Honda sold its Formula 1 racing team

Tokyo - Honda can participate in the Formula 1 season 2009. On Friday it became known: the former team boss Ross Brawn has bought the ailing racing.
The past few months warenextrem challenging for the team, but today's announcement istdas very gratifying result of our vigorous efforts zurSicherung its future, "said Brawn in a statement.
The resident inGroßbritannien Honda GP Holdings Ltd, which had all the activity analysis, F1 racing team-managed, sold all the shares anBrawn, who renamed his racing team in Brawn Grand Prix Formula One team.
   Since December verkündetenAusstieg given the economic crisis of Honda fought ansässigeRennstall Brackley in the English to survive.
"We are very pleased that we were able to sell the team anRoss Brawn, with which we took part in the challenge of F1-end competition, and are grateful for seineEntscheidung," said Hiroshi Oshima, in Japan zweitgrößtemAutokonzern responsible for motor sport. Honda wish the neuenTeam under Brawn leadership all the best.
   Brawn announced that he gave at the recent drivers, demBriten Jenson Button and Brazilian Rubens Barrichellofesthalte. They should go to the season opening Grand Prix in Australia later this month at the start.

1:0-Victory! Hertha Berlin in the K.o. Round

Berlin --
On his substitution in the 86th Hertha's match-winner minutes lifted his hands in the Berlin night sky, applauded the Magerkulisse of barely 15,000 fans, and then trotted satisfied with the blue tartan track direction of the cable.
Gojko Kacar found the 1:0-Correct Score against Sporting Lisbon by Friedhelm Funkel coached Bundesliga bottom brought bitterly cold at minus three degrees in the Olympic Stadium in the next round of the Euro League.
Soccer-Germany, however, laughs in the middle of winter, yet the sun. Hertha leaves sparkle euro balance sheet! For at last surviving representatives of all six Bundesliga games this year, can make the New Year's champagne corks popping and are more internationally in 2010 at the start.
The Bayern and Stuttgart in the Champions League first knockout round. Wolfsburg, Werder, HSV, and the chief of city dwellers in the Europe league - but the Premiership football is the last big stage next season, probably as a second-division probably can follow only with nostalgic feelings ...
The first home victory after 130 days (!) Shone against the 18-mer Portuguese champions Sporting are not. "It's clear to see that confidence is not there. The boys are blocked, "said the captain Arne Friedrich horror kick.
Hertha who took without the League preserved for the captain, the suspended Brazilian Rafael, Patrick Ebert (intestinal flu), managed by Kacar (70.) in a weak and well-balanced game after a Nicu edge of the hip after all The golden hits.
"The goal from Gojko has redeemed us all. After the first three games, as we stood there with a point, has probably no more expected that we reach the second round. But we have accomplished this with three wins in a row, even on their own, "enthused scintillating.
The move into the Round of 32 washes around one million euros in the Hertha checkout.

Coma after polo accident - brain hemorrhage!

Willich --
The "Rhein Polo Club in Willich - again will be the largest polo club in NRW hit by a serious accident. President and advertising icon Bernd M. Michael is after a serious sports injury in an artificial coma.
Germany's advertising world is worried about one of its biggest stars.
Only in June this year, a fire was the Polo Club, in ruins laid. When trying to save the horses and burned the 64-year-old servant Jacob Christ.
A sad club president Bernd M. Michael then for the Express: "That's bad, but we will not be browbeaten. We will carry on, even turning our traditional "Silvercup" out in September. "
The games Cup now got around this weekend on the grounds of Hülskendonkhofes. Michael is not only President of the club - the 67-year-old is also an active leader of the "SMP" - (Bernd M. Michael) teams.
On the first day of the tournament happened. During the fight for the ball and buried his horse fell under him Michael.
It suffered an experienced polo player (playing for over 30 years) a cerebral hemorrhage. With a rescue helicopter, he was flown to the Hospital of Cologne-Neurochirugische Merheim. There he is now operated on and placed in an artificial coma was.
Bernd M. Michael is considered one of the most respected advertising professionals in Europe. Until 2006 he was a shareholder and chairman of the top agency Gray (6600 employees). Since 2008, the President of the German Marketing Association Düsseldorf. In the same year he became Exempt into the Hall of Fame of German advertising.

Franjo: "I've never been in a brothel"

Dusseldorf - As advertising icon Verona Pooth can be happy:
Her husband Franjo protested on Thursday in court: "I've never been in a brothel. Either alone or with others. "And he not been playing well.
Probing questions had to face up to the entrepreneur. As a witness against the convicted fraudster, Hans-Albert H. (58). He had then promised to arrange for an award of 250,000 euros a U.S. investor group for battered Franjo company "Maxfield" - so the charge.
"It sounded so reasonable," said Franjo. Then Judge Klaus Buhlmann came to the spicy part of the statement. Hans-Albert H. fact should have also tried to blackmail the city savings bank with shots of brothel visits of the Executive Board. Also Pooth should have been here. But the waving, smiling. And relations with the Mafia? Franjo: "These are all fantasies," Even a poker game in the 17th Floor of the bank had not given it.
Thus Franjo was thus again left the court. This time around the house jail. Outrage in the legal profession, because of the celebrity husband, there were extra sausages! A car park in the garage of the court was specially kept open for him. Franjo had parked there, with his lawyer in the last week. This time we drove straight into one of the courtyards of the court. An Advocate: "A scandal, dealing here with celebrities such as justice."

Torkrake Stojanovic holds victory

Cologne - It rocks back in the Cologne Arena. Even if it is just before a negative backdrop. VfL Gummersbach regained its heart and inspired the great fight against Celje also in 34:32 (14:13) against the giants from Nordhorn the 2957 handball fans, who had found their way into the great Cologne Arena.
Spine-tingling atmosphere, most thrilling sports - until the final victory Sekunde.Den held Goran Stojanovic. Again. The Montenegrin Torkrake kept free of his rump force her back and lets the opponent rows despair.
Besides Gudjon Sigurdsson was missing, as expected, Momir Ilic. Bitter: The Serb is also on Saturday (15 clock, Cologne Arena) against Lemgo not be used. "I need two to three weeks break."
But they've got Stojanovic. Already after 15 minutes of ice-cold keeper had with the Monster Parade highlights ten o'clock in the account. "He is really in the best form. That was world class, "praised coach Alfred Gislason. Stojanovic: "We had set ourselves very much. I am happy that this has now worked out. "
But the FC took advantage of the opportunities offered rare. In the middle of the second half seemed to have decided the match (26:21), as the guests fought their way up into outnumbered on two hits. Nine minutes from time was the lead on a goal geschrumpft.Aber compensated for the lack of class Oberbergisher with courage and passion, and braced themselves against the threat of bankruptcy.
Toll: Robert Gunnarsson with his spectacular goals at the district and Vedran Zrnic with dream-action from the sidelines - the two met with eight hits most often.
Nevertheless, it became a thriller. Nordhorn at 33:32 in the majority in possession. Countered in the final minute of the now Keeper Nandor Fazekas substitute against Goran Sprem and prevented the impending balance before eleven seconds before the finish on the lid was Roman Pungartnik: 34:32 - the FC collected the much-needed home success.