Schumacher puts forehead on a $7.78m blockFRANKFURT: Michael Schumacher has sold the rights of his forehead for 14.6 million marks ($7.78 million). Schumacher's flame-red Ferrari cap will for the next three years be emblazoned with the logo of Deutsche Vermoegensberatung (DVAG) but, with a space just ten cm by eight to play with, the firm's name will face a tight squeeze to fit in.``There's nothing to worry about there,'' a spokeswoman for DVAG, a German asset management firm, said. ``We're quite sure everyone will be able to read it.'' The battle for a slot on the ex-F-1 world champion's racing overalls has already brought in contracts worth around $90 million, of which the German driver pockets around seven million as part of his estimated annual earnings of $38 million.Umpire Emerson to sue Australian boardPERTH: Controversial cricket umpire Ross Emerson, one of the men at the centre of the Sri Lankan chucking controversy, has launched legal action against the Australian Cricket Board (ACB). Emerson has surprised the ACB by launching a defamation case against board chairman Denis Rogers.``We will be defending it vigorously,'' ACB chief executive Malcolm Speed said yesterday. The case is scheduled to be heard in the Perth Supreme Court on November 22. Emerson was suspended from umpiring in February after it was revealed he was on sick leave from his job in the West Australian state government.I was scared of facing Marshall: LaraPORT-OF-SPAIN: West Indies captain Brian Lara has admitted he was scared when he faced pace bowler Malcolm Marshall at the start of his first-class career. Playing for Trinidad and Tobago against Barbados in 1988, Lara recalled: ``The first delivery I faced in the match was from Malcolm and of course his reputation with the ball preceded him.``I was scared, my heart was pumping and I was caught down the legside first ball.'' Lara said yesterday that Marshall, who died of colon cancer last week, had been an inspiration to him. The Barbados Cricket Association said there would be no play in any matches under its auspices on Saturday when Marshall's funeral is being held.
