The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has appointed its first female president with the promotion of Cathie Sabin.

The vice-president stepped up to replace outgoing figurehead Peter Bretherton, at the LTA’s annual general meeting at the Roehampton National Tennis Centre in London on Wednesday.

Stepping down after his three-year term of office, Bretherton also said the LTA is indebted to former chief executive Roger Draper.

Draper came under fire when his £640,000 salary was revealed in the 2012 annual financial report.

He stepped down from his role in September and will be replaced by head of Tennis Canada Michael Downey in January.

Backing new president Sabin to shine, Bretherton said: “Cathie’s qualities, knowhow and experience make her eminently qualified for this role.

“And with her at the helm for the next three years, British tennis is in good hands.”

New LTA figurehead Sabin pledged to keep pushing to improve participation levels in the sport across all levels.

Addressing the AGM, Sabin said: “I am really looking forward to working with you all and coming out around the regions to visit your teams.

“Thank you so much, and I would also like to thank Peter for his support and guidance over the last three years.”

Bretherton’s last word before relinquishing his presidency was to launch a defence of departed chief executive Draper.

Bretherton said: “During his watch the organisation was transformed. He introduced the British tennis membership scheme, and was instrumental in the professionalisation of the talent identification scheme.

“British tennis owes Roger an enormous debt of gratitude.”

1, viagra 8 Millionen Menschen haben am Mittwochabend, medicine 29. August, im Ersten die Eröffnungsfeier der 14. Sommer-Paralympics in London verfolgt. Das entspricht einem Marktanteil von 12,6 Prozent. “Ein schöner Erfolg, der zeigt, dass der Behindertensport in der Mitte der Gesellschaft angekommen ist”, so Lutz Marmor, Intendant des innerhalb der ARD federführenden NDR. Die ARD werde in nie dagewesenem Umfang von den Paralympics in London berichten, so Marmor. “Ich freue mich auf packende Berichte von spannenden Wettbewerben.”

Noch bis zum 9. September werden rund 4200 Sportlerinnen und Sportler, aus 166 Ländern in 20 verschiedenen Sportarten an den Start gehen. Das Erste zeigt etwa 37 Stunden der insgesamt von ARD und ZDF rund geplanten 65 Stunden Sendezeit aus London. Alexander Bommes und René Kindermann moderieren die “Paralympics live”-Sendungen im Ersten, die an den ARD-Sendetagen jeweils um 10.30 Uhr beginnen. Zudem sind längere Paralympics-Übertragungen am Vorabend (18.00 bis 19.50 Uhr) sowie in der Nacht zwischen ca. 23.30 bis 1.20 Uhr geplant. Der ehemalige Leichtathlet Jörg Frischmann, Paralympics-Sieger im Kugelstoßen, wird das ARD-Team mit seinem Know-how unterstützen.

Erstmals wird es Live-Signale von bis zu acht Sportarten gleichzeitig geben (Leichtathletik, Schwimmen, Tischtennis, Bahnrad, Judo, Basketball, Rugby, Fußball, Tennis, Sitzvolleyball). Das versetzt die ARD in die Lage, ein Live-Programm zu produzieren, das dem der Olympischen Spiele kaum nachsteht. An ARD-Sendetagen wird es ein Live-Streaming des Ersten auf sportschau.de geben. Neben den Live-Übertragungen berichten regelmäßig auch die Nachrichten-Sendungen von ARD aktuell, das “Morgen”- und das “Mittagsmagazin”, die “Sportschau” sowie die Dritten Programme der ARD über die Paralympics.

Die Hörfunk-Programme der ARD werden fast rund um die Uhr von einem kleinen leistungsstarken Radioteam mit Berichten und Reportagen aus London versorgt. Neben aktuellen Nachrichten, spannenden Geschichten und Interviews sind auch Live-Reportagen von der Eröffnungs- und Schlussfeier, von der Leichtathletik und vom Schwimmen geplant. Im Mittelpunkt der Berichterstattung sollen vor allem die individuellen Leistungen der paralympischen Athleten, ihre Begeisterung für den Sport und die Atmosphäre dieser speziellen Spiele stehen. 

