England & Wales Cricket Board Chair Colin Graves "has been accused of a conflict of interest as a rift over the future structure of the domestic game deepens."
The Graves Family Trust is owed more than £18M ($22M) by Yorkshire, and, after frustration that Yorkshire benefited from the recent sanctions against relegated Durham, counties "have raised further concerns about Graves’s involvement in the awarding of international matches after 2019." One county CEO said, "It is becoming increasingly obvious that his position is untenable, and things will only get worse when they start to decide on who gets what international cricket post-2019." The ECB "has yet to announce the allocations for major international matches, beyond 2019." Another senior figure in the county game said, "It is suspected that this is because any favourable allocation to Yorkshire would ignite the conflict of interest story and disunite the Test match grounds" (London TELEGRAPH, 10/22).
The NBA announced the return of the NBA Digital Exhibition presented by Samsung, a multimedia exhibition in Milan, Italy devoted to the NBA. The free exhibition, which successfully debuted last year, will run from Nov. 16-Dec. 4 within Milan's Samsung District in via Mike Bongiorno 9 (Porta Nuova). The NBA Digital Exhibition will once again be curated by theatre director and actor Massimiliano Finazzer Flory. The exhibition, which attracted more than 15,000 fans in its inaugural year, will feature appearances by an NBA legend and a dedicated multimedia campaign led by Samsung. Fans will be immersed in technology within Samsung's Smart Home series, including Samsung Gear VR devices featuring NBA-themed VR content (NBA).
