ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has the dubious honour of following British players to Grand Slam qualifying from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went […]
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Liverpool’s Fernando Torres makes unconditional pledge to remain at Anfield
By Keira Daley 3 August 2010 Liverpool’s Spanish striker Fernando Torres has made what appears to be an unconditional pledge to remain at the club for the coming season, regardless of the ownership situation. Speaking to the club’s official website today, he said: “I am looking forward to the challenge ahead. My commitment and loyalty to […]
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Liverpool’s suitor Kenny Huang ‘doesn’t have the money’ to buy the club himself
By Nick Harris 2 August 2010 A reported approach by a Chinese businessman, Jian-hua ‘Kenny’ Huang, to buy Liverpool is shrouded in confusion as sources in China and America have told sportingintelligence that he does not have the money to buy the club, that he declined to sign a confidentiality clause requested of all interested […]
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Arsenal complete three-year Thomson deal; and separately raise almost £1m for Great Ormond Street
By Keira Daley 2 August 2010 Arsenal may still be plagued with doubts that refuse to go away about the future of Cesc Fabregas but the club announced two positive pieces of news today – first, the signing of a potentially lucrative three-year commercial partnership with Thomson Sport, which will become the club’s official travel […]
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WIN a £195 sportingintelligence report telling you how much sports stars REALLY earn
By Nick Harris Editor, sportingintelligence 2 August 2010 . Want a chance of winning a copy of sportingintelligence’s 2010 Annual Review of Global Sports Salaries, worth £195? Just buy any product from Amazon that you wanted anyway to go into the draw. Simple! The Review is a unique document that tells you the real average […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Robbie Savage, pussycat, by the author who’s been inside his mind
* Robbie Savage started life as a professional footballer with Manchester United and then, like so many others, changed career trains at Crewe. He’s never been a shrinking violet, and his candid autobiography, published this week, is typically honest. Yet as his co-writer Janine Self explains here today for the first time, ‘Sav’ is actually […]
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The world’s most popular sports team? It’s not the Yankees, Barca, Real, Man Utd, Liverpool or the Lakers. It’s . . . Galatasaray
By Nick Harris 2 August 2010 Take a sample of the world’s population and ask them to nominate their favourite sports team and many experts would expect to find football’s Barcelona or Manchester United, or baseball’s New York Yankees or basketball’s LA Lakers at the top. Yet take a global sample of an enormous magnitude, […]
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More popular than God: Ronaldo, Messi, Federer and Kobe (but not Beckham)
By Nick Harris 2 August 2010 Cristiano Ronaldo is the world’s most popular athlete in all of global sport according to new research by sportingintelligence to coincide with Facebook reaching the landmark of 500m active users. Social networking is increasingly important in the promotion and marketing of sports stars and teams. Thus Facebook, now the […]
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British-led rowing crew smash 19th century trans-Atlantic record
By Pete Wilson 31 July 2010 A four-man rowing crew, skippered by a Scotsman, Leven Brown, have completed a trans-Atlantic crossing today, coming ashore at the Scilly Isles and smashing a 114-year-old record for a US to UK rowing voyage. The crew, who have been homing in on their target over the last few days, […]
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How corncobs helped Victorian runners – and might help the 21st century athlete
By Paul Marshall 30 July 2010 With Mo Farah and Chris Thompson’s successes this week at the European athletics championships in Spain, Britain has renewed its affair with distance running. And while Paula Radcliffe won’t be there as the marathons unfold on the streets of Barcelona this weekend, she does hope to be back in […]
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