Three days long Dublin Irish Festival begins from August 6

DUBLIN IRISH Festival, one of the largest Irish events in U.S. is taking place from today Friday August 6 to Sunday August 8 at Coffman Park, Dublin, Ohio. This event will feature seven performance stages, 65 acts and more than 535 performers spread across seven stages.

Dublin Irish Festival began in 1988 with a handful of dancers and musicians on a tennis court. The festival, is now the world’s second largest Irish celebration. It is expected that more than 100,000 guests will attend during the three days long event.

This year in Dublin Irish Festival, topnotch performers including Lunasa, Moya

It's regional affiliation, it's thrill? It's sports

IT WAS a nice sunny day when Mautik Tolia, executive vice-president (Programming), Neo Sports Broadcast Pvt Ltd, came up to a media institute in Pune to dispense his experiences with the students. Tolia explained to the students the world of sports broadcast and cracked open the ‘sports ecosystem’ as he termed it. He made the session very interactive by giving the audience a platform to share what they like sports for. Mautik Tolia made the point very clear that be it the regional affiliation or patriotism, the thrill or the glamour, the adrenalin effect or the real love for sports,

Big B to endorse Airtel Champions League T20

MEGA STAR Amitabh Bachchan has been roped in by ESPN for endorsing the Champions League T20 tournament that will kick start in September. The matches of the league will be held in South Africa.

 

According to reports, Big B completed the shooting, dubbing and all the necessary things for the advertisement well before the specified time period due to time constraints. Bachchan has posted the details on his profile on Twitter, which he usually does.

 

The tournament will start from September 10, 2010 and will be held across venues like Durban, Port Elizabeth, Centurion and Johannesburg. In the past, South

Australian firm faces heat over Commonwealth Games payment

MELBOURNE BASED Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM) has come under the Enforcement Directorate's scanner for allegedly receiving payment of millions of dollars. The Australian company which was hired to get sponsorship for the upcoming Commonwealth Games has, however, denied getting any commission from the Organising Committee. The company also said that the reports are untrue and it is yet to be paid its outstanding amount.

 

Referring to the allegations, SMAM head, Mike Bushell said that the claims are disgraceful and he was not sure about what the agenda was.

Facebook helps Delhi police to catch traffic offenders

TECHNOLOGY COULD not get any better than this with social networking site Facebook helping the traffic police in Delhi. What can be termed as a classic case of police ingenuity, the Delhi police has started a campaign on the popular networking site to curb the menace of growing traffic offenders. The fan page developed by Delhi Police already has more than 18,000 fans, who with their brilliant ideas have helped the officers in getting hold of the offenders.

 

The fans upload an image that

WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Golf from August 5

WGC-BRIDGESTONE Invitational Golf Tournament at Firestone Country Club, in Akron, Ohio is taking place from August 5 to 8. All of the top 50 players in the official world Golf ranking and 18 of the top 20 in the current FedEx Cup standings will take part in the 80-player field at Firestone Country Club.

The Bridgestone Invitational is a week before the final major championship of the year, the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.

World no.1 golfer Tiger Woods, who is winless in his first seven PGA Tour this year, will try to defend his title at WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.

Pakistan needs 420 runs to win against England in First Cricket Test

IN THE first Cricket Test match between England and Pakistan at Trent Bridge, Nottingham in England, on fourth day, visitors need 420 more runs with seven wickets in hand to take lead against the hosts in the series.

At the stumps on day 3, Pakistani team was at 15 runs for the loss of 3 wickets. Opener Imran Farhat was playing on 6 and Mohammad Aamer was yet to open his account on day 4 at Trent Bridge.

On the third evening at Trent Bridge visitors lost their three wickets just in a span of 6 balls for 1