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Friday, October 19, 2012

Sports Roundup : Outdoors & Recreation - Tampa Bay Newspapers

Kickball league registration
MADEIRA BEACH ? The city of Madeira Beach Recreation Department is taking registration for its adult coed kickball league. Games will be played Wednesday nights beginning in November. Cost is $200 per team. For more information, call 392-0665.

Glow golf
TREAUSRE ISLAND ? Golfers are invited to participate in a Glow Golf Tuesday, Nov. 13, at Treasure Bay Golf and Tennis, 10315 Paradise Blvd. Registration and food will be available from 6 to 6:30 p.m. The golf scramble will begin at approximately 6:45 p.m. Golfers may sign up as a single, twosome or foursome. Hot dogs, chips and soft drinks will be provided free of charge. Prizes will be awarded for the winners of the golf scramble. The entry fee is $25 per player or $80 per foursome. Preregistration and payment at time of registration is required. Call Treasure Bay Golf and Tennis at 360-6062 for additional information or to register.

Celtics FC soccer club
The U11 boys team at Gulf Coast United is looking for a player to be part of its Celtics FC U11 club team. For additional information, call 743-0294.

UPARC golf tourney
BELLEAIR ? The UPARC Foundation plans its 12th annual Christine Bond Memorial Golf Classic Thursday, Oct. 18, noon, at Belleair Country Club. The format is a scramble with putting contests, a hole-in-one challenge and other opportunities to win prizes. For more information, call 797-8712.

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Report: More riders linked to Armstrong's doctor

FILE - In this May 3, 2012 file photo Michele Scarponi shows the trophy of 2011 edition of the Giro d'Italia cycling race after Alberto Contador was stripped of the honor for doping, in Herning, Denmark. Extending the fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping report, at least 15 more cyclists are being linked to the American's banned physician in what is unfolding as an intricate scheme of money laundering, tax evasion and widespread doping. The Gazzetta dello Sport reports that former Giro d'Italia winners Michele Scarponi and Denis Menchov, plus this year's Olympic champion Alexandre Vinokourov, are under investigation for doping under the supervision of Dr. Michele Ferrari. (AP Photo/Gian Mattia D'Alberto, File)

FILE - In this July 28, 2012 file photo Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the Men's Road Cycling race at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 28, 2012, in London. Extending the fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping report, at least 15 more cyclists are being linked to the American's banned physician in what is unfolding as an intricate scheme of money laundering, tax evasion and widespread doping. The Gazzetta dello Sport reports that former Giro d'Italia winners Michele Scarponi and Denis Menchov, plus this year's Olympic champion Alexandre Vinokourov, are under investigation for doping under the supervision of Dr. Michele Ferrari. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File)

FILE - In this May 31, 2009 file photo Russia's Denis Menchov pedals as St. Peter's Basilica is seen in background, during the last stage of the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race, an individual time trial in Rome. Extending the fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping report, at least 15 more cyclists are being linked to the American's banned physician in what is unfolding as an intricate scheme of money laundering, tax evasion and widespread doping. The Gazzetta dello Sport reports that former Giro d'Italia winners Michele Scarponi and Denis Menchov, plus this year's Olympic champion Alexandre Vinokourov, are under investigation for doping under the supervision of Dr. Michele Ferrari. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

FILE - In this July 14, 2008 filer Denis Menchov of Russia is interviewed ahead of the 10th stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Pau and Hautacam, southern France. Extending the fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping report, at least 15 more cyclists are being linked to the American's banned physician in what is unfolding as an intricate scheme of money laundering, tax evasion and widespread doping. The Gazzetta dello Sport reports that former Giro d'Italia winners Michele Scarponi and Denis Menchov, plus this year's Olympic champion Alexandre Vinokourov, are under investigation for doping under the supervision of Dr. Michele Ferrari. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski, fILE)

ROME (AP) ? At least 15 more cyclists have been linked to Lance Armstrong's banned Italian sport doctor in an intricate scheme of money laundering, tax evasion and widespread doping.

Former Giro d'Italia winners Michele Scarponi and Denis Menchov, and this year's Olympic champion Alexandre Vinokourov, are under investigation for doping under the supervision of Dr. Michele Ferrari, the Gazzetta dello Sport reported Friday.

Citing documents from an inquiry led by Padua prosecutor Benedetto Roberti, the Gazzetta detailed how Ferrari allegedly masterminded a $40 million operation where riders and teams avoided taxes by recycling money via Gibraltar, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and South America.

Ferrari and the cyclists deny wrongdoing.

Roberti has been leading a sweeping investigation of Ferrari for several years, parts of which were used in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report detailing why it banned Armstrong for life and ordered him to be stripped of all seven of his Tour de France titles.

