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Source: PR-USA.net (press release) (Original Article)

Cleveland Cavaliers Fans Set Guinness World Record at Cavs Snuggie(TM) Night Presented by KeyBank

A sold-out crowd of Cleveland Cavaliers fans set the Guinness World Record for the “largest gathering of people wearing fleece blankets” at the Cavs Snuggie(TM) Night presented by KeyBank at Quicken Loans Arena. The crowd donned custom-made Cavaliers Snuggie(TM) blankets for the first five cozy minutes of the March 5th game versus rivals the Detroit Pistons to set the World Record.

Guinness World Records(R) Adjudicator Danny Girton Jr. was on hand to officially certify the new record in front of fans during the game. Girton Jr. then presented the Cavaliers, KeyBank and Allstar Products Group, the maker of the Snuggie(TM) blanket, with a certificate recognizing the new record was set at 17,758. The fans in attendance received a commemorative magnet certifying their participation at the record-breaking event.

“We would like to thank our fans and congratulate them for their enthusiastic participation to land their place in the Guinness Book of World Records,” said Cavaliers President Len Komoroski. “Partnering with KeyBank and Snuggie(TM) blankets to create an event where our fans were an integral part of the success to give Cleveland the bragging rights of a Guinness World Record made it a community team effort that was all the more fun.”

“After months of planning, it was exciting to see the Cavs fans in their Snuggie(TM) blankets at The Q,” said Lisa Oliver, KeyBank Cleveland District President. “KeyBank was excited to partner up with Cavs and the fans to break this Guinness World Record and be part of something so positive and fun for the city of Cleveland.”

Scott Boilen, president and chief executive officer of Allstar Products Group said, “Cleveland fans are great. It was amazing to flights from Melbourne (Tullamarine) to Gold Coast see so many participants enjoying the game …continue reading

Source: Ha’aretz (Original Article)

When it comes to the Middle East and other areas of the world, a certain word seems to have taken over the current affairs agenda: sanctions. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using every possible platform to call for painful sanctions against Iran, Israel’s ambassadors are busy contending with a movement that is calling for the imposition of a boycott and sanctions on Israel.

Meanwhile, the diplomatic and economic boycott which the international community has imposed on the Hamas government is entering its fifth year. In Washington, Congressmen are discussing easing sanctions on Syria while organizations representing Coptic exiles are calling for sanctions against Egypt, which in turn is pressing the United States to lift sanctions on Sudan. Sudan is joining in the call for sanctions against Eritrea, which were approved by the United Nations Security Council despite opposition from Libya - itself the target of such measures in the early 1990s, along with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. And the list of boycotters and boycottees goes on.

Despite its popularity, however, the sanctions weapon is problematic not only because it strikes indiscriminately, but because the results it achieves are often just the opposite of what was intended.

The current proliferation of sanctions can be traced back to the years after the end of the Cold War. In its first 44 years of existence, the UN Security Council imposed mandatory international sanctions on just two nations; between 1990 and 1995, it imposed such sanctions on eight countries (see box). For as long as the world was divided into two blocs, sanctions were perceived as ineffective: For every door that is shut in the West, 10 others open in the East, and vice versa. But in the new world order, the belief grew that economic sanctions could prevent wars, promote human rights, topple tyrannical regimes and block cheap flight Perth to Whitsunday Coast the spread of weapons of mass destruction. …continue reading

Source: Washington Post (blog) (Original Article)

