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Alex Ferguson Lands $3M Deal To Make 20 Appearances As ManU Ambassador05 / 23 / 13JASON FERGUSON "is masterminding" father ALEX FERGUSON 's "hugely lucrative post-management options" nine years after the ManU board pledged never to do business again with his football agency, according to Charles Sale of the London DAILY MAIL. Jason Ferguson's disbanded Elite Sport "ceased to a... |
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British Olympic Association CEO ANDY HUNT : "@Sochi2014OC progress on the Park is excellent - reminds me a lot of London with village & iconic venues in close proximity" The BBC F1 reporter JAKE HUMPHREY : "Well over 6m of you watched the final race of the season on the Beeb. An impressive ...
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Players Award Fergie With His Statue
ManU Manager ALEX FERGUSON "pronounced himself a proud man after a statue of him was unveiled" by his wife CATHY FERGUSON at Old Trafford, according to Richard Jolly of ESPN SOCCERNET. Ferguson "paid tribute to his players as many of his past greats joined his current squad for a ceremony." The ...
Billionairs Leading English Football
Chelsea Owner ROMAN ABRAMOVICH "embarked on his ninth manager, RAFAEL BENITEZ , having just fired No. 8, ROBERTO DI MATTEO , despatched six months after winning the Champions League, the most important of all club trophies," according to Matthew Engel, in an opinion piece in the FINANCIAL TIMES. ...
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British Swimming National Performance Dir MICHAEL SCOTT , who oversaw the team at the London Olympics that "gathered only three medals in total in the pool," resigned Saturday night. Scott will leave his post on Friday "after learning that a key recommendation of the review that he himself had set ...
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Italy FA President GIANCARLO ABETE has apologized to English FA Chair DAVID BERNSTEIN following an assault on EPL club Tottenham fans in a Rome bar on Thursday. Abete said that he was condemning on behalf of "the whole Italian football family" what he said was a "disgraceful" anti-Semitic attack ...
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F1 team Red Bull Racing: "Vettel: "To win a third title, especially here where one of my heroes Ayrton Senna was from, it’s difficult to put into words." South China Morning Post's JAMES PORTEOUS : "Most boring / uneventful weekend of Premier League this season? Rafa getting booed was pret ...
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Dunn Appointed Paralympics Coach
Former sprinter PAULA DUNN , who was "a key member" of PETER ERIKSSON 's coaching team at the London Paralympics, has been named as U.K. Athletics’ new Paralympic head coach, according to Simon Hart of the London TELEGRAPH. The 47-year-old Dunn, who as an "able-bodied 100m sprinter won a Eur ...
McIlroy Not Worried About Club Change
Golfer RORY MCILROY has "no fears" that ditching the Titleist equipment that has taken him to world No. 1 will result in any diminishing of his golfing powers, according to the IRISH TIMES. The U.S. PGA champion’s switch to Nike clubs next season, a deal that media reports estimate will be w ...
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Former representative hockey player PHIL HOLDEN will take over as CEO of the New Zealand Rugby League, replacing JIM DOYLE who is "stepping down after three years in the job" ( APNZ, 11/21 ). ... The Board of UTV Media announced the appointment of former England 2018 CEO ANDY ANSON and ...
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Former world boxing champion HECTOR " MACHO " CAMACHO "was shot in the face Tuesday outside of San Juan, Puerto Rico" ( NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG, 11/21 ). ... Real Madrid forward CRISTIANO RONALDO has donated €1.5M ($1.9M) to Palestinian children in Gaza, "the Arabic version of the clu ...
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