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...flight notched up around $2.5 billion in revenue last season, almost triple the level of a decade ago, making it the world's richest football league by a country mile. New owners are piling in: foreign investors have snapped up four clubs in the past year - Liverpool, Portsmouth, Aston Villa and West Ham United - to add to the three which already had non-British owners. The rush isn't over; in April, Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets basketball team and ice hockey's Colorado Avalanche, increased his stake in Arsenal, of London, to more than 12%. The flood...
...green; overall, foreign markets account for less than 5% of the NFL's revenue, and even for the NBA, a true global brand, overseas media rights amount to just $130 million a year. But no sensible business leader is starry-eyed about sports. A few miles outside Birmingham, at Aston Villa's training ground, new owner Randy Lerner is setting out his vision for the club. From the slightly scruffy facilities to the club's balance sheet, this is no Manchester United or Chelsea. For the $142 million the boss of the NFL's Cleveland Browns' paid for Villa...
...these features make the XKR more competitive with sports cars from BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Lexus. What those brands don't have is a model as visually dashing. Designed by Ian Callum, a Scotsman who created the gorgeous Aston Martin DB7, the XKR's flowing roofline tapers off to a rear end that's neither fussy nor overwrought. A few performance elements and design cues punctuate the body: air intakes on the hood, side vents and an R badge on the rear, emblazoned like Superman's S. But the car's elegance speaks for itself. As I pulled...
...Bond Re "Um, Is that You, Bond?" [Nov. 20]: Daniel Craig, the latest actor to portray James Bond, reminds me of Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. His muscular torso goes with a T shirt and jeans more than a Brioni suit, an Omega watch and an Aston Martin. From your article, I understood how the movie industry's obsession with the hyperkinetic brutality of action films is choking the sophisticated elegance of 007. Isn't there any way to make more room for cultural diversity in Hollywood? Hiroaki Goda Kasuga, Japan
Read the stories about Ford Motor Co., and you may think things are pretty bleak in Dearborn, Mich. A new CEO, Alan Mulally, is parachuting in from Boeing, supposedly armed with turnaround tools that will put Ford in the black. One part of the company's luxury division, Aston Martin, is on the auction block, and Jaguar and Land Rover may soon follow. Wall Street has lost confidence: Ford's stock, which closed at $8.77 a share last week after a recent run-up, is still valued at less than the company's cash on hand. This week Ford...