Hong Kong-based mobile communications company, 1010 has become a major sponsor of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and will be the title sponsor for the club’s Match Racing Series.
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The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, treatment along with 26 Volunteer Centers, advice has begun recruiting candidates to become volunteers at the Sochi 2014 Games.
Candidates, pharm who have successfully passed the online tests, will be invited to an interview. Candidates will be tested on their efficiency, their ability to cope under pressure and their commitment to the Games. Candidates will also be asked to demonstrate their language skills. Candidates selected during the interview stage will begin training, and eventually become volunteers for the Games in Sochi. In total, 25,000 volunteers are needed during the Games.
Applicants will also be asked to demonstrate the reasons why they have applied to become a Sochi 2014 volunteer by answering questions about volunteering and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Questions will also be asked in English so candidates can demonstrate their language skills.
Applicants will be assessed by the number of points they receive, those who receive the highest points at the end of the interview, are likely to become volunteer team leaders at the Sochi Olympic Games. Volunteers who are involved in the Test Events between 2012-2013 will gain valuable experience working at a world-class sporting event ahead of the Games in Sochi.
Interviews will be conducted by staff from the Volunteer Centers and specially trained employees of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee. Interviews will follow a specially designed format developed by recruitment industry professionals.
Danish Kaneria has been found guilty of spot-fixing Kaneria has been found guilty of spot-fixing by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) disciplinary committee.
According to a statement, Mervyn Westfield was also found guilty.
The ECB said in a statement: “The ECB Disciplinary Panel today announced that Danish Kaneria has been found guilty of two charges under the ECB’s regulations following a contested hearing which commenced in London on Monday June 18.
“Mervyn Westfield was also charged with one offence under the ECB’s regulations to which he pleaded guilty.
“The panel will now consider the appropriate sanction against both players and a decision is expected to be announced later today.”
The former Pakistan leg-spinner earlier had challenged the ECB through his lawyer Farogh Nasim after the organisation summoned the leg-spinner for a disciplinary hearing into corruption charges.
The ECB wanted Kaneria in for the hearing after he was named in a London court as a go-between in the scandal following which his former Essex teammate Mervyn Westfield was given a four-month sentence.
The leg-spinner was arrested in 2010 along with Westfield on suspicion of spot-fixing during an Essex match against Durham in 2009 before being released without charge.
Thought Equity Motion, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based video management and licensing services, announced today that it has extended its exclusive licensing contract with the NCAA.
In addition to licensing NCAA Championship video, Thought Equity Motion now has the rights to license photographs and radio calls from the NCAA’s 89 Championships across 23 sports and all three division levels. The photographs capture an array of memorable NCAA championship moments ranging from action shots, celebrations, and trophy ceremonies to fans, mascots, and cheerleaders.
“With the NCAA’s winter championships including the Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships quickly approaching, we are pleased to be offering NCAA Member Institutions and Conferences, Corporate Champions and Partners, Media Partners and Editorial Agencies integrated digital solutions to fulfill their goals around NCAA championships,” said Kevin Schaff, CEO and founder of Thought Equity Motion. “Our platform’s ‘smart content’ metadata makes digital media easily searchable and our research and project services deliver a strategic content and technology offering for NCAA partners around the 2012 championships.”
Greg Weitekamp, NCAA director of championships and alliances, media services, added: “Thought Equity Motion is now the sole source to license a full-range of ‘non-live’ NCAA media, including fully-produced games, clips, photos and radio calls.
“We are continuously working to open up the excitement and history of the NCAA to our fans, member institutions and partners. Thought Equity Motion’s T3 Platform and Licensing Services have enabled a new level of access to the NCAA digital library and we’re looking forward to expanding these comprehensive digital content offerings to include photographs and radio calls around March Madness.”
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Chuck Greenberg, former chief executive officer and co-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, is considering purchasing the bankrupt Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League, a lawyer said today in court.
Greenberg is part of Texas Hockey Acquisition Co. and may participate in an auction of the Stars, owned by former billionaire Thomas Hicks, said Greenberg’s attorney, Jeffrey M. Schlerf, of Fox Rothschild LLP.
“They are definitely interested in bidding,” Schlerf said in an interview after the Stars hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Stars filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 15 with a plan pre- approved by its lenders to sell the team at an auction with a so-called stalking horse bid from Vancouver-based businessman Tom Gaglardi.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Peter Walsh agreed to speed up the usual process for approving an auction. Walsh agreed to let the team return to court Sept. 22 to seek approval for the rules.
Greenberg and hall-of-fame pitcher Nolan Ryan led the group that bought the Texas Rangers at a bankruptcy auction last year for about $593 million.
Greenberg announced in March that he was stepping down as Rangers CEO and selling his stake back to the team because of differences with Ryan.
Discussions between the Wilpon family who have a shares in the the New York Mets and David Einhorn the hedge-fund manager trying to but the Major League Baseball team broke down after the former changed the terms of the contract Einhorn said.
