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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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Dunfermline Players Strike Over Wages
Scottish Premier League Dunfermline’s players refused to train Wednesday "in protest at further issues regarding their pay," according to the SCOTSMAN. It is the second straight month that the Pars have "failed to pay their players on time." Despite several assurances being made by the club, t ...
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Tennis Tournaments Eye Grass Courts
Grass-court tennis "is on the attack" as several clay-court tournaments in Europe "are looking to convert to grass in a significant shift in the game's balance of power," according to Paul Newman of the London INDEPENDENT. Impetus for the change "has come from Wimbledon's decision to start a week la ...
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British Sports To Launch Marketing Bureau
Britain's Olympic and Paralympic sports "are to pool their commercial rights into an independent company, called the British Sports Marketing Bureau, which is set to launch in the new year, if it is backed by the national governing bodies," according to John Reynolds of MARKETING MAGAZINE. Around 80 ...
Rangers Score On Aim Debut
Scottish Third Division side Rangers "won a favourable reaction from investors to its Alternative Investment Market debut," trading above its 70p flotation price, according to Roger Blitz of the FINANCIAL TIMES. Fans and institutions have "bought into CEO Charles Green’s recovery plan for the ...
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Ferguson Reveals His Managerial Style
ManU Manager ALEX FERGUSON "has revealed the dressing room secrets that have kept him at the top for a quarter of a century," according to Pete Bainbridge of the MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS. The Reds' boss "gave an astonishing insight into his managerial philosophy and psychology at Old Trafford, and ...
U.K. Sport Attendance Tops 75 Million
The U.K.’s "amazing year of sport" was reflected in attendances of more than 75 million at professional sports events during '12, according to analysis by the Deloitte Sports Business Group. This was reinforced by huge TV audiences for the London Games and Paralympic Games, and other establish ...
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Paralympics To Make London Return
London Mayor Boris Johnson announced Wednesday morning that the Olympic Stadium will host the 2017 IPC Athletics World Championships, according to Josh Burrows of the LONDON TIMES. The "second biggest event" in the Paralympic calendar will take place over nine days in July, a little more than a mont ...
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Sunset+Vine To Produce For BT Sport
BT Sport "has named Sunset+Vine as the production company" for its showcase of 38 live Premier League games that start next season, according to Charles Sale of the London DAILY MAIL. This follows a second tender after BT’s original preferred production partner ITV Sport’s London studios ...
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New Inquiry Into Hillsborough Tragedy
A fresh criminal investigation into the Hillsborough football disaster was announced by the Home Secretary as the High Court "quashed the original accidental death inquest verdicts into the 96 Liverpool fans," according to Richard Ford of the LONDON TIMES. The new police inquiry will look at the rol ...
Super Mario Accepts $550K Fine
Man City striker Mario Balotelli has accepted a two-week fine for misconduct, "leading to the postponement of Wednesday's planned Premier League tribunal on the issue," according to Chris Bascombe of the London TELEGRAPH. The club had handed its striker with a £340,000 ($553,000) fine for a "s ...
