American rents out stadium on night of huge basketball match
WWE owner Vince McMahon has challenged Arsenal’s majority shareholder Stan Kroenke to a steel cage match after an embarrassing scheduling screw-up.
Kroenke owns the NBA team Denver Nuggets, who are scheduled to face the LA Lakers in a home Western Conference final match next Monday. However, Kroenke Sports Enterprises agreed last August to rent out the Pepsi Center to the WWE for their televised Raw show - an arrangement that was confirmed last month with no escape clause.
As Gabriele Marcotti in The Times points out, it’s the equivalent of Arsenal
Following in the footsteps of two pop stars whose time in the public eye should have expired long ago - Madonna and Geri Halliwell - LA Galaxy star David Beckham is all set to launch a series of children’s books. The youthful tomes, to be published in mid 2009, will be set in Becks’ football academies in Los Angeles and London:
“David is particularly pleased that The Academy has inspired a series of books that will bring children to reading through football.”
The Telegraph says that Beckham will not be writing the books himself, which is quite a relief, as a story with his irritating “you know” tic peppered throughout will prove wearisome for even the most studious of kiddies.
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