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Ascot Signs Five-Year Deal To Take On Watchmaker Longines As 'Official Partner'05 / 24 / 13Royal Ascot "has finally succumbed to the lure and lucre of commercial sponsorship" and signed a deal with Swiss watchmaker Longines worth "several million pounds" over five years, according to Robert Lea of the LONDON TIMES. But "Ascot being Ascot," officials are "declining to admit that its presti... |
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Arsenal Freezes Ticket Prices For '13-14
Arsenal will not be making any ticket price increases next season. The move follows a full review by the Arsenal Board, which included an assessment of the current economic environment and feedback from fan groups. The price freeze applies to all match ticket prices including season tickets in both ...
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BT Eyes BBC Radio Commentator Murray
BT Sport is "understood to be looking to the BBC" for its main commentator after persuading Jake Humphrey to front its Premier League coverage, according to Charles Sale of the London DAILY MAIL. Radio 5 Live’s John Murray, who has the lead microphone role for the main radio football match on ...
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ManU Targets High Commercial Revenue
ManU’s commercial revenue "is now approaching an astonishing" $204M a year and “will only continue to rise,” according to Laurie Whitwell of the London DAILY MAIL. There are “no fewer than 32 companies listed as sponsors of the club" on its official website and this does not ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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