Then, in December, the European Court of Justice agreed to review a complaint from three French animal-rights campaigners, backed by the European Commission on Human Rights, who say that the French law letting shooters on to smallholders' land violates property rights and freedom of association because it forces people to become de facto members of the local field-sports association.
Instead they referred us to the umbrella group for field sports - the Countryside Alliance.
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All adults are told where their closest evacuation centre - a park or sports field, for example - is located.
Ferguson's departure marks the end of an era in Manchester and European soccer, a spell that saw Manchester United become not just an on-field juggernaut, but one of sports' pre-eminent global brands.
Whenever Ferguson does leave, it will mark the end of an era in Manchester and European soccer, a spell that saw Manchester United become not just an on-field juggernaut, but one of sports' pre-eminent global brands.
"He can talk to them about both their on-field and off-field businesses, and in the way that he has migrated from singer to producer to sports-team owner, show them a path that I'm sure a lot of them would like to follow one day, " Mr. Horowitz said.
This is direct competition with DirectTV, which has dominated the out-of-market sports field for year.
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Other professional-sports leagues have long dealt with off-the-field issues among their owners.
Holding the trials in swimming and track and field the two highest-profile sports very close to the Games, and away from the clutter of the NBA and NHL playoffs, NBC has a platform to promote its roughly 5, 000 hours of coverage of the London Olympics.
And as you know, in big-time Olympic sports like track and field, image is everything.
Beyond on-field exploits, we should pay attention to the business of college sports at its highest levels.
The issue has again put front and center the question of whether sports figures, often lauded as heroes, should be judged in the annals of sports history by way of their off-the-field conduct.
Teams like Portland and Utah in the NBA, Ottawa in the NHL, and San Francisco and Chicago Cubs in MLB outdraw the median attendance within their sports without having stars or with little recent on-field success (the Giants recent World Series notwithstanding).
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Coming up on January 6 at Conseco Field House, home of the Indiana Pacers: the two-day Midwest Sports Business Combine, aimed at recruiting young sales pros to peddle tickets for the Pacers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Red Wings, Cincinnati Bengals, and several other major sports franchises.
He torched defenders who gave him too much space, logging a career-high effective field-goal rate (51.3%) on jumpers, according to Synergy Sports.
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Two-thirds of parents say they have witnessed bullying and intimidation on the school sports field, a survey suggests.
Banish from your minds the notion, for instance, that when an Australian sports team takes to the field the entire nation watches spellbound wearing green and gold shell-suits.
Friendly with LeBron James and a number of sports superstars, Jay-Z could quickly make Roc Nation a force in the agency field.
In a culture that encourages the constant search for the limits of human achievement, we, the fans, the consumers of popular sports entertainment, revel in record-breaking, gravity-defying, barely believable feats on the field of play.
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