Abstract: A system and method for sponsoring sports teams or individual athletes that enables a plurality of users to use the power of accumulation to sponsor sports teams or individual athletes. Users can contribute an amount of money smaller than what is normally required to sponsor a sports team or athlete and in exchange receives recognition for the contribution. Once the contributions from multiple Users accumulates to an amount large enough to sponsor a sports team or individual athlete, the funds are transferred to the sports team or individual athlete in exchange for recognizing the host as a sponsor.

Abstract: A fault-tolerant router first and second router matrix card. The first and second router matrix cards receive a common set of 4n parity encoded input digital audio data streams and respectively generates therefrom, first and second sets of M output digital audio streams. As the first and second sets of data streams propagate along the first and second router matrix cards, respectively, one or more health bits are set whenever an error or other type of fault condition is detected. First and second parity check circuits are configured to detect parity errors and/or assess the relative health of the first and second sets of data streams and one of the two sets of data streams is selected as the output of the fault-tolerant router based upon either the parity error analysis, health analysis or both.