The News Review:
- King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
- SPRTS F THE TIMES; A Year of Youthful Exuberance Meets Fleeting…
- Labour deny cronyism charge over Sport England appointment
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
- MTG NASN to launch sports channel in Eastern Europe
- Lee leaves CBC Sports for lympic TV post
- Sports Sponsorship
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
salon.com – Oct 17, 2006
Plus: The high price of A-Rod sucking. 17 2006 | Thank you heavy rain that turned my backyard into a mud puddle and postponed Game 5 of the National League Championship Series Monday night. You let me watch a Monday night football game I’d been planning to ignore and had actually been ignoring until I caught the halftime score: Arizona Cardinals 20 Chicago Bears 0.
SPRTS F THE TIMES; A Year of Youthful Exuberance Meets Fleeting…
New York Times – Oct 17, 2006
He struck up a conversation with a young man who mentioned to Wright that he had played high school ball here with the Phillies Ryan Howard and would be leaving the next morning to try his luck at one of those Florida baseball academies looking for amateur diamonds in the rough. I played college ball the man Ryan Grooms 24 told Wright. At Southern then the University of Missouri here in St.
Labour deny cronyism charge over Sport England appointment
guardian.co.uk – Oct 17, 2006
pposition MPs who attempted yesterday to raise the issue in the Commons expressed considerable concern about the appointment process. Mapp who has twice allowed the deputy prime minister John Prescott to use his holiday apartment in Mallorca donated £3000 to Labour two years ago and has been an acquaintance of Richard Caborn the sports minister for 30 years. A former chairman of the East Midlands Development Agency (Emda) Mapp was credited with the regeneration of the Silverstone motor racing circuit. Hugh Robertson the shadow sports minister said: “I think we are entitled to ask whether the appointment process was both fair and in the best interests of sport.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 17, 2006
Meanwhile the Brazilian Grand Prix Formula ne season finale will crown a champion and say goodbye to another one. NASCAR Nextel Cup Subway 500 – Martinsville Speedway – Martinsville VA The newly crowned “Ice Man” Jeff Burton finds himself with a 45-point lead halfway through his first “Chase for the Nextel Cup. ” He has built the lead by posting four top-10s (one win at Dover) in the first five events of the 10- race “Chase. ” He has also led a lap in four of the five races and those 20 bonus points are obviously an important component to building the margin to its current level.
MTG NASN to launch sports channel in Eastern Europe
Forbes – Oct 17, 2006
The new ‘Viasat Sport’ channel was co-developed with North American Sports Network (NASN) which is the leading broadcaster of North American Sports in Europe and will be launched in Russia Belarus Moldova Georgia Kazakhstan and the three Baltic states in November MTG said. Viasat Broadcasting and NASN will be the first broadcasters to offer viewers in Russia the CIS countries and the Baltic countries access to premium sports content such as the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball.
Lee leaves CBC Sports for lympic TV post
Globe and Mail – Oct 17, 2006
Lee 47 quit as executive director of the sports department to accept a position as chief operating officer of the 2010 Vancouver lympic host broadcast. She will begin her new job in mid-November. But the question asked by people in the sports broadcasting business was: Why is she leaving the CBC now?After all if the network isn’t already in negotiation with the National Hockey League for a new rights deal it will be soon. The Vancouver Games on the other hand are more than three years away.
Sports Sponsorship
BBC News – Oct 17, 2006
Barclays Bank supports the English Premiership; HSBC offer one of the biggest cash prizes in golf and Emirates and Reebok have given football clubs so much money that they have stadiums named after them. In this two-part documentary Ashish Sharma talks to sponsors administrators and sports stars about the complex world of sports sponsorship. Part ne: Selling SportThis programme focuses on cricket and American football. They are two very different sports – but both are trying to expand and attract more sponsors. Cricket is played around the world and can offer sponsors the benefit of exposure to the millions of fans in South Asia.
