AS IT enters its seventh season, Super League is an infant no longer. The allowances made for its turbulent birth have run out. It rises or falls in public esteem according to how it performs. After six years, the competition should have reached maturity, but, in some ways, it still ...
On aggregate, Europe’s 700+ top-division clubs reported €1.1bn of new investment in fixed assets (mainly stadia) in 2022, which represented a 25% increase on 2021 but was 26% below the pre-pandemic level seen in 2019. English Premier Leagueclubs again invested the most money in fixed a...
[1] IN JANUARY 2023 Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial-arts firm, launched a new sporting endeavour: Power Slap, America’s first official slap-fighting league. Slap fighting is simple. Two competitors, usually beefy men, slap each other. Hard...
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Sky’s decision to use the seasonal gap for its “iconic slot” to screen rugby league – a sport generally confined to the north of England – shows how far the game has come since switching from winter to summer in 1996. Some believe football has much to learn from the sport, which ...
Read the full-text online article and more details about "Rugby League: 'Maradona' Hernandez Spearheads Pumas' Rise" - The Birmingham Post (England), October 10, 2007The Birmingham Post (England)
The Rise and Fall of Rugby Football League in Nova Scotia, 1946-1956DavidW.BrownHumankineticsSport History Review
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However, it also met with fierce resistance from the rugby union establishment (the South African Rugby Board) under the leadership of Dr Danie Craven, which was tasked with the protection of amateurism in the sport. An emerging rivalry between the National Rugby League (NRL) and Rugby League ...
Rugby League: Ulster Rise to the TopRead the full-text online article and more details about "Rugby League: Ulster Rise to the Top" - The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), October 27, 2003