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From cinema ban to film festival: Saudi rolls out red carpet
AFP, Published on 07/12/2021
» JEDDAH (SAUDI ARABIA) - Less than four years after lifting a ban on cinemas, Saudi Arabia rolled out the red carpet Monday in the Red Sea city of Jeddah for celebrities descending on the kingdom's first major film festival.
Football films can be a mixed bag
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 09/05/2020
» Last week I watched on TV a couple of half-decent films on American sports -- Moneyball (2011) starring Brad Pitt as a baseball manager and Any Given Sunday (1999) with Al Pacino as coach of an underperforming American gridiron team.
Ranieri 'love' for Italy job on hold as Foxes target Europe
AFP, Published on 10/05/2016
» MILAN - Claudio Ranieri admits he would love to coach Italy one day but has committed his immediate future to a Leicester City side that, he believes, could spring a few surprises in next season's Champions League.
Rooney at 30 - Man Utd talisman reappraised
AFP, Published on 23/10/2015
» MANCHESTER (UNITED KINGDOM) - Ahead of his 30th birthday on Saturday, the view of Wayne Rooney as a player whose career, though hugely successful, has not quite fulfilled its early promise is being quietly reappraised.
Europe resonates to Champions League anthem
AFP, Published on 14/09/2015
» LONDON - For fans of European football, it is a sound that has become as synonymous with autumn's arrival as the turning of the leaves or the drawing in of the nights.
China's Wanda 'to buy more sports firms': Xinhua
AFP, Published on 24/06/2015
» SHANGHAI - Chinese property and entertainment giant Wanda Group, which formally took a 20 percent stake in Spanish football club Atletico Madrid in April, will buy at least three more sports companies this year, its chairman said.
Fifa film tends towards the fantastical
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 13/06/2015
» If Sepp Blatter and his mates at Fifa had hoped that the release of its bizarre feature film, United Passions, promoting the wonderful deeds of Fifa, might have eased the pressure on their organisation, they are sadly mistaken.
China tycoon Wang scores latest goal with Atletico Madrid
AFP, Published on 21/01/2015
» BEIJING - Chinese multi-billionaire Wang Jianlin's purchase of a 20 percent stake in Spain's reigning football champions Atletico Madrid is the latest in a series of overseas acquisitions by one of the world's richest football fans.
Banned bowler Aamer to star in Pakistani film
AFP, Published on 21/08/2014
» KARACHI - Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Aamer is set to make his big-screen debut, he told AFP Thursday, as he struggles to make ends meet while serving a ban for spot-fixing.
'The greatest show on Earth'
Sports, Published on 28/07/2012
» LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II opened the London Olympics early Saturday as Britain celebrated its rich culture and heritage in a spectacular ceremony.