LARAMIE In just two seasons at the helm,
Dennis Erickson turned the Oregon State football program from the tattered doormat of college football into Fiesta Bowl champions.
The once toothless Beavers from Corvallis hadn t reached double-digit wins once in their 83 years of existence. Until Erickson arrived in 1999, OSU suffered a then-NCAA record 28 straight losing seasons.
My how the times have changed.
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To make things even sweeter, that 41-9 Bowl Championship Series rout in the Arizona desert came against one of the most storied programs in the sport, Notre Dame. We re a football program that is on the rise, A stoic Erickson told a television reporter on the field following the win. Hopefully we can continue to be. It s a program that is going to get better and better all the time. This will just help us get to the next level.
Cancer patients are set to benefit from a new PET scanner, the first of its kind in Australia which will revolutionise the way tumours are targeted and tracked.
Conventional PET scans require patients to lie on a bed for 20 to 30 minutes, but the new whole-body imaging machine can perform scans in a quarter of that time.
Instead of having to take a series of images, the scanner can capture the body s tissues and organs from head to toe in one single scan.
A new scanner can examine the entire body for tumours in mere minutes.(9News)
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It will also mean patients will be exposed to less radiation.
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$15m project to establish whole-body imaging in Australian first
A project driven by Sydney should provide unique imaging capability to Australia while revolutionising patient care, through a joint venture with Northern Sydney Local Health District to procure a total body PET/CT scanner.
The ability to image all the tissues and organs of the human body in a quick, single scan, is one step closer in Australia with its first Total Body Positron Emission Tomography (TB-PET) scanner to be established as a joint venture between the University of Sydney and Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) at the Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH).
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Published: 06:00, 19 February 2021
Ramsgate FC are in with a shout of bagging £25,000 worth of construction kit to boost their facilities - and fans can play their part in helping secure the prize.
National buildersâ merchants firm Buildbase is running a community award which seeks to recognise the efforts of two clubs that have gone above and beyond to support their towns during the pandemic.
Ramsgate need your votes
Having entered the nationwide competition, Isthmian League South East Division side, Ramsgate, are planning to upgrade their clubhouse should they earn the prize.
The revamp would offer changing facilities to youth teams as well as the wider community, and the renovations would make the facilities accessible to all.