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Borussia Dortmund Signs Deal With British Telecom Company Lebara Mobile For '13-1405 / 23 / 13British telecom company Lebara Mobile "has signed a sponsorship deal" with Bundesliga club and Champions League finalist Borussia Dortmund that "will see its branding displayed" at the club's home ground, according to Paul Withers of MOBILE NEWS. The agreement, which goes into effect in July, i... Tags: Marketing and Sponsorship, Europe |
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Bremen Could Sell Stadium Naming Rights
Bundesliga Werder Bremen board member Marco Bode "has taken on a taboo topic at the club and not categorically excluded the sale of naming rights for the Weserstadion," according to the DPA. The former German national team and Werder Bremen player said, "I could imagine it. However, it certainly wou ...
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Man City "will sack" Manager ROBERTO MANCINI this week. Man City is "still debating the timings of the move," but the manager could be dismissed before the club’s match at Reading on Tuesday or, failing that, "before or immediately after the final game of the season against Norwich City at t ...
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Rafael Nadal offered his support for Madrid's bid to host the 2020 Olympics after winning the Madrid Open. Nadal said, "There is no city that deserves the Games more than Madrid" ( AS, 5/12 ). ... On Thursday, the X Games will get underway in Barcelona in one of the city's biggest events since t ...
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Doping Doctor To Sell 'Dirty' Secrets
Convicted sports-doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes is "threatening to reveal the dirty secrets of the world's major sporting events as he offers to sell his story to newspapers after being convicted on public health charges in Spain for his role in helping top cyclists to cheat," according to Giles Tr ...
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Police in Brazil have banned the use of the caxirola -- "the country's version of the vuvuzela" -- from a 2014 World Cup football stadium amid safety concerns. The type of maraca will be prohibited from a local match at Salvador's FonteNova stadium on Sunday after hundreds of the plastic objects wer ...
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NHL representatives and int'l hockey and Olympic officials met in Stockholm "in a new round of talks aimed at securing an agreement for the league's participation in the Sochi Games." While no final deal was reached, "all sides indicated they expect the NHL will send players to the Olympics for a fi ...
Sky Extends Contracts With Golf Majors
German pay-TV channel Sky Deutschland "will continue to have the most comprehensive golf coverage on German TV as it extended its media rights with three of the four majors until '15," according to Manuel Weis of QUOTENMETER. The network "extended its contracts with the U.S. Open, The Open Champions ...
Blanco Makes Case For Madrid 2020
Spain Olympic Committee (COE) President Alejandro Blanco spoke Thursday in Bogotá, Colombia, "where he said the Madrid 2020 bid 'is not a project, but an obsession,'" according to the EFE. Blanco, addressing a forum of the Colombian Olympic Committee, said, "First, it's a dream that becomes a ...
DFB Wants To Extend Berlin Contract
The German Football Federation (DFB) "wants to extends its contract with Berlin" to host the DFB-Pokalfinale (German Cup Final) beyond '15, according to the SID. DFB General Secretary Helmut Sandrock said, "There is a huge interest from our side to extend the contract [with Berlin] beyond 2015." Ber ...
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Spanish Congress Votes On Anti-Doping Law
Spain's congress voted Thursday on the new anti-doping law, "which will meet another requirement to continue the parliamentary procedure in the Senate toward approval before the end of the political year and before the bid for Madrid 2020 is submitted for the IOC's final decision in September," acco ...
