Cricket World Cup 2011 Match Schedule of Games
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Game Schedule – It’s the Cricket season once again and all Cricket fans will surely be watching their favorite Cricket teams to cheer and support them. The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the tenth Cricket World Cup and will be hosted by three South Asian Test cricket playing countries: [...]

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Cricket games cash in on World Cup fever
With the cricket World Cup on, why not create your own team, or better still, buy or sell any player? Aiming to cash in on the World Cup fever, various online gaming sites have launched cricket games to woo netizens and gamers can play it on their mobile phones too.

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Cricket: Bangladesh books berth in Asian Games semis
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — Captain Mohammad Ashraful has led Bangladesh to the Asian Games cricket semifinals with a comfortable 70-run victory over Malaysia in the quarterfinals of the Twenty20 competition.

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SKorea defeats Taiwan for Asia Games baseball gold
South Korea’s gold medal in baseball at the Asia Games held a special bonus for Cleveland Indians’ slugger Choo Shin-soo — a special exemption from serving in the military that could be worth millions of dollars to him. Of course, that’s not why he did it, Choo said after batting in two runs in South Korea’s 9-3 victory over Taiwan Friday.

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Cricket games ‘news to me’: prison boss
Victoria’s prisons boss Bob Hastings says he doesn’t know if reports that prison guards play cricket while on duty is accurate.

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New PBA format does away with dull games
source: Musong R. Castillo | inquirer.net The Philippine Basketball Association hopes to heighten the excitement by eliminating two teams per tournament, doing away with low-energy matches when the Philippine Cup takes the lid off of the league’s 36th Season on Oct. 3 at the Araneta Coliseum in Cubao. Asia’s first play-for-pay league, reeling from spiraling television ratings and live gate …

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The Dubai World Cup held in the year 2010 and hosted at the Meydan Racecourse is surely one of the most memorable moments in the history of horse racing. Since the inception of the Dubai World Cup in 1996, the race has never witnessed a closer finish. The race boasts of a purse worth $10 million. Curlin and Well Armed are some of the finest champion race horses that have not only participated but also won the race.

Fairmount Park horse racing track is deemed to be one of the best racetracks in the state of Illinois. Launched in the year 1925, it hosts the famous Fairmount Derby. Balmoral Park horse racing track was also established in 1925 and enjoys the status of an eminent harness racing track. It is well-known for hosting top racing events, outstanding riders, brilliant steeds, excellent facilities as well as simulcast racing.

Canterbury Park is yet another popular horse racing track is the US where simulcast betting is also offered. Located in the state of Minnesota, this track also like every other track in the country is oval in shape and features a one mile dirt track as well as a seven furlong turf course. It is renowned for hosting the Claiming Crown of horse racing for 9 years, since its inauguration in 1999.

The term simulcast racing implies viewing broadcasts, usually live from racetracks from all over the globe. This way ardent horse loving fans can get a chance to watch live thoroughbred horse racing events held in different parts of the world including Australia, Asia and Far East. It is an ideal way of keeping abreast with the latest equestrian events, if you can’t afford to attend it.

Through live simulcast horse racing, horse fans can catch up with their favorite horse racing events hosted at international venues. The concept of live simulcast horse racing is beneficial even for horse owners since it enables them to keep a track of their horse’s performances at different venues.

Now, imagine if you get a chance to jockey a great race horse like Curlin in one of the world’s most prestigious horse racing event? You can experience the same adrenaline rush when you play online horse racing simulator games. In horse racing simulator games; you can jockey, train or even bet on your favorite horses. So go on and enjoy playing 3D horse racing simulator games with family and friends.

Samsung is not just about mobile phones and electronic gadgets. Lately, it is also into sports. Not that it has branched into making sports apparels and equipment as well. It has been a major sponsor of the world Olympic games since 1998 and in every summer and winter Olympics thence culminating in the Vancouver Winter games this year. For more than 10 strong years, it has been behind the Olympic movement. A new contract binds Samsung with the Olympic well into every games until 2016.

This goes to show that the company is strongly into making the brand a part of the entire global community by being a major part of this global event. It is committed in making Samsung a durable global brand for every consumer around the world. It fist made its presence felt in the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998. Since then, it has been a fixture in the following Olympic games namely: the 2000 Sydney summer Olympics, the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, the 2006 Winter Olympics, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. It is also expected to be behind the upcoming 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2014 Winter Olympics, and the 2016 Rio de Janiero Summer Olympics.

