Grey-Thompson first competed in 1984 for Wales, winning the 100m as a 15-year-old at the Junior National Games.
Their idea was that people want to watch their local team more than they want to watch one of the big national games, but that you need a national brand to sell advertising.
It has also bought the rights to games by the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, the NCAA men's basketball tournament and English Premiere League soccer, and such personalities as sportscaster John Madden , skateboarders Bam Margera and Tony Hawk , cyclist Lance Armstrong and political commentators Bob Dornan and Michael Reagan .
As often happens in the days immediately following the final week of games of the National Football League regular season, head coaches of underperforming teams are fired.
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Judging from the Russia national team's games on the pitch and the manner in which the Russian teams have played in Europe, I do not think there are big differences.
The two BCS National Championship Games on ESPN (2011, 2012) have generated the two largest audiences for any program in the history of cable television.
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Other All Stars deserving of their eight-figure pay packages: The Mets' David Wright, who's rebounded from a tough start to knock in 64 runs while batting .317 in leading the surprising Mets to within two games of the National League East-leading Braves, and Tampa Bay's Carl Crawford, who's gearing up for free agency with a .320 batting average and 29 stolen bases.
From 1950 until the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, the national team won 42 games, drew seven and lost just once --- in the World Cup final against West Germany.
Currently, Disney holds the rights to all four BCS bowl games and the national championship game.
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The rest of the games feature the Augusta National Golf Club and its iconic yellow flag.
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On China's Internet, blogs, bulletin boards and news sites carry photos of automobiles jerry-rigged to run on railroad tracks ("shanzhai trains"), fluffy dogs trimmed and dyed to look like the national mascot ("shanzhai pandas") and models of the Beijing Olympic Games' National Stadium made out of sticks ("shanzhai Bird's Nest").
Alas, they fell to an underdog but pitching-rich Mets club in a three-games-to-two-upset in the National League Championship Series, scoring just nine runs in the five games.
Excited by television coverage of great players in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Bangladeshis have grown daft about cricket: 55, 000 people turn out for one-day international games at the floodlit National Stadium in Dhaka, and two-day league games attract 20, 000 paying customers.
The company's video offerings are multiplying: Its servers "broadcast" live games for the National Hockey League in high definition.
Mr Ross was on the board of the organising committee for London 2012 (LOCOG) as well as bodies overseeing the legacy of the Games and the distribution of National Lottery funding for the event.
The league also said it would conduct a moment of silence before the national anthem at two games this weekend.
Just missing the cut: the 1969 Orioles, whose expansion-aided 109 wins preceded a famous World Series loss to the "Miracle Mets, " and the 1958 Milwaukee Braves, who took the National League pennant by eight games before blowing a three-games-to-one series lead to the Yankees.
Stars from the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be honoured at the National Television Awards in January.
So during the upcoming college bowl games, like the Discover BCS National Championship, keep your eyes open for the latest entrepreneurial success story in the world of marketing to women.
But the NCAA has delegated the process of deciding who competes for national championships and the financially golden BCS games to the Bowl Championship Series.
The National Football League's national TV contract prevents the team from broadcasting regular-season games.
UConn (34-4) had lost the previous two national semifinals to the Irish and dropped three thrilling games this season to their rival.
As a sports fan, I recall the ensuing debate as to whether the National Football League should hold games that Sunday.
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When Connecticut beat No. 6 Syracuse 66-58 on Wednesday night it meant is that there are no scheduled games between the national powers.
"He has played enough games for the national team and has been tested enough, more than quite a few other players, " Jozic said.
For those that argue that the playoff system puts student-athletes at physical risks or impedes their academic progress because of increased playing time, this plan only adds 1 more game for 4 teams and 2 games for the national finalists.
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After a series of snafus and scandals during the run up to the Games, India saved itself from complete national humiliation by an opening ceremony that was genuinely spectacular.
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The reason is thatattendance at National Basketball Association and National Hockey League games has been flat for the past fouryears.
The militants planned to move the arms to the nearby resort city of Sochi and use them to carry out terrorist attacks during the Games, it quoted the National Anti-Terrorism Committee as saying.
"Over the last six months the Lions coaching staff has attended countless matches, analysed endless games and taken the counsel of national and domestic coaches, " stated McGeechan.
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