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• Puma to purchase Cobra Golf

  11 March 2010 | Sports Properties, Golf

  Puma AG has acquired Cobra Golf from consumer products company Fortune Brands Inc.

• Tampa Bay Lightning sale finally goes through

  05 March 2010 | Sports Properties, Ice Hockey

  The NHL board of governors has unanimously approved the sale of the Tampa Bay Lightning to Boston-based financier Jeff Vinik.

• Disgraced Guangzhou FC has new owner and new name

  03 March 2010 | Sponsorship, Sports Properties, Soccer

  Disgraced Chinese soccer club Guangzhou FC has received a timely double boost worth more than US$18 million with the news that it has secured major new investment and a new title sponsor.

• CTS Eventim takes over Ticket Corner

  02 March 2010 | Sports Properties, Miscellaneous

  CTS Eventim, the ticketing agency, has spent some US$60 million to take over Swiss market leader, Ticket Corner.

• Michael Jordan agrees to buy Charlotte Bobcats

  01 March 2010 | Sports Properties, Basketball

  Michael Jordan has spent some US$250 million to take his stake in the Charlotte Bobcats to 70 per cent, giving him a controlling stake in the franchise.

• Rugby Sevens handed double boost

  24 February 2010 | Sponsorship, Sports Properties, Rugby

  Rugby Sevens has been handed a boost, with Ravensbeck investing in promoter Ultimate Rugby Sevens (UR7s) and Nintendo agreeing to sponsor a UK Sevens competition.

• St Louis closes in on franchise-saving sale

  14 February 2010 | Sports Properties, Football

  Shahid Khan, a Pakistani-born, Illinois-based businessman, has reached an agreement with the St Louis Rams that will see him acquire a 60 per cent stake in the NFL franchise.

• Trew’s Notts County purchase was for a nominal UK£1

  14 February 2010 | Sports Properties, Soccer

  Ray Trew, the former chairman of Lincoln City, has paid a nominal UK£1 to take control of Notts County, the oldest professional soccer club in the English league.

• Vinik agrees deal for NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning

  08 February 2010 | Sports Properties, Ice Hockey

  Jeff Vinik, the Boston-based financier and minority owner of Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox, has agreed a deal that will see him pay around US$170 million to buy the National Hockey League's Tampa Bay Lightning.

• Another new owner arrives at Portsmouth FC - and plans to sell

  04 February 2010 | Sports Properties, Soccer

  Portsmouth FC, the club rooted at the bottom of the English Premier League, are now owned by a fourth different man in less than a year, with Hong Kong businessman Balram Chainrai seizing control.

• Excuses will ring hollow but Liverpool FC won’t benefit from Hicks’ US$500 million windfall

  25 January 2010 | Sports Properties, Baseball, Soccer

  Financial excuses at Anfield will ring increasingly hollow after Tom Hicks, the co-owner of Liverpool FC, secured a personal windfall of around US$500 million from the sale of his Texas Rangers MLB franchise.

• Sullivan finally hammers out ownership deal

  19 January 2010 | Sports Properties, Soccer

  After weeks of speculation, former Birmingham City owner David Sullivan has taken commercial and operational control of West Ham United Football Club.

• UFC stake for Arabian events company

  12 January 2010 | Sports Properties, Miscellaneous

  Flash Entertainment, an events company based in the United Arab Emirates, has acquired a ten per cent stake in Zuffa, the Las Vegas based sports promotion company built around the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

• Powerboat P1 relaunches F4SA as SuperStock Championship

  11 January 2010 | Sports Properties, Motorsport

  Powerboat P1 Management Ltd has relaunched the Honda Formula 4-Stroke Association (F4SA) as the SuperStock Championship.

• Arsenal power battle complicated as Sir Chips Keswick buys more shares

  23 December 2009 | Sports Properties, Soccer

  The ongoing power struggle between Stan Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov, who have both added to their Arsenal shareholdings in December, has been complicated by Arsenal director Sir Chips Keswick's purchase of more shares in the company.

• Billionaire buys Indian Wells

  23 December 2009 | Sports Properties, Tennis

  The BNP Paribas Open, the tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California, has been bought by American billionaire Larry Ellison.

• Stan Kroenke moves within £150,000 of Arsenal takeover bid

  22 December 2009 | Sports Properties, Soccer

  Stan Kroenke needs to spend just £144,500 more on shares in Arsenal to break the 29.99 per cent limit that would legally oblige him to make an offer for the remaining shares in the Premier League soccer club.

• Ice Edge Holdings to purchase Phoenix Coyotes

  16 December 2009 | Sports Properties, Ice Hockey

  The Ice Edge Holdings investment group will pay around US$140 million for the Phoenix Coyotes NHL franchise, in a deal that will keep the Coyotes in Arizona for at least the next 26 years.

• Chinese group to buy 15 per cent of Cleveland Cavaliers

  16 December 2009 | Sports Properties, Basketball

  Kenny Huang Jianhua and a group of Chinese investors will buy 15 per cent of the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA franchise from a Michigan-based investment firm before the end of the year.

• Lloyds takes significant stake in Manor GP

  15 December 2009 | Sports Properties, Motorsport

  Lloyds Banking Group's private equity arm, Lloyds TSB Development Capital, has taken a double-digit million dollar stake in the Manor GP team, which will be on the grid as Virgin Racing in 2010.

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