When in 2002 the Benetton Formula One team morphed into Renault it was clear that what the French car giant was seeking to do was to secure brand value from the move, in return, of course, for funding. Constructors’ and Drivers’ championships in 2005 and 2006 will undoubtedly have given the brand a major boost […]

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Not only have the French gotten their knickers in a knot about Muslim girls wearing modest costumes to public swimming pools, but now an Italian city plans to ban it completely.
Women wearing the garment made up of a veil, a tunic and loose leggings face a fine of 500 euros ($850) if spotted at swimming […]

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Judy Rogers has been fired after ten years as Vancouver’s City Manager. While Rogers acknowledged to the media that it had not been her choice to leave the job she “loved”, Mayor Robertson was twisting his tongue into euphemisms: “Technically, it’s a cessation of her duties by mutual understanding.” 
The firing has swept […]

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David Schussler
This is a story of a brave American hero Lindsey Carmichael, 2008 Paralympic bronze medalist archer.
Hailing from Lago Vista, Texas, Lindsey has McCune Albright Syndrome, a disease that creates severe weak spots in her bones. After struggling for years in and out of wheelchairs and therapy, Lindsey has attained a goal she has been […]

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I wonder how many of those going to the boxing at the Beijing Olympics remember the opening ceremony of Atlanta  1996 when the shambling figure of Muhammed Ali struggled nobly to light the Olympic flame.
In Atlanta, and since, Muhammed Ali’s suffering from “Pugilistic Parkinson’s syndrome” was visible for all to see. Like other great champions […]

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Wally Olins, one of the most knowledgeable writers and thinkers on brand management in modern times, wrote back in 1989 in his seminal book on “Corporate Identity”, that “…oil companies are poor retailers.” The irony was that then, as now, the brand identities of Shell, BP or Esso were amongst the most ubiquitous in the […]

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For four years in the late 1980s I lived and worked in Hong Kong – it was an exciting time. Hong Kong’s political future had been decided by the signing of the Joint Declaration with China in December 1984 and the Territory would revert to Chinese sovereignty with effect from 1st July 1997. But although […]

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The great anthropologist Margaret Mead always described the formal rituals of the societies she studied as a way of illustrating the core values and mores of those societies. Had she studied the Britain of modern times the Wimbledon tennis fortnight would have been an essential ritual for her to examine - indeed sport and sporting […]

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The popularity of Cricket in India has been a matter of global attention. Many say Cricket is a religion in India. In fact it may be true. What else can justify a temple of “Cricket Ganesha” where a special “Sahasranaama” pooja is offered invoking the names of cricket legends such as Sachin and Saurav in […]

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You get a strange feeling reading the different links cited in this article. See if you get the same impressions as the ones I will list. They are only impressions, not necessarily facts, but they do form a pattern.
“Haas ‘was not poisoned.’” The suspicious illness of German tennis star Tommy Hass was thus dismissed after […]

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If you have been following the antics of the Americas Cup you will not be surprised by this court ruling. For those of you not familiar the thumbnail sketch is as follows. Allinghi really like winning the Cup, so much so, that they tried to set up the next one heavily favored in their direction, […]

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Here’s a news story you could have missed. What happened is something of a mystery as of this writing. Maybe you can figure it out or guess the truth. Frankly, I cannot. Arguments on both sides of the controversy seem full of holes, yet obviously this either happened or it didn’t.
First, here are the facts […]

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The Rugby World Cup quarterfinals got underway today, and what an unbelievable way to do so.  Just days ago, there was even money at least on the Southern Hemisphere taking all four semifinal spots, with Australia, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa favored to move on.  Today, at least half of that equation has changed, […]

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The America’s Cup is the oldest sporting competition in the modern world. With almost 160 years of history behind it, it is the iconoclastic battle of nations for dominance of speed and tactics in sailing. Well it used to be anyway! This battle for no prize money and possibly the worlds ugliest trophy (oh and […]

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Scales Sports Project:Latest News on Gambian sports!!

