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Klimkiewicz transferred to BB&N that year from St. Sebastian’s, another local private school that competes in the ISL. A junior, Klimkiewicz decided to stay back a year in order to switch schools...
...couldn't have arrived at a better time. With the reigns of Andre Agassi and Sampras drawing to a close--and colorful Europeans as plentiful as empty ashtrays in Paris cafes--there is a big void at the top of the sport. Worse, a vital ATP Tour marketing partner, ISL, went bankrupt last year, leaving men's tennis with a financial shortfall. The tour needs marquee players who can lure big sponsors back to the game...
...knowledge or involvement - helped him win the presidency in 1998 have refused to go away. And two weeks ago Blatter's opponents within FIFA sought and were granted an internal audit of FIFA's finances, believed to have been sapped by significant losses after the collapse last year of ISL, FIFA's marketing partner. Blatter's opponents maintain they have him on the ropes, and they will soon get the chance to be proved right - or wrong. The next FIFA presidential election, for which Blatter put himself forward last month, will be held in Korea...
Though the prices for sports broadcasting rights have soared, audiences and advertising dollars have failed to keep pace. Kirch is not the only one to have been caught in the squeeze play. Last year, the Swiss-based sports-rights agency ISL collapsed after overpaying for the commercial rights - mainly for broadcasting and sponsorship - to a wide range of sports, including $1.2 billion over 10 years for men's professional tennis. Last month Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. wrote off $909 million on contracts to broadcast such sports as Major League baseball. Murdoch's BSkyB also wrote off the value...
...number of broadcasters including BSkyB and ITV and was valued at $2.35 billion over three seasons - were to be renegotiated, it would be worth only about 60% of current levels. Figures from across the sports world joined in the chorus of doom. Daniel Beauvois, the ex-ceo of ISL, issued a harsh warning that the same revenue-reduction fate could befall other sports-rights agencies. In Formula One, the fans seem to have sped away: viewing numbers for the motor sport have dropped about 5% since 1999. And both Greg Dyke, head of Britain's bbc, and Gerhard Aigner...