English Conference Premier team Aldershot Town have appointed social entrepreneur Tracy Jarvis as a Non-Executive Director of the Club.

Tracy, vcialis 40mg who has also been a prolific striker for the Shots Ladies team, is founder and Managing Director of the Community Matters Partnership, an organisation which helps businesses build partnerships and launch projects within their communities. Born in Aldershot, she has won the BBC Social Entrepreneur, Social Enterprise Vision and Enterprise Growth awards.

Tracy has also worked with the Education Business Partnership, and is now a business consultant working with a variety of leading employers to help them develop Corporate Social Responsibly strategies.

Chairman Shahid Azeem said: “I have known Tracy for years and she will be a fantastic asset for this Club. Her focus will be on community engagement and social responsibility, to help Aldershot Town increase its profile and reach new people in this area. I know her drive and determination will take the Club forwards.”

Jarvis said: “I’m absolutely delighted to join Aldershot Town, and very excited about the opportunity to help support the Club within the community. I’ve supported the Club for over 20 years and it will be great to give something back. The work I am already doing with local businesses and community groups will help to make Aldershot Town a hub for people to meet, work and enjoy football.”

Traithlon England have announced today that the National Aquathlon Championships have been cancelled. 

In a statement they said: “It is with great disappointment that we must inform you that the National Aquathlon Championships due to be held this weekend 18th May 2014 has had to be cancelled.

Unprecedented at this time of year, adiposity there has been a serious build-up of blue/green algae. Keith Ritchie the Event Director of Nicer Events has expressed his disappointment in having to cancel the event after a water quality test fell outside the normal safe swim limits. 

“Those who have registered for the race will be contacted directly by Nicetri Events in due course about actions following this announcement.

“Triathlon England would like to express their thanks to Nicetri Events for treating the safety of the athletes as paramount and giving advanced notice.

“We look forward to working with Nicetri again when they host the Middle Distance Championships on 8th June 2014.”

Honda Motor Corporation, check in partnership with Spanish company ExternPro, case will be the official Moto2 engine supplier for the next three years extending until 2015.

The Moto2 class, which was initially brought in to replace the 250cc two-stroke class in 2010, has since its inauguration been running a single-spec Honda CBR 600cc engine, with the aim of the championship to drive chassis development and uncover rider talent. It has been a hit with riders and fans from the start, and is providing ever-greater spectacles out on track as the series progresses.

New from 2013 is that ExternPro, part of the Parque Tecnólogico de MotorLand Aragón, will be the company preparing the engines for competition, ensuring their reliability, as well as carrying out regular maintenance. 

Dorna Sports CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta commented: “Moto2 has been a success from the start, and just continues to get better! Honda has been our sole engine supplier since the inaugural race in 2010 and I am extremely pleased that we will continue to use its machinery for the next three years. The Honda engine has not only proved an exciting addition to the paddock, but has also been a technically very reliable asset, which is extremely important in motorsports. I would also like to welcome ExternPro on board, who have so far done a very good job during pre-season testing, and will no doubt continue to do so throughout the next three season.”

Shuhei Nakamoto, HRC Executive Vice-President added: “Honda is happy to continue to supply the CBR600 engines for the Moto2 category, as this class has been proven to be a good way to keep costs down and allow riders to prepare for MotoGP, as Stefan Bradl and Marc Marquez are currently demonstrating. We also welcome ExternPro as new partner to prepare the engine ready for racing.”

The PGA TOUR, adiposity on behalf of the International Federation of PGA Tours, has confirmed that the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship has agreed to an extension with Trump Doral as the event’s host resort and course through 2023.

The Cadillac Championship, which is the second in a series of four World Golf Championships, has been played at Trump Doral since 2007. The 2013 event will again feature the best players from around the world on March 6-10, with Justin Rose attempting to defend his title against the likes of Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, Phil Mickelson, Luke Donald, Adam Scott, Bubba Watson and many more of the game’s best. 

