• 02Aug

    The News Review:

    - Payoffs drugs and wholesale cheating are now the norm in all major…
    - RU: Sharks to probe Taione conduct
    - Kitching turns up heat to grab Scratch Cup.
    - NeoMedia’s Sponge Chosen for Coca-Cola’s New Sales Staff…

    Payoffs drugs and wholesale cheating are now the norm in all major…
    Taipei Times – Taipei Times – Aug 2, 2006
    Years ago “professional foul” became an almost an admiring phrase implying that the only thing that matters is what you can get away with. And that is now true in rugby as well as soccer. In the 2002 Heineken Cup Final Munster lost to Leicester. The Irish side might have scored in the dying minutes but for Neil Back using his hand to knock down the ball being fed by the Munster scrum-half Peter Stringer an incident about which Anthony Foley of Munster later said: “We’ve never blamed the result on Neil Back. The Leicester team of that era had a very ruthless and dominant streak that under no circumstances were they going to lose. You’ve got to credit them for that.

    RU: Sharks to probe Taione conduct
    Manchester nline – Manchester nline – Aug 2, 2006
    The Tonga international admitted biting Munster’s Denis Leamy in a Heineken Cup tie last month risking a two-year suspension from the European Rugby Cup (ERC) panel. As it is he will miss the rest of the season and will not be free to play again until Monday June 12. Sale chief executive Niels de Vos said: “Sale Sharks actually began our own internal hearing immediately after we received the report of the independent citing commissioner but we suspended the process pending the conclusion of the ERC hearing held in London on Monday. “In light of the findings of the ERC panel and of the evidence presented at that hearing the club will now recommence its own internal process to establish what further action if any will be appropriate for the club to take.

    Kitching turns up heat to grab Scratch Cup.
    Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 2, 2006
    Kitching turns up heat to grab Scratch Cup. (02-AUG-06) Europe Intelligence Wire. Kitching’s 65 included an eagle four birdi.

    NeoMedia’s Sponge Chosen for Coca-Cola’s New Sales Staff…
    Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 2, 2006
    & LNDN — Keeping your staff motivated is one of the biggest challenges faced by many companies. So when Coca-Cola decided to test a new staff sales incentive program it turned to agency BD-NTWK supported by Sponge a NeoMedia Technologies Inc. (TC BB: NEM) company who together had already shown such success with their fountain sales World Cup trade promotion. The project that BD-NTWK created called “Kickback” is an internal sales promotion for Coca-Cola. CPYRIGHT 2006 Business Wire.

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