The most appealing thing about being a baseball writer, even better than the summer nights of bat cracks and 6-4-3s, of clubhouse banter and Technicolor sunsets, is the unwritten contract you enter into. Baseball is woven into the hum and churn of a city, the games playing on bar TVs while the first happy hour bleeds into the next, the second-guessing starting on the walk from the bleachers to the Metro, the aftermath still hovering the next morning. And at doorsteps and on computer screens, helping fill the space between, it’s all there written up clean. The newspaper beat writer becomes a small part of a city’s baseball experience, and that means he or she becomes part of the city’s pulse. People wake up. They have coffee. They ride the Metro to work. At some point, most of them will want to know what happened — what really happened — at the yard the night before. It is a responsibility the baseball writer has, and it’s incredibly cool. In Washington and at The Post, that responsibility now belongs to me, Adam Kilgore. I arrived in Viera yesterday. I will start writing some today as my predecessor and good friend Chico Harlan helps pass the baton. By the start of next week, the byline under Nationals stories will almost always be mine. I can’t wait. I’m coming back here after 18 wonderful months working at the Boston Globe, where I covered the Red Sox and, more recently, the Patriots. I grew up a sports-obsessed kid in York, Maine, a relatively small town about 35 minutes south of Portland. I knew from the time I was 12 I wanted to be a sportswriter. It’s sometimes hard to believe the way things have worked out. Over the next months and years, I think you’ll get to know me. It’s more important that I know all of you. I’m really proud to take over this beat and blog from Chico and Barry, and a major key to its continued success will be your feedback. I think the passion in the community you’ve built here is tremendous, and I know I cheap flight Adelaide to Launceston don’t have to tell you that if …continue reading

Source: Irish Independent (Original Article)

As the manager of Naas racecourse, this is by far the busiest week of my year. On Sunday, we host our Cheltenham Trials meeting, which is backed by Paddy Power and has really taken off over the last couple of years.

The 2009 fixture was probably the first time we really hit the nail on the head since tweaking the programme, with Go Native, Joncol, An Cathaoir Mor and Rite Of Passage all winning, while the MCR Hurdle winner Puyol was just touched off in a maiden hurdle.

In attracting horses of that calibre, Sunday’s meeting is one that we are immensely proud of and we have the added attraction this year of the GOAL Jockeys’ Olympics, in aid of the Haiti appeal, which should be a scream.

Ruby Walsh, Barry Geraghty and Paul Carberry are the three team captains, and the four competitions are an egg-and-spoon race, a three-legged race, a slow bike race and a football skills challenge. Barry helped us to launch the event in St Stephen’s Green on Monday, and Hector O hEochagain joined in as well — he’s a bit of a loose cannon that fellow, isn’t he?

I had brought up a load of big chocolate eggs thinking they would be better for the photo shoot, but no, Hector had to have real ones, and he wasn’t happy until he had them all broken.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, he then decided to kick one of the footballs into the lake, at which point the warden on duty started to pay us some ’special attention’, shall we say.

PR and marketing really hit top gear after the launch. We’ve had promotions and competitions running throughout the week on two national radio stations, so all of that helps to spread the word.

With the inclement weather costing us meetings this season, we’ve redoubled our efforts to get a positive result out of Sunday and the response has been very good. The corporate end is fully booked up — it’s the first time that has happened in a while — and we’ve changed our cheap flights Mackay to Perth admission policy for the year too.

For starters, …continue reading

Source: NewsBusters (blog) (Original Article)

New York Times columnist David Brooks says that what Vice President Joe Biden told NBC’s David Gregory Sunday concerning the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City doesn’t pass the laugh test.

"What Joe Biden said on ['Meet the Press'] today will be laughed at around the Arab world."

Maybe even more shocking, speaking during the panel discussion segment that followed Biden’s interview, Brooks agreed with some things former Vice President Dick Cheney spoke about concerning this matter on ABC’s "This Week."

"The KSM trial has become a total mess. What Joe Biden said today on the program doesn’t pass the laugh test," Brooks said. "[T]he second thing I think Cheney’s actually right about is Mirandizing."

Brooks amazingly continued: "[S]ay we’d captured the 9/11 guys on September 10th, or one of them, should we have read that guy his rights and given him a lawyer? No. We should have tried to get some intelligence out of the guy" (video embedded below the fold with transcript):

Imagine that.

Seems a metaphysical certitude Brooks’s opinion of the Vice President’s comments won’t be shared by many in the Obama-loving media.

Stay tuned.

