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I help run a community football club in London - close to Paddington. Despite these kids coming from one of the most deprived areas in the UK we've experienced amazing success over the last year with two players getting places with the England squad and

Filed under: In the News NBC's Olympic coverage is scoring big ratings with viewers so far, a relief to the network still recovering from the whole" fire Conan O'Brien to get Jay Leno back on the Tonight Show" debacle. For the first three days of

NIKE and the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF have entered into a long term partnership that will see the sports wear manufacturing outfit being involved with the development of basketball in the country. Disclosing the new initiative at the weekend,

By showing branded ski-wear on screen, the corporation may be breaking strict product placement rules and effectively giving the manufacturer free advertising.

Despite not filming the event, there are more BBC crew and presenters at the Vancouver Winter Olympic games than British athletes.

HIGHER development costs have forced Morecambe Football Club to shrink the size of its new ground. Revised plans submitted to Lancaster City Council show the new stadium at Westgate will have room for 6,400 fans - 500, or 7%, fewer than originally

With the 2010 Winter Olympics in full swing, NBCs backwards thinking on new media is on display.

Following Larry Ellisons Americas Cup victory, the yachting competition likely will be coming to the San Francisco Bay Area. Ellisons BMW Oracle Racing won the second race in the best-of-three series on Sunday, defeating rival Ernesto Bertarelli, a Swiss

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Harrisburg Heads For Bankruptcy; NBA Lockouts Loom   Here is a quick roundup with a general theme of "Hard Times". 12th Grade Optional At Utah's West Jordan High School, the halls have swirled lately with debate over the merits of 12th grade. The sudden

A top three English Premier League club is considering buying a stake in one of two new teams in next years Twenty20 cricket Indian Premier League, according to IPL chief Lalit Modi. There is a football club, a very famous football club in the UK, very

Coca-Colas chief executive Muhtar Kent has suggested his company will continue sponsoring the Olympics beyond 2020. I wouldnt see any reason why it shouldnt continue, Kent said in an interview in Vancouver, where the Winter Olympics are currently taking

The America's Cup yacht race will once again allow more than two teams to enter next year, Larry Ellison, the boss of this year's winning team has said. Other teams were excluded from the 2010 event because Oracle and its opponent, the 2009 champion

Retail broker FxPro has signed as a sponsor of the World Rally Championship, becoming the Official Forex Trading Partner of the series in a three-year agreement running to the end of 2012. The deal was brokered by WRC promoter North One Sport. FxPro will

NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics is off to a good start, outpacing its viewership performance over the first two days from the 2006 Games by one-third. The network averaged a 14.0 rating/25 share and 26.2 million viewers for its Feb. 13

Nike is impressing again. Just in time for the Olympics the brand has launched an inspirational spot ?Chain?, showing the huge power of will which helps sportsmen hit the records, both official and personal. The spot is demonstrating the chain of

A leading English Football club of Britain has expressed interest in purchasing one of the two IPL cricket franchises for $225 million prior to the third IPL season, which begins in India on March 12. While talking to reports, Modi said that he was

LONDON: Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi has claimed that a top English football club is planning to bid for an IPL team but the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea have denied any such interest. "There is a very famous football club in

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LONDON: Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi has claimed that a top English football club is planning to bid for an IPL team but the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea have denied any such interest. "There is a very famous football club in