The state opposition has said that Premier Mike Baird needs to learn from the move to resign of the man with the mandate to plan the greyhound racing that is to be put off in New South Wales. The Baird government announced that it would ban greyhound racing in July after which Dr. John Keniry was assigned to take charge of the greyhound transition committee. They were to seek advice from the greyhound racing industry. This would suggest an industry package that would help them wind down.

According to ABC Mr. Baird received a resignation letter from Dr. Keniry a couple of weeks ago. The letter stated that Dr. Keniry did believe the ban was necessary. However, he has agreed to maintain his role after further clarifications with the office. According to NSW Leader of Labor; Luke Foley Mr. Baird should consider reversing the ban in greyhound racing. He added that the letter sent to the premier needs to act as a wakeup call to Baird.

There has been a deep division within the Government due to the ban in greyhound racing. There has been a lot of National MPs and Ministers who have been fighting for the Premier to abandon the policy. Dr. Keniry’s report that was issued this month is the major hope for MPs that the Government will shift their position for the ban. However, the Premier Mike Baird has remained unshaken and still says the ban is still effective on July 2017.

Mr. Foley said that Mike Baird’s decision was a major mistake and that he should do away with his pride and cancel the ban. His party is currently divided and his coalition partner in uproar has stated that Mike Baird’s decision is a bad one. The acting Premier Tony Grant did not have a lot to comment on Dr. Keniry’s letter. He added that Dr. Keniry was still continuing with his work in matters concerning the greyhound industry on a transition package.

It was a sad day for the golf world as they gathered to bid farewell to their golf king. Arnold Palmer was been laid to rest at Saint Vincent College Basilica in Latrobe, Pa. on Tuesday morning.  He died on September 25^th at the age of 87. The golf family was also present at his public memorial last week and there were also several friends and family and other famous golf players present. Arnold was well known due to his great golf career that lasted for six decades and his endearing personality.

The funeral proceedings were opened by the ceremonial honor guard for the U.S Coast Guard where Palmer served from 1950-1953. He later turned his attention to competitive golf.  The opening proceedings were led by former LPGA commissioner Charlie Mechem who was Palmer’s neighbor and lifelong friend. Mechem spoke to the congregation and declared that Palmer would not have wished for a tearful ceremony but he would have wished for people to smile.

Other speakers at Arnold’s funeral consisted of Palmer’s grandson; Sam Saunders, Cesna Chairman; Russ Meyer, Sportscaster Jim Nantz and the PGA Tour Commissioner; Tim Finchem. The LPGA legend Annika Sorenstam also gave his tribute. All had something positive to say about Arnold and he was very much recognized by the golf legends. According to Finchem, Palmer was a sporting pioneer who transformed the game for various future generations in the world of golf. He said that even though Arnold was gone he would forever be remembered.

His friend and rival, Jack Nicklaus said that Palmer was his mentor and they were rivals in almost everything. However, they always had each other’s backs. He added that Palmer touched his life in major ways. His grandson said he had so much memories of his grandpa especially in Latrobe. Saunders said that he watched him play golf and also watched him ride sleds down the hill. He also enjoyed watching him at home in his cutoff pants.

Express Newspapers consisting of Northern and Shell UK news publishers have partnered with industry content and platform provider Gaming Realms. They have agreed to have a social games and real-money collaboration with the provider. Two new online gambling sites; Express Wins and Star Wins will be launched by the Express Newspapers’, Daily Star and Daily Express. This report was given by Gaming Realms officials who confirmed the partnership.
Bear Group, Gaming Realms’ real money gaming division will provide the UK gaming websites. They will as well maintain and operate Express Newspaper gambling entities. There will be advertisement that will be supported across all media networks by the Express Newspapers’ print and digital entities. The Gaming Realms governing officials said that the partnership would run for a minimum period of three years. This will be on a revenue share agreement basis. Patrick Southton the CEO of Gaming Realms commented on the agreement.

