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English Football League Two team Port Vale Football Club are feeling the heat after being sued by its own shirt sponsor over the repayment of a £125,000 loan.

Papers filed with the High Court yesterday show Harlequin Property first demanded repayment of the loan in December.

Now Harlequin is suing Vale for breach of contract for failure to repay the loan and said it has refused the chance to renew its shirt sponsorship at the end of the season as a result of the dispute.

The papers state Harlequin agreed the £125,000 loan with former chairman Bill Bratt to assist “cash flow and purchase players for the team”.

Harlequin says it agreed the loan would become repayable, and interest would begin to accrue, if control of the club’s board changed.

Mr Bratt resigned in October with Perry Deakin and Peter Miller appointed in the same month.

Harlequin acknowledges it owes Vale £51,000 as part of the sponsorship agreement and has deducted the sum from its claim. Therefore Harlequin says it is owed £74,000, plus £1,926 in interest since the board changes in October.

The papers also reveal Harlequin paid £5,000 towards the players’ Christmas party, but is not seeking that back.

If the court judges that Harlequin is properly owed the sum it would allow the company to instruct bailiffs to recover assets from the club or issue a winding up petition.

That would leave Vale with the option to repay the cash or, if the court judged the club to be insolvent and unable to pay, it could have to appoint administrators to avoid liquidation.

It comes a week after it emerged the cash-strapped club missed the January 31 deadline to pay last month’s loan payment of £19,616 to Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

The club has already twice breached the terms of the £2.25 million council deal by taking out a mortgage worth £277,000 against Vale Park and missing a deadline to file company accounts.

A spokesman for Harlequin confirmed the legal action, but said: “We are not prepared to comment on the details of the claim.

“It was hoped that discussions with the club would lead to an amicable resolution, but this was not possible.

“As a result of the current situation, Harlequin Property has declined to renew the shirt sponsorship agreement at the end of this season.”

Port Vale director Perry Deakin, said: “This is a loan that the former chairman took out quite a while ago and we’re in the process of trying to clarify exactly what the terms were.

“We’re in dialogue with Harlequin. I fully expect the matter to be resolved within 14 days.

“It will be resolved amiably, without question.”

by Ismail Uddin

Germany’s national anti-doping agency (NADA) will investigate 28 athletes to see whether they received blood transfusions from a doctor at the center of a doping scandal.

NADA said Monday it will review the court documents from an ongoing case against Dr. Andreas Franke, symptoms who worked at a training center run by the German Olympic Sports Confederation for top-level athletes in Erfurt, purchase central Germany.

NADA president Andrea Gotzmann said she hopes the documents will help the body “decide which athletes we proceed with” in the investigation.

Franke is suspected of treating athletes’ blood with UV light before re-injecting it back into the same athlete, a procedure banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Public broadcaster ARD said Sunday it had a list of the 28 names implicated in the scandal, including former Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein, former 800-meter Olympic champion Nils Schumann, rising German cycling star Marcel Kittel and Jamaican long jumper James Beckford.

It did not reveal all the names but said some athletes were minors when they received transfusions at the state-funded center.

“Of course we will use due diligence to look into each case … regardless of whether we’re dealing with Olympic champions or young athletes,” Gotzmann said Monday.

Authorities searched Franke’s clinic and the training center for evidence last April, and NADA said it was pushing the investigation into possible doping offenses “as quickly and intensively as legally possible.”

NADA already had brought two cases before the German Institution of Arbitration, including that of the 22-year-old cyclist Jakob Steigmiller, whose blood allegedly was treated by Franke following an infection.

“Jakob informed NADA openly and honestly what happened, when and how,” Thueringer Energie Team manager Joerg Werner told the dapd news agency.

“He asked the doctor if the treatment was permitted,” Werner said. “Names are being burned without it being certain what actually happened.”

USA Cycling and Visit Bend have announced a one-year extension to their event hosting agreement to include the 2013 USA Cycling Masters Road National Championships.

The decision will make 2013 the third consecutive year Bend will host the event, abortion scheduled for September 4-8. Dates for the 2012 USA Cycling Masters Road National Championships are scheduled for September 5-9, cheap 2012.

In 2011, unhealthy the event attracted a total attendance of over 3,000 people for an average length-of-stay of 8 nights. The estimated economic impact of the five-day event exceeded $1 million dollars in direct consumer spending.

In addition to the USA Cycling Masters Road National Championships, Bend will host the 2012 USA Cycling Mountain Bike Marathon National Championships. That event is scheduled for September 15, 2012.

Seven people have been killed in a stampede at a football stadium in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, officials say. reports BBC.

