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American Haskell Makes Move To Buy Coventry City, Take Half-Share Of Ricoh Arena05 / 17 / 13American multi-millionaire Preston Haskell IV has "made his move to buy" League One Coventry City Football Club and half the Ricoh Arena, according to Andy Turner of the COVENTRY TELEGRAPH. The bids were turned in on Haskell's behalf by suspended Sky Blues President Joe Elliott and former Vice Chair... Tags: Franchises, United Kingdom |
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London Sponspors To Support Parade
London Games sponsors Visa, British Airways, BP and BT "are to provide financial support for the Olympic and Paralympic victory parade" taking place on Sept. 10, according to John Reynolds of MARKETING MAGAZINE. The London 2012 sponsors are providing additional funding, "on top of their original mul ...
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Portsmouth To Start Season
League One Portsmouth FC were given the green light on Thursday to "start the new season while in administration," and Manager Michael Appleton will embark on a transfer spree over the next 48 hours, according to the PA. The club faces another 10-point deduction, but the Football League has said tha ...
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Rangers' Debt An Issue Of Controversy
Austrian football club Rapid Vienna has "voiced concerns" over Rangers agreeing to settle football debts to Scottish clubs while they "have yet to receive any indication they will be paid the £1M ($1.6M) they are owed from the sale of Nikica Jelavic to Ibrox two years ago," according to Phil G ...
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ManU Scores With Van Persie Signing
Robin van Persie will join ManU "in a projected £24M ($35M) deal" after Arsenal gave its "unsettled" star forward permission to move to Old Trafford, according to Oliver Kay of the LONDON TIMES. Van Persie had spent the last six weeks "agitating for a move" from Arsenal and he told Manager Ars ...
Pompey FC's Future Cast Into Doubt
Hong Kong businessman Balu Chainrai has confirmed he is "withdrawing his bid" to buy League One Portsmouth FC, "leaving the troubled club in danger of liquidation," according to SKY SPORTS. Chainrai will not be going ahead with a takeover "after citing a number of reasons for withdrawing his interes ...
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U.K. Sport In A Bind After '12 Failures
Minority sports that "revelled in their moment in the Olympic sun are facing the realities of a tough future," according to Robin Scott-Elliot. U.K. Sport, the body that distributes elite funding to Olympic sports, is "in the process of determining how much each governing body should receive" toward ...
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Debate Rages On Post-Olympics Plans
Public figures from all over London have “made a variety of suggestions ranging from the socially and environmentally conscious to the caustic,” on what should be done with the Olympic Park, according to Moody & Buchanan of the LONDON TIMES. Mayor Boris Johnson “confirmed ...
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Beckham Bodywear Brand Builds Up
The second set of ads for MLS Galaxy F David Beckham’s Bodywear for H&M line launches Thursday and will “coincide with a ‘statue stunt’ planned by the retailer with larger-than-life Beckhams going up” in N.Y., L.A. and San Francisco, according to Samantha Critchell ...
BBC Had Over 33% Of Olympics Viewers
BBC1 took "more than a third of all TV viewing," while BBC3 overtook both Channel 4 and Channel 5 for the duration of the London Games, according to John Plunkett of the London GUARDIAN. BBC1 had a 36.2% share of viewing across the 17 days of the Games. That was "more than four times ITV1's average ...
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Eurosport Draws 106 Million TV Viewers
Pan-European TV sport network Eurosport drew an overall audience of 106 million viewers during its coverage of the London Games and also "smashed all its previous online records," according to DIGITALSPY.com. Eurosport, which acted as a pay-TV Olympic rights partner to host broadcaster the BBC, "inc ...
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