The News Review:
- A new breed of sports team owner goes for the big score
- SPRTS BUSINESS; What’s in a Name? $400 Million.
- There’s a new sports duo in town: TV-Radio Notebook.
- Poland’s sports minister suspends soccer authorities appoints…
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
A new breed of sports team owner goes for the big score
International Herald Tribune – Jan 19, 2007
Dan Jones head of the sports business group at Deloitte the business advisory firm that counts around half of the 20 Premier League clubs as clients said that English soccer has now become “the biggest league in the biggest sport in the world. ” Many English clubs now look tempting to investors because they have less complex ownership structures than their Continental rivals which often have a huge number of shareholder- members or are run by fans or local associations. But the Continental giants are generating good revenue: last year Real Madrid announced a TV deal for £85 million a year. But in Italy and Spain revenue is exclusive to the club and not shared while in England most of the TV money is split among all the Premiership clubs offering more certainty for investors.
SPRTS BUSINESS; What’s in a Name? $400 Million.
New York Times – Jan 19, 2007
But the Nets arent laughable anymore and yesterday their principal owner Bruce C. Ratner; some of his investors like the rapper Jay-Z; and a few of their players were at the Brooklyn Museum to announce that Barclays will pay a record $400 million over 20 years to put its name on the teams new arena. Barclays is saying Brooklyn is the place to be Ratner said at a luncheon in the elegant Beaux-Arts Court accompanied on a platform by Jason Kidd Vince Carter Mayor Michael R.
There’s a new sports duo in town: TV-Radio Notebook.
Free with registration – Houston Chronicle – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 19, 2007
(19-JAN-07) Houston Chronicle (Houston TX). 19–Chronicle writer Jerome Solomon will join KHCW (Ch. 39) sports director Jorge Vargas as co-host of ESPN Radio affiliate KFNC’s (97. 5 FM) afternoon drive time talk show.
Poland’s sports minister suspends soccer authorities appoints…
International Herald Tribune – Jan 19, 2007
Tomasz Lipiec told a news conference he was suspending the soccer authorities effective immediately and appointing 56-year-old Andrzej Rusko to temporarily head the Polish Football Association. He announced the decision shortly after Listkiewicz ? who has been president since 1998 ? and other members of the governing body refused his call to resign over the police arrest of a board member on suspicion of corruption and match-fixing. Lipiec had called on the officials to step down on Thursday after police arrested Wit Zelazko. Police charged him on Friday.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jan 19, 2007
pen champion Maria Sharapova and her fellow former world No. 1s Kim Clijsters and Martina Hingis will be among the women seeing third-round action Saturday at the 2007 Australian pen. The top-seeded Sharapova a two-time Grand Slam champion will battle 30th- seeded Italian Tathiana Garbin. The two have never met in a WTA Tour-level match. The 19-year-old Sharapova is seeking her third straight trip to the semifinals at Melbourne Park.
