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Sonika Kaliraman

“I belong to a family of wrestlers and my father has been a very well known name in the Indian wrestling community.”

The Soulja Girlz, the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary)'s powder puff football team, set out to defend the opponent's passing attack, during the game Nov. 14 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. Photo by Spc. John Stimac

Football season is well underway and the cheers and roars on Friday and Saturday nights at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, belong to the women.

The 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Soulja Girlz is one of 10 Powder Puff football teams that play twice a week at JBB.

New Mexico women’s soccer defender Elizabeth Lambert was caught on tape engaging in the sort of violence usually reserved for television wrestlers.

While still wearing combat boots, an Iraqi Army soldier assigned to the 45th IA Brigade, 11th IA Division kicks a soccer ball during a joint soccer tournament at Combat Outpost Carver, Baghdad, Iraq. Two semi-final games were played Oct. 12 to determine which teams will play in the championship game Oct. 16 in Salman Pak stadium. Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell

“It doesn’t matter where you come from,” said Dakar, Senegal, native, Spc. Mour Diop. “I wasn’t thinking about ‘Hey, they’re Iraqis!’ I was thinking about, we’re all friends when we step on the field.”

Paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, and Soldiers from the 45th Iraqi Army Brigade, 11th IA Division, teamed up together to compete in the semi-finals of the Panther Soccer Tournament, Oct. 12 on Combat Outpost Carver, here.

U.S. Soldiers and Department of Defense contractors keep in step as they dance to the rhythm of spicy latin music during the Hispanic American Heritage celebration at Forward Operating Base Marez, Mosul, Iraq, Sept. 19. Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Carmichael Yepez

Photos of a salsa dance class held on FOB Marez during the Hispanic American Heritage celebration

Corina Hernandez, 16, a Kubasaki High School cheerleader, waits between cheers and dance routines at a Friday night football game at Kubasaki High School Sept. 11. In addition to performing at the Friday night games, the cheerleaders practice two-and-a-half hours four to five times a week. Photo by Lance Cpl. Shelby Shields

Cheerleading is more than football games and pom poms.

Most high school cheerleading squads have a competition season all their own, and the Kubasaki cheerleaders are no exception.

Managing a not for profit organizations is often no different than managing a for profit business. Except, of course, when they are different. Here are a few articles about not for profit management.

2009 U.S. Solheim Cup team photo

It’s not the most famous golf competition. And, it is the ladies of the LPGA and not Tiger and the PGA men. That just makes it a little more relaxed and a lot more fun.

The Solheim Cup is being competed for August 17 – 23, 2009, at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois.

Mr Hill said: “He will be taking residence for the whole of August along with his stock of 120 books.

“So if you are passing the island in August then sound your claxon and give Geoff a wave – but keep your distance, it can be a serious business giving up smoking!