ManU supporters paid for a plane to fly a banner calling for Ed Woodward to be sacked during next week's game at Burnley as the club's exec vice-chair "comes under growing scrutiny." The banner, bearing the message "Ed Out -- LUHG," which means Love United, Hate Glazer, is "due to be flown over Turf Moor" on Sept. 2 "in protest at Woodward and the club's controversial American owners" (London TELEGRAPH, 8/22).
Para-cycling races will be included at the Int'l Cycling Union (UCI) Track Cycling World Cup for the first time in London in December. There will be racing in the men's and women's tandem sprint, the C1-C5 team sprint, the women's C1-5 500m time trial and the men's C1-5 1km time trial on the competition's opening day, Dec. 14 (BBC, 8/23).
The NBA Philadelphia 76ers will begin the preseason on Sept. 28 with a game against National Basketball League side Melbourne United. Additionally, the 76ers will play in China for the first time, when the team faces the NBA Dallas Mavericks on Oct. 5 as part of NBA China Games 2018 (Philadelphia 76ers).
Formula 1 announced its Ferrari and Alfa Romeo Sauber teams will participate in the 2018 Formula 1 Milan Festival. The F1 Live car run will take place in the heart of the city on Wednesday ahead of the Italian Grand Prix (F1).
Athletics Australia is "exploring a left-field idea to stage the Nitro athletics event at the Stawell Gift." The idea has been presented "to combine the oldest foot race with the youngest team-based athletics concept at the west Victorian country town." The logistics of staging a teams-based track and field event on a grass football and cricket oval in a country town "would appear difficult to overcome, but the option is being explored" (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 8/23).
