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FSG Blasts Request To Turn Over Liverpool-Related Documents05 / 30 / 13Fenway Sports Group, the owners of Liverpool and the Red Sox, in a court filing today blasted an effort to get it to turn over all documents related to its '10 purchase of the EPL club. Former LFC lender Mill Financial has been suing in New York state court another former club lender, RBS, argu... |
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California Denies NFL Effort To Hear Case There
The California state Appeals Court yesterday denied an NFL effort to litigate in the state a lawsuit brought by insurers against the league seeking to avoid paying for potential liability tied to the concussion cases brought by thousands of retired players. The league has wanted to try the insu ...
Microsoft Unveils $400M NFL Partnership
Microsoft and the NFL today unveiled a major partnership, pegged by sources at about $400M over five years. The pact, expanding on a prior relationship between the league and the company, includes sideline rights allowing coaches to use Surface tablets for communications, play calling and photo view ...
NFL Owners To Vote On Falcons' Stadium
NFL owners at their meeting today in Boston are set to approve $200M in financing for the Falcons’ proposed stadium. The Falcons would become the third team, following the 49ers and Vikings, to tap into the full amount that is available to teams through the current league stadium-funding ...
Singapore To Host WTA Season Finale
The WTA Tour awarded Singapore its season-ending championships for five years beginning in ‘14, culminating an 18-month search for the next host city. Singapore was selected from an initial group of 40. The final cities were Singapore; Tianjin, China; and Monterrey, Mexico. The championships w ...
Roddick, Venus Williams Take World TeamTennis Stake
Andy Roddick and Venus Williams will each own slightly less than 5% of World TeamTennis in a deal announced today. The duo are not paying for their stakes, but will market the summer league, make appearances and be full equity owners, meaning they are subject to cash calls. Roddick and Williams ...
U.S. Open Refs To Receive Class Action Notice
A federal judge today ordered a notice be sent to U.S. Open referees who have worked since '09 notifying them of a class action lawsuit against the USTA. The organization had asked the court not to issue the order until it could file a motion for summary judgment, meaning the judge could dismiss the ...
Jets, Monster.com Partner On Job Search
The Jets this morning will announce that they will use Monster.com to find a new website reporter, a search process both the team and job-search website will promote. Monster.com, an NFL sponsor in '08 and '09, says the new initiative is part of its “Cool Jobs” program, in which it ...
Sacramento Group Negotiating Kings Deal
The Maloof family and a group seeking to keep the NBA Kings in Sacramento have been negotiating a purchase agreement since the weekend, sources said. The Maloofs already have an agreement in place to sell to a group that would take the team to Seattle, but that is contingent on NBA approval. The sig ...
Kings Bid Group Asked To Cover Other's Cost
The NBA has asked the group bidding to keep the Kings in Sacramento that if they win, to cover the $30M the competing Seattle group would lose by not getting the club, a source said. The NBA declined to comment. The Seattle group, led by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and hedge fund manager ...
NFL Denies It Misled Players On Concussions
The NFL today adamantly denied it had purposely misled retirees about the risks of playing football, a main claim in a lawsuit filed against the league by more than 4,000 retirees. The league has so far legally focused on arguing that past CBAs immunized the league against claims it had misled play ...