Armstrong has acknowledged that Ferrari was his trainer until 2004, and Ferrari's name is mentioned throughout the USADA report. In July, USADA banned Ferrari for life.

Roberti told The AP last week that his inquiry was nearly finished.

"We need to figure out where the real truth lies in all this," Gianni Bugno, the president of the international cyclists' union (CPA) told The Associated Press on Friday. "There's an ongoing investigation and once the inquiry ends, then we'll see what the situation is."

Doping is a crime in Italy, and Ferrari was already cleared on appeal in 2006 of criminal charges of distributing banned products to athletes. But he remains barred for life by the Italian Cycling Federation under a 2002 ruling.

"Doping is not a cycling problem, it's a problem for all sports," Bugno said. "Ferrari didn't work only with cyclists. He also worked with athletes from other sports."

For example, former Olympic race walking champion Alex Schwazer acknowledged working with Ferrari after it was revealed on the eve of this year's London Games that he tested positive.

Bugno doesn't want to see pro cycling stopped, even momentarily.

"No, we need to move forward. Stopping would hurt the innocent (riders)," he said. "We need to fight against those cheating the system and defend the innocent. ... We're waiting for a response from the UCI (International Cycling Union) on all that has happened. It's the UCI that needs to respond to the USADA report."

Ferrari is reportedly under investigation again in Italy for criminal association, trafficking and administering doping substances, tax evasion and money laundering.

Investigators placed hidden microphones in the camper van that Ferrari used to meet with cyclists in remote areas of Italy and in Switzerland, the Gazzetta said. The newspaper printed a phone-tap conversation between Scarponi and Ferrari inside the van in September 2010 during which the rider said he could win the following year's Giro and the physician replied that if he used a blood transfusion he had a chance.

Scarponi finished second in the 2011 Giro but then was bumped up to champion when Alberto Contador was stripped of the title for doping at the 2010 Tour de France. Vincenzo Nibali finished behind Scarponi.

In 2007, Scarponi was banned for 18 months for involvement in the Spanish doping scandal Operation Puerto.

Police also tapped a September 2010 phone call between Menchov and agent Raimondo Scimone during which the Russian rider tells the agent that he wants "all the cyclists working with him followed by Ferrari," according to the Gazzetta.

Scimone wrote in a statement to the paper that he was never involved in doping or wrongdoing.

Menchov raced with the Rabobank team from 2005-2010 and won the Giro in 2009. He also won the Spanish Vuelta in 2005 and 2007.

Rabobank announced Friday that it is ending its long sponsorship of professional cycling, saying "the trust in the cycling world has gone" following the publication of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's report on Armstrong.

Vinokourov is also reportedly under investigation by Roberti. He won the men's road race at the London Olympics, having served a two-year ban after testing positive for blood doping during the 2007 Tour de France. The Kazakh rider retired at the end of this season.

Others reportedly under investigation are Armstrong's former teammates Yaroslav Popovych and Volodymyr Bileka; Russian riders Alexandr Kolobnev, Vladimir Karpets, Vladimir Gusev, Mikhail Ignatiev; Czech rider Roman Kreuziger; and Italians Filippo Pozzato, Lorenzo Bertagnolli, Giovanni Visconti and Franco Pellizzotti.

Bertagnolli's detailed confession to Roberti was published in the USADA report to reveal Ferrari's system.

Also, riders and teams took advantage of their image rights contracts to limit taxes, the Gazzetta reported, with Scimone helping them work with a company called T&F Sport Management in Monte Carlo to register the deals there and avoid tax.

The contracts were not registered with the UCI and the riders paid only 6 percent tax and then transferred the cash to Switzerland to use it in part for paying Ferrari, the paper said.

Associated Press

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

93% Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel

All Critics (45) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (3)

A highly entertaining and colorful portrait of a unique woman.

The visual emphasis in The Eye Has to Travel is on the pages of the magazines Vreeland dominated, and as such it's a sleek eyeful.

Vivid, delicious trip through the heyday of fashion mags is a must for followers of clothes, print design, and high society.

Vreeland comes across in the movie as something of a cross between Auntie Mame and Godzilla. She was a true original in a world where knock-offs abounded.

The film, written and directed by Vreeland's granddaughter-in-law, mainly rests on the strength of its subject.

Makes a compelling case for the late Diana Vreeland as the 20th century's pre-eminent tastemaker, not to mention one of its most extravagant personalities.

Though unwilling to dig too deeply into what seems an imperfect private life, it still serves as a splendid introduction to a unique personality.

A poignant portrait of an inveterate iconoclast who couldn't help but push the envelope.

[A] warm portrait of the world's first true fashion maven.

It can be hard to keep up at points -- not with the plot, but with the amount of inspiration that Diana can still strew over an audience.

