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AN ENGINEERING firm has won an accolade for its expansion into China.

Sigma Precision Components, of Hinckley, won the Rising Stars category of the replica breitling watches Cathay Pacific China Business Awards. The awards, which were introduced in 2005, are designed to acknowledge and celebrate UK business success stories in Hong Kong and China.

The five-year-old firm specialises in making precision parts for the global aerospace market.

It set up a factory in Chengdu, China, in 2006, and now serves many of the world's leading aerospace manufacturers.

Its parts are fitted to aircraft such as the Airbus A380 and Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner.

The firm beat competition from other firms involved in education, professional services and technology to scoop the prize on Friday..

Mark Johnson, managing director at Sigma, said: "Winning the Rising Stars award is a great result. Phenomenal effort and determination has been shown by the whole team to get us to this point.

"We view China as a very important market for our business and we're delighted that our foresight has paid dividends."

Since its inception in 1939, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament has been getting bigger ... and bigger ... and bigger. It's eight times as large as when it first began.

It started with eight teams, expanded to 16 after a decade, then existed for 20 years with just 24 or 25 teams.

Then, deciding that more than just conference champions should be eligible, the NCAA went crazy, expanding to 32 in 1975, to 40 in 1979, 48 a year later and finally to 64 in 1985.

The only tweak since then was the foolish idea in 2001 to add one more team for a 65-team tournament.

So logically, the NCAA Tournament is overdue to be expanded, right?

That's what some folks believe.

A report from the Sports Business Journal says the NCAA is considering expanding the tournament and that several networks are poised to bid for the rights to the tournament. The expansion could happen as early as next year.

Which would be ridiculous with a capital R.

Even though the number of NCAA Division I teams keeps climbing -- it's up to 347 after sitting closer to 300 a decade ago -- there's no need to expand the tournament. The NCAA basketball tournament may just be the best sporting event in the world. As Goldilocks would say, it's just right.

Just think if the tournament were expanded to 96 teams.

This year, there are several storied programs that are unlikely to make the NCAA Tournament without some inspired runs through their conference tournaments.

Defending national champion North Carolina is 14-11. Eleven-time champion UCLA is 11-12. Connecticut is 14-11. None are NCAA-worthy this year. However, in a 96-team tournament, all would likely be included.

Expansion to 96 would make the regular season totally meaningless, except for seedings. Teams could cruise through the regular season and act like NFL teams at the end of the regular season, not worrying about winning games, but saving up for the playoffs.

In a 96-team tourney, you could arguably see all 12 ACC teams make Thomas sabo charms it. ... This year 11 have winning records, and a 12th, Boston College, is 12-12. You could also get 13 of the 16 teams from the Big East with winning records into the (Real) Big Dance.

It would ruin postseason conference tournaments, which may not be a bad idea. However, more money would go to the NCAA to dole out to the bigger conferences, while the smaller leagues would get the shaft, much like football.

An expanded tournament might help a team like Utah State, when it wins the regular-season championship but gets left out if it fails to win the conference tournament. But for the most part, smaller leagues wouldn't benefit by an expanded tournament.

From what I can tell, there isn't a lot of widespread support for a 96-team event except from perhaps the NCAA, which would make more money; the networks involved; and college coaches, who might get more job security, by adding an NCAA appearance to their resume, even if they were a 22nd seed.

If a change has to be made, I'd go back to the 64-team tournament and eliminate the silly play-in game, the Tuesday before the tournament, something I've advocated for years. It's demeaning to the two teams designated as the worst teams in the tournament and especially the one that loses.

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EVEN if Allan McGregor doesn't go looking for trouble, the likelihood is it will seek him out. Instance last weekend's unsavoury episode, when he was allegedly given a going-over after leaving a Glasgow nightclub.

But should we be surprised by the Rangers goalkeeper's propensity for getting himself into bother? Hardly. It's in his clan's DNA -- and has been since long before roguish forebear, Rob Roy, was outlawed for plundering his neighbours' cattle.

Way back in the late 1500s, the chieftain of the McGregors was indicted for the murder of the King's Forester, John Drummond, who had strung up a few of his men for thieving. 'Honest, it wisnae me,' the chief pleaded, before being exonerated some time later.

But, then, the McGregors attacked the Colquhoun stronghold of Rossdhu -- a short boat trip from the Loch Lomondside retreat where Allan McGregor and Barry Ferguson were involved infamously in last season's Boozegate scandal with Scotland.

The ill will between the two clans duly escalated into a full-blown battle in nearby Glen Fruin, with the hapless Colquhouns taking a hiding. So the McGregors' reputation became even more sullied.

Indeed, by 1603, the year our King James VI departed for London to take over the English crown, the powers that be in Edinburgh proscribed the McGregor name altogether.

