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Adidas shareholders took aim at the management of the German sportswear company on Thursday, not convinced a new strategy would be enough to challenge the dominance of rival Nike . “Adidas is panting behind the competition. Adidas lost the race, at least in 2014,” Gerhard Jaeger, spokesman for the SdK investor association, told the firm’s annual shareholder meeting in the southern town of Fuerth. Long-serving Chief Executive Herbert Hainer, who
By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Sim Bhullar knows it is going to be a tall order but the first NBA player of Indian descent believes that, like Yao Ming in China, he can trigger basketball frenzy in the country his parents left before he was born. Former Houston Rockets center Yao, an eight-time All-Star, triggered NBA-mania in China after being selected first overall in the 2002 draft and
-The BMW M3 is a true performance icon. A weaponized version of the regular 3-series on which it is based, it gets its own development code (F80) and its own name. On the road, the effort pays off. But the competition doesn’t sleep. Since the current M3 debuted, Daimler has launched its all-new Mercedes-AMG C63, and Cadillac is taking on BMW directly with the ATS-V. Both cars are incredible machines,
Cleveland superstar LeBron James scored 33 points to lead the Cavaliers to a 106-91 victory over Chicago that knotted their NBA playoff series at one game apiece. After connecting on just nine of 22 shots in Monday’s 99-92 game-one defeat, James came out hot against the Bulls. He scored 22 points in the first half as the Cavs bounced back to even the best-of-seven Eastern Conference second-round series before it
– The BMW 3-series was for many years the benchmark of the sports-sedan segment but a revitalized competitive set sees the current version in desperate need of an update. The newly redesigned Mercedes-Benz C-class has turned into a formidable competitor, the Cadillac ATS boasts better driving dynamics, and the Audi A4 is about to be completely overhauled on a new architecture later this year. Meanwhile, BMW’s 3-series has lost some
(The Sports Xchange) – Dwight Howard carried them early and James Harden took over in the fourth quarter as the Houston Rockets rallied past the Los Angeles Clippers for a 115-109 win on Wednesday to tie up their Western Conference semi-final series at 1-1. The Rockets also drained 42-of-64 free throws as they made regular trips to the charity stripe. Clippers forward Blake Griffin scored 34 points and grabbed 15
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–What It Is: Exclusive spy photos of the latest version of Honda’s perennial Car and Driver 10Best Cars–winning family sedan, caught completely undisguised and in multiple trim levels: four-cylinder Sport, V-6, and V-6 Touring. The hybrid and plug-in-hybrid models weren’t in attendance, so we’re not sure what updates they will receive for 2016. READ MORE ›› –
By Andrew MacAskill and Douglas Busvine DHUNCHE, Nepal (Reuters) – It was three foreign trekkers who used their satellite telephone to call the rescue helicopter that landed in Nepal’s Langtang Valley around midday on Tuesday, April 28. They then led the uninjured foreign trekkers out of the aircraft and carried injured Nepalis aboard, including a toddler with broken legs, at a rescue in another village, Kyanjin Gompa. “Most helicopters were
