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Man City Begins $109M Nike Deal By Wearing New Kit On Its U.S. Tour Stops05 / 22 / 13Nike will pay Man City $18.2M annually, as reported in July , "for the next six years and the club will wear the new kit in both games" against Chelsea this week during exhibitions in St. Louis and N.Y. as "part of the two-game brand-building trans-Atlantic trip," according to Mark Ogden of the Lon... Tags: Marketing and Sponsorship, United Kingdom, North America |
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SPL Commission Begins Investigation
An independent commission chaired by Nimmo Smith "has begun its investigation on Tuesday into whether Rangers failed to register payments to players properly" between '00-11, according to Chris McLaughlin of the BBC. The three-man commission "will decide if the company that formerly ran Rangers brok ...
MPs Call For Football Transparency
Football execs were given a 12-month deadline "to implement radical corporate governance reforms" by a select committee of MPs who said that fans "had a right to know who owned their clubs," according to Ashling O'Connor of the LONDON TIMES. The committee threatened "statutory regulation" if its dem ...
Sky Suffers 'Rare Defeat' On EPL Rights
BSkyB "suffered a rare defeat in a sports rights battle" last week, losing out to News Int'l "in the battle for the exclusive rights" to Internet and mobile highlights for Premier League matches, according to Mark Sweney of the London GUARDIAN. Moreover, News Int'l's winning bid "was led by a former ...
Tags: Media, United Kingdom
Luol Deng Puts Pressure On PM Cameron
NBA Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng, of Britain, "piled into the debate about funding for Olympic team sports in a personal letter" to the Prime Minister, according to Ashling O'Connor of the LONDON TIMES. The 27-year-old, who came to Britain as a refugee from Sudan as a child, "pleaded with David C ...
Tags: Olympics, United Kingdom, North America
Study: Super League Clubs Have $94M Debt
Former England rugby coach Tony Smith "has expressed concern at a damning report that claims Super League clubs are on the edge of 'a financial abyss,'" according to the PA. The study, written by Rob Wilson, a sports finance specialist from Sheffield Hallam University, "has revealed that 11 of the 1 ...
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SPL Clubs Support League Restructuring
All 12 of Scotland's top-flight clubs "have given their 'unanimous backing' to plans for a revamped 12-12-18 Scottish league structure," according to the PA. Scottish Premier League CEO Neil Doncaster revealed that "consensus had been achieved at a meeting of the 12 clubs at Hampden on Monday." Scot ...
ManU Worth $3B According To Forbes
ManU has become "the first sports team in the world" with a $3B valuation, according to Mike Ozanian of FORBES. Shares of the English football club, which were offered to the public last August at $14, "did poorly at first but have soared the past few days," closing at less than $17. The recent incr ...
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IPC Unveils Plans To Grow Sport
The Int'l Paralympic Committee has outlined its plans to stage six Grand Prix events this spring and summer. The events will start in March with a three-day meeting in Dubai, UAE before heading to Beijing; São Paulo, Brazil; Grosseto, Italy; Arizona, U.S.; and Berlin. IPC Athletics Sport Tech ...
Tags: Olympics, United Kingdom, North America
BOA Lifts Gag Order On Companies
A gagging order preventing businesses, which helped build London's Olympics venues from promoting their involvement in the 2012 Games, "has been lifted after the government paid the British Olympic Association" £2M ($3.2M), according to Robert Booth of the London GUARDIAN. The BOA estimates th ...
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Lineker Still Going Strong At 52
BBC "Match of the Day" presenter GARY LINEKER got an early start to his football career. At age 16, Lineker left school to play for Leicester City, later moving to Everton and Barcelona. He joined Tottenham in '89 before finishing his career with Japanese side Nagoya Grampus Eight. Lineker, 52, wh ...