The PGA TOUR has hosted events at Doral since 1962 when Billy Casper took down a field that included Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Sam Snead and Ben Hogan. More than 50 years later, the best in the world are still coming to take on the Blue Monster at the Cadillac Championship as the tournament traditionally hosts one of the top fields in golf combining players from the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking, the FedExCup, the Race to Dubai and other Tour’s Order of Merit standings. 

“It is a great honor to have such a long-term extension with the PGA TOUR.  They know how great this facility will become.  It will be the finest anywhere in the United States,” said Donald J. Trump. 

“We are pleased to hear that the Trump Organization is committed to the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship for the next decade,” said Bob Ferguson, Vice President, Global Cadillac. “This can only mean the event will continue to improve and thereby continue to grow its charitable footprint in South Florida. The entire team at Cadillac is excited to see the partnership between the PGA TOUR, the Trump Organization and Cadillac take the Cadillac Championship to new levels.” 

“The enhancements that the Trump Organization and renowned architect Gil Hanse are making to the resort and the course, combined with Cadillac’s commitment to excellence and a new entertainment and social focus from our tournament staff have the Cadillac Championship positioned to become one of the premier events in the world,” said PGA TOUR Executive Vice President of Championship Management David Pillsbury. “We are thrilled to continue our long-standing relationship and tradition of world-class golf in the South Florida area.”

After last year’s influx of highly-paid foreign players in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), the league might impose salary cap similar to that of the NBA.

Beijing Ducks General Manager, Yuan Chao, said: “If we can have a salary restriction in the new season, it will be good for the club’s revenue. But we can’t rush it and just simply copy the NBA model. We are two totally different leagues.”

A league official said that a “rough prototype is being discussed” among club owners and a select group of experts, lawyers and analysts.

CBA Competition Department Director, Bai Xilin, said: “We’ve been talking about how to make it happen recently, and there is no timeline yet. We will keep the media posted when we work out something practical.”{jcomments on}

 

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) remains opposed to mandatory video technology despite backing for the system from the sport’s leading bodies.

Indian officials said their stance was ”unchanged” despite a recommendation for the technology to be compulsory in all tests and one-day internationals.

”The BCCI continues to believe that the system is not foolproof,” a BCCI statement said.

”The board also sticks to its view that the decision on whether or not to use the Decision Review System (DRS) for a particular series should be left to the boards involved in that series.”

India, which accounts for a vast share of global cricket revenues, has been suspicious of DRS since it was trialled during the 2008 test series with Sri Lanka,

But most major cricketing nations, such as England and Australia, support the system.

The recommendation for mandatory DRS, made by the chief executives’ committee of the International Cricket Council, will be considered by the body’s board at a meeting over the next two days.{jcomments on}

 

National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell has reiterated his desire to maintain the integrity of U.S.’s most popular sport with an unprecedented suspension of Super Bowl winning coach Sean Payton for a bounty program that paid players on the New Orleans Saints for injuring opponents.

The league also banned Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis for eight games and indefinitely barred former assistant Gregg Williams for the program. Under the bounty plan, generic about two dozen players, ed led by Williams, sales paid each other as much as $1,500 for targeting opponents such as Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks Kurt Warner and Brett Favre from 2009 to 2011, the NFL said. Payton and the Saints won the Super Bowl after the 2009 season.

The action, among the stiffest penalties ever imposed by the league on a team and its leadership and described by NFL spokesman Greg Aiello as unprecedented, came because the Saints’ behavior, which included misleading NFL investigators, threatened the league’s safety and integrity, Goodell said.

“Clearly, we were lied to,” Goodell said in an interview televised on the NFL Network. “I don’t think you can be too hard on people that put at risk our players’ health and safety.”

Goodell said in a league statement he wanted to send “a strong and lasting message” that the Saints’ conduct was unacceptable. The team also was fined $500,000 and stripped of second-round picks in 2012 and 2013. No players were immediately punished. Goodell said “that’s next up.”

New Orleans Saints said in an e-mailed release: “We offer our sincere apology and take full responsibility for these serious violations. It has always been the goal of the New Orleans Saints to create a model franchise and to impact our league in a positive manner. There is no place for bounties in our league, and we reiterate our pledge that this will never happen again.”

by Ismail Uddin