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reported that Jon Bon Jovi and Peyton Manning were monitoring the Tennessee
Titans ownership situation, leading to speculation they were looking to purchase
the Nashville-based team. That prompted Titans acting owner, Amy Adams Strunk to
say the team is not for sale.On Wednesday, Jon Bon Jovi sat down with The
Associated Press to set the record straight.Let me dispel the rumors right now,
he said with a laugh. I wake up to these headlines with my name on them and
theyre just not true. I want to make it perfectly clear that the team is not for
sale, nor has it ever been, and I respect and admire (late franchise founder)
Bud Adams legacy. End of story, I wish them all the success in the world.He
added: You wake up to that and youre, Wait a minute. I dont want to upset
anybody. I didnt do anything.While the New Jersey rocker hopes to add NFL owner
to his resume one day, its not happening yet.I love the NFL, and I did in fact
try to buy the Buffalo Bills, but this has nothing to do with that. All Im doing
-- Im in the music business. End of story.
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for another score, and led No. At first, the 18th-century fortress island of
Suomenlinna, just off the coast of Helsinki, Finland, seems an unlikely location
for a cricket match. Certainly, the tourists are baffled, as they look down upon
us from the grass-covered battlements above. So too do the army cadets doing
laps of our makeshift ground. However, it was the presence of fortifications
such as Suomenlinna that first brought Finland to the attention of the British
navy. And where the navy went, cricket came too.I moved to Finland in 2014, and
found, to my surprise, that cricket was thriving. Most cricketers here come
originally from India or Pakistan but there are players from every Test-playing
nation, as well as from many others, including Switzerland, Germany,
Afghanistan, Nepal, and, of course, Finland. Empire Cricket Club, who Ive been
playing for regularly, contains an especially diverse mix. Members include
students and software developers, researchers and scientists, a restaurateur, a
theatre producer, and a former Navy commander with a passion for contemporary
dance.Recently, Nicholas Hogg wrote beautifully about how cricket can provide a
home for the homeless, a new family for refugees. That is certainly true in
Finland. One player here - who asked not to be named - left his native Pakistan
due to death threats following his campaigns for womens rights. After 20 days in
Russia and three months in a refugee camp, he is once again relishing the chance
to bowl fast and drill near yorkers over long-on. I was not aware there was such
a great cricket community here, he told me. Ive been able to meet people from so
many different cultures.The game does more than just the game, explains Jo
Hadley, chairman of Empire CC. It was this that first drew Hadley, a retired UK
policeman, to cricket. He had never been interested in any sport until moving to
Finland in 2002 to complete a doctorate in sociology. He is now one of those
selflessly dedicated figures at the heart of so many small cricket clubs.
Somewhere in a Finnish suburb are these people dressed in white playing a
quintessentially English game, he says. I was attracted to that poetry.Hadley
contrasts cricket to the example of pes?pallo, a Finnish version of baseball
invented by eugenics-championing fascist Lauri Pihkala, and promoted from above
after the rights victory in Finlands 1918 civil war. Crickets growth, by
contrast, has been an organic one fuelled by immigration - a journey from the
periphery towards the centre. I see cricket as the sporting expression of
multicultural Finland, says Hadley.But both pes?pallo and cricket have been
encouraged by the military at various times. The Suomenlinna match, known as the
Viapori Cup, is a legacy of a time when a few cricket-mad Finnish naval officers
organised cricket games to build team spirit among cadets. Contested since the
early 2000s, the Viapori Cup is now a very relaxed affair.Much of the cricket
played here is far more competitive. Credit for its organisation should go to
the Finnish Cricket Association (FCA), founded by Andrew Armitage in 1999 and
approved by the ICC the following year. I wanted to see cricket here develop
into something more than just the occasional match, says Armitage, a former
banker who moved here with his Finnish wife in 1988. I wanted us to get better
organised - it was something I was passionate about.The FCA has certainly
succeeded. Today, there are 30 registered clubs, mostly in the south of the
country, and around 600 licenced players. Cricket here is sponsored by Hardys
Wine (just like the England cricket team) and the FCA has kit deals with
MKK-Newbery. In the summer, there are leagues for both 40-over cricket and
Twenty20. In Finlands long, dark winters, cricket moves indoors. Outside of the
FCA structure, there are popular tape-ball leagues as well as one-off games like
the Viapori Cup or Cinders - an annual two-innings contest between Empire and
Stadin Krikettikerho (SKK).The FCAs major triumph has been the opening of a new
purpose-built cricket ground in Kerava, 25 minutes north of Helsinki. The ground
was officially opened in June 2014, in the presence of Mike Brearley, Lord