Eredivisie Live, ailment a Dutch premium football channel, erectile is set to launch a new TV everywhere app called Eredivisie Live Go on August in a partnership with cable operator Ziggo. 

Eredivisie Live Go will make all live and on-demand programming from the channel available on tablets (both iPads and Android), smartphones (iPhone and Android), as well as on Macs, PCs and laptops. Subscribers to the channel who are Ziggo customers will receive the new service automatically.

Arno de Jong, director of media and marketing at Eredivisie Live, said: “Eredivisie Live is more than just TV. We offer top football live on every platform; that is what our subscribers want. Eredivisie Live Go is now available to Ziggo subscribers with a subscription and they can access the live football channel anytime and anywhere. Whether at home, visiting or traveling: Eredivisie Live Go brings extensive live football on TV, computer, tablet or mobile.”

Marcel Nijhoff, commercial director of Ziggo. added: “The introduction of Eredivisie Live Go fits perfectly with our ‘TV everywhere’ strategy. After the introduction of our Ziggo TV app, HBO and HBO Go app, Eredivisie Live Go is the next step. Our customers are now the first in the Netherlands to also enjoy Eredivisie Live on their tablet, smartphone or PC.”

Billionaire Phil Anschutz’s AEG Worldwide will take on a bigger share of the costs of the project to build a new Los Angeles football stadium than originally proposed.

The project, unhealthy if approved, symptoms would be the second NFL stadium out of the 23 built since 1992 to be financed entirely by private funds, according to a report. AEG would earn an estimated 6.7 percent annual return, less than half the rate of a typical stadium developer.

AEG, owner of the Staples Center basketball arena, has proposed putting the stadium on an adjacent site and bringing a National Football League team back to Los Angeles, the second- largest U.S. city. AEG has made concessions including paying for parking garages in an effort to win over city officials.

City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana said: “This is a significantly different deal than the one that was given us.”

The City Council is holding public hearings on the plan this week, and is expected to vote in August.

A report compiled for the Ethics Committee of world football’s governing body FIFA has said that Mohamed bin Hammam refused to co-operate fully with their investigation into match-fixing.

Fulham, London soccer club of the English Premier League, have announced a partnership with branding agency Heavenly, commencing from the 2011/12 season.

Heavenly will provide brand strategy ideas and creative services to Fulham, including for their season ticket campaign, which launches next month, the club’s membership scheme and their new kit launch under the terms of the agreement.

Heavenly has launched a 48-page brand campaign, which focuses on the whole match day experience at Fulham, rather than specifically on the game itself. Three core images are at the centre of this: ‘The Commute’, featuring fans cross Putney Bridge to get to Craven Cottage – the team’s stadium, ‘The Last Yards’, showing the walk through nearby Bishops Park, and ‘Half-Time Show’, displaying a panoramic view of the stadium from across the Thames at half-time.

Fulham’s communication’s director, Sarah Brookes stated: ‘Having decided to review our entire creative strategy, we saw a number of agencies each given the same initial brief to work from.  We were immediately impressed with the level of understanding that Heavenly had regarding the Fulham brand and its core, unique properties.  The energy and enthusiasm shown mirrored our own, and we are all very excited about what can be achieved with the relationship going forward.’    

Heavenly’s founder and chief executive, Richard Sunderland, added: “We are delighted to have been appointed by Fulham. We see them as the antidote to the modern game and to the faceless corporates that currently run many of their competitors. As a consequence we feel that there are many similarities between the club and Heavenly and as a London agency are thrilled to be working with a club that has such history and tradition.”

Shaila-Ann Rao is set to step down from her role as chief executive of the Sportfive International agency, capsule Lagardère Unlimited, asthma the sports marketing division of media conglomerate Lagardère, cheap cheap has announced.

Rao was supposed to head up a joint venture between Sportfive International and IEC in Sports which was announced in October for activity across Europe and Africa, gut Sportfive have revealed the situation had changed.

In a statement today, Sportfive said: “Further to this, the development continues and it has been decided that the Geneva office of Lagardère Unlimited’s media and production unit will undergo adjustment. As such, Shaila-Ann Rao, chief executive of Sportfive International, has decided to step down from her role.”