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. Terrence Ross Jersey .com) - Kam Chancellor bobbed his head in celebration as he crossed the goal line on his game-clinching 90-yard interception return. Tracy Mcgrady Jersey . According to bodog.ca, Cleveland moved up to grab the best odds to win the Larry OBrian trophy at 4-1 on Friday. By comparison, the Miami Heats odds plummeted from 3-1 favourites before LeBron left, to 50-1. http://www.cheapmagicjerseys.com/?tag=cheap-jonathon-simmons-jersey .C. -- With a chance to start over and maybe drive in any series he wanted, Juan Pablo Montoya thought long and hard about what mattered most at this stage of his career. Wholesale Magic Jerseys . Alvarez hit his first career home run, pitched six innings and hurt his right hamstring while running the bases in the Miami Marlins 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs. Cheap Magic Jerseys . - Andrew McCutchen went 4 for 5 and finished a home run short of a cycle, and Jordy Mercer drove in a career-high four runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-2 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday. QUEBEC -- Chip Beck eagled his final hole for a 7-under 65 and a one-stroke lead Friday after the first round of the Champions Tours Quebec Championship. The 57-year-old Beck, winless on the 50-and-over tour, hit his 3-wood approach from 256 yards to a foot to set up the eagle on the par-5 ninth hole. "Its time, isnt it? Im ready," Beck said about winning on the tour. "Im 58 next week and you know what, Im just going to play. Im going to give it all Ive got and enjoy whatever happens." On the par-5 18th, Beck hit a 3-wood second shot to 10 feet and two-putted for birdie. "Thank goodness the course dried out today and the extra roll allowed me to reach both of those par 5s in two," Beck said. "I managed to hit two of the best 3-wood shots of my life." The four-time PGA Tour winner also had six birdies and a bogey at La Tempete in the first PGA Tour-sanctioned event in the area since the 1956 Labatt Open at Royal Quebec. "Its a fun golf course with all the par 5s," Beck said. "The course is playing great, the greens were really good and its amazing the transformation overnight with the smoothness of the greens and the dryness of the golf course, so the wind really helped us.dddddddddddd" Duffy Waldorf and Craig Thomas were tied for second. Thomas, a club professional at Metropolis in White Plains, New York, went through two stages of qualifying to get into the field. "Im extremely, extremely fortunate at the club that I work at," Thomas said. "The members are very, very supportive and excited about both myself and my assistant, Colin Amaral, in our playing ability and our opportunities and the fact that we go out and represent the club. It couldnt be a better situation for somebody like me. Without them I definitely couldnt do it." Waldorf birdied four of the five par 5s. "It was a good solid round," Waldorf said. "I drove the ball really well, which helped. You kind of feel like you have to play the par 5s well out here and the four that I birdied I birdied fairly easily." Brad Faxon, Loren Roberts and P.H. Horgan III followed at 67. Esteban Toledo, the winner last year in the then-Montreal Championship at La Vallee du Richelieu, opened with a 68. Two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen had a 71 in his first Champions Tour round. He turned 50 last week. ' ' '