Notes & Insights
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Brooklyn beckons
12 March 2010 | Feature | BasketballBrett Yormark is renowned as one of the most innovative executives in the sports industry. The youngest chief executive in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he is almost certainly one of the most progressive.
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Liverpool FC planning to win title - but not on the football pitch
James Walker will represent English soccer club Liverpool FC's motorsport challenge for the season, aiming to retain Liverpool's Superleague Formula by Sonangol crown in 2010 after being confirmed as the club’s new signing for the upcoming campaign.
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Vanquished Real’s shirt sales fall behind Liverpool and Chelsea
Uefa Champions League evictees Real Madrid have more bad news to ponder this morning after kit suppliers Adidas revealed that its official replica shirts are being outsold by those of Chelsea and Liverpool. Meanwhile, home attendances have also fallen dramatically.
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Beckham’s Manchester United gesture stirs anti-Glazer movement as most fans vow to stay away
Following AC Milan's 4-0 defeat to Manchester United in the Champions League last night, David Beckham left the Old Trafford pitch draped in the green and gold scarf of the Manchester United protest movement.
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Uefa partners welcome Champions League changes but lament Liverpool exit
Some of Uefa's most influential commercial partners are delighted with the changes made to the scheduling of this year's Champions League, according to the World Football Insider.
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Glasgow Rangers: Fans fear Rangers could become the Portsmouth of the SPL
The Rangers Supporters Trust, which has more than £50,000 in shares in the Scottish Premier League club, is concerned that they will have no say in the impending takeover process.
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Lotus: Malaysian Fernandes ready for take-off
09 March 2010 | | MotorsportLike all the new teams in 2010, Air Asia founder Tony Fernandes and his group of Malaysian investors were enticed to Formula One by the prospect of a budget cap for teams, a prospect much mooted a year ago as the global financial crisis created a pinch on the world’s car manufacturers.
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Toro Rosso: Formula One’s expanding team
09 March 2010 | | MotorsportDietrich Mateschitz has openly flirted with selling off the Toro Rosso team but a combination of the worsening global economic outlook, which reduced the number of interested buyers, and the team’s improved performance in 2008 saw him change his mind.
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Force India: third time lucky for money-man Mallya?
09 March 2010 | | MotorsportDespite concerns at one stage that Vijay Mallya was not quite in the financially secure position that he might have wished to be, the Force India Formula One team is a solidly funded organisation.
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Peace and Sport launches Haiti solidarity programme
09 March 2010 | Analysis | MiscellaneousThe Peace and Sport organisation has launched a “campaign for solidarity” called “Sport Solidarity for Haiti” to help support the Haitian Olympic Committee (HOC) in the aftermath of January’s devastating earthquake in the country.
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Liverpool FC: Hicks’ sale plans hit a snag
Reports in America suggest the sale of Liverpool FC co-owner Tom Hicks' Texas Rangers MLB franchise, thought to be a done deal, may have hit a snag.
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Manchester City break into the European big league - despite drop in revenue
English Premier League side Manchester City are the 19th richest club in Europe - so says the Football Money League, a financial study published annually by Deloitte.
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Virgin Racing: Small budget, big intentions
07 March 2010 | | MotorsportVirgin Racing has the smallest budget on the 2010 Formula One grid and will be very much the financial underdog in 2010, just as Sir Richard Branson likes it.
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BMW Sauber: Where did all the money go?
07 March 2010 | | MotorsportAs the new Formula One season approaches, SportsPro examines the financial health of each team beginning with the newly-independent BMW Sauber squad.
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Newcastle United hit by €25 million loss in revenues - even before relegation
Newcastle United were hit by a 13 per cent loss in revenues even before relegation, as commercial, matchday and broadcasting income all fell dramatically at the English soccer club.
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Joel Bouzou awarded a Diploma Honoris Causa in Humanities
05 March 2010 | Media release | MiscellaneousJoel Bouzou, president and founder of Peace and Sport, has been awarded a Diploma Honoris Causa in Humanities from the University for Peace (UPEACE).
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Coca-Cola chief marketing officer at Global Sports Industry Summit
04 March 2010 | Media release | MiscellaneousThe chief marketing and commercial officer of The Coca-Cola Company, the world's most valuable brand, Joseph V. Tripodi, has been added to the list of speakers at the Global Sports Industry Summit 2010.
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Leicester City looking for boost from fans as Foxes eye Premier League
Leicester City, the English soccer club chasing promotion to the Premier League, is looking for a boost of almost £100,000 from its fans as it chases promotion, having released 1,000 Platinum Plus Memberships.
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Rangers and Celtic’s ambitions blocked by SPL rules says chief executive
Glasgow giants Rangers and Celtic, the two clubs who have dominated Scottish soccer throughout their history, will not be allowed to sell individual television rights in the same style as Barcelona and Celtic, the chief executive of the Scottish Premier League told the Soccerex conference in Manchester.
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Kosteniuk is named a Champion for Peace by Peace and Sport
04 March 2010 | Media release | MiscellaneousWomen's world chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk has joined 'Champions for Peace', a group of top international athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport.
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