Trophies News

Trophy News From Pakistan

The International Cricket Council said it could drop the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi as one of the three venues for September’s Champions Trophy.

Eliminating Rawalpindi, which adjoins the capital Islamabad, would leave all the trophy matches to be played in the southern port city of Karachi and the eastern cultural capital of Lahore.

“It is a strong possibility that we will reduce the Champions Trophy to two venues but the event will be played in Pakistan,” ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said during a visit to Rawalpindi Stadium.

Lorgat is leading a high-profile six-man ICC task force which is here to oversee security arrangements for the trophy amid threats of a boycott by some non-Asian teams.

The ICC last month decided to keep the biennial event in Pakistan despite security concerns raised by players from Australia, New Zealand, England and South Africa.

The players associations of these countries and FICA had called for a relocation of the trophy over player safety following a series of suicide bombings in Pakistan.

Local media reports said Rawalpindi stadium, where renovation work is well behind schedule, may be dropped.

Lorgat said security could not be assessed at Rawalpindi as it did not host any matches in the recent Asia Cup.

“During the Asia Cup there were no fixtures at Rawalpindi and that didn’t provide us an opportunity to check the security arrangements, so there was no way we can formulate an opinion on Rawalpindi,” Mr Lorgat said.

“We are trying to explore whether we might use only Lahore and Karachi and take a decision soon.”

The taskforce also met security officials, including senior interior ministry officials.

The suicide bombings in Pakistan prompted Australia to postpone their planned tour of the country in March.

Originally Written by the ABC News Staff

Trophy News from Los Angeles

Lauren Conrad got the remarkable chance of creating a dress for next month’s Emmy awards ceremony. The star of MTV’s reality hit “The Hills” will be designing a “couture red carpet gown” for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, the TV academy announced on Wednesday, as reported by the Associated Press.

The 22-year-old actress’ dresses will be worn by the trophy girls who carry the Emmy prizes on stage before presenters offer them to the winners, the academy said, according to the same source. Furthermore, the trophy holders also emerge on the red carpet before the beginning of the show.
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Trophy News From Los Angeles, CA

With teen queen Miley Cyrus as host, Mariah Carey performing, superstars such as Will Smith and David Beckham in attendance and surfboards as trophies, Sunday’s Teen Choice Awards at the Gibson Amphitheater at Universal Studios Hollywood was not your typical red-carpet event. In fact, the carpet was blue, and America’s teens were in control rather than industry voters.

The Jonas Brothers, who arrived in coordinating Ray-Ban sunglasses, were one of the night’s biggest winners and a fan favorite. The brothers, who picked up awards for breakout group, music single, summer song, male hottie and fashion icon, used their performance to fly over the crowd in harnesses to screaming fans.

Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively grabbed awards for drama actress and breakout star. Said Lively, who arrived at the ceremony with on- and off-screen boyfriend Penn Badgley: “It’s so surreal to me because I remember sitting home watching the Teen Choice Awards.”

While American Idol winner David Cook, 25, and runner-up David Archuleta, 17, were happy to be at the show, the Idol tour remained on their minds.

Added Cook, who snagged the male reality/variety star award: “It’s great to feel the energy of the crowd, but the hard part is being in a different city every night.”

Even though it was a sweltering summer day in Hollywood, that didn’t stop some stars from going all out with their fashion choices. Sophia Bush, in a strapless floral frock from L.A. designer Jenni Kayne, and The Hills star Lauren Conrad, in a printed strapless number she designed herself, both chose floor-length dresses for the notoriously casual evening.

“I had fun designing it, and I wanted to do something more bohemian and summery,” said Conrad, 22, who picked up the female reality/variety star award.

Originally Written by Victoria Namkung for USA Today

Trophy News From Las Vegas

Oh, for the days of expectations in public education. There was a time when attendance was an afterthought — teachers and parents demanded that students be in class every day, barring illness, and that they pay attention in class, study at home and be able to read, write and perform basic calculations with ease.

Students faced undesirable consequences at home and at school for not fulfilling their charge.

Now it’s the schools themselves that face punishment if the kids decide to play hooky. Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, poor attendance rates can get a campus designated inadequate, even if the students who actually come to class exceed academic benchmarks. That can cost schools funding.

So schools have taken steps that would have been considered disgraceful just a few generations ago — they’re offering trophies to children just for showing up. Clark County School District campuses are providing academic awards ranging from free yearbooks and prom tickets to bicycles and iPods.

Compared with some parts of the country, the valley’s schools are showing restraint. A couple of systems have offered cars to kids with perfect attendance.

“We shouldn’t have to bribe kids to come to school,” Clark County School Board Trustee Terri Janison said during a recent board meeting.

The trophies are worsening “this generation’s sense of entitlement” and absolving students and parents of their “sense of personal responsibility,” she said.

Exactly. What’s the point in rewarding a middling student with another distraction device such as an iPod?

Clark County School District brass say the goods are funded through donations, campus vending machine revenues and other student-generated fees, not tax revenue. That’s certainly appropriate.

But principals should ask themselves whether they’re sending the right message to students by providing trophies for good attendance. If schools decide to stay in the business of providing material incentives, is it too much to ask that they reward … excellence?

Originally Written in the Las Vegas Review Journal

Trophy News from England

Langley Mill Safer Neighbourhood Team has presented a trophy and book token to a group of pupils from Aldercar School for their services to the community.
The winners of the trophy were a group of children who write The Termly Times, a school newspaper featuring sport, teacher interviews, news, competitions and details of school visits.
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Trophy News From New York & Tennessee

Saturday morning was tough for the Alvarez kids, chess players from the Bronx. After two victories each on Friday, both of them, 7-year-old Evan, and his older sister, Jillian, 12, lost their third-round games at the Super National Scholastic Chess Championships here. And though both had faced higher-rated opponents, the losses were avoidable.

Evan and Jillian made the two-day trip to Knoxville with their mother, Mary, and three busloads of other Bronx children and their families.
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Trophy News From Australia

RINGWOOD’S Big V Division 2 women’s team locked up top spot on the ladder last week following a 66-46 demolition of Blackburn on Saturday night before backing-up with a 64-62 win over Keilor.

The win over Keilor last Sunday afternoon saw the Lady Hawks claim the Neighbourhood Watch trophy in what may well be a dress rehearsal for the first week of the finals.
Both teams were backing-up from a game the night before and the contest was a tough finals-like arm-wrestle from the start. Neither team was able to lead by more than six points all day while there were 18 lead-changes and scores were tied four times in a game befitting a trophy battle.
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