Scudamore plays on the margins
Bit of economics on a Friday morning never goes amiss. Richard Scudamore in the Mail this morning, applies the law of diminishing returns. Also note the hint that the next TV rights deal could add an...
View ArticleThey’re Out There! And Some Of Them Have Flick Knives
More Twitter stuff, this time from the Mail. I particularly like the way they’ve put followers in ” “, perhaps for added creepiness. Privacy campaigners condemned Twitter yesterday for allowing...
View ArticleWill Racing Miss The BBC?
The story about Channel 4’s new deal raises some big questions, about both the BBC’s sports rights strategy and the longer term value of horseracing. It was timely that the announcement comes just the...
View ArticleWoy Headline Rancours
The Sun’s Woy headline came with this second para explanation, in case we didn’t get the gag. Tottenham’s Harry Redknapp, 65, was the fans’ and bookies’ favourite but West Brom boss Roy, 64 – who...
View ArticleThe Most Lucrative Unpaid Job In Sport
Lovely interview with Peter Alliss in the Mail by Derek Lawrenson. There’s a poignant bit at the end, when The Voice is asked about regrets. ‘I’d like to have won The Open, naturally, and been Ryder...
View ArticleWhat Lies Behind The Jessica Ennis Question?
What’s she worth? This question follows every major sporting triumph. Over the past week it has been asked of Bradley Wiggins, Victoria Pendleton and now, obviously, Jessica Ennis. Since Lord Coe...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Should We Learn To Love Charity Fat Cats?
Buried at the bottom of The Mail’s ‘Fat Cats of Foreign Aid’ story is a very important question. It’s posed by one of the people accused of being a ‘poverty baron’ in the piece, Peter Young of the...
View ArticleWhat Is The BOA, BTW?
Listening to Hugh Chambers, commercial director of the British Olympic Association, this morning, I was struck by a question. What is it? More specifically, what does the BOA own, which commercially...
View ArticleNumber of the Day: £24million
The annual sponsorship revenue of British sports when football, rugby, cricket and tennis are removed from the equation. This figure comes from Sir Keith Mills, via David Owen’s report on Inside the...
View ArticleIs The Sponsorship Biz Comfortable With Skins’ Story?
Rights holders would do well to keep close to the SKINS story, there’s potential for some difficult follow up questions. Australian clothing company SKINS is to sue the Union Cycliste International...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Is David Sparkes The Worst CEO In British Sport?
Mum power. Tom Daley’s mother has come out fighting on behalf of her son. Outraged by criticism of Daley by British Swimming chief executive David Sparkes who accused the Olympic bronze medallist Tom...
View ArticleNews Doesn’t Emerge, It’s Bloody Hard Work
Charlie Sale makes a good point about news attribution in the Daily Mail (Charles Sale’s Sports Agenda). Sky Sports News are celebrating their 15th anniversary this week with an orgy of cringeworthy...
View ArticleWhat if: Waitrose brought back free to air cricket?
The Times cricket app is a nice idea. Why shouldn’t newspapers be cricket broadcasters? Others are playing in the space and given the numbers being churned by, for example, the Daily Mail’s site, they...
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