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...A year later it was promoted to the lucrative Premier League and Sawiris has since expanded his stable of sports assets under his and Edens’ V Sports, including a stake in Portuguese club Vitória....
...Meanwhile in American male major league sports, teams are actually getting younger for a variety of reasons. In other words, Benzema et al are outliers....
...In this edition of Scoreboard, we explain how Chelsea and Manchester City have overtaken football’s traditional power teams to contest this year’s Champions League final, look at how North America’s National...
...More than 91 million people tuned in to watch Tom Brady win his seventh Super Bowl in the National Football League in February, in what will probably be the highest-rated broadcast of any kind in the US...
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...TV ratings for the annual college football national championship topped 25m this year....
...What I love about English football are the historic rivalries: Liverpool v Manchester United, Arsenal v Tottenham and now, erm, Qatar v Saudi Arabia....
...In 2018 alone, theatre across the UK played to a collective audience of 34m people — approximately the same number that attended Premier League and English Football League matches....
...In the Uefa Champions League on Wednesday, Schalke 04 of Germany, sponsored by Gazprom, faced Manchester City of England, owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the billionaire businessman and member...
...Taking part in the tournament brings huge pride, says leading football commentator Hassan al-Mistikawi, because Egypt has had a lot of “bad luck” in trying to reach the World Cup....
...Urban cowboy A reveller clings to his mount during a running of the bulls event known as the ‘Pamplonada Pillarense’ in Pillaro, Ecuador Passing the baton Justin Gatlin of the US bows before Jamaica’s Usain...
...The US role in the global corporate economy consists disproportionately of consultants, designers, personnel managers et al., who make a good living showing foreign leaders how to organise their businesses...
...Mas et al aim to ditch old redundant nation-states in order to create new redundant nation-states. The history of nationalism in Europe looks to be creaking to an end....
...Council Abdullatif al-Zayani....
...Sturrock et al also finish high in the league relative to their clubs’ wage bills. Yet their overachievement mostly goes unnoticed. Beck and Moore currently don’t even have clubs....
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...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Qatar, famously victorious in its bid to stage the first-ever air-conditioned football World Cup in 2022, is following a similar path to Abu Dhabi, with the building of its own National Museum designed by...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Such a product is the New England Patriots football team. Such a business is the National Football League and specifically its pay-television spin-off, the NFL Network....
...Mr Leahy, Mr King et al have not yet grasped that genuine sustainability requires fundamental changes to the way we produce, process, distribute, sell and consume....
...Ponting, Warne et al may have quietly recognised that they’re on to a loser and come round to thinking that it’s time again to start being nice....
...Of all the changes in football over the past decade, it is the breaking down of national boundaries that has been the most remarkable....
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