Current BBL Cup winners Leicester Riders have entered into a partnership with Roberts Travel Group.

The travel company will provide Riders’ players travelling to away fixtures in comfort during the 2014-15 season and Roberts becoming the club’s official travel partner. 

Roberts Travel Group offers a comprehensive programme of coach holidays to destinations throughout the UK and Europe and private mini-bus and coach hire for all occasions. The group also operate scheduled bus services throughout Leicestershire, school and village transport, and the Quicksilver Park & Ride services into the city of Leicester. 

“The Leicester Riders are delighted to be sponsored by Roberts Travel Group and look forward to working with Jonathan, Paul and the team,” said Russell Levenston, Managing Director of Leicester Riders. 

“The Riders players love the coaches and we are pleased to have such a prestigious coach operator working with us.” 

Jonathan Hunt, Managing Director of Roberts Travel, added: “We are proud to be an official partner of the Riders and wish the team every success this season. Having watched the team and become a fan I can thoroughly recommend a fun packed family night out to everyone.” 

Leicester Riders return to action next weekend as they take on Leeds Force in BBL Championship action at 6pm on November 9th at Loughborough University.

JR Motorsports announced today that LINE-X, pill North America’s largest retail automotive aftermarket franchise will sponsor Alex Bowman in the No. 5 Chevrolet for the upcoming NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Phoenix International Raceway on Saturday, canada viagra Nov. 8.

“We are very excited to get back on the track with the NASCAR Nationwide Series, and to make this return with Alex Bowman and JR Motorsports is truly an honor for us,” said Kevin Heronimus, CEO of LINE-X LLC. “As a company, we have followed Alex’s career since his days in the ARCA Racing Series. We are thrilled to join Alex and the JR Motorsports team for the race in Phoenix.”

The Phoenix race marks the 21-year-old Tuscon, Ariz., native’s second start for JR Motorsports. Bowman started seventh and finished 12th in his JRM debut at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Oct. 10. Bowman has made 71 combined starts across NASCAR’s top-two series, posting two top-five and six top-10 finishes. He also recorded a pair of pole awards in Nationwide Series competition at Texas Motor Speedway in 2013.

“We were really impressed with how well Alex ran at Charlotte,” said JRM general manager Kelley Earnhardt Miller. “For LINE-X to also see that potential and come on board for Phoenix is exciting for our team. We feel like Alex is going to be a star in the sport and this is a great chance for him to show his talent in one of our cars.”

The No. 5 team has earned five wins this season – four with Kevin Harvick and one with Kasey Kahne. Josh Berry, Dale Earnhardt Jr. (renumbered as No. 88) and Austin Theriault have also driven the car this season.

 

ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has reinforced its position as the Home of Soccer for fans in the Indian subcontinent and Asia by securing the live and exclusive rights to broadcast the Spanish La Liga for the 2012/13 to 2014/15 seasons, viagra on multiple distribution platforms in 18 markets across Asia.

 

The acquisition allows for exploitation in standard and high-definition television, purchase as well as via online and mobile platforms, medicine as well as including the option to showcase select games from the La Liga in 3-D.

ESS will be able to broadcast the whole of La Liga providing coverage of up to 380 games across its channels in 18 countries including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Papua New Guinea, the Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan and North Korea; as well as China & South Korea in English only.

 

 

The three-year La Liga deal bolsters ESS’ current stellar list of soccer properties in India, which includes the Barclays Premier League and major tournaments from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). In addition, ESS will showcase this event on its broadband network, ESPN Player, across various markets in Asia and also plans to introduce the 3D broadcast of this exciting event.

 

ESS Asia’s Managing Director, Manu Sawhney stated: “This acquisition underlines our commitment to football fans in the region as we continue providing the most compelling content to our viewers, and an excellent promotional platform for our business partners. We have established a strong tradition in building and strengthening top-class football properties on our networks with the reach of our networks, multiple media platforms, world-class match presentation and our continued focus towards original, localized football programming and innovative marketing campaigns.

“The presence of the La Liga on our networks positions us as a leader in football content in Asia, and this programming is undoubtedly a tremendous value to our affiliate partners, advertisers and viewers,” added Sawhney.

