English Cricket Teams Offered Cash Reward for Home-Grown Talent
The News Review:
- English Cricket Teams Offered Cash Reward for Home-Grown Talent
- Uefa expected to approve rules on youngsters
- ESPN’s Narrowing World Of Sports
- Hard facts on the cost of leaving talent buried
English Cricket Teams Offered Cash Reward for Home-Grown Talent
Bloomberg – Apr 19, 2005
By December 2009, a quarter of the annual payment to eachcounty — currently 1. 3 million pounds ($2. 5 million) — will beperformance-related, with extra money going to clubs that nurturehome-grown talent. The London-based England & Wales Cricket Boardwill also streamline its management and set up a development squadof 25 players from which the national team will be picked. “It's important that you focus on the job that you're given,trying to win the game that you're playing in or the series you'replaying in,'' England captain Michael Vaughan said in a statementtoday. “But you've also got to have an eye on the future and it'sgreat that this plan has got that eye on the future. '' The board, led by Chief Executive David Collier, wantscounties to produce more than 30 homegrown batsmen who can averagemore than 45 runs per innings in first-class cricket and 25 bowlerswho claim over 40 first-class wickets per year.
Uefa expected to approve rules on youngsters
Independent Online – Apr 19, 2005
The plan, first mooted last summer, is due to take effect at the start of the 2006-07 season and is designed to promote the number of young players either developed by a club or in that club’s country being included in the first-team squad of Europe’s top teams. The process has involved many in football as well as European Union politicians and lawyers. “In many governments and institutions, politicians and officials have recognised Uefa’s concerns and support the new plans.
ESPN’s Narrowing World Of Sports
Forbes – Apr 19, 2005
But advertisers are eager to reach the masses in a fell swoop, which NFL broadcasts allow them to do. For ABC, turning the lights out on Monday Night Football means abandoning a 25-year tradition spanning from Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell to John Madden. Unlike Jackson and Cosell, however, Madden was not a home-grown talent, having worked as a commentator for CBS and News Corp.
Hard facts on the cost of leaving talent buried
Christian Science Monitor – Apr 19, 2005
Private schools don’t all have the luxury of need-blind aid that top schools enjoy, but merit awards should be used judiciously there too, they suggest, to maintain enough resources for needs-based aid. American higher education couldn’t have come this far without the “massive base of college-eligible students” that started to build by the early 1900s. Organized efforts to broaden that base need to continue, the authors conclude, not only because it will improve individuals’ prospects for lifetime earnings, but also because the technology-centered economy needs more home-grown human capital. Teicher is on the Monitor staff.