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...World Cup - losses to neighbors Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - meant an early return home from the competition. After lambasting the players, Tiwari called on India's agriculture minister to resign, not forgetting, of course, that the relevant minister also sits on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Leaving aside their special interests for a moment, Tiwari wrote that farm activists "termed this defeat as national shame...
...high player salaries?stuck. Today, a second commercial upheaval is evident in the number of companies vying for a slice of cricket's growth on the subcontinent. Nimbus was one of 15 rival bidders, according to Sharad Pawar, president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (bcci). Having won the deal, Nimbus, which has no TV channel of its own, is now in talks to resell rights to broadcast India's matches in individual countries. Interested media giants and cable-TV companies include ESPN, Sony Entertainment and the BBC. Money isn't flowing into the sport through broadcasting...
They knew that BCCI was a disaster waiting to happen. It was the S.S. 'Titanic...
...there's nothing bland or diffident about Mueller's sharp, commanding style, formed on the hockey rinks of St. Paul's and Princeton and as a Marine officer on the front line in Vietnam. Confronted with a range of high-profile cases, from the BCCI bank fraud scandal to the Pan Am 103 terrorism investigation, he proved so decisive and careless of controversy that at one point, his deputy Dave Margolis warned him gently that if he didn't choose his battles, Washington might bang him up as it had done to so many of his predecessors...
Even if he has kept a low profile, Senator Kerry has emerged from his second term with an impressive record of behind-the-scenes successes. A pivotal player in the 1994 Crime Bill, Kerry successfully incorporated crucial funding increases. An investigation he sponsored led to the uncovering of the BCCI scandal, and as Chair of the Select Committee on POW/MIA affairs, Kerry led the campaign for information about missing veterans which ultimately led to the normalization of relations with Vietnam...