That will help him with the little matter of boosting soccer in the U.S. so the MLS can launch an assault on the country's entrenched professional team-sports leagues.
Group Lotus - part of Malaysia's Proton car company - is sponsoring the Renault team this season and the Russian sports car manufacturer Marussia has bought into Virgin.
Teams will have their own training bases - England's is at Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus near Rustenburg - then will stay at "Venue Specific Team Hotels" before matches.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has, likewise, been backed by his club's American owners -- Fenway Sports Group -- to overhaul the team and try to return to the glory days of the 1970s and '80s in which the team won four of its five continental crowns and 11 of 18 English championships.
The pleasure that comes with, say, a good meal, an entertaining movie or an important win for one's sports team a feeling called "hedonic well-being" tends to be short-term and fleeting.
The Packers are the only publicly-owned Big Four professional sports team in the U.S. By my count, 112, 158 shareholders own around 4.8 million shares of the team.
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That's good enough, the team said, to rank as the third-largest sports-venue display in North America and surpasses Kauffman Stadium's HD scoreboard as the largest in baseball.
Next, we measured how much of each team's profits went for non-football scholarships and toward other sports, and was shared by other teams in its conference.
The U.S. Postal Service team owner, Tailwind Sports, took out an insurance policy with Dallas-based SCA Promotions in the unlikely event that Armstrong won year after year.
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Di Matteo's assistant Eddie Newton and head of sports science Ade Mafe have also left the club and first-team coach Michael Appleton has been placed in temporary charge.
If you're a fan of a pro-sports franchise, financial instability is the last thing you want out of your team's owner.
So after ManU, Real Madrid, Team England and the L.A. Galaxy, what's he meant to sports - and more than sports?
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