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May05

  • The tough choices for a top women's footballer.

  • British Lions: from desperate business ploy to commercial success.

  • Is pigeon racing set to hit the big time?

  • Steroids + Major League Baseball + business doesn’t work.

  • Ashes series set to have major financial impact on English cricket.

  • Glazer wants piece of the casino action at Manchester United.

  • Modern pentathlon fights for its future.

  • British Lions rugby tour set to be most commercially lucrative yet.

  • Zurich Insurance rugby clubs in healthy financial state.

  • France Football's Rich List. [Top 10 football players and coaches] and [more detail]

  • The Financial Times has recently run a special edition of its Creative Business Series on the commercialisation of sport.

  • More on Chelsea’s commercial strategy.

  • The business of NASCAR.

  • Balancing commercial success and respect for fans: an assessment of Liverpool Football Club.

  • Pakistan Football Federation aims to make profit from series against India.

  • Norwich City fears the impact of Premier League relegation.

    • 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.