The Royal Melbourne Golf Club has been announced as the host for the the 2013 Australian Masters for the first time from 14-17 November.

This year will mark the 35th anniversary of the Australian Masters and the first time in the event’s history that it has been staged at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club.

The Hon Minister for Sport and Recreation, Hugh Delahunty, welcomed the announcement and reinforced the Victorian Government’s support and backing of major events.

“The Victorian Government is delighted to support events like the Australian Masters as we continue to grow our event reputation around the world. We are looking forward to welcoming some of the world’s best golfers to our most famous sandbelt course and to showcasing Melbourne and Victoria to a global audience”, commented Minister Delahunty.

Senior Vice President and Global Managing Director-IMG Golf, Guy Kinnings, remarked: “Australian golf is fortunate to have such outstanding support from the Victorian Government and we are delighted and privileged to have the opportunity to stage the Masters at Royal Melbourne for the first time. It provides a great synergy with our “best in class” positioning to see the world’s best players on the best courses on the sandbelt.”

“The Royal Melbourne Golf Club has a rich history of hosting major tournaments. We are delighted to have the opportunity to welcome the Australian Masters for the first time and to seeing a top class field test itself on our famous composite course,” said Richard Allen, Captain of The Royal Melbourne Golf Club.

The Australian Masters will be sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australasia and Brian Thorburn, CEO, remarked: “The PGA Tour of Australasia and our players are delighted to have the opportunity to return to the magnificent Royal Melbourne Golf Club and we extend our thanks to the Victorian Government and IMG for their continued commitment to Australian golf.”

IMG also reaffirmed its commitment to bring three of the top 25 players in the Official World Golf Rankings to play the Australian Masters and the attraction of Royal Melbourne will undoubtedly further enhance the field.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he wants three different Grand Prix races to be held in the United States.

The sport made it’s first trip to United States in five years this weekend for the inaugural race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas where Mclaren- Mercedez’s Lewis Hamilton reigned supreme.

Ecclestone told Sky Sports: “We need to get that New Jersey-New York event working, and maybe one in southern California as well.

“We want three races here.”

Am übernächsten Samstag, impotent 6. Oktober 2012, doctor steigt um 20 Uhr in der o2 World in Berlin das Basketball-Highlight des Jahres: Im Rahmen der NBA Europe Live Tour spielt das Team der Dallas Mavericks zum ersten Mal gegen den deutschen Basketball-Erstligisten ALBA BERLIN. Damit tritt auch erstmalig ein NBA-Team im Rahmen der NBA Europe Live Tour gegen eine deutsche Mannschaft an. Der Recyclingspezialist ALBA Group unterstützt das Spiel als “Official Associate Partner of NBA Europe Live Berlin 2012, presented by BBVA[TM]” und verlost ab sofort online unter www.albagroup.de/highlight für das bereits ausverkaufte Highlight viermal zwei exklusive Eintrittskarten.

“Als Hauptsponsor und Namensgeber von ALBA BERLIN freuen wir uns sehr, unsere seit über 21 Jahren bestehende einzigartige Partnerschaft mit dem Verein durch ein so prominentes Spiel krönen zu können. Uns erwartet eine ungemein spannende Begegnung. Es ist uns wichtig, Basketball-Highlights dieser Art zu unterstützen, und so das Interesse für diese tolle Sportart bei deutschem Publikum weiter zu stärken”, so Dr. Axel Schweitzer, Miteigentümer der ALBA Group und Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates der ALBA BERLIN Basketball GmbH.

“Es ist das erste Mal, dass ein NBA-Team im Rahmen der NBA Europe Live Tour gegen eine deutsche Mannschaft antritt. Auf diesen Vergleich fiebert ganz Basketball-Deutschland hin. Natürlich freuen wir uns sehr, dass unser langjähriger Partner ALBA Group auch bei diesem einzigartigen Spiel mit an unserer Seite steht”, so Marco Baldi, Geschäftsführer der ALBA BERLIN Basketball GmbH.

Passend zum Event plant die ALBA Group außerdem am Abend der Begegnung ab 18:30 Uhr für alle Fans und Zuschauer eine kleine Überraschungsaktion am bekannten ALBAmobil vor der o2 World.

Die NBA Europe Live Tour setzt in ihrem sechsten Jahr die Tradition der NBA-Teams fort, die auf den Kontinent reisen, um in einer Reihe von Vorsaisonspielen gegen die Top-Teams der Euroleague zu spielen. Das Spiel in Berlin ist das einzige Spiel der diesjährigen Tour, das in Deutschland stattfindet. Istanbul, Mailand und Barcelona sind die weiteren drei Austragungsorte.

Cricket Australia (CA) is reportedly seeking for a new sponsor and there may be a parallel auction for digital media rights including live streaming of games.

The value of any new sponsorship deal could be more than Au$ 40M over a three-year period, arthritis this is the first time the with property has been on the open market for more than a decade.

CA GM of Cricket Marketing Services and head of the sponsor search Michael McKenna said that “sponsorship terms had grown from just branding to digital media rights, cialis ” including live streaming of games and apps such as the Viewers Verdict audience voting system.

“The sport also needs a major partner that will match the value of the deal with its own marketing budget.” McKenna also said cricket “relied on the halo effect of such advertising to help promote the sport. We are looking also for a sponsor that has a budget big enough to leverage the sponsorship.”

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It has been discovered that Lalit Modi didnt inform the Indian authorities before changing the venue of IPL2 in 2009.

