The News Review:
- SportingNews.com – The Sporting Blog – FirstCuts: EA Sports Bringing…
- BBC SPORT / FUN AND GAMES
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
- Ghana: German Sports Firm to Train Administrators
SportingNews.com – The Sporting Blog – FirstCuts: EA Sports Bringing…
SportingNews.com – May 7, 2008
For the first time in years, Mike Tyson is coming back to your gaming console. EA Sports will announce the 2009 release of Fight Night 4 today, according to the report. Lennox Lewis, Sugar Ray Leonard and Winky Wright will attend the announcement. Although it doesn’t sound like Tyson has any direct involvement in the game, the fact that his likeness will be part of the game is a big selling point. Even as Nintendo re-released Punch-Out!! on the Wii’s Virtual Console, they dropped Mike Tyson from the game and replaced him with the fictional Mr… It would give the upcoming boxing title Facebreaker some room to breathe. While the Fight Night franchise has always focused on realism, Facebreaker is expected to be more along the lines of Ready 2 Rumble for the Dreamcast. The talk about Facebreaker leads us to EA Sports’ other bit of significant news this week.
BBC SPORT / FUN AND GAMES
BBC News – May 7, 2008
And I’d say ‘you know what, Sven? Take him to the cleaners’. ”
Manchester City fan and Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher has no doubts about what Sven-Goran Eriksson should do to owner Thaksin Shinawatra, who is set to show the Swede the exit door at Eastlands. “I think it’s very, very nice. ”
The ever self-effacing Sven on the overwhelming support from the City faithful, who sung his name throughout their 1-0 defeat to Liverpool.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – May 7, 2008
5 million Italian Masters, a French Open tune-up. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero stunned his second-seeded fellow
Spaniard Nadal 7-5, 6-1 in the second round on the dirt at Foro Italico. Nadal, who was slowed by a blister problem on his right foot, hadn’t lost on
his beloved clay since giving way to top-ranked superstar Roger Federer in
last May’s finale at the Hamburg Masters and had won his last 17 matches at
this particular venue.
Ghana: German Sports Firm to Train Administrators
AllAfrica.com – May 7, 2008
The pogramme is to sensitize the duo on innovations of professional sports management and other related topics. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);The Chief Executive Officer of Authentic Sports Networx, Mr Listowell Yesu Bukarson, told GNA Sports that the training of his staff is expected to benefit Ghana sports immensely as they are expected to impact what they will learn on the nation’s sports. He said the deal, signed last week in Berlin, was brokered by Mr. Samson Deen, Africa representative of Globe Sports Management, is aimed at strengthening international relations between the two sports firms.