Samsung’s long – term commitment to these upcoming global events is sure to cement Samsung brand awareness around the world, as it strides to expand its market and overtake rival maker of mobile phones and other electronic gadgets.

Aside from the Olympics, it has also been ubiquitous in many sports events around the world. Europe is no exemption. It entered into a sponsorship contract with the English Premiership Team Chelsea FC, which is reported to be the second costliest English football sponsorship in the league’s history. In France, there is the Samsung Super League which it holds in partnership with the International Federation for Equestrian Sports. And there is the FEI Nations Cup sponsorship. The Nations cup is the oldest and most renowned equestrian sporting event worldwide.

In football – crazy Latin America, Samsung is behind the Brazilian Team Palmieras and the Mexican Football Team, Club Deportivo Guadajalara. In the US, there is the Samsung 500 as Samsung logos blaze around the Texas race track. Down under, it is behind the Sydney Roosters, a professional Rugby Team in Australia’s National Rugby League. It is also the sponsor of the Melbourne Victory Football Club.

Back at home, it is owner of the professional Baseball team, Samsung Lions, the Football team Suwom Samsung Bluewings, the Basketball Team Seoul Samsung thunders, the Women’s basketball team Samsung Bichumi, and the volleyball team Samsung Blue Fangs.

It is also very active in Asia where it plans to start a cricket league and build sports stadiums in people – rich India. The Asian Games is also host to a number of Samsung sponsorships.

Samsung’s presence is not limited to race tracks and playing fields. In the cyber wars, Samsung sponsors the professional Star Craft team, Samsung Khan, the winner of the 2008 Shinhan Bank Pro League. It is also among the major advertisers in the World Cyber Games.

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The terror group al-Qaida has come out and said this week that they will target the Commonwealth Games in India later this year.

And like other countries competing in the Commonwealth Games in October in New Delhi, Bermuda officials are concerned by the deadly threat.

“We warn the international community not to send their people to the 2010 Hockey World Cup, IPL and Commonwealth Games. Nor should their people visit India – if they do, they will be responsible for the consequences,” the Asia Times quoted a translated message as saying.

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The countdown has begun for the country that is 7th largest in area, 2nd largest in population and 5th largest in terms of trade.

The countdown is ticking for a nation that still looks like a messy construction site with roads filled with rubbles, new construction boards pulled up every week, beggars and thieves lurking in every corner, and common man grumbling over rising taxes to pay for the Common Wealth Games.

Indeed, Delhi hasn’t looked such cluttered before, in spite of day and night preparations to present it in its Sunday best. Come October and 8,000 athletes, over 10,000 visitors and 30,000 volunteers would land in Delhi from 71 different countries.  But, are we both as a nation and as individual citizens prepared for the BIG event?

Let’s have a reality check…

Is the Infrastructure Ready?

Common man knew from the year 2003 that the Games are coming. Yet, the government sprung into action just over a few months back, when the clock’s hand started ticking harder in its head.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “He that rises late must trot all day.” And that is just the case here. Since the start of the construction, dozens of construction workers have died and even today thousands are laboring in unsafe conditions. Michael Fennell, the head of the Commonwealth Games, has openly expressed his disappointment with the pace at which the construction has been going.

The stadiums are scheduled to be finished in June.

Security Concerns

Security is yet another major concern. The recent case of shifting IPL to South Africa once again leaves us with the question, “Would it be truly safe?”

To avoid any Lahore-like attack, the Centre has sanctioned nearly Rs 330 crore to Delhi Police to upgrade its inventory and equipments, which includes X-ray scanners, Door Frame Metal Detectors, Hand Held Metal Detectors, vehicles, communication equipment, etc.

Home secretary G.K. Pillai has ensured that there would be 2,000 CCTV cameras operating on the roads apart from those inside the competition venues to ensure the safety of the athletes, visitors and the citizens. There seems no credible threat to the Commonwealth Games, yet the government is taking all precautions.

Though Michael Fennell is satisfied about security arrangements here, yet he is still concerned about ticketing, food quality, logistics and accommodation.

Traffic in Delhi

A lot has been done, yet the need still prevails. The Indira Gandhi International Airport has witnessed the formation of the longest runway in Asia, 4.43 meters, for double sided landing and takeoff to accommodate the huge air traffic. A six-lane national highway NH8 has been built for well connectivity with the airport to ensure a better transport for the visitors.