Sep 22 Vol 01, Issue 1033
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TODAY'S TOP HEADLINES |
adidas Group reinforces confidence in Route 2015 targets |
adidas
brand sales target increased by 5%; other businesses to achieve 2015
target this year; Reebok introduces expanded fitness category structure |
DD to telecast Federation Cup semifinals, final |
Federation
Cup semi-finals scheduled to take place in Siliguri on September 27 and
28 as well as final on the 30th at the same venue will be telecast live
on DD Sports |
Premier League makes available invitation to tender for Americas region |
Premier
League issues Invitation to Tender for its live audio visual rights
spanning seasons 2013/14 – 2015/16 for the Americas region |
Fiba launches tender for worldwide licensing representative |
Fiba
looking to appoint worldwide licensing representative responsible for
developing its licensing programme and those of its major upcoming
competitions |
TOP STORY PICKS OF THE WEEK |
GT1 race at BIC called off due to financial woes in Europe |
GT1
race scheduled for December 2 will not happen this year because the
main promoter of the event Stephane Ratel Organisation has asked FIA to
cancel the event. |
HC directs Archery Association to hold poll as per sports code |
Delhi
High Court orders Archery Association of India to hold its slated
September 29 election for various posts as per the National Sports
Development Code
|
Only 30,000 tickets sold for Airtel Indian GP |
With
a little over a month left for the second edition of the Airtel Indian
Grand Prix, only 30,000 tickets have been sold so far, the organisers
confirm |
Saina enters cricket earnings arena after signing Rs400m deal with Dhoni's Rhiti Sports |
Rhiti
Sports will now exclusively manage Saina’s endorsements and brand
associations, corporate profile, patents and digital rights, images and
all other commercial rights |
Srinivasan's India Cements evaluating Chennai franchise of Hockey India League |
Five-time
FIH World Player of the Year Jamie Dwyer and India’s ace centre-half
Sardar Singh announced as brand ambassadors for Hockey India League |
News access norms: HC rules in favour of ICC for World T20 |
Delhi
High Court rules in favour of the ICC and ESPN STAR Sports in ongoing
news access regulations case cricket's world governing body has been
fighting that harks back to last year's World Cup |
World T20 ad inventory sold out, asserts ESS |
With
34 advertisers on board, ESPN Star Sports asserts the fourth World
Twenty20 it is broadcasting as the best ever in terms of ads
|
Delhi HC injuncts cable ops from unauthorized t'cast of World T20 |
Court
also permits ESS to take action against “unnamed” entities not party to
the suit but found to be unauthorisedly utilising the feed of ESPN,
Star Cricket HD and Star Cricket |
Record entries for Airtel Delhi Half Marathon; Oly gold medalist Rudisha is event ambassador |
The
world’s most prestigious half marathon, with its prize fund of $210,000
offers bonuses of $25,000 for a new world record and $10,000 for a
course record |
Reebok India's former MD, 4 others held in embezzlement case |
Gurgaon
police arrest sacked Reebok India MD Subhinder Singh Prem, former COO
Vishnu Bhagat, along with three others, for alleged involvement in
Rs8.7bn fraud |
Emirates, Etihad account for nearly half of $500m annual airline sponsorship: Survey |
Report
predicts that airline sponsorship will continue to grow and emergence
of Indian, Chinese companies as increasingly important international
carriers will drive spending |
GlaxoSmithKline's Boost partners Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team |
Association
part of long-term strategic partnership GlaxoSmithKline has formed with
McLaren; Boost logo will run on Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button’s race
cars during Indian GP |
IMG-Reliance fails to deliver live telecast of Federation Cup |
IMG-Reliance,
which has been sitting on the commercial rights to pro football in
India since December 2010, fails to secure live TV broadcast of ongoing
Federation Cup |
BCB waits for better offer as Bangla cricket rights tender gets tepid reponse |
BCB
will likely wait it out and go series by series if it cannot extract a
better offer than the $6m Virgo Media has put on the table; or till such
time as a broadcaster shows some interest |
Is AITA’s Two Year Ban On Bhupathi Justifiable? |
BY
INVITATION - The refusal of the players to break up their team may be
graver than a minor disciplinary offence but it should not be equated to
the same gravity as doping or match fixing |
Tata Tea to sponsor Karthikeyan, HRT for Singapore and Indian GP |
Logos
of Tata Tea brand will appear on the HRT cars at this weekend's
Singapore Grand Prix and October's Indian race in a deal linked to
Indian HRT driver Narain Karthikeyan |
Learning Module – Player Selection Disputes: Comparative Legal Analysis |
One
of the most challenging tasks for any national or international
governing body of a sport is the development of fool proof criteria for
team selection. However, a large part of the selection process comprises
a subjective element that cannot be quantified. |
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