—Noel Sheppard is the cheap flights Perth to Melbourne (All Airports) Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune (Original Article)

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones recently said that 93 percent of NFL fans have never stepped foot inside an NFL stadium, and I can understand why the Metrodome, where the Minnesota Vikings play, seems sufficient to someone who has never been there. But for those of us fortunate enough to attend Vikings games, it’s clear that the Dome does not fit the team’s needs, as Craig Cox says in a recent commentary ("Why replace a perfectly fine Metrodome?", Feb. 3).
Why does the Dome need to be replaced? Let’s look at the issue from a fan’s perspective and from the team’s financial perspective.
At almost 30 years old, the Dome is one of the NFL’s oldest nonrefurbished stadiums – and ranks among the worst, according to a Sports Illustrated fan survey. It was built on the cheap even by 1970s standards, and was designed to meet the building codes of that time.
Since then, demographics have shifted, and more females attend games than ever before. Today, lines for the women’s restrooms snake for nearly two blocks through the already congested hallways. The men’s restroom lines are almost as challenging. Concession lines extend to the back of the hall, blocking through traffic. Fans frequently leave in frustration, never to make their purchases. Metrodome concessions can’t take money as fast as fans want to spend it.
Perhaps these issues are tolerable for the average fan. But what if you are in a wheelchair? I recently received a letter from a disabled veteran who had attended his first Vikings game at the Metrodome. He called it old, inadequate, cramped and even scary. He said he understood why there is a "desire for a stadium that better represents not only the Vikings organization but Minnesota as well."

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Source: Globe and Mail (Original Article)

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Published on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 10:31AM EST

There’s a growing canon of soccer literature. From Nick Hornby’s very English, “Bloke-ish” Fever Pitch and his soccer essays to David Goldblatt’s witty and eclectic The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football, soccer writing in English is moving close to matching the urbane writing about the game that has flourished in Spanish, Italian and Dutch.

Now, along comes Soccernomics, a sharply written and provocative examination of the world’s game seen through the prism of economics and statistical data. It demolishes almost everything that most soccer fans believe about the game and how professional soccer teams should operate.

It also cockily asserts that, soon, the United States, Japan, China and Turkey might challenge the traditional powers in Europe and South America for dominance at the elite level of the sport. This is largely based on population size, interest in soccer and improving levels of wealth and health.

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey – Even Iraq – Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World’s Most Popular Sport, by Simon Kuper and Stefan Syzmanski, Nation Books, 328 pages, $18.95

It is in this area that book might inspire the cry of “lies, damned lies and statistics.” There’s a huge interest in soccer in China, but the Chinese soccer leagues are famously corrupt. The authors could be correct about the United States, though, and next summer’s World Cup will prove or disprove the notion.

The co-authors make an ideal couple. Simon Kuper is the author of Football Against the Enemy, a 1994 book that chronicled his nine-month journey around the world to examine links between soccer and politics. It is now considered a classic, one of the best sports books ever written. Stefan Szymanski is a professor of economics and director of flights from Perth to Canberra the MBA program at the City University, …continue reading

Source: Boston Globe (Original Article)

Celtics 98, Blazers 95

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Coach Doc Rivers said battling a depleted Portland team down to the wire last night might have been a positive sign for the Celtics. And the TD Garden crowd agreed, celebrating the team’s 98-95 overtime win over the Trail Blazers with playoff enthusiasm.In fact, there were some major Celtic positives. Kevin Garnett returned from a 10-game absence (hyperextended knee) to log 30 minutes and score 13 points. The Celtics broke a three-game losing streak and won at home for the first time since Jan. 2. And they got through overtime without Paul Pierce (24 points), who fouled out with 1.1 seconds remaining in regulation.The Celtics struggled mightily in the second half against the Blazers, who were missing two starters, then lost Jerryd Bayless (sprained left ankle) a minute into the third quarter. Ray Allen was especially off target, but he recovered to convert the go-ahead 3-pointer in OT, then assisted on Tony Allen’s dunk, the final basket of the game.“It wasn’t pretty,’’ Rivers said. “But in some ways, for us, the way we won may have been better for us.’’As hoped for, the Garnett-inspired defense got the Celtics going early. And, though the Celtics faded after halftime (they were outscored, 41-36, in the second half), they led by as many as 8 cheap flights from Albury to Launceston points down the stretch. But the Celtics …continue reading