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CFO June 1, 2007 John Goff |
Pitch Fever American investors spend it like Beckham -- and borrow heavily, too -- to buy UK soccer teams. The big lure: global branding. |
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Holmes & Cohn |
What's Behind The Run At ManU? U.S. deal maker Malcolm Glazer may be out to build a global soccer superstation. |
AskMen.com David Hellier |
British Soccer In Foreign Hands In their different ways, the recent, and sometimes controversial, foreign takeovers of soccer clubs Chelsea and Manchester United have changed the face of England's "beautiful game" forever. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
3 Big Questions (And Answers) For Soccer In 2011 Question One: Will Jose Mourinho leave Real Madrid if he fails to take the Spanish title from Barcelona? |
BusinessWeek May 30, 2005 Laura Cohn |
Can Glazer Keep Manchester United Profitable? Malcolm Glazer is fending off the hostile rants of irate fans who can't stand the idea of the controversial American tycoon owning their favorite team. |
AskMen.com Rob Fox |
In Defense Of Manchester City: Fox On Football Manchester City's long-suffering fans have endured a roller-coaster history and now finally have success within their grasp and a first top-division title in their sights. And they might just be right. |
BusinessWeek December 12, 2005 Cohn & Holmes |
ManU Gets Kicked In The Head--Again Losing Vodafone's sponsorship is yet another blow to Manchester United's owner Malcolm Glazer. |
Sports Central March 1, 2007 Kevin Beane |
English Premier League Picks and Pans Opinions on soccer teams in the English Premier League. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United? |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Soccer Managers The American owners of Liverpool, United and Arsenal know that GMs make sense. They come from a country where GMs run sports clubs. These owners are successful businessmen who prefer their English teams to be run like mini-corporations rather than like nineteenth-century amateur clubs. |
AskMen.com Rob Fox |
EPL 2010 Predictions: Fox On Football With the start of the 2010-11 EPL season less than two weeks away, it's about time to impose some overconfident predictions on the readers of this column. So, in no particular order, here are our predictions for EPL 2010. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Teams Which five squads were the most profitable sports teams in major professional sports during the 2005-06 seasons? Hint: it's not the Yankees or the Red Sox. |
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 Jack Ewing |
Can Football Be Saved? In Europe, football is more popular than ever -- but the losses keep mounting. What can be done to fix the business? |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Brands In Soccer A team's fans often exist locally; successful branding opens up worldwide markets. |
Sports Central July 21, 2009 Corrie Trouw |
The American Premier League While a remarkable 18 teams were within five games of a playoff spot on Monday morning, such parity is more of a Bud Selig parlor trick than an exhibition of competitive balance. |
AskMen.com Rob Fox |
Why The EPL Is The Best: Fox On Football If you're anything like me, you currently have a huge World-Cup-size gap in your schedule. A football vacuum, if you will. |
Sports Central October 25, 2007 Kevin Beane |
Where the Yankees Would Be Loved By All The Boston Red Sox's are giving us more reasons to be a Yankee fan. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Leagues The top five richest pro sports leagues. |
Knowledge@Wharton August 13, 2003 |
David Beckham and the Selling of European Football The transfer of Beckham from Manchester United to Real Madrid is part of a deliberate management strategy aimed at transforming football into a world-class marketing machine. The message is clear: "It is no longer enough to score goals," says one observer. "You also have to sell jerseys." |
The Motley Fool December 17, 2010 Tony Luckett |
Arsenal Tops in the Business of English Football The Gunners still top the table in one respect. |
Sports Central December 14, 2006 Kevin Beane |
A European Soccer Primer A basic guide to European soccer for Americans. |
AskMen.com Rob Fox |
Thierry Henry Won't Save Soccer In America Beyond the money, it's difficult to see why a player of Henry's stature would want to compete in a league that's seen by many outside of North America as a golden retirement home for European and South American pros. |
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Ronaldo Headed To Madrid Manchester United accepted a world-record transfer offer for Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid on Thursday, clearing the World Player of the Year to negotiate personal terms with the Spanish club. |
BusinessWeek October 14, 2010 Ira Boudway |
The Red Sox-Liverpool Deal as a Global Model U.S. baseball clubs and British soccer teams find common ground. |
AskMen.com November 8, 2012 Simon Kuper |
Race And Soccer Management There's still a curious absence at the heart of English soccer: black managers. England has done a great job of tackling racism on the pitch and in the stands. Now it needs to do the same in the head offices of its clubs. |
AskMen.com Jack Doyle |
