The International Boxing Association (AIBA) Executive Committee has awarded the 2014 AIBA Congress to Jeju Island, tadalafil Korea.

“On behalf of the Boxing Association of Korea, for sale I would like to convey my deepest appreciation to the AIBA Executive Committee for its decision to hold the 2014 AIBA Congress in Jeju”, no rx expressed Mr Yoon Seok Chang, President of the Boxing Association of Korea. “I am convinced that this will significantly contribute to the development of the sport of boxing in Korea. We are honored and encouraged by this decision.” 

“We are delighted to have been nominated as hosts of the 2014 AIBA Congress”, said Mr. Keun-min Woo, Governor of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province. “This event will celebrate a new era for the sport of boxing in Korea after a few difficult years. We ensure AIBA of our full support to host its 195 National Member Federations in the best possible conditions.” 

As defined in the AIBA Statutes: “The Congress is an assembly to which all eligible AIBA National Member Federations are convened at least once every four years. The Congress is the supreme body of AIBA.”

The Bowl Championship Series is set to be renamed the the College Football Playoff from 2014, stuff the BCS conference commissioners announced today.

They also will choose the remaining three sites for the six-bowl semifinal rotation in the new system and the site of the first championship game to be held Jan. 12, decease 2015, this week.

”We’ve decided to call the playoff what it is – the College Football Playoff,” BCS executive director Bill Hancock, who will hold the same position in the playoff system, said in a statement.

Premiere Sports Management in Overland Park, Kan., was hired to help come up with a name and brand the new system.

Before the news was reported, Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said he’d be happy with whatever was selected.

”I’m am not good with names – obviously,” Delany said during a break in the meetings, referring to the Big Ten’s division names, Legends and Leaders, that produced so much negative feedback the conference has already decided to change them.

The new postseason format will create two national semifinals to be played New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, with the winners advancing. The six bowls in the playoff rotation will host marquee, BCS-type games on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day during the seasons they do not host a semifinal.

Three semifinal spots have already been decided: the Rose, Orange and Sugar bowls.

Four other bowls have bid for the final three spots. The clear front-runners are the Cotton, Chick-fil-A and Fiesta. The Holiday Bowl in San Diego also put in a bid, but even its organizers have acknowledged they are a long shot at best to land the game.

Those decisions will be announced Wednesday.

The coaches on the Big 12?s spring teleconference were already talking about the Cotton Bowl having a spot in the rotation as if it was a done deal.

”I think it’s really exciting for this region, for everybody, and I think all of the schools in this region, to have Dallas as one of those sites is great for everybody in this region, and exciting for everybody,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. ”Obviously, everybody knows what a great and quality, what an awesome stadium it is, then the location for us is an advantage, or should be.”

The first semifinals will be played at the Rose and Sugar bowls.

”I’m glad it has [been competative],” Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. ”I think it will give us a better outcome.”

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced that it has entered into an agreement with StarGames to launch World Tennis Day to help promote tennis participation around the world.

The inaugural World Tennis Day will be held on Monday 4 March 2013 as part of the 2013 ITF Centenary activities.

World Tennis Day will be centred around a series of high profile exhibition events around the world, thumb including the well-established BNP Paribas Showdown in New York’s Madison Square Garden. Each of the events, ailment organised by the promoter StarGames, arthritis will feature current and former professionals together with demonstrations of the ITF’s Tennis10sprogramme aimed at increasing participation among young players around the world.   

Alongside these events, the ITF will be encouraging its 210 National Associations to support World Tennis Day with their own grassroots and club activities to attract new participants to the sport.

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) has already established the successful Tennis Night in America in conjunction with the BNP Paribas Showdown in which clubs are asked to open their doors as part of a month-long drive to get children playing the sport. Over 2,200 clubs in the United States took part in this initiative in 2012.

Several other National Associations have already pledged their support to join the USTA in World Tennis Day activities in 2013, including Davis Cup finalists Czech Republic and Spain, plus Argentina, Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Norway, Portugal and South Africa. Announcements about further exhibition events will be made soon.

The ITF’s Tennis10s programme, which promotes the use of slower and lower bouncing balls, shorter and lighter rackets, and smaller courts to make it easier for children to take up the game. Tennis10s is a supporting programme of the Tennis Play and Stay campaign, the ITF’s global initiative launched in 2007 aimed at increasing tennis participation worldwide. Tennis Play and Stay centres around the slogan of ‘Serve, Rally and Score’ and seeks to promote tennis as an easy, fun and healthy sport.

“We look forward to World Tennis Day as a way to put a spotlight on tennis participation,” said ITF President Francesco Ricci Bitti. “The very successful Tennis Night in America, staged by the USTA in association with StarGames, is an example of how special events and participation activities can be combined successfully. We look forward to events around the world over the next few years, and to see our 210 member national associations get behind World Tennis Day with activities in their own countries on that day.”

Ivo Kaderka, president of the Czech Tennis Association (CTA), said: “We think World Tennis Day will be very good for tennis worldwide and the CTA looks forward to getting involved in this initiative.” Anil Khanna, President of the Asian Tennis Federation and All India Tennis Association, said: “We will be delighted to support World Tennis Day.”

Jerry Solomon, President and CEO of StarGames, said: “Our partnerships with the USTA on Tennis Night in America and BNP Paribas on the Showdown have proven successful so to be able to expand this to World Tennis Day in partnership with the ITF and its 210 member nations is a unique opportunity. I want to thank the ITFleadership for sharing our vision and look forward to the day when World Tennis Day brings focus to the sport through multiple special events combined with the Tennis10s programme across the globe.”

“Tennis Play and Stay and Tennis10s are programmes with proven success in growing participation,” said Dave Miley, ITF Executive Director of Development. “This initiative will give both the ITF and our member nations a great opportunity to showcase and draw extra attention to what they are doing to grow tennis in their countries through World Tennis Day.”

The Germany city of Braunschweig and the Russian city of Cheboksary will host the top leagues of the 2014 and 2015 European Athletics Team Championships, sale following decisions by the European Athletics Council on Saturday.

Braunschweig prevailed over Ostrava (Czech Republic) in the contest to host the top division of the 2014 championships, sales while Cheboksary was the sole bidder for 2015.

European Athletics President Hansjörg Wirz said: “We congratulate Braunschweig and Cheboksary and look forward to excellent European Athletics Team Championships in the summers of 2014 and 2015. 

“They have shown the Council that they are ready to host these prestigious championships in terms of competition, asthma logistics and promotion.

Each city delegation made its final presentation to the European Athletics Council during its 133rd meeting this weekend.

The 2-4 November Council meeting is taking place in Bucharest, Romania, at the Athenee Palace Hilton Hotel.

Gateshead will host the 2013 edition of the European Athletics Team Championships super league.

Scotland will bid to host the opening stages of the Tour de France.

EventScotland will collaborate with British Cycling UK to develop a formal proposal to stage the Grand Depart in Edinburgh, before the race heads south.

The organisation has been working towards bringing the tour to Scotland for a number of years, aiming to keep it in the UK for as long as possible.

Watched by around two billion people every year and attracting up to two million spectators to watch the opening stage, the Tour de France is one of the world’s largest sporting events.

The tour was last in the UK in 2007, when London and Kent hosted the Grand Depart and opening stages.

Officials expect 2017 to be an opportunity for another ‘mega-event’ following the 2012 Olympic Games and 2014 Commonwealth Games, and the proposal has received full backing from the Scottish Government.

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond said: “Scotland has a strong relationship with the international cycling community, and I am delighted that a proposal is being developed for the opening stages of the Tour de France.

“To bring such a fantastic event to Scotland would be a huge coup, but we have a strong track record and I know that the country has a huge amount to offer ASO and the cyclists taking part.

“The Scottish Government is committed to supporting major international events, and I have no doubt that the combined expertise of the UK partners would lead to a first-class opening stage of the Tour.”

Discussions are currently ongoing between UK partners and tour organisers, with particular support from UK Sport.

Simon Morton, director of Major Events and International Relations at UK Sport, said: “Our ambition after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is to attract some of the world’s most prestigious sporting events to the UK and cement our position as one of the world’s leading host nations. We have already secured the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow and 2017 World Athletics Championships in London, to name a few.

“The Tour de France is a spectacular competition, and would provide a fantastic opportunity to engage the British public in the sport, so we welcome the opportunity to work with EventScotland and British Cycling to look at bringing the opening stages to the UK in 2017.”

FIFA has imposed worldwide bans on six Zambian players involved in a match-fixing scandal in Finland after the conclusion of their appeal.

physician 255, 255, 0.917969);”>The six men played for Rovaniemi Palloseura and were originally convicted of accepting bribes of $15,000 to $57,000 each to affect the outcome of matches.

The Football Association of Finland (Faf) had already banned Godfrey Chibanga, Chileshe Chibwe, Steven Kunda, Christopher Musonda, Chanda Mwaba and Nchimunya Mweetwa who were given suspended jail sentences.

But the Faf bans handed out after their convictions in 2011 have now been extended by FIFA to cover football globally.

FIFA’s disciplinary committee has hailed the sanctions to be “another important decision in its fight against match-fixing”.

The investigation centred on a Singaporean man, Wilson Raj Perumal, who was sentenced to two years in prison after earning $210,000 by fixing results in Finnish league matches.

Perumal was originally arrested in February 2011 after entering Finland using a fake passport and was later convicted of illegal border crossing and forgery as well as bribery.

FIFA also suspected Perumal had fixed international games featuring Asian and African national teams.

The National Football League’s (NFL) Green Bay Packers are raising ticket prices between $3 and $5 per ticket for the 2012 season.

Tickets in Lambeau Field’s end-zone sections will increase $3 to $72 per game, tickets from the 20-yard line to the end zone will increase $4 to $80, and tickets between the 20s will increase $5 to $92. Suite tickets also will increase $5 to $92.

“For the Packers, ticket revenue continues to be an important component of our ability to remain financially competitive with the other 31 NFL teams,” Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy said Thursday in a letter to season ticket holders. “Our goal each year is to be at the league average in terms of our ticket prices. This increase maintains our position near the league average.”

