Interviews

Dec 05, 2009 16:12
sportzpower

INTO its seventh edition, the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon is growing year-on-year with sponsors fully backing the property and the number of participants increasing consistently. 

Procam International has been the promoter of SCMM alongwith two other distance running properties - Airtel Delhi Half Marathon and Sunfeast Bangalore 10k Run. Pertinently, all three properties were recently honored with the IAAF Gold Label.

Dec 31, 2008 13:12
sportzpower

Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Kumar Modi is the man who saw tomorrow. Credited with putting together one of the world's most lucrative sports franchises, the idea of a world class cricket league began germinating as far back as 1994 in Modi's head. By his own admission, Modi began work on an IPL type of league when he partnered ESPN in 1994 to launch the sports channel in the country. Scion of a prominent business family, Modi wanted to see convergence of sports and commerce in the country.
 

Dec 08, 2008 21:12
sportzpower

WINNER OF NINE ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) titles, including two singles, a pin-up boy of Australian tennis in the 1980s, commentator, and now a successful entrepreneur and administrator for the game which made him famous, Brad Drewett has seen it all, from every side of the court. The CEO of the ATP’s International Group, Drewett has been responsible for bringing the Master’s Cup, the tennis season’s climax, to China.