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Pole Vaulting Champion Romain Mesnil ran naked with his pole through the streets of Paris to hoping to draw concentration for a new sponsorship deal. And the video of his naked run is now posted on YouTube.

It shows that worldwide financial downward spiral starts on to impact on the world of sports and in this critical economic situation, 31-year-old Romain Mesnil only used an unusual way to try to secure a new sponsorship contract. At the 2007 Athletics World Championships in Osaka, Mensil won a silver medal and at that time he was sponsored by Nike. But after expire it last year, Nike was not renewed. On his website he said that,

“It was probably for budgetary and strategic reasons. It’s the crisis.”

For this reason Mensil tries do something funny to get a new sponsor. Moreover, with looking for a sponsor he is hopeful to increase funds for two charities one to care for kids ill in hospital and the other for study into brain tumors.

Recently, lots of athletes face trouble of finding a suitable sponsorship deal as companies cut costs for the reason of the worldwide financial downturn. So now it is the time to see that is the funny effort of Mensil really works to get a new sponsorship.

Unauthorized broadcasting makes a headache for the Premier League organizer in the United Kingdom because unauthorized broadcasting is a hurdle to earn revenue properly. That’s why; the authority has called for more hard laws against IT theft to prevent the unauthorized online broadcasting of football matches. According to Radio 4′s You and Yours program reports a website which links to unauthorized live broadcasts of Premier League and same type of other matches now attracts more traffic than the sites of broadcasters for example ITV .

That is a Netherlands-based site and gets funding from online bookmaker bwin, which sponsors Real Madrid and AC Milan. Bwin pays such a site for providing a link to it in order that users can place bets easily. On the other hand, the bookmaker said it was not breaking any laws. According to Akash Sachdeva of the law firm Allen and Overy, the legal implications are not clear.

The League authority said it was vigorously engaged in combating abuses of its rights. They think legal notices must sent to those found broadcasting matches to which they did not own the rights. However, a spokesman said when one site had been stopped, another would pop up. He said “This kind of use of our rights is illegal and we take any abuse of our intellectual property very seriously.” So, respective authorities think to make tighter law to handle this offensive.

Wales made the record of eight straight wins in the RBS 6 Nations, although they were pushed by the England and their win was in confused but at the end of the full time the score was 23-15 and Wales won the game.

The Wales are still on the road to glory but while playing with the England the desperately missed the genius of Shane Williams. Although they made baffling defensive lapses that furious their coaches, but they came home comfortably. However, their supremacy was not remotely reflected on the scoreboard and it may well prove to be that this was their worst performance of the season.

England’s performance wasn’t very well in these seasons either. But at least England looked and played like a rugby team that cared. Step by step they have put out the youngsters and brought back hard-nosed professionals and it showed. At the game with the Wales, England played very well. They played better than Wales, had more momentum than Wales, they were in more attack than Wales and showed the rhythm in the game.

International Cricket Council (ICC) declares the 2008 Oscar awards of cricket. From 2004 ICC starts their new awards giving ceremony. And they do their best for a successful ceremony. So for this, from the starting of this prize giving ceremony it creates so much interest in the mind of players and fans. Over the year cricketers and supporters are waited for the declaration of the awards. ICC gives the award on the basis of different individual performance. So players get much encouragement to play well for better performance.

The fifth ICC awards ceremony was held on 10th September 2008. According to the previous, a gorgeous ceremony organized in Dubai, U.A.E for the award declaration. Best passionately expected award, Cricketer of the year award went to West Indian batsman Shivnaraine Chanderpaul. Chanderpaul bid the award from the shortlist of last year best cricketer. He fall into competition among other top performer nominees Mahela Jayawardene from Sri Lanka, South Africa’s Graeme Smith and Dale Steyn to take the top award.

As other time ICC also gives their awards for various categories such as test player of the year, ODI player of the year, emerging player of the year, and women’s player of the year etc. But in this year all of us known that a new format of cricket is started which is called Twenty20. It gets so much popularity among the fans. ICC also arranges a prize for it which is called Twenty20 international performance of the year. This award goes to the hard-hitter of India, Yuvraj Singh for his brilliant batting performance in Twenty20.

Here is a short list of ICC 2008 award winners:

• Cricketer of the Year: S Chanderpaul (West Indies)
• Test Player of the Year: Dale Steyn (South Africa)
• ODI Player of the Year: M S Dhoni (India)
• Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Yuvraj Singh (India)
• Emerging Player of the Year: Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka)
• Women’s Player of the Year: Charlotte Edwards (England)
• Associate Player of the Year: Ryan ten Doeschate (Netherlands)
• Umpire of the Year: Simon Taufel (Australia)
• Spirit of Cricket: Sri Lanka