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I gotta give it to Blackburn Rovers fan Eddie Maxwell, because he is one cat who is quick on his feet. Apparently there is a new pitch being laid down at Ewood Park this summer and Mr. Maxwell thought that he might want to ask the club if he could come by and take some of the grass as a keepsake. In his words: “I just thought, if you don’t ask you ...

Today Forbes.com released their annual Celebrity 100 list of the most influential people in the entertainment business. There was some shake up in the list at the top, with Lady Gaga replacing Oprah Winfrey as the most powerful person in entertainment, but there was no such thing in regards to footballers on the list. Becks of course was the highest ...

The Premier League's 20 clubs collectively lost close to half a billion pounds last year despite making record income, a Guardian analysis of their most recent accounts has revealed. In the 2009-10 financial year, the clubs currently in the Premier League made total revenues of £2.1bn, principally from their billion-pound TV deals and the world's most ...

Just 24 hours following the allegations of FIFA Executives Seeking Bribes For 2018 / 2022 World Cup Bid Votes, FIFA has asked the English FA for an official report providing evidence on Lord Triesman's claims. via Guardian Fifa said in a statement: "In his letter to the FA, the Fifa secretary general [Jérôme Valcke] expresses the extreme ...

via Guardian 'Lord Triesman, the former chairman of England's 2018 bid, told a parliamentary committee that four members of Fifa's executive were guilty of "improper and unethical behaviour" in the early stages of the bid. He accused Concacaf president Jack Warner of asking for £2.5m to build a school and offices in Trinidad at a meeting in ...

The creative duo behind Bionic Yarn, brand ambassador Pharrell Williams and founder/CEO Tyson Toussant, talks to us about products produced by using fibers collected from recycled plastic bottles. "you dont feel funny for making money" [complex]

Miami  Heat basketball star LeBron James, who is a minority shareholder in the Anfield club, showed up to a post game press conference in a Liverpool shirt. The Miami Heat beat the Boston Celtics in game 1 of their playoff series. (more...)

Forbes has once again taken a look at the most valuable professional soccer teams and there is no big mystery who is top dog this year.... Manchester United is once again on top, as the most valuable franchise in football, and in all of professional sports, valued at about $1.86 billion. Number two? Real Madrid with a value of $1.4 billion. Arsenal, at ...