The crush happened as a crowd tried to enter Nyayo National Stadium to watch a match between two of Kenya’s most popular teams. Six people died at the stadium while another person died later in hospital, a Kenyan Red Cross official said. The Premier League match between Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards continued despite the deaths.

Jack Oguda, head of the Kenya Premier League, was reported as saying an inquiry would be launched to establish why fans could not access the stadium, which he said was not full.

The BBC’s Will Ross in Nairobi says that the game was stopped only for a few minutes after the stampede, and that most people inside the stadium were probably not aware of what was happening outside.

This same stadium was banned by world federation FIFA from hosting World Cup qualifying matches after a crowd stampede at a game against Morocco in June 2005 when a crowd forced down gates before the game, killing a 15-year-old supporter and injuring 15 other fans.

FIFA disciplinary committee ordered Kenya to play their next against Tunisia behind closed doors and imposed a fine of $19,000.

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Broadcast sponsorship will appear on ITV1, ITV1HD and ITV4 across all coverage including live replays and highlights programmes, with online sponsorship at ITV.com and sponsorship across ITV’s interactive and mobile platforms.

The sponsorshop idents include three characters: Keith, Ian and Andy, who travel to FA Cup games in a Kia Sportage. The idents have been created by Innocean Worldwide.

The ITV’s previous FA Cup sponsor was online betting service bet365.

Formula One veteran Patrick Tambay has reacted to F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone’s comments that the Monaco Grand Prix would not be a loss if it was replaced on the calendar.

Earlier this week, Ecclestone suggested that Monaco, along with some other European GPs, would need to raise its game financially to compete with countries eager to join the race calendar.

He said: “The Europeans are going to have to pay more money or we will have to go somewhere else. We can do without Monaco [if] they don’t pay enough.”

But now Tambay has responded, saying that dropping Monaco would be a risky move.

He said: “It is the highlight of the season and of the grand prix, with which partners and sponsors from around the world want to be involved.

“There are things that probably need to be put straight, and there are clearly plenty of candidates who want to organise new grands prix, while the other pay fees that may need to be revised upwards, but all of this is a matter of negotiations that Bernie Ecclestone is currently conducting with the Automobile Club de Monaco.”

India is due to join the F1 schedule next year, with the USA and Russia both expected to join the calendar in the next few seasons too.

The World Rowing Federation (FISA) have renewed their strategic alliance with WWF for the promotion of Clean Water.

The alliance, online created in 2011, ambulance will now go through to 2019. Stuart Orr, store Manager, Global Freshwater Programme, WWF International, describes it an unprecedented move for WWF.

“This is the longest strategic alliance with a sports federation that we have formed to date,” said Orr. “It is a direct reflection of the work World Rowing has done so far in the promotion of Clean Water and the ideal match that WWF has found with World Rowing.”

FISA president Jean-Christophe Rolland said, “I am really pleased that we have renewed our Clean Water partnership with WWF.  Over the past three years, we have shown that our sport is a powerful means of communication for the vital resource of Clean Water. It also reinforces the commitment we made three years ago that rowers take the environment seriously and will do everything they can to contribute to protecting our water ecosystems.”

Newcastle Knights may be soon under new ownership after Salford Red Devils chairman Marwan Koukash revealed his interest in purchasing the National Rugby League (NRL) team.

Koukash saved Salford from financial ruin in 2013 and now he looks set to repeat the feat in the NRL with the Knights.

The 55-year-old former Palestinian refugee, who earned his fortune after setting up EuroMaTech, confirmed on Twitter that tentative takeover talks have taken place.

“I would confirm that there has been some contact with an NRL team but it is very early days,” Koukash tweeted.

“My absolute focus remains on the Red Devils.”

The Australian club were left in a precarious financial position after billionaire owner Nathan Tinkler relinquished ownership of the club in May.

The NRL took over the Knights in June and owns 80 per cent of the club under the new model, with the Members Club owning the remaining 20 per cent.

The NRL said it would be open to talks with Koukash.

“We have invested heavily in transferring control of the Knights’ ownership and now our focus is on bedding down the business,” a spokesman said.

“The NRL has indicated that, at some point in the future, we will entertain a sale to a long-term owner.

“At that time, we will need to be satisfied that any new ownership brings all the right values for the club, the community and the game.”

SKECHERS USA, denture Inc., pills  today announced that it has signed hall-of-fame quarterback legend Joe Namath to join the team representing the high-performing men’s Relaxed Fit from SKECHERS footwear line.

A new advertising campaign featuring Namath will begin in Fall 2014.

“Broadway” Joe’s campaign launches with a new television commercial utilizing the same humorous tone as ongoing spots for Relaxed Fit footwear starring Joe Montana and Mark Cuban. The campaign will extend across all media with Namath appearing in print, denture outdoor, online and point-of-sale materials through 2015.

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