“There were many, vcialis 40mg many proposed modifications, there ” Einhorn said on a conference call after the Mets released a statement saying the club was ending talks and exploring other options. “I was surprised to see that many of the basic provisions of our deal had been changed.”
Einhorn offered $200 million for a 33 percent stake in the Mets. The team’s principal owner, try Fred Wilpon, decided to sell a minority share to defray costs from a $1 billion lawsuit filed by the trustee representing investors who lost money in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
Einhorn, speaking on a conference call with reporters today, said the team initially agreed to include a provision that provided for pre-approval from Major League Baseball if he ever became the team’s majority owner, then reversed course.
After the Mets objected, Einhorn said he met with baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, who said it wouldn’t be a problem.
“Late last week, I learned that the Mets lobbied Major League Baseball to remove it from the agreement,” Einhorn said, adding that, under terms of the contract, he couldn’t gain majority control of the club without the Mets’ approval.
Following in the footsteps of Sky Italia and Al Jazeera, Fox Sports have agreed to renew their exclusive rights deal to broadcast the UEFA Champions League in the U.S. and Caribbean for an additional three-years until 2014/15. The package also includes the rights to the 2012, 2013 and 2014 UEFA Super Cup’s.
The footage will be aired over the company’s various platforms including Fox Sports, Fox Soccer Channel, Fox Soccer Plus,Fox Deportes, Fox Sports Net and FX and also FOXsoccer.tv, the online video streaming service.
The current deal held by Fox is in its second year and is the first time that the company have purchased the rights to air every single Champions League game, 146 in all.
David Hill, chairman and CEO of Fox Sports Media Group: “The foundation of Fox Sports’ success has always been to showcase the best sports events possible. Our enhanced commitment to the UEFA Champions League for three additional seasons means that the Fox Sports Media Group will remain America’s home for the absolute best in international club soccer.”
UEFA has challenged a former football official to prove his claim to prove his claim that the 2012 European Championship was corruptly awarded to Poland and Ukraine, or risk a defamation suit.
European football’s ruling body said it has set a Wednesday deadline to receive evidence after making “repeated requests” to Cyprus Football Association board member Spyros Marangos for information.
Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported allegations by Marangos that high-ranking UEFA officials sold the tournament for 11 million euros.
“In relation to this as-yet-unsubstantiated claim, UEFA wishes to state that, as always, it can only open an investigation on the basis of tangible elements of proof,” UEFA said in a statement.
“To date, these have never been provided to UEFA by this individual.
“If no such evidence is submitted within the timeframe, UEFA reserves its right to start legal proceedings, civil and criminal, against any individual or individuals making such defamatory statements.”
Officials from Poland and Ukraine deny the claims.
The eastern European neighbours were awarded Euro 2012 hosting rights by beating Italy in a poll of UEFA Executive Committee members in 2007.
The UK Government has announced plans to merge UK Sport and Sport England, buy the two bodies responsible for distributing National Lottery funding, shop after the London 2012 Olympic Games.
UK Sport funds elite Olympic athletes and promising sports stars, generic while Sports England funds grassroots sport in terms of facilities and coaching.
The merger would see the organisations based as separate divisions under one roof with a single chairman and board.
However, UK Sport chief, baroness Sue Campbell, has warned the the decision could disrupt preparations for the 2012 Games. She said: “This goes further than we had previously expected. What is crucial now is that all sides engaged in this decision understand not only the issues but also the risks involved in such a move.
“We will as always play our part in seeking the best solution for sport and seeking to make the delivery system as efficient as possible.
“But equally we are very aware not only of the existing effectiveness of our operation but the incredible strides we have taken in high performance sport over the past decade, and the significant progress made in developing a system that is not only delivering results like those seen in Beijing but also making the UK the envy of the sporting world.”
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has said the merge will “create a more effective structure to deliver elite sport success and a wider sports legacy from the 2012 Games”.
British Telecom’s (BT) new phone books will feature some of the UK’s leading athletes on the cover to celebrate two years until the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The first books are set to be distributed next week and feature BT Ambassador Ade Adepitan, who won a bronze medal as part of the wheelchair basketball team at the 2004 Paralympic Games.
Other athletes to feature on the phone books are Chris Tomlinson (World Indoor long-jump silver medalist), Lee Pearson (nine-times Paralympic equestrian gold medalist), Dame Mary Peters (Olympic gold medalist in pentathlon) and Alistair Brownlee (World Triathlon champion).
Adepitan said: “featuring sporting personalities on the cover of the phone book is a great idea and will help raise the profile of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games across the UK. I’m proud to be the face of the phone book, and my mum is looking forward to receiving her new London phone book with me on the front cover!”
CEO of BT Directories, David Grossman, added: “The phone book is still very much the quickest way to locate a friend, and essential service or a local business and gracing it with inspiring sporting personalities celebrates BT’s involvement with the London 2012 Games.
“We hope everyone gets behind the athlete that features on the front cover of their own phone book – it would be great if these inspires young hopefuls in the world of sport.”