New home-grown drama wins ratings
The News Review:
- New home-grown drama wins ratings
- Old Communist brands don’t die, they go ‘retro’
- Duhatschek: IIHF report findings are indisputable
- WINNING WITH GHOSTS AND UNLIKELY HEROES
- Hamilton opts to wear the thistle over rose
New home-grown drama wins ratings
The Age – Oct 26, 2006
23 million and Seven’sForensic Investigators averaged 1. 12 million viewersnationally. Tripping Over ranked fourth overall last night, behindSeven’s news (1. 33 million) and Home and Away (1. With a cast including Lisa McCune, Rebecca Gibney and DanielMacPherson, Tripping Over follows a bunch of enthusiasticyoung travellers from Australia and Britain. Made by the creators of SeaChange and ColdFeet, the program was filmed in London, Sydney, Bangkok andMelbourne.
Old Communist brands don’t die, they go ‘retro’
International Herald Tribune – Oct 26, 2006
“These are Hungarian brands, which makes us feel that they are our own and no one can copy them,” Markovich said. The new appetite for home-grown food, drinks and clothing labels that were ignored after the Berlin Wall crumbled is not based on price. Tisza Cipo sneakers sell for as much as $100 in their own chic stores in central Budapest, and the leather-soled shoes are now considered an up-market product. Eva Molnar, 34, a journalist at a Web site in Budapest, was prompted by childhood memories to snap up a pair of Tiszas last year for about 20,000 forint, or $93. “Tisza shoes were not cool when the Communists were still in charge, but now they are cooler than any other brand,” she said. At the Traubi soda factory in the village of Balatonvilagos, about 100 kilometers, or 60 miles, from Budapest, machinery that has not changed since the 1970s churns out 80,000 bottles of grape soda daily.
Duhatschek: IIHF report findings are indisputable
Globe and Mail – Oct 26, 2006
Often, these players can help a junior team win, but for every Marian Hossa that hones his skills in Canadian major junior and goes on to have a stellar NHL career, there is a Denis Shvidki or Ivan Novoseltsev who doesn’t. And in Hossa’s case (53 games for Portland of the WHL before jumping right to Ottawa) or in Ales Hemsky’s (two seasons for the Hull Olympiques before jumping to Edmonton), there is a pretty good chance they’d be NHLers anyway, even if they’d spent their formative years in Slovakia or the Czech Republic respectively. The study’s most controversial conclusion is that European content should shrink in the NHL by about 10 per cent overall, thus making leagues in Europe stronger at the same time as providing more pro jobs for home-grown talent on this side of the Atlantic too. About the only quarrel with the Szemberg’s report is not so much in his findings, which are indisputable, but in the obvious difficulty of projecting which middle-of-the-road European players might make a smooth transition to the NHL and which can’t. Often, success hinges less on their talent levels and more on their willingness to absorb a new culture — on that basis, the adjustment process can cut both ways. Remember how much trouble Bryan McCabe had playing for the Swedish club team HV71 during the lockout? There wasn’t a single defenceman on that roster that could remotely challenge McCabe’s place in the Maple Leaf line-up, but on the larger ice, playing the system demanded by that team, he struggled — and once, was a healthy scratch. Did McCabe suddenly lose his ability to play? No, it’s just different things were expected from him overseas than in the NHL.
WINNING WITH GHOSTS AND UNLIKELY HEROES
New York Post – Oct 27, 2006
LOUIS – Sure, you can try to build a World Series champion the conventional way – by developing a bundle of home-grown stars, by trading for a few others, by having a reliable gaggle of role players, by adding on a key veteran here and a precocious kid there. You can win yourself 98 or 99 games in the regular season, then gather steam in October and cruise on in from there. You can do it that way. But really, where's the fun in that? Why not do it the way the Cardinals have done it this year, in a season in which they've had two losing streaks of eight games and another of seven, when they tried to boot the '64 Phillies clear out of the register of dubious baseball achievements? The Cardinals looked like the worst team in baseball during huge swatches of September. And now they're nine innings away from a title.
Hamilton opts to wear the thistle over rose
Telegraph.co.uk – Oct 26, 2006
When he turned down Andy Robinson and Rob Andrew I was convinced he wanted to join the party. Hamilton is one of only four players in the squad attached to clubs outside Scotland, while Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Borders have all put in impressive performances in the Magners League and at European level recently. Hadden, who confirmed that Sale flanker Jason White would continue as Scotland captain for the autumn games against Romania, the Pacific Islands and Australia, said back-rowers Allister Hogg and Simon Taylor were recovering well from recent injuries.