But nobody wants to see people risk their lives attending a sports event and, hopefully, this accident will push engineers to develop even safer fences so a tragedy can be averted in the future.
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Cisco Systems is looking to enhance its global recognition and reputation as a first-time sponsor of a major sports event.
The failure to go ahead with the London championships is the first time in the modern sporting era that a major economic power has failed to meet a promise to hold a major sports event.
Chairman Richard Scudamore told a sports industry event that an incident involving goalkeeper Petr Cech in 2006, which saw the Czech Republic international fracture his skull, had been a wake up call for the football authorities.
The WBC may or may not make it as a major world sports event.
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The event was like a sports-league draft but friendly, recalls Mr. Dieu.
In fact, White taught me how to snowboard at a media event that Sony 989 Sports put on back in 1999 at Beaver Creek, Colo.
Training for a major event like the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) involves practising with friends and other gamers (locally or online), or competing at smaller tournaments to build up competitive gaming experience.
With a combination of their current hotel inventory, use of campus facilities at either USC or UCLA, LAX plus additional airports locally that can help lighten the load, and a large population of sports enthusiasts dying for a chance to participate in an international sporting event, L.A. clearly has all of their ducks in a row.
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And so the spirit of a professional sporting event or even a college event that you usually get - partisans going crazy and the energy and the spirit of having fans who love the teams - that's all watered down by the fact that the Super Bowl is something that transcends sports and really is a giant corporate event.
Armstrong, the survivor of a testicular cancer that had spread into his lungs and brain and left him a 20% chance of survival, recovered and won the most physically grueling event in sports, the Tour de France, a three-week race of attrition.
As it turned out, it was another contest in Athens (in 1906, but without the status of a fully fledged Olympics) that reconfirmed the games as a Greek-inspired, but peripatetic, sports event.
"It is easier to look for a friend's face in a sports stadium filled with 100, 000 people than to search for a Higgs-like event among trillions of collisions, " said Luciano Ristori, a physicist at the U.S. facility.
The ICC must first strike a deal with broadcasters ESPN Star Sports to work out whether sufficient technology is available to use at a global event.
The event offers a brand-new Porsche sports car, parked at the side of the court, to the title holder come Sunday.
How then, did the Rose Bowl Game go from a community event to one of the biggest events in sports?
Playing on Xbox 360 consoles in a single elimination tournament, some of the biggest names in pro wrestling got their game on before WrestleMania in front of a live audience at the fan axxess event. 2K Sports also live streamed the tournament through Twitch for all fans to watch from home.
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If you are the type who will spend as much on a bottle of Scotch as a high-end sports car, mark your calendar for the event.
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If we remember that brands are belief systems (created by a system of belief that includes creation story, creed, icons, rituals, a special lexicon, nonbelievers, and leader), then we realize why the Super Bowl has become a brand with a community of millions who surround the biggest event in American sports history.
"The PGA Championship is a marquee event both for the sport of golf and for Turner Sports and each year we strive to offer the most comprehensive, multiplatform coverage to fans, allowing them to follow the event on television, online or through mobile devices, " said David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
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The tournament's future had been in some doubt before Irish sports minister Martin Cullen announced that a sponsor had been found for the event.
The staging of the event must also form part of a more comprehensive tourism, sports development and business investment strategy demonstrating public and private sector and community support.
Gonzalez, who sports a tattoo of La Santa Muerte on her back, holds an annual event in August in the saint's honor, with mariachis and a feast.
Popular sports pub that shows pretty much every major televized sporting event and attracts a passionate crowd.
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Last week I wrote about what a great event the Kentucky Derby is, maybe the best one in all of sports to attend in person, and how to do it in style.
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Grab your friends, a cold beverage, a few slices of pizza and a couple of wings and celebrate the sporting event that is at the foundation of American sports.
"International sports bodies and media organisations wield a lot of power and it cannot be easy for individual event organisers to push back at their demands, " the report says.
It's also the unusual format of the event, which puts a collection of inexperienced youngsters on one of the biggest stages in sports.
Speaking of sports, thanks to TiVo's partnership with Thuuz, some sporting event tiles have a number between zero and a 100 assigned to them to help draw your attention to the most exciting matches currently in play.
Also new is Sports Scoring, a function that lets the user record a running tally of the score for a sporting event by simply tapping on a smartphone.
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