Skate Canada announced Monday that Mark Halliday has been appointed as the Chief Marketing Officer. He begins his new duties this week ahead of the 2014 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships in Ottawa, Ontario. A native of Montreal, Halliday was a global product manager for the Bauer/Nike Skate division in the 1990s and served as a Brand Manager for Cadbury Adams in the early 2000s. He continued his career as Senior Product Manager for Rogers Cable where he managed premium TV products, including dealing with rights holders to negotiate programing. More recently Halliday worked for the CTV/Rogers 2010 Olympic Broadcast Consortium and helped create integrated multiplatform partnerships for Olympic broadcast sponsors creating digital, broadcast and promotional and general content programs. The last three years Halliday has been the Senior Director Marketing, Content & Pay Per View for UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship). "Mark brings a tremendously rich background to this newly created position," said Dan Thompson, Skate Canadas CEO in a statement. "He is a seasoned marketer with a passion for athletes, competition and sport, and knows how to build a brand as well as a having a keen understanding of the multiple media platforms that is todays marketing reality." Halliday will be based in Toronto and will spend his first week learning firsthand about Skate Canada at the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships. Cheap Adidas Superstar . Bjoerndalen, who had failed to win any major race for two years before Sochi, writes in a Facebook entry that he is "full of energy and inspiration" after winning the 10-kilometre sprint and mixed relay at last months Olympics. Adidas Superstar Sale .com) - Cincinnati Reds pitcher Mat Latos had an arthroscopic procedure performed on his right elbow last week, the teams official site reported Wednesday. http://www.cheapsuperstaruk.com/ . - New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis says the club has an agreement to bring back outside linebacker Parys Haralson on a one-year deal. Adidas Superstar Wholesale Uk .NYCFC confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday that this week Lampard signed a contract to start in July — midway through the new teams first season in MLS. Adidas Superstar Sale Uk . With the Nets winning streak in jeopardy, Williams scored 23 points, 11 in the final six minutes, to lead Brooklyn to a 104-99 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats on Wednesday night.PARIS - Torontos Daniel Nestor and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic were eliminated from the French Open on Monday after dropping a 6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-6 (5) quarter-final decision to Marin Draganja of Croatia and Florin Mergea of Romania. Nestor and Zimonjic entered the tournament on a roll after winning back-to-back clay titles at Madrid and Rome. However, Draganja and Mergea took the third-set tiebreaker after trailing 4-1 to upset the third-seeded duo. "Its disappointing to lose but especially when you feel you have a chance to win a Slam," said Nestor. "We were prepared for this match. We had also gotten out of danger in previous matches this season and dealt with situations well. "It just didnt work out today." The match lasted two hours 18 minutes. Nestor had been bidding for a seventh Paris semifinal appearance. After Dragganja and Mergea tied the match at a set apiece, Zimonjic was broken to start the third.dddddddddddd They got the break back to move to 4-4 but were unable to prevent the tiebreaker. The underdogs earned the victory on their first match point to conclude a final set which took just over an hour. "Nobody is a nobody," Nestor said of the relatively unknown winning side. "They returned well, with like 20 clean winners. Its unfortunate we didnt do something with our chances in the tiebreaker. Every match is close from the first round. "We didnt do enough with some returns and should have played better." The 41-year-old Canadian is still alive in the mixed doubles competition with Kristina Mladenovic of France. Nestor and Zimonjic had won their last 11 clay matches and finished the clay campaign with a 16-3 record. ' ' '