In the News
The CCC has been featured in a number of
interesting media reports. The following is a sampling
of some of those stories.
May 2014 : Trans World Sport: CCC in Top 5 of Cricket
Around the World !
Magazines:
5 June 2011: LA Sunday Times Magazine - Something
Wicket This Way Comes - By Lucy Broadbent - Photos Mark Hanauer
http://www.latimesmagazine.com/2011/06/something-wicket-this-way-comes.html
April 2011: SKY Sport The Magazine - Bullets To Balls -
By Scotty Stevenson
pages 48 - 51
5 March 2011: ESPN Cricinfo Magazine - Adam Wakefield
tracks the Compton Cricket Club's tour of Australia
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/503305.html
1999: TIME magazine - In Compton cricket takes root
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992478,00.html
TV:
18 September 2011: SBS Dateline | Cricket Therapy - By
Yaara Bou Melhem
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/about/id/601337/n/Cricket-Therapy
11 July 2011: ABC News - Reforming Former Gang Memebers
into Refined Athletes
http://comptoncricketclub.org/press/ABC_ComptonCricket.wmv
10 Feb 2011: BBC News & Sport - Peter Bowes takes a
look at the Compton Cricket Club
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12382224
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/9393102.stm
Feb 2011: Fox Sports Live - Cricket Outta Compton - Homies and the Popz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mFpDzcbPXs
9/10 Feb 11: ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - Compton
cricketers score down-under - By Conor Duffy
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3135751.htm
Homies hit the pitch for a good cause
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/02/09/3134617.htm
10 Feb 2011: NBC Sports - First American cricket club to tour
Australia is straight outta … Compton? - By Rick Chandler
http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2011/02/10/first-american-cricket-club-to-tour-australia-is-straight-outta-compton/
1 Feb 201: Sunrise Yahoo!7 TV - HOWZAT N THE HOOD
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/24029338/crickets-home-boys/
25 Jan 2011:
NBC Los Angeles - Sports News - "Homies & the Popz" travel down
under for matches, goodwill - By Olsen Ebright
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/sports/Compton-Cricket-Club-Australia-114500564.html
2010: TODAY in Australia - LA gangsters talk about how they turned their lives around after taking
up cricket
http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/compton-cricket-club/xnivj3k
2008: Annenberg TV News - Evan Seymour talks to the Compton
Cricket Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8sApHZxutk&feature=player_embedded
Newspapers:
13 February 2015 - The Washington Post - Cricket World Cup 2015: American Connections to the sport - CCC makes #2 of the top 10!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/02/13/cricket-world-cup-2015-10-american-connections-to-the-sport/
30 November 2011 - The Western Australian - Cricket Clams LA's
Gangsters
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/12173151/cricket-calms-las-gangsters/
9 Oct 2011: the guardian - Cricketers in the hood - by Ian
Thornton
the-guardian-2011-10.html
13 June 2011: AP Australia - Compton cricket team gains
international renown
Associated
Press
13 April 2011: The Wimmera Mail-Times - Kate Healy's photo of
CCC's Ted Hayes and Johnny Mullagh XI's Wayne Bell receives high
honor at the Cricket Victoria 2011 Media Awards - By Carley
McDonald
http://www.mailtimes.com.au/news/local/sport/cricket/cricket-awards-to-mailtimes-staff/2132712.aspx?storypage=0
9 Feb 2011: The Wimmera Mail-Times - Cultures unite on
the cricket pitch - By Justine McCullagh-Beasy
Page 1
Page
33
25 Jan 2011 - The Sun - Straight outta Denis Compton - By Pete
Samson
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3369457/LA-cricket-club-that-brings-discipline-to-its-gang-threatened-players.html
19 Jan 2011: The Times - Times Modern - Field of Dreams - By
Lucy Broadbent
Cover
Article
2007:
Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/how-the-googly-turned-youths-from-las-gangs/2007/06/03/1180809343419.html
Web/Multimedia:
24 June 2012 - I Am Los Angeles - Video Portraits of Real
Angelenos - Out of the Boundry
http://www.iamlosangeles.com/2012/06/24/out-of-the-boundary/
17 May 2012: Test Match Special Katy Haber and Paul Smith with Jonathan Agnew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUAWCWFZLtE
21September 2011: TWS - Compton Cricket Club on Trans
World Sport- By Ashleigh Davies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZMoH2EE33U
21 July 2011: ESPN Page 2 - Cricket's Unlikely Home in
Compton - By Cary Chow