As a biographical documentary, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel is complete and satisfying. As a leading character, Mrs. Vreeland is entirely entertaining.

Vreeland's attention to detail, her love of new and exciting images, her devotion to and ability to identify, that ethereal thing called style, come across loudly and clearly.

With her lacquered black hair and Kabuki-like face, one-time 'ugly duckling' Vreeland was her own work of art and, as the film reminds us, she was one of the most important and amusing self-made works of art of her century.

[An] entertaining bit of hagiography ...

An entertaining and visually apt, if less than deeply probing, portrait of an imperishable fashion icon.

In an age where documentaries are becoming the place to go for those interested in investing their time & money in the company of thoughtful and watchable subjects, The Eye Has to Travel is yet another welcome addition to that list.

It's informative and not uncritical, touching as it does in an affectionate manner on her authoritarian personality and her somewhat cavalier attitude towards matters of fact and the history of fashion.

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Experts say Armstrong marketing brand severely damaged

By Ari Baquet
Published Oct. 17, 2012
Updated 1 hour ago

Armstrong's brand damaged — Lance Armstrong's once potent marketing power has vanished for brands severing ties this week. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.com

Nike and Oakley stuck with Lance Armstrong through his battle with cancer in 1996, when much of the sporting world considered him damaged goods. But for companies like Nike and Trek Bicycles, the mountain of evidence the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency amassed against the former world champion was too much, and according to one sports marketing expert, Armstrong?s fall from grace will be the sharpest decline in modern sports history.

On Wednesday, Nike terminated its contract and its 16-year relationship with Armstrong. The move comes as an abrupt about-face from Nike?s stance just six days prior, when the athletic apparel manufacturer issued a statement saying that, ?Nike plans to support Lance and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.? In dropping the former world champion, Nike led RadioShack, Giro, Trek, Honey Stinger and Anheuser-Busch in what is already a growing exodus of corporate partners away from the Armstrong name.

And a name, according to Evan Morgenstein, president and CEO of PMG Sports, is ?the only thing [an athlete] can market in this world.?

Now, Morgenstein said, Nike ?absolutely didn?t believe the story that they had heard previously. Then again, it could have been business factors also.?

Morgenstein, whose sports management group focuses on the brand management of Olympic athletes, told VeloNews on Wednesday that, ?What you?re going to see is the greatest collapse by an American icon, sports or otherwise, in history.?

Brand managers at Nike, who produced the Livestrong apparel and whose logo had adorned Armstrong?s one-off cycling shoes, would have had ?an absolute nightmare? dealing with the collapse of the Armstrong brand, Morgenstein said: ?Just take it from a business perspective first, how much inventory are they going to have to liquidate now, or how much of it?s coming back to their warehouses from their retailers??

These retailers, Morgenstein said, ?with tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of merchandise, saying ?we?re sending it back,? because [the merchandise is] not moving,? must, like Nike, face the business consequences of the fact that ?the public doesn?t believe [Armstrong] anymore.?

In addition to the business concerns, Morgenstein said, Nike ? like Armstrong throughout his Tour-winning years, when he assured the sporting public that his victories were achieved drug-free ? ?probably had, at some level, reassured over and over again their retail partners that there?s smoke but no fire. And so now, these retailers? they have to deal with the public rebuke of someone, for all intents and purposes, that?s no different than (Olympic medalist and drug cheat) Marion Jones.?

Armstrong, however, ?is so much bigger of a global icon, with so much more to risk,? he added. ?All these companies (that) have spent money associated with him, probably add up to be about a billion dollars.?

Companies like Nike and Trek Bicycles continued to back Armstrong, despite serious personal red flags, according to Morgenstein, pointing to ?the fact that [Armstrong] had multiple wives, they?ve overlooked a lot of things that maybe some other people would have been held to? This is a company that stuck with Kobe Bryant after what happened in Colorado (Bryant was accused of rape in 2003), Michael Vick going to jail (for illegally organizing and gambling on dog fighting), Tiger Woods in a global scandal (Woods admitted to being a serial cheater on his wife), and they stuck with those three. Lance Armstrong, they dumped.?

David Carter, a sports business professor at the University of Southern California and executive director of USC?s Sports Business Institute said Nike could no longer afford to stand by Armstrong as it had other disgraced icons.

?I think because his indiscretion cut to the very heart of competition in sport, if he lacks that kind of integrity there?s no way a company like Nike can tolerate that,? Carter said. ?The other guys? problems were off the field of play.?

As both an athlete and as a marketable brand, Morgenstein said, ?How you remember Lance Armstrong was like Paul Bunyan. And now, how you think of Lance Armstrong, is like Al Capone.?

