Gaelic Athletic Association side Monaghan captain Conor McManus believes that the newly formed Club Players Association "should not engage in strike action." McManus "happens to be closely aligned to Declan Brennan, the founder and secretary of the CPA," the organization set up over the winter to "fix the fixtures." McManus said, "Everyone is aware that there are issues there with the fixtures. I’m assuming everybody is in the one boat in terms of getting a solution to it all, so the CPA can only help that along. Everybody is in agreement what needs to be done with the calendar. The solution is fairly simple: just tighten up the county schedule and away you go" (LONDON TIMES, 1/11).
Super Fight League, India’s first MMA league, created by British boxer Amir Khan and businessman Bill Dosanjh, announced the owners of its eight franchises. The owners and teams are Aditya Munjal from Hero Cycles (Delhi Heroes), Amit Burman from Dabur (Mumbai Maniacs), Keshav Bansal from Intex Technologies (Gujarat Warriors), Achin Kochar from VI-John (Sher-e-Punjab), Shreeram Suresh and Vinodini Suresh from 8K Miles Media (Bengaluru Yoddha), Jaskaran Punihani and Navraj Jaura from the Jaura Group, Deepak Saluja and Pramod Sharma from UV Media (UP Nawabs), Kanav Parwal from SPA Capital and Raahil Bhatia from Belmaks Group (Haryana Sultans) and Preeti Mahapatra from Mahapatra Universal (Goa Pirates) (ASIA SPONSORSHIP NEWS, 1/10).
Rwanda's National Basketball Federation (FERWABA) confirmed that its new academy will be inaugurated on Jan. 23. Thirty players from high schools around the nation were screened and selected in Musanze district, Northern Province, on Sunday for the first three-year intake program (ALL AFRICA, 1/11).
MotoGP confirmed that more than €12,000 was donated to the Cruz Roja Española, which will transfer the donation to Italy's Croce Rossa, as a result of the MotoGP community's fundraising efforts, in support of the victims of the earthquakes in central Italy last August. MotoGP began a campaign in Silverstone ahead of the British GP to encourage the sale of charity t-shirts with all proceeds being donated to the Red Cross in Italy, to help victims rebuild their homes and lives (MotoGP).
