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Mobile phone maker Sony Erisson has extended for two years its sponsorship of the Women's Tennis Association, but has cut the value the of the deal and lost competition naming rights, the Financial Times reports.
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The Indian Premier League has postponed for two weeks the sale of its new franchises and removed some tough financial demands from the tender.
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Players in the India team stepped out onto the pitch at the World Cup in Delhi on Saturday with the logo of construction materials company Shree Cement emblazoned on their sticks, in a move that seems to conflict with the team's sponsorship deal with conglomerate Sahara India.
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Madrid’s bid to organise the 2018 Ryder Cup has received a major boost from a survey conducted amongst 1,000 UK golf fans.
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Tiger Woods has turned down a $75 million, five-year sponsorship deal with Ireland-based bookmaker Paddy Power.
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Chile's football clubs will play one tournament this season instead of the usual two championships, with a mid-season break to help the national team prepare for the World Cup.
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The “special relationship” between the US and the UK has come to Olympic sport, as the British and American Olympic associations have signed a new agreement which they say will benefit all countries.
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The bookmaker Paddy Power is planning its biggest-ever sponsorship deal, a £5 million-per-year minimum contract with Tiger Woods.
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This year’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa is set to generate the highest commercial revenue ever for the event, at $3.5 billion, some $900 million up on the Germany World Cup in 2006.
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Premier League clubs have decided against introducing a playoff to decide the taker of England's fourth Champions League spot.
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The Australian Rugby Union will provide financial support to save the administration-threatened Queensland Rugby Union.
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A new 'toolkit' aimed at anyone organising events in the UK has been created by a group of leading event industry experts, including UK Sport, Event Scotland, the London Development Agency, the North West Development Agency.
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The US-based Formula One team USF1 will not race this season as planned, and the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has said it will not be replaced by another team.
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In the big five European markets, 86 per cent of people consider themselves sports fans, according to the first ESPN Sports Poll Europe, carried out by TNS.
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Manchester United CEO David Gill has denied that the Glazer family will sell the club under pressure from the Red Knight group which plans to oust them.
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The 2010 Formula One season will have 19 races, the joint most ever, with South Korea making a debut and Canada returning after being left out last year.
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Online gambling company Sportingbet wants to increase its customers’ bets on basketball to 10 per cent, from 5.7 per cent, and challenge football’s lead in revenue generation.
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The MP & Silva agency has extended its deal to sell the international media rights for the Kuwait national football teams to cover qualification matches for 2012 and 2016 Olympics, the 2014 World Cup and the 2015 Asian Football Confederations (AFC) Cup.
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Manchester United CEO David Gill has denied that the Glazer family will sell the club under pressure from the Red Knight group which plans to oust them.
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Spanish football team Real Madrid in 2008-09 became the first team in any sport to generate revenues of €400 million in a year according to Deloitte.
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Jim O'Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs and boyhood fan of Manchester United, is leading a group of London City financiers in discussions on a potential £1 billion takeover bid for the football club.
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The biggest US television audience for an ice hockey match in 30 years was drawn by the Winter Olympics men's gold-medal match between Canada and the US on Sunday night. But that still doesn't mean NHL players will be at the Sochi 2014 Games, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said.
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ESPN has launched ESPN Player, a new online video streamer for Europe and in the Middle East similar to its US service ESPN360.
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South Korean car brands Hyundai-Kia have become the official automotive partner of Uefa Euro 2012 and 2016.
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England manager Fabio Capello gave 50 sport and business leaders an insight into his experience of leadership, teamwork and success at private event organised by Leaders in Performance last Friday.
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The Vancouver Winter Olympics were generally hailed as a success by news outlets and major figures in sports around the world this morning, despite the litany of problems which threatened to overshadow the event early on.
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A sponsorship deal with Russian Railways RZD has taken the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics to $1.1 billion in revenues from domestic sponsors, more than three times the initial target.
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Nike wants Tiger Woods to stay off the golf course until he is completely rehabilitated, after the trauma of the disclosure of his extra-marital afters, but says it will stand by their commercial deals with him.
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Major League Soccer’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) – the deal which sets the commercial terms of players' involvement in the league – has run out, and the 2010 season looks likely to start without a new one being signed.
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Swedish technology firm TRACAB has agreed a deal with Japanese media company DataStaduim to provide match statistics for media outlets covering Japan's top football league.