By: Joe Hall

I'm a sports and sports business journalist with City A.M. Follow me for coverage of the industry behind sports and the money made by top athletes. I've provided expert commentary on sports business for both TV and radio, including the BBC World Service. My email is always open to tips and story ideas: joe.hall@cityam.com

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Tottenham Hotspur to host NFL games in new stadium

July 8, 2015

Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium will host American Football games after the Premier League club reached a 10-year agreement with the NFL. Read more: Tottenham prepare £350m loan facility for new stadium project The club's new home – due to open in 2018 – will be a multi-sport venue featuring a retractable grass pitch with an artificial [...]
Manchester City’s owners team up with the technology firm behind Germany’s World Cup-winning “secret sauce”

July 7, 2015

Manchester City’s owners have signed a deal with the technology company that helped build the “secret sauce” behind Germany’s 2014 World Cup win. The City Football Group, which also owns Melbourne City, New York City and Yokohama F Marinos, has signed a multi-year partnership with software provider SAP which it says will "transform the way [...]
Wimbledon 2015: Nick Kyrgios and Richard Gasquet fined for behaviour in fourth-round clash

July 7, 2015

Nick Kyrgios has avoided the maximum possible £12,860 fine for appearing to give up during his fourth-round encounter with Richard Gasquet at Wimbledon, but will still see more than £6,000 wiped from his Wimbledon prize money earnings. Read more: Shoulder still a concern for victor Murray Both players have been fined for misconduct during the match [...]
World’s third richest man Warren Buffett donates $2.84bn to five charities

July 7, 2015

Warren Buffett has donated $2.8bn (£1.8bn) of shares in Berkshire Hathaway to five charities, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more: Warren Buffett sings Coca-Cola song, plays ukelele to shareholders The billionaire investor has made his 10th annual donation to the charities, taking his overall contribution over $21bn. Buffett, the world's third-richest person [...]
Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling named most valuable young player in Europe

July 6, 2015

Raheem Sterling's stock continues to soar as the Liverpool flyer is named European football's "most valuable young player" in a new study. Read more: Raheem Sterling is the world's sixth most valuable player The want-away winger is valued at £35m – £5m less than Manchester City's failed bid for the Liverpool youngster. Sterling finishes ahead of Paris [...]
Fifa bans Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 World Cup inspector Harold Mayne-Nicholls for seven years

July 6, 2015

The man in charge of inspecting the bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups has been banned from football by Fifa for seven years. Read more: Swiss banks tipped off Fifa probe over "suspicious" activity Harold Mayne-Nicholls was under investigation from Fifa's independent Ethics Committee for his conduct during the bidding process for the 2018 [...]
Government could sell half its RBS stake within two years to raise £16bn

July 6, 2015

The government could sell half of its stake in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) within two years, raising £16bn in the process. Read more: RBS' share price falls as it could face $13bn penalty over mortgage-backed securities The Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne announced last month it would begin to sell off a stake in [...]
NME to go free as Time Inc attempts to boost circulation to 300,000

July 6, 2015

Time Inc. will make NME free from September and increase its circulation to 300,000 in a bid to reverse the iconic music magazine's flagging fortunes. Read more: Metal Hammer and Classic Rock magazines sold off by Future The 63-year-old magazine will be given away nationally at train stations, university campuses and selected retailers in a similar [...]
Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman: Europe “won big” from Greece’s “No” vote

July 6, 2015

Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman hailed Greece's "No" vote in its referendum on European creditors' bailout package as a big win for the rest of Europe. Read more: Varoufakis resigns despite "no'" vote Greece overwhelmingly rejected lenders' austerity measures on Sunday, prompting the MIT professor to argue in his New York Times column that "Europe, and [...]
Gennady Golovkin interview: “Mayweather or Froch would be the best next fight.”

July 3, 2015

Gennady Golovkin isn't fussy about who he fights next. He's not bothered about embarking on a weight-loss regime to move down a division or piling on the pounds to move up. He just wants a fight. The Kazakh destroyer hasn't had many recently. Not that he hasn't been in the ring – it's just that [...]

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