USA Soccer Has No Chance Against England With a runner-up finish in the 2009 Confederations Cup still fresh in the minds of U.S. soccer fans, expectations for World Cup success have never been higher. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Soccer Careers "Soccer Men" illustrates there's no such thing as loyalty in professional soccer. |
Sports Illustrated May 16, 2000 Mark Mravic |
Scorecard We offer a modest proposal to spice up the summer game. World Series hopes may be all but dead for half the clubs in the majors, but what if those teams still had something meaningful to play for? |
Sports Central October 1, 2007 Ross Lancaster |
An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
Sports Central May 31, 2007 Kevin Beane |
In Praise of Losing Teams Love sports, but don't like the stress associated with being a hardcore fan? Then pick a poor team to support. |
AskMen.com Colm Larkin |
Cristiano Ronaldo: 6 Reasons Why He's The World Cup's Biggest Star As incredible as Argentina's Lionel Messi is, he's not the event's most valuable player; that title belongs to Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Journalism In Sports Let's start with the great built-in advantage of sports journalism over, say, business journalism, political journalism or science journalism. In sports, you can see the most important events with your own eyes. |
Wired October 2009 Drake Bennett |
Stefan Szymanski and Stephen Ross: Bust Up Big League Sports In the current system, major league team owners are rewarded for mediocrity. How can we demand better? Make teams compete for a spot in the majors. |
Sports Central April 15, 2005 Derek Daggett |
Fight Club: Fenway-Style Major League Baseball needs to enact a no tolerance policy to address the problem of fan misbehavior. |
AskMen.com October 2, 2002 Mark Simmons |
Italy's Soccer Situation Italy's football problems are structural and deep-rooted in a system that failed to be held accountable. Maybe, just maybe, if Italy's lack of business philosophy does not change, the once-proud Italian league may need to take a lesson or two from that other Italian institution. |
Sports Central October 19, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
How the Players Can Win the NBA Lockout The NBA players need to leverage their talent to win the lockout. |
Salon.com July 23, 2002 King Kaufman |
Taking baseball owners at their word If competitive balance is the main issue in the contract talks, why does their main proposal address payroll imbalance? |
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 Tiplady & Bonnet |
Olympique Lyonnais: Scoring Off the Field The French soccer team is making millions by putting its brand on everything from CDs to taxis. Its newest venture: A beauty salon. |
CFO September 1, 2004 Joseph McCafferty |
Hockey Fight A brawl over accounting -- not a salary cap -- could give the National Hockey League a black eye. But worse, will it cancel the 2004-2005 season? |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
The Decline Of Drinking In English Soccer Drinking on pro soccer teams was a carryover from the British military, but these days athletes' bodies are treated as finely tuned machines. |
CFO Tim Reason |
Diamonds in the Rough Minor league baseball is afraid of becoming a victim of its own success... |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2005 |
Learn About Investment Clubs Twelve heads are often better than one, in investing. |
Wild West June 2007 Hart & Lalire |
Baseball in the West Our national pastime developed in the eastern United States, but it spread across the Mississippi far sooner than you might think. |
Sports Central August 14, 2013 Andrew Jones |
An Anti-Conference Approach The past few years have seen a plague of movement in college football conferences to the point where the names don't even make any sense anymore. |
AskMen.com July 31, 2013 Simon Kuper |
2013 Soccer The seven most powerful European clubs -- Manchester United, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain -- start the season with a new manager. |
Sports Central August 13, 2012 Paul Foeller |
Centralized Power Only three players in the National League rank in the top 10 of all three triple crown categories. All of them play in the National League Central. Only one division has three of the top five in wins and in saves -- the National League Central. |
Sports Central February 14, 2008 Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Soccer Quick Hitches A look at the English Premier team and the U.S. Men's National team. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Russian Soccer Times have changed since the days when players only worried about breaking a leg on the field. FIFpro plans to publish its complete "black book" of bad clubs in January. |
BusinessWeek October 29, 2009 Dean Foust |
Country Clubs: Stuck in the Rough Golf courses across the nation are in crisis as memberships and money dwindle. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2003 Annamaria DiGiorgio |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America Goes High-Tech Today's students are more tech-savvy than ever, and the opportunities to grow and learn from technology are endless. The Boys & Girls Clubs recognized this potential in their 3.3 million nationwide members and decided to equip their clubs with computers and technology applications. |