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Television
Al Jazeera intends to build a global sports brand, even bidding for UK rights to Premier League games (Reuters)

NBC laid out its Olympics coverage including live streaming of every event on NBCOlympics.com and 242 hours of 3D coverage on one delay (Engadget)

Baseball
No wonder the Marlins and Rays have had attendance problems;  Florida baseball fans' favorite team is not located in Florida (NESN)

Call it the Dodgers effect, Padres owner want $800 million for the team that only averages 24,000 fans a game (Forbes)

Frank McCourt just won't go away; currently being investigated by federal grand jury for financial irregularities with the Dodgers (BleacherReport)

Football
One of the unfortunate consequences of conference realignment is the ending of decades old rivalries. One which has not received the publicity it deserves is the Holy War in Utah (NationalFootballPost)

Did Robert Griffin III sign with Adidas because of of that suffix (Shutdown Corner)

Sometime there is justice in the world, Terrell Owens cut by indoor football league team he partially owns (Yahoo)

Further evidence of justice, Craig James received four percent of the vote in the Texas Republican Senate primary, Texas Republicans showing better judgement than I ever knew they had (CBS)

NBA
The New Orleans Hornets just recently sold by the NBA to Tom Benson, the owner of the Saints, won the draft lottery and will likely take Anthony Davis, who won the NCAA title in NOLA (ESPN)

Calvin Klein becomes founding partner of Brooklyn Nets in a $4 million per year deal (Sports Pro Magazine)


NCAA
Northwestern's women's lacrosse win NCAA title, making seven out of the last eight, but the bigger championship has been off the field (ChicagoTribune)

University of Louisville funds expansion of their baseball stadium one baseball at a time (UofL Sports)

Horse Racing
There are dopers and then there is this: trainer accused of doping In 675 harness races (NYT)

I'll Have Another's trainer suspended for 45 days starting July 1 and fined $15,000 for excessive level of carbon dioxide in one of his horses - not his first suspension (DRF)

Soccer


US Men's National Time gets a reality check with 4-1 loss to Neymar and Brazil ahead of June 8 opening of World Cup qualifying (ESPN)

The Beautiful Game is not necessarily the cleanest game; another new match fixing in Italy (Bloomberg)

I know I haven't done this in a while but I will try to be a little better about it going forward.  In any event, here is this week's installment, which started on Tuesday but didn't get published until Wednesday:

Okay, I can read a calendar but it's a little hectic around here right now (political campaigns we're working on are heading to the wire) so you get some reading links early:

How bad is the economy? Bad enough for even NFL teams to go down in value (Forbes)

Financial Statements of five major league teams were leaked last week:  Pittsburgh Pirates,
Tampa Bay Rays, Florida Marlins, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Seattle Mariners,
Texas Rangers (Deadspin)

It takes cojones; Sosa fumes because Cubs haven't retired his number (Hardball Times)

Here's a first, NBC adjust ad breaks to Notre Dame's no-huddle offense (USA Today)

Is live streaming the wave of the future in youth recreational leagues? (NYT)

Will there be NHL players in the 2014 Olympics: players want it but as usual the owners
led by Bettman are reluctant at best. (NYT)