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F1 Chair Chase Carey said that he "doesn't want to negotiate a new Concorde Agreement with the teams when the current one runs out" in '20. Carey "would prefer to set up a new form of open-ended 'partnership'" (MOTORSPORT.com, 5/18).

NFL U.K. has appointed Wasserman's Experience division to lead its experiential activity in the U.K. for the next three years (Wasserman).

Arizona State today announced that ANC will install a new main video display at Sun Devil Stadium in time for the '17 football season. The display in the north endzone will be one of the 10 largest in college football, measuring about 47 feet high by 113 feet wide (ASU).

English rugby teams Newcastle Falcons and Saracens will play a regular-season game at the Union's Talen Energy Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 16. The match is being staged by Premiership Rugby in connection with AEG and NBC Sports (THE DAILY).

The Star in Frisco's Tostitos Championship Plaza will host a June 17 boxing match featuring welterweights Pablo Cesar Cano and Fidel Maldonado Jr., marking the "first boxing event to take place" at the Cowboys' new training facility (ESPN.com, 5/18).

A 42-year old man from Wheaton, Ill., died yesterday after "tumbling over a railing and hitting his head while leaving Wrigley Field" following Tuesday's Reds-Cubs game (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 5/18).

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