Shaw Communications (TSX: SJR.B) (NYSE: SJR) announced it is launching its first nation-wide televised auction in support of Canadian athletes. Partnering with the Canadian Athletes Now Fund CAN Fund and the Lions Club of Canada, Shaw is encouraging Canadians to watch Shaw TV and Star Choice TV on Sunday, November...
Organization Focuses on Raising Level of Awareness and Educating Athletes to Help Reduce Risk WESTMINSTER, Colo., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- In light of a rash of positive test results that violate the NFL's drug policy, Informed-Choice, a supplement testing and certification organization and world-class anti-doping laboratory, says that...
EarthLite ( www.earthlite.com ), the world's largest manufacturer of massage and spa treatment tables, will provide portable massage tables and will donate massages at this year's 30th anniversary of the Ford Ironman World Championship scheduled for October 11, 2008 in Kona, HI. To date EarthLite has provided up to...
NEW YORK, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Avon Products, Inc. announced today that it has joined forces with the Ironman brand to launch a signature men's fragrance collection named after the legendary triathlon. The Ironman Fragrance Collection, featuring an eau de toilette spray, after shave conditioner and anti-perspirant, will be...
SEATTLE -- Techalt, Inc.'s (Pink Sheets: TECA) ("Techalt" or "Company") Stan's Rodeo Ointment is the choice when premier athletes and savvy consumers have the option for a topical ointment. Stanley Johnston, former Major league Baseball trainer and inventor, has made his product available by prescription since 1980. It has been...
Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, is working on a $1 million project at Gonzaga University to convert part of the school's Martin Centre athletic facility into a training center. The contractor is transforming a 5,000-square-foot space that formerly housed a dance studio into a training center with offices for Gonzaga's...
Byline: By LAURA CAROE A STAR-STUDDED line-up is set to pound the streets in the Great North Run. Around 52,000 people, from elite runners to firsttimers, are due to start on Sunday, October 5, running more than 13 miles from Newcastle to South Shields. The Great North...
The University of Maryland announced Tuesday it is officially an Under Armour school. The Baltimore-based sports apparel company, founded by alum Kevin Plank, will be the official outfitter for all 27 varsity sports teams in a five-year, $17.5 million deal. "It's all in the family now,"...
ATHENS AFP — Over a dozen Greek athletes who failed doping tests prior to and during last month's Beijing Olympics thought a rare anabolic steroid would help them elude tests, a leading anti-doping expert said Monday. But the International Olympic Committee IOC had been on the lookout for cheats...
HIS WAY A FAMILIAR STORY: WITH no way to pay tuition for his junior year of college, Jerrod Fields enlisted in the Army. "My goal was to serve for three years, get out, get the money, and then go back to school and try to make it to the NBA."...
RBIs, batting averages, home runs, ERAs, strikeouts -- there are many numbers to keep track of in baseball. Some players and coaches have to watch other numbers, too, like blood glucose levels, carbohydrates, and insulin units. In the September issue of Diabetes Forecast , the consumer magazine...
NAIROBI AFP — Kenya's successful Beijing Olympic team returned home to a jubilant reception on Wednesday. Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and the Sports Minister Helen Sambili welcomed the athletes who won 14 medals: five gold, five silver and four bronze, registering Kenya's best ever performance at the summer Games...
SEATTLE -- Techalt, Inc. (PINK SHEETS:TCLT)("Techalt" the "Company") announces that Stan's Rodeo Ointment ("SRO") and Stan's Blister Cream ("SBR") continue to experience success in Major League Baseball ("MLB"). Derek Lowe ("Lowe"), starting pitcher for the MLB team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for the past 4 years credits SRO and SBR...
MEDIA DIARY Now that Boris Johnson has accepted the torch on London's behalf - and try not to become inured to the surreal splendour of Boris's debut as a global political statesman - the time comes to reflect on the Olympic efforts of the broadcaster surely poised...
LONDON AFP — US swimming sensation Michael Phelps warned Sunday that he is already eyeing more gold at the London Games in 2012. Phelps became the most decorated medallist in Olympic history with 14 gold medals from Beijing and Athens, including a record eight gold in China, the most...
OLYMPIC HIGHLIGHTS They ran, pedalled, swam, plunged and generally pushed themselves to their physical limits as if their very lives depended on it. Athletes arrived in Beijing with a kitbag of hopes, and left with a haul of medals, aching muscles and a handful of regrets. As the 2008 Olympics...
BEIJING AFP — South Korean Olympic athletes have been given detailed guidelines to avoid friction with their North Korean counterparts in Beijing, officials said Wednesday. Contestants should not point or laugh at badges or portraits depicting North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-Il or his late father Kim Il-Sung, the...
The latest hi-tech Olympic kit is helping athletes to shatter records in Beijing. Simon Usborne tracks down the backroom boffins When Rebecca Adlington won two gold medals in the Beijing Water Cube, it was the culmination of years of toil. Most of it took place in the...
BEIJING AFP — Christine Ohuruogu of Great Britain produced a stunning race here on Tuesday to add Olympic gold to the world and Commonwealth crowns she already owns, winning in a time of 49.62seconds. The 24-year-old, who served a one year ban until August last year for missing three...
Each day we awake to news of more sporting triumphs. We are not used to this. As they report the latest British victory, even BBC presenters convey a sense of delighted bewilderment rather than jingoistic pride. They are not used to this either. Perversely, commentators are more gung ho when...