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February 6, 2005
EA's coup takes out the competition
...an agreement with players and the league rumoured to have cost it $300m...publishers now see themselves in the big league of consumer entertainment and that...of Take-Two's deal with Major League Baseball when it allows console makers...protesting about the NFL and its players' decision to award EA exclusivity...around,? says Mark Argento. With football and baseball signing major licensing deals, all eyes are now on the National Basketball Association and how it handles the licensing... By Chris Nuttall
April 29, 2009
Visa: new entrant following IPO
...officer for PepsiCo, and he joined Visa Inc in December 2007. AB: How different...example, in the US we leverage the National Football League and, again – just like the Olympics...properties; in Canada we have the National Hockey League; and in Russia...product. We are competing against local players and our communications for that particular... By Andrew Baxter
May 8, 2007
Uefa criticises 'knee-jerk reaction'
...as a threat by some in the Premier League. We don't understand where this...the reforms could lead to a super-league. "Our whole history of Uefa is against...said: "We fear some in the Premier League are reacting like that. It is like...Platini said there was a need to protect national teams and the clubs' football academies. "Clubs should not educate players just to sell them, but to play them... By Roger Blitz
January 5, 2008
Spoiled sports
...recent National Football League contest between...two of the big national TV networks...nearly a hundred players used performance...worse in the National Basketball Association, which no longer...team. Even the National Football League, the most successful...of university players. Still, amid... By Ben White
October 10, 2008
Wags lyrical
...Choos. Lord Triesman, the Football Association’s chairman, estimated English football’s total debt at £3bn...of professional baseball players. Apparently their Wags...and hotel bars where the players prefer to meet the women that...Britain, where the Premier League is a sort of working...Historically, the City and the football were the two pools...in town, except for the National Lottery – which has already... By Simon Kuper
March 27, 2005
Beautiful game aims to score in US
...ambitions, is commissioner of Major League Soccer, the US's leading association soccer league, whose 10th season kicks off on...operations in 2003. Mr Garber, a former National Football League administrator who played basketball...found was that just paying a lot for players did not create fans . . . paying... By David Owen
August 2, 2005
Adidas to buy Reebok for $3.8bn
...companies. It will establish Nike and Adidas as dominant players in the industry and far larger than Puma. Adidas will...licensing deals to provide shirts and clothing to the National Football League and the National Basketball Association. Adidas was advised by Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse... By James Politi in New York, Richard Milne in Frankfurt, Peter Thal Larsen and Lina Saigol in London
November 20, 2007
All to play for in fantasy sports
...one of the most popular fantasy football leagues. The Fantasy Sports Trade Association has estimated the industry's...490m), with roughly 20m players in the US and Canada. One research...for example, as the American football season kicked off, CBSSports...created a fantasy baseball league with a group of friends in New...president of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association. The web also allowed players to talk to one another through...sprung up to promote fantasy league gambling. For big media companies...UK has a tradition of fantasy football leagues. The two largest Premiership... By Joshua Chaffin in New York
May 5, 2006
Ask the expert: The World Cup, football and business
...questions on the economics of football...style shirt sponsorship deals and national associations are not always the...The business of football in England has enjoyed excellent...extremely positive for the Premier League, and this will not start until 2007. It may attract more top foreign players here as they may attract even...clients took the trouble to nominate players for Goldman Sachs’ ‘Dream Team...about the level of interest in football? Guy Stevens Jim O’Neill: We had...globalization is important for national teams...
March 22, 2005
NBA signs non-exclusive deals
The National Basketball Association on Tuesday became the last...Unlike deals made by the National Football League and Major League Baseball, the NBA eschewed...exerted themselves as media players who can rank with television... By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco