Rising golf prospect Xiyu Lin has signed a management and marketing representation deal with sports media agency, ed IMG.

Xiyu Lin (Janet Lin) is China’s second ranked player, behind fellow IMG Golf client, Major winner Shanshan Feng. Lin is the youngest player to win her Ladies European Tour card and came through the 2013 LPGA Qualifying School finishing in tied ninth position to claim her full card for the 2014 season. She is only the second Chinese golfer to hold her full LPGA card, once again following in the footsteps of the trail-blazing Shanshan Feng.

Record-breaking Xiyu Lin is a member of the China National Golf team and is the youngest winner on the China LPGA Tour, having already won three times.

Xiyu explained, “I am very excited to be joining IMG and am very much looking forward to the year ahead. I chose IMG because they manage so many of the players I admire – especially Shanshan Feng. I am very confident that they will be able to look after all of my on and off course interests as I compete all around the world.”

Guy Kinnings, Global Head of Golf, IMG, added, “We are delighted that Xiyu has chosen IMG as her management company. She is a very exciting young golfer with enormous potential and as IMG’s golf business in China continues to flourish, I believe we are extremely well placed to ensure all her professional and personal needs are met, both in China and by our global golf team.”   
Xiyu Lin will be managed by Will Wei, Head of IMG China Golf.

St Kilda Cricket Club’s pursuit for redevelopment of their Junction Oval has been boosted after Cricket legend Shane Warne called on the government to fund the project.

The St Kilda Club fears it will have to move from the ground at the end of the summer, with cricket officials saying its facilities must be upgraded.

Junction Oval has typically been Melbourne’s No.2 first-class cricket venue behind the MCG.

There were plans for the federal and state governments to jointly fund the ground’s redevelopment, but that support is now in doubt.

“If the government don’t get behind us and give us the funding and support … the simple face is in the next few months, there will be no home for St Kilda Cricket Club and Cricket Victoria are going to have to look for alternative venues,” Warne said.

“We urge the government to actually get behind Cricket Victoria and the St Kilda Cricket Club and give us the support we need.”

Warne is a St Kilda life member and said the ground is crucial for cricket in Melbourne.

“Like any big business … the foundation has to be strong,” he said.

“If you don’t have a good foundation, it’s going to fall apart.

“We need a home – we need that to be an alternative venue.”

The Asia Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC), prostate in partnership with the Masters Tournament and The R&A, cheap ed have announced the fifth-annual Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, sildenafil citrate sale online one of the world’s premier amateur golf events, will be televised across more than 150 countries and reach an unprecedented amount of people.

Asian Tour Media will produce the high-definition broadcast, including two hours of live coverage on each of the four competition days. A 30-minute highlight show will also be created after the conclusion of the event, all of which makes the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship the most televised amateur golf tournament in the world.

Held at Nanshan International Golf Club on mainland China 24-27 October, the event is organized by the APGC, the Masters Tournament and The R&A. Every year, the winner is rewarded with an invitation to the Masters Tournament the following year and, along with the runner(s)-up, a place at International Final Qualifying for The Open Championship.

“Television exposure is an important element to showcasing the talent that exists in Asia-Pacific,” said Hur Kwang-soo, president of the APGC. “Equally important is our ability to increase the visibility of the amateur game in this region with the collective mission of growing the game of golf.”

Fox Sports will provide tournament coverage in China and across Asia, Australia and the Middle East, while viewers in Japan, South Korea and New Zealand can catch the action on Tokyo Broadcasting System, SBS Golf and Sky Sports, respectively. In Europe, the tournament is distributed through Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and CNBC across continental Europe. Other broadcasters include ESPN2 (United States), ESPN (Latin America), TSN (Canada) and SuperSport (Southern Africa). All of the coverage will also be streamed live on the official event Web site.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club have announced a profit of £23,310 for 2012, the newly-promoted county’s sixth surplus in seven years.

Karl Krikken’s side enjoyed a successful campaign on the field last time out, winning Division Two of the LV= County Championship.

Chief executive Simon Storey said: “After a very challenging summer for English cricket, in which we were competing with both the weather and sporting spectacles such as the London Olympics and Euro 2012, our financial results for the year are very pleasing indeed.”

Chairman Chris Grant added: “It has been a momentous year for Derbyshire and – given the economic climate – posting a profit for the second successive year is an excellent achievement. Even more importantly we are embarking upon an exciting period both on and off the field with no debt and on a sound financial footing.

“Success on the field is our ultimate priority but that is dependent on continued success, growth and ambition behind the scenes.”

The Chief Operating Officer of TEN Sports, viagra a television broadcaster which serves most of the subcontinent has said that the covering of the Elite Football League of India may not work out, unhealthy but that with experience and time, viagra the sport could become popular in the region.

Next month, the broadcaster will begin showing the league, where teams from all over the subcontinent will compete in the gridiron (American Football) competition.

Mr Raina says that the sport has yet to take off in the region, but that the risk could be one which is worth taking.

“People in the sub-continent don’t understand the game so I guess it will go through a learning curve. will go through a learning curve, but these are experiments that all networks do; you pick up something and then it gradually becomes bigger.

“These are small experiments are not to get a large share of viewing figures, but ones which you keep doing to keep testing new formats and new kinds of sports.”

Mr Raina says that although these sports “do not get a large share of viewing figures”, the venture could be a success, referencing the recent success of Formula One in Asia and India in particular. “Now you can say that it (motorsport) has become a global phenomenon, especially the likes of Formula One, Moto GP and so on.”

Wie das Magazin Sponsors berichtet hat die Constantin Medien AG hat ihr Konzernergebnis für das erste Halbjahr 2012 offengelegt. Das Segment Sport legte gegenüber dem Vorjahreszeitraum sowohl beim Umsatz als auch beim Ergebnis zu.

Das Segment Sport verzeichnete nach Sponsors-Angaben im ersten Halbjahr 2012 einen Umsatz von 76, impotent 2 Millionen Euro. Dies entspricht einem Anstieg um zwei Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahreswert (74,7 Millionen Euro). Als Grund für den Umsatzanstieg nannte Constantin die steigenden Werbeerlöse bei Sport1. Insgesamt verbesserte sich das Segmentergebnis von 1,3 Millionen auf 3,3 Millionen Euro. Dazu trugen neben der Umsatzsteigerung auch Einsparungen bei Lizenzkosten und niedrigere Aufwendungen für bezogene Leistungen bei, teilte der Medienkonzern mit.

Die Umsatzerlöse des Segments Sport- und Event-Marketing lagen dagegen im ersten Halbjahr 2012 mit 35,5 Millionen Euro leicht unter dem Niveau des Vorjahreszeitraums (36,1 Millionen Euro). Das Segmentergebnis stieg allerdings von 2,8 Millionen Euro auf fünf Millionen Euro.

Der Konzernumsatz von Constantin Medien lag im ersten Halbjahr 2012 bei 211,7 Millionen Euro und damit um 5,6 Prozent über dem Wert im Vorjahreszeitraum (200,4 Millionen Euro). Der Zuwachs sei in erster Linie auf höhere Erlöse in den Segmenten Sport und Film zurückzuführen, heißt es vonseiten Constantins.

Through the first six days of The Championships, ESPN and ESPN2 scored a 13% gain among guys 18 to 34, a 20% increase among males 18 to 49 and a 11% advance among men 25 to 54, compared to ESPN2 and NBC’s coverage over the corresponding span during the 2011 grass-court Grand Slam tournament, according to Nielsen.

Household impressions grew 8% to 569,000 during the programmer’s 10th year of Wimbledon coverage, while the rating for Bristol’s doubles team matched ESPN2/NBC’s 0.5 performance from a year ago, according to Nielsen.

Andy Murray’s win over Marcos Baghdatis minutes past the Wimbledon Village curfew inside a roofed Centre Court, netted ESPN a 0.9 national rating, the best for a middle Saturday since a  combined 1.0 for ESPN2 and NBC in 2007. 

On a coverage rating basis, ESPN’s 1.0 average for the extended presentation — Murray advanced to the round of 16 at 11:02 p.m. local time — tied the sports giant’s previous Wimbledon Nielsen marks: ESPN2 hit that level on July 4, 2007 with women’s quarterfinals coverage, while ESPN delivered that mark on July 4, 2003 with a men’s semifinal.

With first-to-last-ball coverage during the business end of the world’s most prestigious tennis tourney in store, ESPN and ESPN2 figure to generate higher ratings during the second week at Wimbledon, highlighted by the ladies’ and gentlemen’s semifinals and finals presentations.

On the digital front, users during the first week of Wimbledon consumed 46.6 million live minutes across all platforms — computer, smartphone, tablet and Xbox — up 67% from the same point of the 2011 tournament.