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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 league’s biggest impact would be to blow up two of football’s cornerstones: competition and tradition, writes Simon Kuper....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...Mihir Bose is the author of ‘A History of Indian Cricket’ Photographs: Topfoto; Roger Mann; Graham Morris/cricketpix.com...
...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....
...(Ashton Hayes, residents will proudly tell you, is currently riding high at the top of the monthly local authority league.)...
...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....
...The ailing dictator Hosni Mubarak’s 41-year-old son, Gamal, the coming power in the ruling National Democratic Party, uses the slogan “Let us reform our own house first” to introduce primaries for leadership...
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