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Volunteers are needed to fill positions for Team Management, Coaching Staff and Selection Committee
Nazim Shirazi : February 04, 2010
Dear SCCA Members,
All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care under strong and efficient management. As such SCCA is in the process of recruiting coaches, managers and selectors for 2010 season and beyond. A lot of work and dedication is needed and required to lay a solid foundation for our youth and provide guidance to our senior team to give them the best chance of playing to their potential. Hence, we have to think creatively and must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted which is playing without proper preparation and failing at the higher level. One of the main reason is lack of preparation due to limited resources in personnel to manage and train our cricketers throughout the season. That is about to change and as such we are recruiting qualified personnel to help improve our overall standard of cricket.
Once the committees are formed, the new coaches and managers will be given guidance, instructions and assignments by the senior team management at Woodley. SCCA will hold training camps for the youth and the senior team along with the new coaching staff, the managers and selectors. Those who take up the positions will be required to attend the training camps at Woodley. The dates for the camps will be announced after the committees are formed. If you have the ability, the qualification and the time to help SCCA, please confirm by Friday, February 12th, 2010.
The following positions are open for the Team Management, the Coaching Staff and the Selection Committee for the Youth & Senior Team combined.
Youth & Senior Coaching Staff: Five coaches
Youth & Senior Team Management: Five managers
Youth & Senior Team Selectors: Five selectors
For the Youth Team please contact:
Mr. Abdulghani Ahmed
ha ... @hotmail.com
Telephone: 714-209-6746
For the Senior Team please contact:
Mr. Nazim Shirazi
st ... @freightco.com
Telephone: 909-456-0475
We believe all dreams can come true for our association if we have the courage to pursue them together. Should you have any question please free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Nazim Shirazi
Chairman
SCCA Team Management Committee
http://www.sccacricket.org/News/201002/coachesneeded.aspx
Posted by Vinod Bathini, Fri Feb 5, 2010 @ 9:03 AM 0 Comments |
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| Haiti Donation Drive - UCR
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The PCA of Campus Health Center at UCR is holding an Operation Haiti Donation Drive until February 12, 2010. As a token of our contribution, we, at ISA UCR (Indian Student's Association) are planning an event, in conjunction with the Campus Health Center, which will include going around different neighborhoods around UCR, to collect material (old expendables like clothes and other such material only) as donation for the relief for Haiti victims.
Join them on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/UCR-Preventive-Care-Advocates/151822933621?ref=mfIndian Student Association: http://www.isaucr.org/
Posted by Vinod Bathini, Sun Jan 31, 2010 @ 5:15 PM 0 Comments |
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| What football and basketball can teach cricket
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Twenty years ago English football suffered arguably its worst disaster when 96 Liverpool fans died in or as a result of a stampede at the Hillsborough ground in Sheffield. The tragedy, seen in hindsight, stemmed from the public perception of football - a sport by, for and of hooligans - and the consequent reaction: hostile stadiums, hostile policing. From the debris of that disaster has arisen the most valuable, global club-based sports tournament, which has become a benchmark for the rest of the competition.
That rebirth was not accidental. Hillsborough forced the British authorities - notably the Thatcher government - to look at football in new light. The prescription came from the Taylor Commission investigating the Hillsborough tragedy: the way ahead for football, was as a family game, a more wholesome form of entertainment suitable for a weekend afternoon. That required a transformation of the football grounds from medieval human cages to modern, all-seater theatres. That in turn required money. The clubs certainly didn't have that kind of money, nor did the Football Trust, and so, in 1993, was born the Premier League and the deal with Murdoch's Sky Television that brought in the money. That brought in the stars, and as the Premiership imported talent it exported itself - first to Europe and the Americas, then to Asia and Africa.
To read the rest of the article please go here: http://www.cricinfo.com/decadereview2009/content/story/442972.html
Posted by Vinod Bathini, Sun Jan 24, 2010 @ 11:17 AM 0 Comments |
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| IPL 3.0 coming to a computer near you thanks to YouTube
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The Telegraph Sport reported on January 18th that IPL and Google are close to signing a deal that will allow fans outside India to watch IPL matches live again.
Details are not yet known on how the proposed deal impacts the USA market where live streaming via Willow.TV is currently available to paid subscribers. [Editor's Note: On January 20th, Google announced that live streaming would not be available in USA via YouTube.]
DIRECTV will still broadcast the matches live for the TV audience in USA. So DIRECTV is still the place to catch high quality match broadcasts.
If the Google deal enables free live streaming in USA, IPL could hit two birds with one stone. In a recent anti-piracy report, IPL reported that 2,426 unauthorized live streaming feeds and 6,752 unauthorized videos were pulled down from the internet last year. Live streaming via YouTube would deal a final deathblow to piracy, especially in USA where demand for pirated streams is rampant.
Economic Times also reported over the weekend that IPL would make exploratory forays into the USA market within 18 months. “There are plans in the works to hold IPL matches overseas and we hope to be able to provide the fans in the US the live experience of the IPL. We will start with a few matches in the US, in the next 18 months or so. We will start to examine venues and dates that may be available for this in the summer months,” Mr Modi told SundayET in an exclusive interview. “Canada already has good infrastructure and we will try and combine the two — US and Canada — and see if we can bring the IPL carnival experience as we did in South Africa to all the cricket fans there,” Modi added. Separately, talking about free broadcasts in UK, he said "It is about broadening the fan base, after that everything follows," Modi said.
Applying that logic to USA, showing IPL 3.0 live on YouTube could potentially be just the warm-up act that the doctor ordered - a good investment ahead of IPL caravan's arrival in USA.
Staging IPL 2.0 in South Africa resulted in a 680% increase in TV viewership in that country - a good indication that an expansion in advertising opportunities in the future will more than make up for any erosion in subscription revenue from streaming the matches live. Besides YouTube, ESPN360 has also displayed an increased appetite for streaming cricket live. The recently concluded Tri-Series was shown live on ESPN360.
Season 3 of IPL will kick off in Hyderabad on March 12, 2010. And it is time for USA to have access to IPL via YouTube (even if it is delayed) just as it is available in all countries outside USA
http://www.dreamcricket.com/dreamcricket/news.hspl?nid=13394&ntid=4
Posted by Vinod Bathini, Thu Jan 21, 2010 @ 1:07 PM 0 Comments |
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