Mervyn King, and various Finnish dignitaries. Given that most matches in Finland
are played on gravel outfields (many of Finlands sports grounds are converted
into ice rinks come winter), playing on the grass at Kerava feels like a serious
luxury. This summer, the ground played host to the first Nordic-Baltic
tournament between Finland, Sweden and Estonia.But how did cricket get here in
the first place? In 2015, Wisdens short overview of cricket in Finland includes
no mention of anything before 1952, when a visiting team from the Agincourt, a
Royal Navy destroyer, decided that a spot of cricket at Helsinkis new stadium
woulld be a perfect way to mark the Olympic Games.dddddddddddd But there is
evidence that cricket was played in Finland almost 100 years earlier. Tony
Lurcocks delightful No Particular Hurry: British travellers in Finland 1830-1917
- the second of a three-volume compendium - contains several accounts of cricket
played here as far back as the 1850s.It was during this period that Britain and
France united against Russia in the Crimean War. In the UK at least, the Crimean
is now best known for the charge of Light Brigade, and the Baltic theatre has
been largely forgotten. Not so here. Finland had been taken from Sweden by
Russia in 1809 and remained a Grand Duchy when the British navy sailed into the
Baltic Sea. But with the Russian navy sheltering in their base at Kronstadt,
there wasnt much fighting to be done. So when the British sailors were not
raiding Finnish coastal settlements (many seemed unable to grasp the fact that
Finland was not the enemy but effectively an occupied nation), they contented
themselves with playing cricket on the islands. Lurcock finds examples of
cricket in the writings of William Gerard Don, a ships doctor, and Rev Robert
Edgar Hughes, both of whom were in the Baltic in 1854-55. Picnic and cricket
parties were frequent, writes Hughes, and the lonely rocks were made to ring
with the sound of French and English laughter.There is one further
cricket-related oddity. In August 1854, under public pressure to be seen to be
doing something, the British fleet did destroy the fortress of Bomarsund on the
?land islands between Sweden and Finland. Lurcock notes that the bombardment
gave its name, rather bizarrely, to a village in Northumberland. In 1974,
Bomarsund won the UKs National Village Cricket Championship.After unsuccessfully
bombarding Suomenlinna (Im tempted to draw a comparison with my own, ahem,
explosive legbreaks) the British fleet returned home. Thereafter, incidences of
cricket matches in Finland are sporadic. Lurcock tells of Edward Rae, a wealthy
London stockbroker, who organised a cricket match against an all-Lapland XI in
1873. They were all out for 0 in their second innings. But Rae was just over the
border in Russia at the time.It was not until the 1960s that cricket began to be
played in Finland more frequently. Matches took place between the British
Embassy and a team of Finnish admen calling themselves the Kingdom of Palmerston
(it was Lord Palmerston, a cabinet member during the Crimean War, who advocated
the return of Finland from Russia to Sweden). Most of the stories from this
period focus more on boozy journeys to Stockholm than on the cricket itself.In
1972, a group of cricketers decided to break away from the British Embassy and
form the Helsinki Cricket Club, Finlands first. Their belief was that the sport
would be better served in the hands of permanent residents than transient
diplomats. They were right. One of their number - a Jamaican fast bowler by the
name of Ira Ebanks - has become a legendary figure in Finnish cricket. He is
still a regular presence at the boundary edge, groaning at yet another Empire
batting collapse. Empire itself was founded in 2003 following a period of rapid
expansion for cricket in Finland. The Nokia boom years of the 1990s saw the
influx of a new, tech-savvy workforce, many of whom came from India and
Pakistan. They brought their love of cricket with them, and clubs formed in the
cities of Turku, Tampere, and Vantaa. Although Nokia collapsed in 2013 and
Finlands economy remains shaky, Helsinkis tech and start-up scenes continue to
provide a major draw. So does the countrys excellent education system and free
university tuition (although fees for overseas students will be introduced from
2017).So what does the future hold for cricket in Finland? While the earliest
cricket matches here involved the English, today the sport feels untouched by
colonial traces. It is not an expat game but, as Hadley has said, a reflection
of a complex multicultural experience. The FCAs aim is to further integrate
cricket into Finlands sporting structures. Finns tend to like quirky things,
says Maija Scamans, formerly captain of Finlands first womens cricket team, now
the FCAs Operations Director. Cricket is an individual game within a team
context. I think that appeals to the Finnish psyche.The FCA has been holding
cricket summer camps and coaching in schools since 2004. This year, for the
first time, cricket is to be a part of the curriculum for the whole school year
across ten different schools in Kerava. Our aim is to become an integral part of
the Finnish sporting community, says Armitage, not just a strange, marginal
activity.
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