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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Comcast focuses on theme parks with purchase of Universal Studios Japan for $1.5bn

September 28, 2015

US media conglomerate Comcast is spending $1.5bn (£999m) for control of the Universal Studios theme park in Osaka, Japan as it looks to expand its attractions business around the world. Read more: OMG! NBCUniversal invests $200m in Buzzfeed In what the company said was its largest ever international investment, Comcast will purchase 51 per cent of [...]
Facebook and Instagram down: Social media platform crashes leaving billions locked out of their accounts

September 28, 2015

Facebook went down for the second time in a week tonight, leaving millions of users locked out of their accounts on the social media platform. Read more: At last – Facebook is getting a "dislike" button Users across the worlds were greeted with the message "Sorry, something went wrong" when trying to log onto the social [...]
London pulls out of hosting Tour de France Grand Départ in 2017

September 28, 2015

London will no longer host the start of the Tour de France in 2017 after Transport for London (TfL) pulled out. Read more: Global interest in the Tour de France rises The capital was awarded the right to stage the cycling showpiece for the third time in a decade by race organisers Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), [...]
Michel Platini admits Uefa image could be damaged by “disloyal” Fifa payment as Sepp Blatter stays on as president

September 28, 2015

Uefa president Michel Platini has admitted the governing body's reputation may have been damaged after Swiss authorities alleged he had received a "disloyal" payment from Fifa president Sepp Blatter in 2011. Meanwhile, Blatter has maintained his innocence and refused to step down from his role in charge of football's governing body despite facing criminal proceedings [...]
Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers put up for sale by chairman Steve Morgan

September 28, 2015

Wolves chairman Steve Morgan has put his 100 per cent shareholding in the Championship club up for sale, eight years after taking control. Morgan will continue to support the club financially as it looks for a new buyer, but will step down from the board and day-to-day activities with immediate effect. The founder of FTSE [...]
Three Arsenal players and Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez named as best in the Premier League in their position so far this season

September 28, 2015

Despite the team's unsure start to the season, three Arsenal players have been named as the best-performing Premier League players in their respective positions so far. Read more: Arsenal 2014/2015 player stats Laurent Koscielny, Santi Cazorla and Mesut Ozil have been deemed to be the league's best performing players at centre-back, defensive midfield and attacking midfield respectively [...]
Jordan Spieth wins $10m FedEx Cup bonus and breaks prize money record as earnings hit $31m

September 28, 2015

Jordan Spieth finished his remarkable breakthrough season with $22.03m (£14.5m) in on-course earnings after he won the Tour Championship in East Lake, Atlanta to secure this year's FedEx Cup. Read more: Jordan Spieth caddie could earn up to $180,000 in prize money The Texan picked up the $10m "bonus" that comes with winning the season-long FedEx Cup [...]
Rugby has a brilliant, unique brand – it should do more to showcase it at the World Cup

September 28, 2015

Three years ago, I was engaged by the RFU to look at their brand identity and it was then that my preconceptions of rugby as a studious game for privileged southerners challenged (I’m originally from the North West of England and a lifelong fan of Everton). But rather than becoming an evangelical convert, my apathy [...]
Rugby World Cup 2015: More huge crowd numbers as over 11m watch Wales beat England and record attendance fills Wembley for Ireland v Romania

September 27, 2015

This year's Rugby World Cup continues to show off its size after attracting record crowds and bumper TV audiences for the second weekend in a row. Read more: England's disappointing loss to Wales summed up in six sorry stats Just under 12m people were glued to the screens for the final few minutes of England's [...]
Lance Armstrong settles $10m dispute with SCA Promotions over payments received during Tour de France streak

September 27, 2015

Lance Armstrong has settled a decade-long legal dispute with an insurance company who paid him $10m (£6.6m) in bonuses during his career. Read more: Lance Armstrong faces $10m fine for doping fraud SCA Promotions first demanded repayment of the money in 2013 when Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after he confessed to [...]

Schroders backs Wayve and Elevenlabs with UK’s first venture capital fund for pensions

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