He said that it was a very good idea for the Group to sign the deal with renowned UK newspaper businesses. He added that the partnership would unlock a very important source of revenue and also increase chances of future partnership deals. This would happen if the collaboration with Express Newspapers was successful. This came shortly after Gaming Realms Plc operator entered into a partnership with Ayima specialist agency which is known for digital marketing.

This partnership will see Gaming Realms give control of media performance and buying marketing of QuickThink Media Limited to Ayima. With this partnership, Ayima will be shown to act as the leading online marketing agency. They will also act as player acquisition agencies for Gaming Realms brands and assets. Gaming Realms will have control of about 10%in terms of shares.

Digitain which is a multi-channel provider has partnered with Mediatech solutions. In the deal the platform will be able to provide the best sportsbook platform solution to Mediatech platform. Mediatech will be able to integrate Digitain’s product into its Omni-channel platform, IRIS. This will be part of the agreed partnership. Land based and online casino operators will benefit from the partnership.

There are a number of benefits that comes with Digitain’s sportsbook product. This includes over 7,500 leagues, and various odds on 65 different sports and over 3,000 betting markets. The online platform also covers 26,000 live events each month. Digitian is also a multi-lingual and multi-currency platform. There is a seamless API integration that allows it to be plugged into any platform. This also allows for a full use of wagering bonuses and various cash-out functions for in-play and pre-match systems.

The platform company also uses an in-house developed algorithms and tools and is able to employ over 300 traders who make use of this proprietary platform. The team of employees is well experienced and is able to manage every partner individually. They do this in conjunction with their liquidity, liabilities and player categorization. The CEO at Digitian, Suren Khachatryan said that the partnership was something worth it and it would benefit operators willing to try out their innovative sportsbook.

He also added that the mutual offer between IRIS platform and Digitain would benefit small online businesses. The offer is beneficial to other big companies that wish to outsource their sportsbook and software development teams to various professionals. This will help them focus on client acquisition, retention and marketing. The CEO and founder of Mediatech solutions, Jessica Ordovas added that the various operators know how to adopt an omni-channel strategy but they do not know how to do this.

She also added that they had very high hopes with Digitain sportsbook and they were sure that it would help them achieve the seamless transition between online and land based gambling.

The USA is ranked among the best in the basketball world. Sunday’s Olympic gold medal game against Serbia proved this right. This was made possible by Kevin Durant who is a well-known basketball player.  He managed to put the game away single-handedly and also scored 30 points.  USA team came close to losing the game but managed to win by 10 points or less in all their eight games. The USA basketball team was in competition with Australia, Serbia and Spain. The US had a very poor organization in terms of its defenders but Mike Krzyzewski who is their head coach managed to change this before the quarterfinals. Players like Andre Iguodala or Paul George are required to complement the guys who can score for the team.

Only teams that travelled through the U.S. on their way to Rio were able to play the game. This was after they fell victim to an exhibition schedule that was too easy. There is nothing that can be gathered from the U.S. team in the last 5 weeks even if they have so much talent. Teams that were not used to playing with one another have been playing their first elimination game less than a month after they began training. Two players from the U.S were back from the last Olympic team including four from the team that won the World Cup of Basketball in 2014. In 2014 Serbia’s team lost to the U.S. but the nine players returned to play in the Olympics this season.

The USA basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo has concerns about his team since they do not have enough time to prepare for the games. His major concern is that there are ten new players in the team but very inadequate time for them to prepare themselves. In this year’s Olympic there were two important basketball players; one was Durant and the other Carmelo Anthony who won three Olympic gold medals. The final games between Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker had their national team members in uniforms. There were 46 NBA players available in this year’s Olympics. This time round the US team which consisted of 12 members gave it their best and did not give up. They managed to go home with gold.

Anthony was satisfied that the US team won despite the difficulties the team members experienced in the game.  He finished by saying that he was confident enough that his team would win even though the journey was not as easy as he thought.