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- Barring cricket, Indian youth not keen on career in sports
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- Crossing over – BMW X5 M Sport – 14 Apr 2008 – Motoring including…
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- Daimler to launch new sports car in 2010 – report
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Barring cricket, Indian youth not keen on career in sports
Hindu – Apr 14, 2008
“Sports has failed to lure urban youth as a career prospect, with only 30 per cent youth from Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh opting for a career in sports, preferably in cricket,” the study said. The rural youth are also likely to follow suit as cricket is perceived as a sport of “quick and high earning as against hockey, football and archery”, it added. Over 65 per cent youth in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Haryana and Jaipur take up jobs in sectors like FMCG, finance, retail, IT, BPO, aviation and hospitality, lured by high salaries and incentives. “Factors for this negative response among youth from major states include lack of corporate sponsorships for games like boxing, athletics, hockey, football, archery, failure of Urban Sports Programmes, promoted by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, lack of marketing and awareness campaign and huge corporate money garnered by cricket and golf players,” Assocham President Venugopal Dhoot said.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 14, 2008
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Monday, April 14, 2008
From wire and local dispatches
Beasley decision expected today
To most people, Michael Beasley’s dilemma would be no dilemma at all. Should Beasley, a freshman All-American, become an instant millionaire and take his skills to basketball’s biggest stage? Or should he spend one more year at Kansas State, where he loves, as he often puts it, “just being a kid”?
It’s a tough enough decision that advisers and family members of this 6-foot-10 power forward were gathered over this weekend to help him make it in time for his own self-imposed deadline of 6 p. That’s when Beasley has called a news conference on the Kansas State campus to announce if he’ll enter the June 26 NBA draft. He’s considered the likely No.
Crossing over – BMW X5 M Sport – 14 Apr 2008 – Motoring including…
New Zealand Herald – Apr 14, 2008
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Nashville rallies past Detroit | Sports | Hockey | PE.com | Southern…
Press-Enterprise – Apr 14, 2008
The Detroit Red Wings are searching for their lost momentum. Jason Arnott scored with 3:58 left in the final period, the second Nashville goal in 9 seconds, and the Predators rallied to beat visiting Detroit, 5-3, Monday night and cut the first-round series deficit to 2-1. “There's moments that are going to happen in a series that can change the whole series,” Nashville coach Barry Trotz said. “I don't know, we might have just had ours.
Daimler to launch new sports car in 2010 – report
Forbes – Apr 14, 2008
’s luxury brand Mercedes-Benz is planning to build a new ’super’ sports car in 2010, Handelsblatt said, citing sources. It said Mercedes-Benz will no longer have a successor model for the SLR McLaren but will build one in the style of the 300 SL. A Daimler spokesman declined comment.
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Apr 14, 2008
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