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Plaintiff in lawsuit over Liverpool purchase seeks documents from Fenway Sports Group05 / 20 / 13The owner of the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Sports Group, has been able to stay out of the years-long controversy and lawsuits sparked by its 2010 purchase of Liverpool FC — until last week. Mill Financial, a former lender to Liverpool, asked a New York state court on Monday to launch legal pro... Tags: Law and Politics |
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USTA argues against class-action status
The U.S. Tennis Association told a federal court last week that referees and umpires who have worked the U.S. Open since 2005 should not be allowed to collectively sue the group, a move that would allow more than 300 officials to demand back pay. With the U.S. Open starting in three weeks, the US ...
Tags: Labor and Agents
Man U’s IPO plan makes few waves in U.S.
While Manchester United’s plan to sell shares on the New York Stock Exchange is drawing headlines as a big international finance and sports story, on the U.S. sports scene, the EPL club’s efforts are being received with more of a yawn. The age of public team ownership in U.S. sports i ...
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USTA, umpires head to court
The U.S. Tennis Association is due next week to tell a federal court in New York why as many as 900 umpires and other on-court officials should not be certified as a class as part of a lawsuit filed against the tennis group for back pay. Four umpires during the U.S. Open Tennis Championships last ...
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American football kicks off in India
This week, eight teams will square off in a stadium in the capital city of Sri Lanka, playing American football in the first of seven quartets of games, culminating in a championship game on Aug. 28. The fledgling league operating the games will film them, package the production for TV, and send ...
EA: We don't have to pay players
Athletes, individually or through their unions, receive tens of millions of dollars annually from licensing their images to video game makers, most notably Electronic Arts. The NFL Players Association alone normally takes in about $35 million annually in such money. EA, however, told a federal ap ...
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NCAA blasts unions over EA filings
Editor's note: This story is revised from the print edition. Attorneys for Electronic Arts were scheduled to square off in a California federal appeals court last Friday against counsel for former college quarterback Sam Keller and NFL legend Jim Brown over the right to use their and other at ...
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NFL taking it slow on telecom
The NFL no longer expects to sign a leaguewide telecommunications partner to start outfitting team stadiums for Wi-Fi for this season, a key initiative of the sport as it tries to make the in-game experience more akin to the one at home. However, the league is treating five NFL venues — Met ...
Pack pours record profit into refurb
Perhaps the most notable aspect of the Green Bay Packers’ record-shattering earnings and revenue reported last week is where the money will not go: to the team’s nearly 10-year-old rainy day fund, which had consumed previous years’ profits. In Green Bay, with a new, owner-frie ...
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Federer, agent starting firm
Roger Federer and his longtime agent, Tony Godsick, are in the process of forming their own sports agency, financial and tennis sources said, a move that would make the Swiss star one of the few athletes still near the top of his game to go into that line of business. Godsick represented Federer ...
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Pop-up ATP event for Atlanta
Qualifying play in Atlanta’s 3-year-old ATP tournament starts next week, with stars like Andy Roddick and John Isner in this year’s tournament field. They’ll pelt volleys in a new 3,600-seat stadium and in a thousand-seat venue just an errant forehand away. And days after the e ...
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