| Baugh, Morton Dumped by Smasher Sports | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:32:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | Cricket equipment manufacturer Smasher Sports UK has terminated endorsement contracts with Carlton Baugh and Runako Morton, citing "unprofessional behaviour" at the ICC Champions Trophy final. The company did not elaborate in a brief note announcing that the withdrawn contracts. Baugh and Morton are among a list of about 16 players with Smasher contracts. The contract typically includes a retainer and an appearance fee when they play international cricket. .... | |
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| | | Keillor: Out with the old, in with the true | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:15:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | New Year's Eve is a high point of the old year and the low point of the new. You go off to a party with expectations of hilarity and camaraderie and wind up in a cacophonous room packed with people shouting at people two feet away. You eat shrimp and drink various grain- or grape-based beverages and drive home legally drunk and wake up at noon with chainsaws in your head and one eyeball half out of its socket. And someone has already turned on the television for the football triple-header. A major hangover, and now you get to sit and watch big bozos bounce off each other and the sponsor's pickup trucks race up steep mountain roads. Then you realize that something you've done for 30 years under the impression that it was fun actually is not.... | |
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| | | Store s sports aid for nursery pupils | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:50:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | SPORTS equipment from Sainsbury's has provided the missing piece for the Jigsaw nursery in Stevenage. Through the Active Kids voucher collection scheme, the store at Corey's Mill has been able to supply valuable sports apparatus for the nursery."We play an important role in this community and want to do all that we can to be part of it," said Sainsbury's store manager Mark Siggins. "Helping local children to grow and achieve their full potential is a terrific investment for their future."Nursery manager Kay Bradley is delighted with the donation.She said: "The children have had lots of fun with the new equipment which helps to keep them fit and healthy and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported us. .... | |
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| | | Dandridge Equipment offers innovative sales practices | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:41:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | By staying true to an old-fashioned ideal of devoted customer service while embracing new and innovative sales practices, Dandridge Equipment Inc. in Somerville has become a business model for John Deere dealerships throughout the Mid-South. William Cathey Dandridge started Dandridge Equipment Inc. in 1967 after working for the John Deere Co. for six years. Next year, he will celebrate his 40th year in business. "I built this business on a philosophy of unmatched service," he said. "My personal slogan is, We doze, but seldom close.'" In staying true to this motto, Dandridge's dealership remains one, if not the only, area tractor store that remains open on weekends during planting and harvest seasons. "It has never been a profitable venture to do that," said Mike Cottam, Dandridge general manager and controller.... | |
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| | | Let it be grassroots sports hub | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 7:32:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | Every Sunday, ERNEST LUIS probes or profiles the Singapore sports scene in a column called Singapore at Large. Over the past month, we made a public call for the national football team's jersey to be re-designed, and Farrer Park to be revived for sports. Today, we sum up reactions from readers and the authorities .... | |
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| | | Camp in a magazine house | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 1:06:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | IT is a forest camp in a magazine house. It had been an ammunition dump, last used to store dynamite nearly 20 years ago. And the dynamite was used to blast granite hills to build the Supa dam. Impounding the waters of River Kali, the dam now generates electricity from deep within the thick forests of northern Karnataka, its outflow driving four other power stations down river before it disgorges into the Arabian Sea at Karwar. Haven for nature enthusiasts Jungle Lodges and Resorts (JLR), a unit of the tourism department of the Government of Karnataka, was quick to spot the potential of the old magazine house lying disused in the forest near a little village called Ganeshgudi. They promptly acquired it. Today it is a haven for nature enthusiasts and travellers seeking solitude. Peace and tranquillity abound here, surrounded as it is by an extensive reserve forest and perched at an altitude of 1,800 feet.... | |
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| | | Magna announces purchase of Fontana Golf and Sports Club | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 11:51:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | AURORA, ON, Nov. 2, 2006 -- Magna International Inc. ("Magna") (TSX: MG.A, MG.B; NYSE: MGA) today announced that it has purchased the Fontana Golf and Sports Club located in Oberwaltersdorf, Austria from a subsidiary of Magna Entertainment Corp. ("MEC") for approximately (euro)30 million, subject to various closing and other adjustments. The purchase price is payable as to approximately (euro)13.2 million in cash and the balance by the assumption of debt in the approximate amount of (euro)16.8 million. The transaction was reviewed by a Special Committee of Magna's Board of Directors, and subsequently approved by, the independent members of its Board based on the unanimous recommendation of the Special Committee. Magna International, the most diversified automotive supplier in the world, designs, develops and manufactures automotive systems, assemblies, modules and components, and engineers and assembles complete vehicles, primarily for sale to original equipment manufacturers of cars and light trucks in North America, Europe, Asia and South America.... | |
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| | | People in the News | He oversees two arenas with lots of events, sports | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:17:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | When Tim Murphy started in facility management, it must have been hard for him to imagine that one day, he'd preside over an arena with boa constrictors slithering around. And yet, there they were, in the Spectrum as part of the recent Nightmares Xtreme Scream Park and its haunted house. There are many events to keep Murphy entertained in the two arenas he oversees as the new vice president and general manager of the Wachovia Center and Spectrum in South Philadelphia. Those events involve not only six professional teams - the Flyers, Sixers, Phantoms, Kixx, Soul and Wings - but also the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice, three to five Villanova basketball games a year, the Harlem Globetrotters, and Sesame Street Live. There also are concerts, and other sports and entertainment shows; about 400 events a year are presented before 4 million spectators.... | |
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| | | Kids' sports expensive | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 3:11:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | My daughter registered her 4-year-old son in indoor soccer. It cost her $52 for equipment. Hockey equipment would cost $300. She also has two older boys in other sports. Parents with young kids are facing an increasing spiral of costs to keep a child on the ice, court or field. The price of shoes, skates, equipment and uniforms and club fees has skyrocketed. Youth sports have become a big business and it may be too expensive for some parents to raise an active and involved child. The day when a kid could play pick-up ball or hockey on the sandlot or in the park has passed. Adults are obsessed with uniforms, trophies and success. Kids' sports are too organized and less fun. Vince Last, Brampton .... | |
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| | | INTK: Distributor Signs Agreement for Use of Nansulate Throughout Large Dyehouse in Turkey | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:13:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (INTK) announced that Kolorgen, Ltd., an International distributor of the Company, has reached an agreement with one of the largest dyehouses in Turkey for the application of the Company's cutting-edge Nansulate coatings on all extreme temperature equipment. The customer anticipates that it can generate a savings of approximately $40,000 a month in energy costs by using Nansulate throughout the facility. The dyehouse, located in the Trakya region of Turkey, manufactures products for clientele which includes two of the largest sports apparel manufacturers in the world. According to the agreement, Kolorgen will apply Industrial Nanotech's Nansulate High Heat throughout the factory on equipment such as LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) burners, dye machines, fabric drying and ranges, steam pipes, valves and hot water storage tanks.... | |
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