For major banks are in for serious scrutiny as prima facie investigations reveal that their operations in South Africa went on without clearance from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a clear example of violation of the Foreign Exchange Maintenance Act.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance in its 38th report on BCCI and IPL has noted: “It has been seen from the (Finance) Ministry’s reply (to questions from the Committee) that the BCCI had not taken permission from the RBI and the Income Tax Department for opening and operating Foreign Currency accounts in South Africa.”

The account that was supposed to be operated by the RBI was instead operated by the BCCI in agreement with Cricket South Africa (CSA) which can be thought of as a Fema violation.

It has come to light, that in their hurry to start operations to stick to an earlier announced schedule, the BCCI and SCA signed an agreement to open a foreign currency account, and that the CSA would not release funds from the account without prior authorisation from the BCCI, which means the latter was actually operating the account thus meaning the BCCI could be in trouble.

Beyond Sport has announced the shortlist for the Beyond Sport Awards 2011, with the 35 projects that have made the final cut covering activities in 18 countries.

Each project will receive an invitation to attend the third annual Beyond Sport Summit, taking place from December 5-8 in Cape Town, South Africa, later this year. Beyond Sport is a global organisation that promotes, develops and supports the use of sport to drive positive social change.

The Awards winners, to be selected by the panel of Beyond Sport Ambassadors, will be announced on the final two days of the Summit, with the successful projects in the Beyond Sport Community Awards categories receiving a substantial package of business support to help them grow. The shortlisted projects were chosen from close to 400 entries from more than 125 countries that submitted applications to this year’s Awards.

Award categories include the Best New Project, Sport for Social Inclusion, Sport for Conflict Resolution, UNICEF Sport for Education, Sport for Health, Sport for the Environment, Corporate of the Year, Sport Federation or Governing Body of the Year and Sport Team of the Year.

The deadline to apply for tickets for the London 2012 Olympics has now closed after being extended by over an hour last night after the website was overwhelmed due to a late surge in applications.

When the official Ticketmaster site failed to cope with the last minute demand before the midnight deadline, unhealthy potential customers who had pre-registered to buy tickets faced long delays to complete their transactions.

As the website suffered problems for about 20 minutes from 22:30, ed London 2012 were forced to respond quickly by extending the deadline by one hour to 01:00 (GMT).

In spite of the late glitch in the system, the deadline has now closed for the 6.6 million tickets after a six-week window for applications and a London 2012 spokesman told the Daily Telegraph last night: “Some people experienced temporary delay in accessing the Olympic ticketing site following a surge of applications around 22:30 this evening.

“This surge has now evened out and the system is working normally. Applications were still being processed during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience this delay may have caused and the ticketing system will remain open until 01:00.”

A LOCOG spokesman said the organisation would “attempt on more than one occasion” to get funds from any rejected Visa card accounts, confirming that people without sufficient funds in their bank accounts to pay for tickets will not have their orders cancelled immediately.

The deadline to apply for tickets for the London 2012 Olympics has now closed after being extended by over an hour last night after the website was overwhelmed due to a late surge in applications.

When the official Ticketmaster site failed to cope with the last minute demand before the midnight deadline, unhealthy potential customers who had pre-registered to buy tickets faced long delays to complete their transactions.

As the website suffered problems for about 20 minutes from 22:30, ed London 2012 were forced to respond quickly by extending the deadline by one hour to 01:00 (GMT).

In spite of the late glitch in the system, the deadline has now closed for the 6.6 million tickets after a six-week window for applications and a London 2012 spokesman told the Daily Telegraph last night: “Some people experienced temporary delay in accessing the Olympic ticketing site following a surge of applications around 22:30 this evening.

“This surge has now evened out and the system is working normally. Applications were still being processed during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience this delay may have caused and the ticketing system will remain open until 01:00.”

A LOCOG spokesman said the organisation would “attempt on more than one occasion” to get funds from any rejected Visa card accounts, confirming that people without sufficient funds in their bank accounts to pay for tickets will not have their orders cancelled immediately.

Williams Grand Prix Holdings PLC have announced today that Alan Kinch will be joining the company in the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on 1st December 2014, replacing outgoing Finance Director Louise Evans. 

Alan joins Williams from Vodafone Group Enterprise where he has been Finance Director since April 2013. His previous roles include eight years at Cable & Wireless Worldwide PLC where he spent three years as Group Financial Controller. Alan will be responsible for all aspects of operational and structural finance for the Williams Group and will join the company’s Board of Directors. 

Current Finance Director Louise Evans will be departing Williams at the end of November 2014 in order to pursue new challenges. Louise joined Williams in 2004 and was appointed Head of Finance in 2005 and subsequently Finance Director in 2011.

Speaking about her departure Louise said; “I have thoroughly enjoyed my ten years at Williams and it has been a privilege to be part of historic milestones for a Formula One team such as our diversification into new business areas and our IPO in 2011. The Group is making good progress towards its objective of reinvigorating our Formula One performance, exemplified by a very positive 2014 season, so this feels like the right time to hand over the reins as I seek new challenges in my career. I wish Alan the best of luck in his new role.” 

Sir Frank Williams, Founder and Team Principal, said; “Louise Evans has given Williams great service over the past decade and she has been a central figure in the expansion of the business. She will be missed personally and professionally and I wish her the very best of luck for the future.” 

Speaking about his appointment as CFO Alan Kinch said; “I am very excited to be joining Williams at this point in its journey. It is a privilege to be part of a company with such an illustrious history and I firmly believe that Williams has a bright future ahead, not only on the track but also in the development of the Williams Advanced Engineering business.  I look forward to working closely with Mike and the rest of the Board to ensure the company fulfils its potential.”