Anyone continuing to use it openly did so under threat of the death penalty and this remained the case, by and large, until the remnants of the clan recovered their identity in 1775.

So, no, given his ancestors' lurid history of straying from the straight and narrow, maybe we shouldn't feign shock that Allan McGregor has gained a certain notoriety.

Reports of his saucy philandering have been the stuff of many a front-page story; likewise his late-night drinking session with, then, Ibrox team-mate Ferguson after the Scotland team's return from Amsterdam last spring.

The SFA, in the wake of that incident, banned the pair from ever again appearing in their country's colours -- only to change their mind when, recently, Craig Levein took over as manager.

But then what? With Levein preparing to name McGregor on Monday for next week's friendly against Czech Republic at Hampden, the Ibrox goalkeeper found his name plastered over the news pages again following Saturday's reported assault.

It has often been said you have to be daft to be a goalkeeper and, while that is palpably untrue in the great majority of cases, it may hold a certain validity where McGregor is concerned.

He's 28 now, yet still hasn't acquired the wit to keep his head down. What was he doing gallivanting in Glasgow the week before Rangers' biggest game of the domestic season; tomorrow's against Celtic? Levein had little option but to omit him from his squad after reading that McGregor had to go to hospital for attention to the injuries he sustained in the reported street attack.

The new Scotland manager simply didn't need the latest set of baggage which, had he picked him, the player would have brought along to the squad's gathering on Monday.

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THERE was no questioning the masculinity of Bundaberg Tyrepower workers as they sported pale pink shirts as part of Pink Fitters Day on Friday.

Bundaberg Tyrepower owner Dale Bennett said all three sales staff had participated in the day.

"It's for a good cause. We're happy to support it," Mr Bennett said.

Mr Bennett said his staff had been keen to support the 100,000 Good Reasons campaign, raising money for links of london charms the McGrath Foundation and breast cancer.

The tyre shop was not asking for donations but using the shirts to help create awareness.

"The day is just for us to get the word out there that breast cancer does affect everyone," Mr Bennett said.

For every pink shirt sold $9 went to the McGrath Foundation.

The Bundaberg Tyrepower crew were just some of the thousands of tyre salesmen across the nation donning pink for the day.

Sponsor Kumho aims to donate $100,000 to the foundation this year as part of the 100,000 Goods Reasons campaign.

"It indicates that people in the tyre industry understand that breast cancer, as Glenn McGrath always says, doesn't just affect women - it affects families," Kumho Tyre marketing manager David Basha said.

Mr Basha said the company hoped to make Pink Fitters Day an annual event.

"We believe Pink Fitters Day will grow into a major annual event in the tyre industry as more and more tyre retailers come on board in years to come, to support the McGrath Foundation and the great work it is doing to support women diagnosed with breast cancer and their families right across Australia," Mr Basha said.

Through the day customers were urged to support Kumho's backing of the McGrath Foundation by visiting their local Kumho tyre dealer just to offer a word of support to the pink clad tyre fitters, or for a safety check of their vehicle.

FOUR Geraldine men will spend more than two weeks travelling through the South Island on their tractor, as they help raise money for children with cancer.

Allan Coker and Richard Harrison will each take their Massey Ferguson 65 tractor on the road with fellow Geraldine Vintage Car and Machinery Museum members Bill Anderson and Peter Johnson.

The men will travel in pairs, so the job of driving the tractor and following behind in the caravan will be shared throughout the journey, which starts in Geraldine and ends in Makaroa for the men.

On February 26, the men will join the other 48 tractors as they head to Methven and plan to return to Geraldine about March 15.

Mr Coker said the trek would be a challenge, but it was all about supporting the Child Cancer Foundation.

"It's a worthy cause. We want to do our bit for the community."

Mr Anderson said each of the four men had Clip on charms been affected by cancer in some way.

This is the first year of the event, in which participants will travel about 2500 kilometres at 25kmh and spend more than 100 hours sitting on a tractor.

Each person will fund their own trip, while all donations will go towards the foundation.

The tractors will make their way from Bluff to Tapanui on Monday. They will travel through towns such as Kurow, Fairlie, Hanmer Springs, and Greymouth, returning to Bluff on March 16.

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Salisbury University police say three men have been charged with the theft of a life-sized, 400-pound bronze statue of Henry David Thoreau from the campus on the Eastern Shore.

Raymond Louis Bunting, links of london charms 56, of Fruitland, Md., was arrested Thursday and charged with felony theft. Police say he was arrested after he sold the statue for $442 to a recycling firm.

Two 18-year-old Salisbury students, Samuel Cyrus and Jonathan Clark, were charged Friday with theft and other offenses.

The statue has been returned to its spot on campus. - Scott McCabe