Carter noted that a surprising number of disgraced athletes manage to rehabilitate themselves in the eyes of fans and sponsors. Armstrong might be different, not only because he was already retired from top-flight cycling when he was banned, but also because he has never admitted any wrongdoing.

?The only way they come back is when they take personal responsibility and accountability for what they?ve done,? Carter said. ?He has not taken responsibility.?

With the fallout from USADA?s case against Armstrong mounting day-by-day, the extent of the business and marketing consequences is sure to grow.

Rebecca Bryan and Agence France Presse contributed to this report.

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Source: http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/10/analysis/nike-radioshack-and-others-consider-business-and-marketing-factors-in-dropping-armstrong_261779

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West Penn countersues Highmark over broken deal | MedCity News

(Reuters) - Pennsylvania's troubled West Penn Allegheny Health System on Tuesday accused insurer Highmark Inc. of breaching a $475 million merger agreement, saying Highmark tried to force it into bankruptcy to lower debt as a condition of the planned affiliation.

The countersuit is a rebuttal to an October 1 lawsuit that Highmark filed in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas. Highmark is seeking to block West Penn from talking to other potential investors and claims that West Penn violated their contract by pulling out of the deal.

The suit by Pittsburgh-based Highmark, a top-10 U.S. health insurer, "is nothing more than an attempt to prevent West Penn Allegheny from determining what options other than? bankruptcy exist," the health care system said in court papers.

"West Penn Allegheny's demise would not only irreparably harm the health system and its employees, it would also result in great harm to the community, reducing competition and health care choice and increasing costs," it said.

The heated dispute and the abrupt end to their planned alliance caused concern among all three major credit rating agencies. On September 28, the same day the public learned of the collapsed deal, the agencies warned that they might downgrade the regional nonprofit health system.

About $737 million in outstanding municipal bond debt issued by the Allegheny County Hospital Development Authority in 2007 is affected by the rating agency actions.

West Penn comprises five hospitals and additional healthcare and research facilities. It had about $1.2 billion in unrestricted net assets as of March 31, but about $1.4 billion of total liabilities, according to Standard & Poor's Ratings Services analyst Martin Arrick.

West Penn said in court filings that it "could and would not stand still in the face of Highmark's demands to close the through a ?pre-packaged' bankruptcy filing that Highmark would control and to seek a distressed termination of its pension plans."

In response to Highmark's "unrelenting bankruptcy and debt restructuring demands," West Penn proposed a third-party joint venture and other alternatives, which Highmark rejected, West Penn said.

The health care system also claimed that Highmark "absolutely and unequivocally" was the one to reject the affiliation agreement and repeatedly told West Penn that it wouldn't consummate the transaction even if state regulators approved it.

West Penn cannot talk to other potential suitors until after a two-day hearing, scheduled to begin October 25, on Highmark's request for an injunction.

In its countersuit, West Penn asked for unspecified monetary damages. It also said that because it has lost value as it tried to meet Highmark's demands over the past year, it should be allowed to recoup the difference between any eventual sale price to another buyer and what it could have received under its agreement with Highmark.

The insurer has already provided $200 million in grants and loans to West Penn.

Highmark, which is readying for major shifts in healthcare funding under U.S. reforms by assembling an integrated health-delivery network, struck the affiliation agreement with West Penn last November.

(Reporting By Hilary Russ; Editing by Ken Wills)

Source: http://medcitynews.com/2012/10/west-penn-countersues-highmark-over-broken-deal/

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Stepdad of border guard shooter says he texted mom

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Police investigate a van at the scene of a shooting at the Blaine, Wash./Surrey, British Columbia border crossing Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in a van with Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

United States border agents work at the closed Surrey, B.C./Blaine, Wash., border crossing, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in a van with Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

Map shows Peace Arch border crossing on the US-Canada border, where a gunman wounds a border agent, kills self.

Police investigate a van, rear left, at the scene of a shooting at the Blaine, Wash./Surrey, British Columbia border crossing, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Surrey. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in the van bearing Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

Police investigate a shooting at the Blaine, Wash./Surrey, British Columbia border crossing, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Surrey. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in a van with Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

SEATTLE (AP) ? The stepfather of a motorist who police say wounded a Canadian border guard at a U.S.-Canada crossing before killing himself says the 32-year-old Seattle man texted his mother hours earlier to say he loved her ? and was sorry.

Danny Lupinek of Henderson, Nev., says Andrew Crews didn't indicate what he meant in that Tuesday text, and the family was unable to reach him after that.

Canadian investigators say Crews was driving into Canada in a van Tuesday afternoon when he shot Officer Lori Bowcock in the neck at the Peace Arch border crossing at Blaine, about 100 miles north of Seattle. He then fatally shot himself.

Police haven't discussed a motive.

Associated Press

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