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...NBC touted its upcoming Paris Olympics broadcast, followed by an inexplicable performance by pop star Nick Jonas....
...The agency has ridden the boom in sports and media activity in recent years....
...News round-up Deutsche Bank continued to push risky derivatives years after probe found mis-selling (FT) Private equity plunges into US college sports with Learfield deal (FT) SocGen battles Clifford...
...“Disney, Warners and NBC have had five years of trying to pivot to streaming services,” explains Tom Harrington, analyst at Enders Analysis....
...explained that not even her own coach wanted her to toe the line that day, but after her husband got dusted in the men’s race “it just didn’t make sense for us to leave without bringing home a single piece of gold...
...Nowadays, the Endeavor chief is known for relentless ambition and a foul-mouthed temper that inspired the frenetic Ari Gold character in the HBO series Entourage....
...A consortium of the top US pro leagues, as well as television networks NBC and Fox, banded together this week to call for more restraint in sports betting advertisements, particularly for restricting such...
...The 69-year-old sports baggy shorts, a sun hat — and a white T-shirt that screams “Writers Guild on Strike!”...
...Sports....
...The billionaire deputy prime minister of the UAE controls the club via Newton Investment Development LLC, a company registered in Abu Dhabi....
...This summer, under different circumstances, Tiger hosted another sports celebrity, the 23-time gold medal winning swimmer Michael Phelps, who offered inspiration as financial markets melted down....
...All of this is good news for NBC, which will air the game, and the advertisers that have paid as much as $7mn for 30 seconds of airtime to promote beer (or this year, the metaverse)....
...ESPN, the sports network, is not sending any reporters....
...The Emmys were all virtual last year, with host Jimmy Kimmel standing in a mostly empty sports arena....
...An Olympic gold remains the one prize missing from both his and Federer’s trophy cabinets....
...Along with compatriot Primoz Roglic, another winner of one of the sport’s grand tours, Pogacar is behind Slovenia’s unlikely excellence against larger countries in the sport....
...She was part of the gold medal-winning US Olympic ice hockey team in 1998, the first year women were allowed to contest the sport at the Winter Games....
...Tokyo 2020 organisers say they have made adaptations to everything but the sport, which remains sacrosanct....
...Michael Klausner, a professor at Stanford Law School who has studied Spacs, refers to them “an enormous gold mine” for hedge funds....
...If you can also sequence difficult spins and lifts to accents in the beat then, who knows, Olympic gold could be yours someday....
...That would be a fitting next chapter for Black, who built his empire on second chances — spinning the debt of troubled companies into Wall Street gold....
...A classic case of this occurred last year when Bridgepoint sold Dorna Sports, which holds the exclusive rights to promote and manage the elite motorcycle racing series MotoGP, from one of its funds to another...
...(WSJ) Digging for gold As Tesla breaks ground in its new lithium operation, US mining stalwarts like Livent and Albemarle watched their own power sources drain — losing a combined $1.7bn in market value...
...The group, which has $43bn in assets, has moved further into sports and entertainment under Durban’s watch....
...“This isn’t a gold rush, it’s an arms race. We don’t know if there is any pot of gold,” warns an executive at a big media group. “Once the music stops, there will be carnage....
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