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Sometime intense sleep force us to do mistakes, one such folly was from New Indian express


Title should be "Ivanovic double helps Chelsea stun Liverpool", not "
Ivanovic strike helps Liverpool enter last four"

Brand tracking company Vanno in thier recent report said that Kellogg's brand rating dropped significantly after they dropped Michael Phelps as a Brand Ambassador.

BMW India announced a partnership with amateur golfing sensation Shiv Kapur to promote and showcase BMW Golf in India. As the Golf Ambassador for BMW in India, Shiv will actively promote the BMW Golf Cup International, the world's largest international golf series for amateurs, across the country later this year. As part of the year-long parnership, Shiv Kapur will also be given a BMW 6 Series sedan.

Credit card company Mastercard has been appointed a main sponsor of the 2011 rugby union world cup, to be held in New Zealand.

Mastercard had sponsored football's World Cup from 1990 to 2006, after which it was controversially replaced by Visa.

PS: A haka is a traditional dance form of the Māori of New Zealand. It is a posture dance with shouted accompaniment, this dance was made famous by All Black Rugby team.

Real Madrid remains the top moneymaking soccer team in the world, beating out European and English champion Manchester United due to the plunging pound, according to the latest review of the sport's finances.
Deloitte's study, which ranks the 20 biggest clubs based on revenue, showed that Madrid generated 365.8 million euros ($471.9 million) in the 12 months to June 30, 2008.

The ranking of the top 5 is:

1.- Real Madrid U$472.3
2.- Manchester United U$419.4
3.- FC Barcelona U$398.7
4.- Bayern Munich U$381.3
5.- Chelsea U$347.2

World number 10 and India’s number one badminton player Saina Nehwal will be now the brand ambassador of Herbalife’s nutrition and energy range of products. Started by Mark Hughes, Herbalife is into

helping people to improve their lives through better nutrition and an unparalleled business opportunity.

History: Herbalife company was founded in February 1980 when they launched the "original" weight control!

All the global banking and insurance companies are in the mood of cut-costing. After AIG has got himself out from Manchester United, its now ING's turn, as they are looking for an orderly exit from its contract with Renault team.

ING is one of the top sponsors in Formula One, with a title sponsorship of the Renault team, and title sponsorship of two races and with track advertising at 14 of the 18 races last year. The company has also had a large marketing campaign connected to its Formula One program over the last couple of years. As part of the cost cuts the company is cutting its Formula One sponsorship by 40 percent in 2009.

Recently, world number one Jelena Jankovic struck a deal with a Chinese firm ANTA, to exclusively wear clothes, shoes and accessories made by them.

Now see what she and media has to say about it

Jelena Jankovic was forced to step lively on court at the Australian Open Monday as the soles of her new shoes failed to protect her feet from the Melbourne heat.

“My feet were burning,” said the Serbian top seed, who reached the second round over Austrian Yvonne Meusburger 6-1, 6-3.

“I will tell them to put some air conditioning in there,”

England captain and Real Madrid midfielder David Beckham personally delivers the first 23 pairs of his new adidas Predator Pulse Icon boots at the east London sports store where he was bought his first pair of football boots by his father in London.

About the shoe: This stylish design is the first Adidas Predator Pulse 2 boot to not feature the trademark Red on any part of the boot and will be David Beckham's own and personal signature boot.

Brand Update: Adidas Predator Power Swerve TRX

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Adidas launch the revolutionary new Predator Powerswerve developed with the help of the French winning World Cup legend Zinédine Zidane. After ending his career in the 2006 World Cup final, he worked with the Adidas innovation team in creating the new football boot. Zidane tested the Predator PowerSwerve using his knowledge and experience to improve the quality and fit of this football boot.

Bharti Enterprises who along with AIFF is in the process of establishing a world-class football academy in Goa will now get support from some of the biggies like: FC Barcelona , Manchester United and Chelsea
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This ball is been constructed from a 14 panels using revolutionary thermal bonding technology which combined with the new PSC-Texture™ surface structure result into a perfect handling and thus allows the players good ball control.







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The ball at the last EURO was named adidas Roteiro after the log book used by Vasco da Gama, the famous Portuguese discoverer.

Kolkata — After David Beckham, Germany’s iconic sports goods maker, the e10.3-billion Adidas Group, is poised to come up with an apparel and accessories collection named after glamourous tennis ace Sania Mirza.

Link: The Economic Times

1. Who bowled first maiden over in IPL?
2. Who is the first bowler to bowl a wicket maiden over ?
3. Who is the first Indian bowler to bowl a maiden over ?
4. Who is “Doni’s darling” last over bowler in 20-20?
5. Who is the first batsman to hit a six on the " free hit " ball?
6. Who is the first bowler to take a wicket on the very first ball of the match?
7. Who is the first bowler to take five wicket in the match?
8. Symonds was hit for 30 in an over by Virender Sehwag, and it was his last over in which Shane Warne hits two sixes, lastly he was the most expensive bowler for Deccan in the match against KKR.
9. Who is the first bowler to bowl back to back no-ball?
10. Who is the first Indian bowler to bowl back to back no-ball?
11. Who is the first player to win back to back Man of the Match Award? Saurav DADA
12. Who is the first player to win three Man of the Match Awards? Shane Watson
13. Who is the first bowler to get a hatrick ? L. Balaji followed by Amit Mishra.
14. Kings XI Punjab's bowler Irfan Pathan is the second bowler after Delhi Daredevil's Glenn McGrath to bowl two maiden overs in a match.
15. First three batsman who have scored two ducks are: Dravid, Gibbs and Sehwag, amazing but true...
16. Dhawal Kulkarni bowled three wide bowls in a row in his last over against Chennai Super King on 14 May, 2008, thus became first ball to have such a dubious record.
17. Abdur Razzak, the Bangladesh left-arm spinner. In his first game in the IPL gave 10 runs on his first two bowls in the match against RR. May 17, 2008. Infact the first ball was a no-ball , so 11 runs off one ball!

16,830 runs were scored by the eight teams.

622 sixes were hit in the entire tournament.

609 wickets fell.410 catches were taken with Suresh raina taking the maximum of 10.

6 centuries were scored.

Delhi Daredevils: Akshay Kumar.
Chennai Super Kings: K. Srikkanth .
Chennai Super Kings: Tamil actors Vijay and Nayanathara.
Mumbai Indians: Hrithik Roshan & Team Tasan
'Royal Challengers': Katrina Kaif

ICL Kolkata Tigers: Mithun Chakraborty

Which is the only company to have commercial interest in both ICL as well as IPL?

Dabur..
Industrialist Mohit Burman, Dabur India Ltd, is one of the stake holders in IPL Kings XI Punjab. Then Dabur is also the sponsor of Mumbai and Dabur Glucose felicitate players with the titles of ‘Dabur Glucose Most Energetic Player".

Reebok launched Pump series created with Pump technology, that allows the athlete to adjust the level of pressure and support of each sole and is priced between Rs 7,990 – Rs 9,990.