces a new challenge to its regulations governing substance-abuse recovery houses.

Dobbins Island project would harm the bay, say environmentalists Anne Arundel County environmentalists plan to keep fighting a Dobbins Island owner's pier, which they claim threatens the health of the Chesapeake Bay - even as a county panel last week denied they had the legal right to mount such a challenge.