Gambia’s under 20 team
By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie, Banjul.
Paid for And Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper.
Soccer fans across The Gambia would in less than one hour troop down to various stadia in the country for scintillating and earth-trembling matches in the GFA 2nd Division league. In […]

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Football might save Zimbabwe where others cannot.
The situation in Zimbabwe got some press when a prayer rally was broken up by thuggish police and photos of Morgan Tsvangarai was posted […]

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Attention - Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect
Two Sports headlines, both pertaining to cricket caught my headlines his morning. One pertained to Anil Kumble announcing his retirement from one day cricket. And the other was Ian Chappel’s call to Sachin Tendulkar to retire. Ian’s comment, especially barbed was that Tendulkar was […]

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One of the penances of living in the Philippines is that we no longer get CNN or Fox. We now get “CNN INTERNATIONAL” and BBC. And unlike CNN, CNNI is full of people with british accents who sneer at anything that makes the US look bad. About the only US slanted news seems to […]

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1997 German Tour de France winner and ewiger Zweiter (always second – five times) to high-tech secret agent drug fiend Lance Armstrong, Jan Ullrich has decided to retire from cycling while he is still behind.
Caught in a Spanish doping investigation fiddling around with performance enhancing drugs again, Ullrich was denied participation in last year’s Tour de […]

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Attention - Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect 
Congress president Sonia Gandhi declared the 33rd National Games open here Friday evening amid clamorous cheering from the 30,000-strong crowd at the Indira Gandhi Athletics Stadium. For once the rejuvenated spirit of the culturally vibrant state of Assam came to the fore, brushing aside […]

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 Attention - Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect 
Not willing to take any chance after Indian team coach Greg Chappell’s assault in Bhubaneswar, the West Bengal Government has made ‘fool-proof’ security arrangements for the Aussie in view of the first India-Sri Lanka ODI at the Eden Gardens here on Friday.”Fool-proof security arrangements […]

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Today’s (24 Jan 2007) one-day match between the Indian and West Indies cricket teams was a thriller, low-scoring, but an absolute thriller. Sometimes the match does not have to have 300 plus runs scored by each side to be a thriller, there is a different pleasure when the match is evenly poised with wickets gone, […]

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What is Tarot?
Tarot (also known as Tarock, Tarokk, Taroky, Taroc, Tarok, Tarocchi and similar names) is a family of trick taking card games played with an enlarged deck of 78 cards which include an extra court card for each of the four regular suits, a permanent trump suit of 21 cards, and a kind of […]

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I hope not… I was/am a certified trainer, a coach, and an athlete in four sports. I have helped, via sports psychology methodologies and training schedules, many sports figures improve their chances for, and secure, many a medal or professional championship. In every sport, from Archery to Body Building, I have met players and […]

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News Item:
Iran suspended from World Soccer
There are some people in this world to whom the rules don’t apply.  Just ask them, and they’ll tell you.  The FIFA has barred the Iranian team from competition in World Soccer matches because of government interference in Iran.
A fellow named Mohammed Dadgan had been the elected head of the […]

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Jharome Peña and Ronato Alcano, totaling the Filipino hopefuls in the finals to 5.
De Luna advanced after a nerve-wracking 10-8 victory over Nick Van Den Berg of the Netherlands at the Philippine Internatonal Convention Center Wednesday.
De Luna, a 22-year-old player from Pasig City who finished third in the 2006 PHilippine National Championship which allowed him […]

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World Boxing Council welterweight champ Floyd Mayweather Jr announced Sunday that he plans to retire after his next fight.
”I told you all along it wasn’t about the money, it was about the legacy,” Mayweather said during the Los Angeles Times interview. ”I have accomplished all I want in boxing. I am going out on top.”
The […]

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The Australian cricket team, who won the ICC Champions Trophy 2006, last Sunday, is under fire from the Indian media, for their unruly behavior during the presentation ceremony. Sharad Pawar, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Food and Agriculture Union Minister of India, was pushed off the […]

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 An important meeting of the General Body of the Karnataka State Cricket Association is scheduled to be held today in which certain changes to the rules regarding election of office bearers and President has evoked a debate. In the forefront of the debate are Mr Brijesh Patel, the current President of the body and a […]

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While Team India is preparing for its mini worldcup battle against West Indies on the Cricket field, every sports lover in cricket crazy India is watching for the battle that Virendra Sehwag is fighting with himself. Viru as he is affectionately called, who can singlehandedly destroy the opposition on his day, is now going […]

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