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...rights to Indian cricket for four years. "India is the new cricket superpower," says Thawani in the Bombay office of Nimbus Communications, a Singapore-based sports-production firm of which he is chairman. "India now provides between 60% and 80% of world cricket revenues. The old powers like England or Australia don't like it, and maybe that's natural, but that doesn't change what's happening. This is our game...
...Millions of fans in Australia and England would presumably beg to differ. Last summer those two traditional rivals played each other in a terrific series that captured the attention of cricket lovers around the world. But off the field, there is little doubt that the two cradles of the game are increasingly overshadowed by India. In comparison with the Nimbus deal, TV rights to three years of English cricket went for $384 million last summer, to Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting. Nimbus' record-breaking offer is indicative of unimaginable sums of money that Indian cricket, with its vast...
...hasn't hurt that the last few years have produced some great cricket. England's win over Australia last year drew "the highest levels of public interest in cricket in a generation," according to Deloitte's Sports Business Group, with 7.7 million viewers in Britain?40% of its total TV audience?and millions more around the world. The easing of political tension between India and Pakistan has also allowed the two great South Asian rivals to play each other three times since 2004. Technology has played a part, too. Stump-mounted mini-cameras, computer graphics to predict a ball...
...Kathryn Tylander starred in net for the Crimson, stopping 13 shots and preventing Holy Cross from getting closer than four goals the rest of the game. The contest was played as scheduled, despite below-freezing temperatures for much of the afternoon. Harvard continues its season in the frosty New England climate with a 3 p.m. clash on Saturday against UMass in Amherst...
...member of his expedition that is climbing for charity. Osbourne said he plans to donate the money to Naomi House, a hospice in southern United Kingdom. “I always had the climb in the back of my mind,” said Osborne, who is originally from England. The opportunity rose a year and half ago when he learned of the “Challenges” program at Naomi House, which invites supporters to take on adventurous activities to solicit donations. Osborne is dedicating his climb to Peter Legate, another British mountaineer who died climbing Mt. Everest...