Hints and tips:
...Throw in the time zone difference that some broadcasters have pointed to as an issue, and the breakthrough moment of last summer could wobble if the Lionesses falter....
...Disney’s ESPN has made significant lay-offs. ViacomCBS just sold book publisher Simon & Schuster for $2bn. Such moves help load up the piggy bank for football rights....
...“If we were on ESPN, right, we’d be fucking kicking the door down of everything.”...
...“When you bid for the World Cup you have a grab bag of potential locations and time zones,” said Lee Berke, a sports media consultant. “This was the worst-case scenario for Fox.”...
...In the first five seasons following their promotion to the Premier League in 2011, Swansea finished no lower than 12th, comfortably above the relegation zone....
...Leeds and Reading, his Peak6 investment group bought 25 per cent of AFC Bournemouth, currently enjoying its first season in England’s Premier League and sitting in 16th, three points above the relegation zone...
...Tokyo has, paradoxically, made financial and physical safety a central part of its Olympic pitch.If Tokyo won, that would make three Olympic events in Asia in a 12-year span, writes ESPN’s Dan Gable....
...It may also look after the “bad” bits if Royal Bank of Scotland is broken up, though that is further outside its comfort zone....
...I encourage everyone to find at least one person whom they can talk openly with and who encourages you to step outside your comfort zone....
...Bristol, Connecticut, a two-hour drive from Manhattan and two time zones away from ESPN’s parent company, Walt Disney, in southern California....
...As Bill Nack wrote in an elegy for the ESPN sports cable network, Wooden sent out on court “a swarming monster with five heads and 10 squeaky feet”....
...The terms of the joint venture have not been released, but they will see Chello’s Zone channels renamed....
...New designs for tablet PCs with multi-touch displays appeared and there were enough eReaders to take up an entire zone of the show....
...Downtown Los Angeles used to be a no-go zone after dark....
...When a player celebrates a touchdown on ESPN’s SportsCenter, the millions watching know that his glorious youth may last just a couple of autumns. That knowledge is part of the thrill....
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