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The basketball the Golden State Warriors has been sold for a record $450 million. Chris Cohan, the owner of the Warriors reached an agreement today to sell the franchise. The buyers are the Boston Celtics minority partner Joe Lacob, and the CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, Peter Guber. In order for the deal to be finalized, Joe Lacob needs to sell his minority partnership in the Celtics. It must...

The final match of the FIFA World Cup was played on Sunday between the Netherlands and Spain. The game went into extra time with the score being Netherlands 0 - 0 Spain. The World Cup was won by Spain after Andres Iniesta scored the only goal of the game, ending the game as Netherlands 0 - 1 Spain. This exciting win for Spain gives their country their first ever...

There was much speculation before the start of the FIFA World Cup regarding whether online casino revenue would go up or down, and by how much sportsbetting operations would increase their profits and turnover. While sportsbetting operators are reporting higher than expected revenues during this exciting tournament, online casinos that had expected their revenue to increase as well, have had a startling drop in revenue. PartyGaming has sustained fairly substantial losses in...

The excitement in South Africa has reached new heights as the FIFA World Cup is drawing to a close. The final match will take place soon between Spain and the Netherlands, both of whom recently won their semi-finals games. Spain beat Germany 1-0 in Durban, while the Netherlands beat Uruguay 3-2 in the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town. On Saturday, Uruguay and Germany will battle out which of the...

In an unsurprising win at Wimbledon on Sunday, Rafael Nadal, the number 2, won the match against Tomas Berdych, the number 12. As with the women’s finals, the match was fairly short, with the winner winning in straight sets. In the men’s finals, Rafael Nadal beat Tomas Berdych in three sets, 6 - 3, 7 - 5, and 6 - 4. In the women’s finals, Serena Williams...

Wimbledon’s women’s finals will be taking place on center court between Vera Zvonareva from Russia, and Serena Williams from the USA. Zvonareva is the 21st seed, and Serena Williams, who is well known at Wimbledon is the 1st seed. Zvonareva beat the world number 82nd, Pronkova, in one hour and 46 minutes on center court in the semifinals match. Serena Williams played Petra Kvitova in her semifinal, winning the...

Day nine of Wimbledon has come and gone, and was certainly not the day that anyone expected it to be. Roger Federer, whom many expected to win the Wimbledon tennis tournament, was defeated in the quarterfinals by Tomas Berdych. This will be the first time that Federer will not be playing in the Wimbledon finals this year, as he has done every year since 2002, when he was defeated by...

The two sisters, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams have been dominating Wimbledon’s tennis finals for a few years now. This year, however, there will be no final game played between the Williams sisters, because Venus lost her match against Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria, who is an unseeded player. Venus is seeded second, and has just sustained the worst loss of her Wimbledon career. The first seed, Serena, however, is...

John Isner beat Nicolas Mahut after an epic tennis match that lasted for eleven hours and five minutes. The American finally managed to beat Mahut on the third day of their match. Isner won the first set 6-4, Mahut won the second set 6-3, Mahut won the third set 7-6, and Isner won the fourth set 7-6. The fifth set was the one that everybody is talking about, in...

The US F1 team found themselves unable to compete in the 2010 world championship, and pulled out of the international competition three weeks before it took place. The FIA (International Automobile Federation) fined the team heavily. The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council also banned them from taking part in any competitions. Of the four all-new teams that were meant to take part in the competition this year, USF 1 was the...