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TOMMY HILL UP FOR A THREE RACE WEEKEND AT OULTON PARK

Tommy Hill heads to Oulton Park with the Swan Yamaha team this Bank Holiday weekend, with a busy race three race schedule for the third round of the 2012 MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship.

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Ollie Hynd and Charlotte Henshaw named on GB lists for London 2012 Paralympic Swimming Team

Nova Centurion swimmers Ollie Hynd and Charlotte Henshaw were this week named on the lists put forward for the Great Britain Paralympic Swimming Team at London 2012 after putting in world class performances at Paralympic swimming trials.

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Blogvent Day 13 – The 13 Founding Rules of Basketball

Blogvent Day 13 – The 13 Founding Rules of Basketball

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For those who regularly peruse the excellent Business of Sport section of the BBC website may have seen the story over the weekend about a sports item that generated a record-breaking $4.3m at Sotheby’s. It is a nice item for day 13 of our blogvent calendar.

What sport could raise such an incredible sum of money, though? Football, surely? No? Formula One, perhaps? Something from the Olympics? Well that’s closer but in fact the item in question was a 119-year-old piece of paper outlining the original 13-point rules for basketball and has immediately become the most expensive piece of sporting memorabilia in history.

As detailed by the BBC story, the 13 rules detailed the foundations of basketball and were drawn up in 1891 by Canadian founder James Naismith and pinned to a gym bulletin board. The “Founding Rules of Basketball” has now usurped the previous top auction item which was set in 1999 for the baseball hit by Mark McGwire when breaking the single-season home run record in 1998. That went for a paltry $3m. Peanuts!

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