Sports Illustrated Licensee Renames Red Bulls’ MLS Stadium

Sports Illustrated owner Authentic has facilitated a 13-year naming rights agreement that will rebrand the New York Red Bulls’ home into Sports Illustrated Stadium, as the licensing company leverages the brand’s recognition beyond print and online publishing. The contract values the rights for the Harrison, N.J., venue in the nine figures (more than $100 million), …

Connor making his mark at international level

Ben Connor’s career continues to flourish after being given the honour of refereeing the HSBC SVNS title decider in Cape Town in the second round of the global series on Sunday. In just his second event following his debut in Dubai a week earlier, the young Welsh referee impressed the adjudicators to earn his spot […]

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Searches continue for Tom Voyce as tributes paid to former England player

Rescuers gathered at first light to scour banks of river from ford between Bolton and Abberwick to sea at Alnmouth

Searches are continuing for the missing former England wing Tom Voyce, who is believed to have died while driving across a flood-swollen river during Storm Darragh. The 43-year-old’s car has been recovered from the River Aln, near Alnwick, Northumberland, which he had been trying to cross using a ford.

Searchers gathered from first light on Wednesday and will scour the banks of the river from the ford between Bolton and Abberwick all the way to the sea at Alnmouth.

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Oil gives you wings: PSG, Red Bull Salzburg and a bad advert for football

Luis Enrique’s side can be quietly hopeful of Champions League progress after deathly meeting of pop-up teams

It has often been said that the point of art is to ask the essential questions. Why does this thing exist? Why is this process happening? And is there any way of making it stop? In this context Paris Saint-Germain’s 3-0 defeat of Salzburg at the Red Bull Arena on Champions League match-day six was undeniably a work of art.

At the end of a fretful but still relentlessly soporific game, 90 minutes of Diazepam-ball dotted with moments of quality, PSG had upgraded their hopes of progressing to the next phase from dicey to quietly hopeful.

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