LONDON， March 28 (Xinhua) -- The British Basketball All-Stars Championship will take place at east London's O2 Arena on Sunday， September 24， organizers announced here on Tuesday.
Matchroom Sport， led by sports promoter Barry Hearn， in partnership with the British Basketball League， enters the fray in basketball introducing a new， entertaining take on the fast-paced game with a record-breaking 100，000 pound prize fund. Five players per team will take to the court in shorter-timed matches and other exciting innovations.
The tournament will showcase the best of British basketball talent on a grand stage at The O2 in front of the live Sky Sports cameras and will follow another new event launched by Hearn - the British All-Stars Championship netball which will take place at The O2 on Saturday， September 23.
Hearn said: "The popularity of basketball and netball is at an all-time high right now. We want to bring this right to the fore with a massive weekend at The O2. We're bringing fast-paced and exciting formats to generate non-stop action and two unmissable events.
"It's also about encouraging participation. Both sports are continuing to grow at a rapid rate and for that to continue we must encourage people young and old to get out there and try these exciting sports. We want to help with this by bringing both basketball and netball centre-stage for one huge weekend in London."
KAMPALA asics onitsuka tiger australia sale , Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Uganda is vying to host the 2018 International Cricket Council (ICC) Women Twenty20 Cricket World Cup qualifiers.
Uganda Cricket Association Chief Executive Officer, Justine Ligyalingi told Xinhua on Thursday that they have applied to the Africa Cricket Association and ICC to host the qualifiers.
"We have hosted several big international tournaments before and I think we have the capacity to host these qualifiers as well if given chance," said Ligyalingi.
Ligyalingi disclosed that although Kenya and Tanzania have also applied to host the event slated for March, he is positive Uganda will be granted the opportunity to host the event.
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The winner at the qualifiers will qualify for the next stage of the qualifiers. Uganda failed to qualify for the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 World Cup event to run in India from March 8 to April 3.
The tournament was first held in 2009, when hosts England won the tournament. The most recent champions are Australia, who won the tournament and retained the trophy in 2014.
Ligyalingi also disclosed that the Uganda team already started training under coaches Jonathan Ssebanja and Grace Mutagubya. Enditem
SHENYANG, China Asics Gel Lyte V Black Australia , Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Liaoning keep a perfect record this season as they beat visiting Shandong 100-95 for their 17th straight victory in the Chinese Basketball Association league on Wednesday.
The hosts had a 26-16 lead after the first quarter and kept a 50-38 edge at halftime.
Shandong outscored Liaoning 27-20 in the third quarter and had once narrowed the gap to two points in the fourth.
Lester Hudson scored 33 points and Guo Ailun added 19 for Liaoning while Eugene Jeter had 36 and Miroslav Raduljica contributed 19 for the Shandong, who had an unimpressive 8-9 record this season.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A research team has solved a century-old mystery involving a famous red waterfall, known as Blood Falls Asics Gel Lyte V Dust Pack Black Australia , in Antarctica, by pointing to a source of salty water.
Blood Falls, found in 1911 by the Australian geologist Griffith Taylor, is famous for its sporadic releases of iron-rich salty water from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land Asics Gel Lyte V Turquoise Black Australia , East Antarctica.
The brine turns red when the iron contacts air, a mystery since its finding.
In a study published in the Journal of Glaciology, the research team led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and Colorado College described the brine's path of 300 feet, or about 91 meters Women's Asics Gel Lyte III Raspberry Pink Australia , from beneath Taylor Glacier to the waterfall, and new evidence linking it to a large source of salty water that may have been trapped under the glacier for more than 1 million years.
The team tracked the brine with radio-echo sounding, a radar method that uses two antenna -- one to transmit electrical pulses and one to receive the signals. "We moved the antennae around the glacier in grid-like patterns so that we could 'see' what was underneath us inside the ice, kind of like a bat uses echolocation to 'see' things around it Asics Gel Lyte III Black Tan Australia ," co-author Christina Carr, a doctoral student at UAF, was quoted as saying in a news release.
"The salts in the brine made this discovery possible by amplifying contrast with the fresh glacier ice," said lead author Jessica Badgeley.
UAF glaciologist Erin Pettit said her team made another significant discovery that liquid water can persist inside an extremely cold glacier Asics Gel Lyte III PURE PACK Triple Black Australia , against previous belief among scientists that this was nearly impossible.
"While it sounds counterintuitive, water releases heat as it freezes, and that heat warms the surrounding colder ice," she explained. The heat and the lower freezing temperature of salty water make liquid movement possible. "Taylor Glacier is now the coldest known glacier to have persistently flowing water."
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