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Feb05

  • FIFA advises Kenyan Football League to go professional.

  • Managing and balancing interests in English rugby union. 1 and 2

  • Financial incentives fail to appeal to elite athletes in South Africa.

  • Entrepreneurs step in to secure Barcelona’s recovery.

  • New Zealand rugby player, Sonny Bill Williams, set to earn big money.

  • Is K1 the world’s next big sport?

    • REFERENCE MATERIAL
      SOSOL carries a further study of the commercialisation of sport.
      There is an interesting John Hudson article online which shows the problems which arise with the commercialisation of soccer in the UK, and suggests some solutions.
      Check out the Athens Olympics website for details on their commercial development around sponsorship and television rights.
      The Museum of Rugby has a chronology of the (mainly Union) game, and the Rugby League Hall of Fame has a detailed accoubt of the 'Great Split' of 1895.