ECB (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
The ECB’s annual strategy conference took place this week, focusing on the importance of one-day cricket. Chief executive David Collier is to head a review into the current volume of domestic cricket.
Harris Sportsthoughts (Free subscription) | 18/01/2010
I saw a lot of Giles Clarke while I was in Cape Town. He isn’t difficult to miss: large, floppy-haired and forever tailed by David Collier, wheezing away like a consumptive bulldog. It appears that Clarke was making himself known at the Wanderers as well, righteously and indignantly ploughing into the row about the review [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/01/2010
Copyright infringement is having a serious impact on employment opportunities for the British creative workforce and the promotion of emerging talent. Without the action proposed by the government in the digital economy bill (DEB), job losses will be felt right across the chain – not only for recording artists, but technicians, manufacturers, musicians, writers, photographers and many others....
OSG Sports (Free subscription) | 08/01/2010
((HT: KCBD-TV Lubbock)) Former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach is using that law degree of his to its full value... He has filed a motion for "expedited discovery" in Lubbock County court. All that means, in legaleze, is that Leach wants documents from the university quicker than normal... Leach maintains that any delay will harm his case... Here's the full document Leach and his attorney, Ted...
Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
It seems that the government's review of the sporting crown jewels has not gone down very well in many quarters. Yesterday a report was submitted to the culture secretary Ben Bradshaw which added home Ashes Tests, competitive football internationals for all home countries, home and away, and Wales's home Six Nations rugby matches to the covereted A list which means that they have to be shown on free...
ECB (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Yorkshire chairman Colin Graves has echoed ECB chief executive David Collier’s concern over the recommendation that home Ashes Tests be reserved for free-to-air television from 2016.
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
David Collier, the chief executive of the ECB, has branded as "a nonsense" the decision to return Ashes cricket to the government's list of protected "crown jewel" events
ECB (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
ECB chief executive David Collier insists the growth of cricket in England and Wales will be lost if the recommendation that home Ashes Tests be reserved for free-to-air television is approved.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
• Dates for one-day series to be announced at later date • England will play three first-class matches before First Test The schedule for the 2010-11 Ashes has been announced, with England beginning their defence of the urn in Brisbane with the first game of the five-Test series being staged at The Gabba from 15-29 November next year. Matches in Adelaide and Perth will follow, with Melbourne's...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
• ECB's chief executive leads talks with sports minister • Bookmakers may be asked to share match-fixing information Leading sports figures are pushing the government for wholesale changes to gambling regulation, arguing that a recent ruling in the European courts opens the way for tougher regulation of bookmakers. A delegation led by the England and Wales Cricket Board's chief executive,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
• ECB's concerns are only over the format, says chief executive • Host proposal 'warmly received and supported by ECB' The England and Wales Cricket Board insists it is supportive of a world Test championship – and even claims to have been approached to host the final. The International Cricket Council's chief executive, Haroon Lorgat, had today told the Guardian that England and India...
Online Clinic News (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
New research has shown that childhood obesity is a leading cause of obesity is childhood low self esteem. In 1970 6,500 participants were questioned about their self-esteem. The children had their weight and height measured by nurses and then self reported the same details until they were 30. They also noted their emotional states. Now they have been tracked down and weighed and the results showed...
Fitness Watch (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Wrong. "Children with self-esteem problems are more likely to be obese as adults, a research team has found. A study of 6,500 participants in the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study found that 10-year-olds with lower self esteem tended to be fatter as adults... Professor David Collier, who led the research, said: 'What's novel about this study is that obesity has been regarded as a medical metabolic...
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
David Collier-Brown, a published author with O'Reilly, posts his copyright consultation submission . Collier-Brown notes that the electronic availability of his book helped make it the outstanding seller in his class and warns that anti-circumvention legislation would harm him as an author.
Paddy's Sports View (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
Rhetoric and reality in the ECB brand Dabblers in the arcane arts of Brand management know that a brand is not necessarily valued as the owners of the brand like to think that it should be. A brand's value is the sum of the perceptions of all of those that relate to it. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) would like you to think that the pillars of the ECB brand are: Effective leadership and...
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