http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/story/_/id/6790085/meet-homiez-popz-part-compton-thriving-cricket-club
13 June 2011: Associated Press - Video Essay: Cricket
Outta Compton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qlcsPMCm0A
13 June 2011: Mail Online - Meet the tea-sipping cricketers from
the LA ganglands
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003080/Compton-Cricket-Club-Meet-tea-sipping-team-California.html
pdf
2 June 2011: OneLife - Gangsters Paradise
http://onelifemagazine.net/range-rover/gangsters-paradise.html
pdf
10 Feb 2011: Sports Grid - Meet The Cricket Team From Compton
That’s Composed Of Former Gangsters And Homeless People - By
Brad Cohen
http://www.sportsgrid.com/media/compton-cricket-team-tours-australia/
10 Feb 2011: ABC Rural News - Cricketers come from the American
west to the Victorian west
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201102/s3134981.htm
4 Feb 2011: DreamCricket - All-American born Exhibition cricket
team tours Australia
http://www.community.dreamcricket.com/community/blogs/usa_cricketer/archive/2011/02/04/usa-s-only-all-american-born-exhibition-cricket-team-tours-australia.aspx
3 Feb 2011: ABC GrandstandSport - Compton's cricketers live
life 'not out'- By Adrian Crawford
http://www.abc.net.au/sport/stories/2011/02/03/3129129.htm
2 Feb 2011: The University of Sydney - News - Its not
just cricket
http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=6318
1 Feb 2011: Photoblog - Compton cricket team plays matches
in Sydney, fundraises for Australian flood victims - By Elena
Grothe
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/01/5965342-compton-cricket-team-plays-matches-in-sydney-fundraises-for-australian-flood-victims
1 Feb 2011: Fox News Latino - Cricket is saving Latino
youths at risk for joining gangs
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2011/02/01/cricket-saving-latino-youths-risk-joining-gangs/
1 Feb 2011: NPR - Compton Cricket Club Play First Match On
Australian Tour
http://topics.npr.org/photo/0cXN94Rf785HQ
31 Jan 2011: LA's Compton Cricket Club to embark on historic
tour of Australia
http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/854144-las-compton-cricket-club-to-embark-on-historic-tour-of-australia
30 January 2011: The Buzz - ESPN Cricinfo - Cricket outta
Compton - By Liam Brickhill
http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/thebuzz/archives/offbeat/
30 Jan 2011: Homies and The Popz Compton Cricket Club & Father
Chris Riley off the Streets in Sydney - By Susanne Gervay
http://www.sgervay.com/blog/?p=6548
27 Jan 2011: EuroSport - LA gangland cricket team to tour
Australia
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/article/29705/
25 Jan 2011: LA Weekly - Simone Wilson blogs about the Compton
Cricket Team
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/01/compton_cricket_team_tour_aust.php
24 Jan 2011: Fishbowl LA - Compton Cricket Team Set for
Australian Media Blitz - By Richard Horgan
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/australia-compton-cricket-team-visit-melbourne-sydney-alice-springs_b21112
24 Jan 2011: Tom LaBonge LA CD4 - A send-off for the Compton
Cricket team on their way "Down Under"
http://www.tomlabonge.com/news/story/625
10 Jan 2011: Peter Bowes Video - Compton Cricket Club prepares
to tour Australia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qsvv-4yv-c
Jan
2011: Announcing Compton Cricket Club's Australian Tour
"Cricket Outta Compton"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7QY7sMGRE
2011 & 2010: The Punch - By Anthony Sharwood
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bravado-and-me-me-me-are-destroying-modern-sport/
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gangsta-cricketers-make-a-serious-point-not-a-silly-one/
2009: 90's Guy - Compton Cricket Club: From gats to bats
http://90sguy.net/compton-cricket-club-from-gats-to-bats/
Radio:
3 August 2011: CBC Radio - World at Six - Story by
Jennifer Westaway
http://comptoncricketclub.org/press/westW6cricket.mp3
2010: Triple J Radio
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/stories/s3023210.htm
2010: 2GB Radio - Ross Greenwood talks to Compton Homies and Popz
http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=7099
Radio National: Sports Factor
2007:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/sportsfactor/stories/2007/1946014.htm
2004:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/sportsf/stories/s1194852.htm
2005: National Public Radio USA- Keeping it Cricket in the City of
Compton
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4724238
    
Please visit Compton Cricket Club's
Wikipedia
entry for a list of more press clippings.
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