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		<title>Israeli clubs worry over future as backers go</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Sports Biz Asia Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM (Reuters) &#8211; Three of Israel&#8217;s best-known soccer clubs face an uncertain future after learning that they will lose their financial backers. Alona Barkat of Hapoel Beersheba and Maccabi Netanya&#8217;s Daniel Jammer both said unruly behaviour by some fans was the final straw and announced last week that they would stop funding the two mid-table [...]


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		<title>Why English football is heading for a fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Sports Biz Asia Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debts of English football clubs are racking up, with teams both big and small in deep trouble. John Davidson explains how the debt issue in England is spiraling out of control and what the dire consequences could be. It makes for alarming reading. The total of 18 clubs in the English Premier League are [...]


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		<title>Eyes turn to &#8220;value for money&#8221; London 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Organisers of the 2012 Olympics will be hoping to emulate the street-party atmosphere of Vancouver now that the curtain has come down on the Winter Games and all eyes turn to London. London organisers have always promised a &#8220;compact and atmospheric&#8221; Summer Games, largely as an antidote to the glitz of Beijing [...]


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		<title>Who is Asia’s most marketable sports star?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Sports Biz Asia Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asia is rising as a force in world sport with new leagues, competitions and athletes emerging. But just who is the region’s most potent sports marketing force? John Davidson finds out. Last month Bloomberg and BusinessWeek unveiled its annual ranking of the 100 most powerful athletes in sport. This list covers the earning potential for [...]


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		<title>The Ashes World Cup hosting battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The competition for the 2018 and 2022 football World Cup hosting rights is panning out as a two-horse race between sporting rivals England and Australia. Both countries have brought out some of their big names as ambassadors, England with David Beckham and Australia with Nicole Kidman. By 2018 both will have recent Olympics hosting under [...]


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		<title>Profiteering worries World Cup organisers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Sports Biz Asia Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Rocketing prices in South Africa are causing major concern among World Cup organisers, who fear profiteering could deter more soccer fans than alarmist reporting about violent crime. South African and FIFA officials have angrily condemned what they see as emotional and inaccurate reporting, especially in England and Germany, about the dangers to [...]


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		<title>The future of Indian Football</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attempting to delineate Indian team sport from politics, disputes, legal action and ego clashes is a bit like eating aloo parantha without butter, chutney or raita. Us – consumers of sport, are bored to death reading the sad stories surrounding cricket, hockey, football, volleyball, basketball etc. If it is not fighting for the office of [...]


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		<title>2009: The year of the cheat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 was tough year for the sports world with match-fixing incidents, numerous scandals and many sponsors pulling their endorsements. John Davidson reviews the year and asks, what will 2010 bring? By any measure, 2009 was certainly a difficult year for the world of sport. Thanks to the global recession many companies scaled backed their investments [...]


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		<title>Why don’t we come out in support of sports events?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The situation – Last day of the Ranji Trophy 2003 semi-final, Delhi against Tamil Nadu; Delhi are 159 for 5 chasing 332 to win. The likelihood – Looks tough for Delhi. The “But&#8230;” factor – Virender Sehwag. Overnight 98 not out off 108 balls. 19 hits to the fence and one mighty one over. The [...]


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		<title>Sport, Television and why Indians will always be lazy</title>
		<link>http://www.sportsbizasia.com/features-opinion/sport-television-indians-lazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Sports Biz Asia Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, it used to be a treat to watch a cricket series or a football game live on television. One would stay up or wake up to watch a one day game in New Zealand or a European Cup Winners Cup Final. Sometimes, there was no notice and one would stumble upon, say, a [...]


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		<title>The future of the One Day game</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Sports Biz Asia Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pot of cricket is boiling, today. The tradition of cricket itself – the test match – is being questioned. It’s “new” avatar, the one day game, is being trashed. Everyone is high on the newest kid on the block – T20’s. It seems obvious though that of the three formats, the one day game [...]


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		<title>Singapore’s World Cup Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://www.sportsbizasia.com/features-opinion/singapores-world-cup-dilemma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Sports Biz Asia Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singaporeans face the uneasy prospect of potentially being unable to watch this year’s football World Cup on television, as broadcasting negotiations with FIFA have hit a stalemate.  John Davidson argues why that result would be a massive own goal for both Singaporean football and FIFA. As unlikely as it sounds, there’s a good chance that [...]


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