“We are delighted be working with an organisation that is world-renowned for quality sports broadcasting. We are pleased with their commitment to showcase La Liga across new media platforms in order to extend the profile of this great football league. We have every confidence that they will provide coverage for La Liga in an exciting and innovative manner,” said Gerard Romy, Managing Director of Mediapro.

cheap helvetica, sales sans-serif” class=”Apple-style-span”>Ligue 1, the elite soccer division in France, has claimed that Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera has made an offer for the domestic TV rights for top-flight games from 2012 to 2016. 

The announcement comes after Al Jazeera pipped Canal Plus to the international rights for the competition and the broadcaster will be competing with the same channel, and current rights holder with Orange, once again.

The league stated that it will review all of its bids later in the week but would not disclose any amount offered. The deal will be expected to exceed the total paid by Canal Plus for the previous 4 years from 2008-2012 with was believed to be around US$657m.

After it was handed the distribution rights for 40 European territories in a first ever move to do so by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Sportfive has completed its first broadcast deal for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics after awarding the Norwegian rights to TV2.

Sportfive’s dedicated team working on the project at the company’s international head office in Geneva, close to the IOC headquarters in Lausanne awarded the rights to TV2 who will show all events at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 and the Rio Games in 2016 across free-to-air, pay-TV, online and mobile platforms.

TV2 chief executive officer Alf Hildrum stated: “Norway has a long-standing and strong Olympic tradition, and the Norwegian public has traditionally demonstrated significant and enthusiastic interest in the Olympic Games.

“We are confident in our reputation as an acclaimed national broadcaster and will approach this project with the knowledge that TV2 has previously made every effort to deliver excellent coverage of Norwegian national events.”

Sportfive International CEO Vincent Tong Cuong added: “We are delighted to sign this deal, our first for the sales of the rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games, and to award these rights in Norway to TV2. The knowledge and sports broadcasting experience demonstrated by TV2 fills us with confidence that TV2 will provide excellent and extensive coverage for fans throughout Norway.”

Pirelli have been revealed as the Event Main Sponsor of the grand finale of the eni FIM Superbike World Championship, seek which will be held this weekend in Qatar at the Losail International Circuit, herbal Doha.

The last round of the season will take the official name- Pirelli Qatar Round. 

“We are pleased that this year, ampoule Dorna has managed to bring the Superbike World Championship to Qatar and Malaysia, two overseas rounds which are very important to us, which is why we decided to be the Event Main Sponsor” said Pirelli Moto Racing Director Giorgio Barbier.

“As Malaysia is an important stage to increase our brand awareness in Southeast Asia, Qatar is a springboard to the Middle East. In this sense, Pirelli welcomes very willingly the efforts that Dorna has undertaken this year in structuring an even more international calendar, and next year we hope it will be even more full of events and optimized in terms of dates.”

For this event, Pirelli will bring a total of 3101 tires that will be made available to the Superbike and Supersport riders, the only two classes that are required to run in Qatar. Both the Superbike World Championship and Pirelli have been to the Losail circuit before but not for four years.

YouTube has expanded its commitment to sports broadcasting by announcing it will stream the upcoming Copa America live to more than 50 countries around the world, showing all 26 Copa America matches live of the tournament running from July 1-24 in Argentina.

YouTube released a statement reading: “Fans will have access to all 26 matches including pool play, semi-finals, quarter-finals and the championship match, live streaming as they happen with exclusive-to-YouTube commentary, as well as a highlights from all the matches, goal compilations, full-game uploads and more.”

Earlier this year the Google-owned website confirmed it was in talks to air live games from the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League as well as European soccer leagues to broadcast coverage having successfully negotiated terms with Times India for rights to the Indian Premier League (IPL).

In February, Gautam Anand, Google’s director of content partnerships for Asia-Pacific, told Bloomberg that YouTube would aim to carry more live sports from the second half of 2011, adding: “It is fair to say that there will be a lot more appealing sports content you’ll see on YouTube. We have ongoing conversations with pretty much everyone.”