The team’s season-ticket waiting list currently stands at approximately 96,000.

The Packers have made the playoffs three years in a row, following up on their Super Bowl victory with a 15-1 regular season and a loss to the New York Giants in the divisional round of the playoffs.

In his letter, Murphy also updated ticket holders on the Lambeau Field expansion project, which includes a new sound system, two new video boards, 6,700 additional seats in the south end zone, two new gates and a new concession sales system. The project will be completed in time for the 2013 season. The video boards are expected to be in place for 2012.

“Our investment in the stadium will continue to provide value to the top-rated game-day experience at Lambeau Field,” Murphy said.

The Packers are funding the $143 million expansion project partly through a stock sale, and have sold more than 250,000 shares at a cost of $250 each — even though the stock’s value will not go up and there are no dividends. Stockholders get voting rights and can attend annual meetings.

The Packers are the NFL’s only publicly owned team and have recently sold stocks in the team.

by Ismail Uddin

World Sailing Championships organisers were put on high alert today after a sighting of a four-metre shark in Fremantle threatened to derail the Perth-based tournament.

Event director John Longley outlined extra precautions today, including aerial patrols, after a fisherman reported seeing the shark near the competition area on Tuesday evening.

“The report was made by a professional fisherman who is regarded as a reliable source,” said Longley. “We have informed Western Australian government authorities who will ensure that the usual helicopter shark patrol will concentrate on checking out the Fremantle course area.”

A spokesman for the event said it was highly unusual for such a large shark to be spotted in such an enclosed area as the fishing harbour.

Organisers are mindful of any potential danger to the hundreds of international sailors competing in the world championships, many of whom are competing to qualify for next year’s London Olympic Games.

Rules for the world championships, which began on Saturday, were actually changed to cover for sharks. Longley said sailors who need assistance getting back in their boats after capsizing would not be penalised. Under normal circumstances a sailor being helped back into his boat would be disqualified.

No racing has been delayed by the shark sighting.

Organisers were hoping to stage a few extra races on Wednesday to make up after big summer storms rolled across Fremantle on Tuesday forcing the cancellation of nearly the whole day’s racing.

There’s been several fatal shark attacks in and around Perth in recent months.

Among them, a 64-year-old man died while swimming off the popular Cottesloe Beach in October.

A US national was fatally attacked while diving off Rottnest Island, also in October.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), treat together with its exclusive Marketing Partner Dentsu, discount have introduced the first ever IAAF centralised Licensing Programme which will enable fans to purchase officially licensed goods online as well as on site at events.

In order to implement this programme, salve IAAF Official Partner adidas  and The Great Branding Co. Ltd have worked together on the project design, production and distribution.

As a first step of this global initiative, the Licensing Programme will be developed within the framework of the next  IAAF World Championships, Daegu 2011. The Daegu 2011 official licensed products are now available on www.merchstore.net/IAAF 2011/ and will also be sold on site in Daegu.

This website store, the first in the history of the IAAF, will permit fans all across the world to purchase quality products in real time.

Following Daegu 2011, the Licensing Programme will be extended to other IAAF World Athletics Series events.

Forbes has compiled a list of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) most overpaid players by position with St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Kyle Lohse and Houston Astros outfielder Carlos Lee providing the least reward for their pay in 2010.

The VORP score which was used to single out the underachieving mega stars uses myriad stats to measure a player’s productivity over and above that of a minimum salaried rookie.

At First Base, Colorado Rockies’ Todd Helton earns a salary of US$16.6m and with a VORP of 4.6, is overpaid by $13.7m.

At Second Base, New York Mets’ Luis Castillo earns a salary of $6m and with a VORP of -2.2, is overpaid by $6.8m.

In at Shortstop, the New York Yankees’ Derek Jeter earns a salary of $22.5m and despite a VORP of 27.3, is overpaid by $7.5m.

The Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez is also in the side at Third Base, earning a salary of $32m. His VORP of 36.1 means that according to Forbes, he is overpaid by $12.3m.

In the Outfield, the aforementioned Carlos Lee of the Houston Astros earns a salary of $18.5m, but with a VORP of just 1.3, is overpaid by $17.4m.

Joining Lee in the Outfield is New York Mets’ Carlos Beltran who also earns $18.5m. His greater VORP of 10.5 in contrast to Lee means he is overpaid slightly less at $12.5m.

The final Outfielder is the San Francisco Giants’ Aaron Rowand earning a salary of $12m. His dismal VORP of -1.6 means he is also overpaid by $12.5m.

Detroit Tigers’ Catcher Gerard Laird is the league’s least profitable in terms of results, earning a $4m salary, pitching in with a VORP of -10.1, being overpaid by $9m.

Cardinals Starting Pitcher Lohse has the worst VORP of the team at -22 and with a salary of $8.8m, is overpaid by a whopping $20m.

Finally, Relief Pitcher Trevor Hoffman of the Milwaukee Brewers completes the side, earning $7.5m but returning with a VORP of -4.2, meaning he is overpaid by $9.3m.