"Beards are hideous things if you ask me, " says Attree, who sports a traditional English moustache.
From a sponsorship perspective, the League Cup hasn't always been the most glamorous property in English sports.
Buildings and businesses were forced to close because of the downpour, including Poole's Dolphin Shopping Centre, the Russell Coates Museum on Bournemouth seafront and the Sir David English Sports Centre.
Funnily enough, more and more Americans are playing 'English' sports such as rugby and football.
Hundreds of people signed up to take part in the ParalympicsGB Sports Fest at the English Institute of Sport (EIS) on Friday and Saturday.
The deal with Time Warner would begin with the 2012-13 season, with one new regional sports network televising Lakers games in English and another RSN showing the games in Spanish.
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Chief support at the Kingsway Sports Centre sees a mouth-watering English light-middleweight title clash between Andrew Facey and Matthew Hall.
The English take so many team sports seriously that they do not have the time, the resources or the single-mindedness to be a world-beater at any one of them.
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Under the deal, BT will get ESPN and ESPN America channels, plus ESPN's live sports rights portfolio, which includes the English Football Association Challenge Cup, better known locally as the FA Cup, the Scottish football Premier League, and Germany's top football league, known as the Bundesliga.
Telecom regulator Ofcom announced Wednesday that British Sky Broadcasting, the country's biggest satellite broadcaster and main broadcast partner for the English Premier League, must offer its main sports channels, Sky Sports 1 and 2, to other cable, Internet and terrestrial channels at cheaper wholesale prices.
Vodafone has already withdrawn from other big sports sponsorship deals in the past decade, including with the English national cricket team and English soccer club Manchester United.
Rooney also played in central midfield for Manchester United at times last season, when he completed more passes than any other center forward in the English Premier League, according to statistics provider Opta Sports.
But two changes seem to be taking place in English football, says Dan Jones, who heads the sports group at Deloitte.
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The new networks (one in Spanish and the other in English) are fighting for content in the crowded LA Sports market, and this deal guarantees live programming from March to October.
"There were relatively few active spenders in the winter window, with over half of this January's total transfer spending coming from three clubs, " said Dan Jones, partner in the sports business group at Deloitte, as he analyzed spending trends in the English Premier League.
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It has also been buying up other sporting rights, including English Premiership Rugby, as it competes with Sky for the armchair sports fan.
Unlike most American sports, the soccer season is relatively short: 38 league games in the English top-flight, plus cup competitions, which could see you bounced out immediately.
Unlike in American sports, which are dominated by market-distorting players' unions and owners' cartels, English players can sell their services with relatively few restrictions.
The NFL, NBA, NHL, some NCAA sports and major tennis tournaments all use a form of replay, and even FIFA and the English Premier have adopted goal-line technology.
He was unable to speak English but went on to gain 14 GCSEs at school, and has been studying for a sports diploma at Sittingbourne Community College.
Similarly, English outfit No Internal Combustion Engine (NICE, very cute) is previewing an all-electric sports car that it plans to show off at the London Auto Show in July.
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He lobbied for the company, which spends 5% of sales on ads and marketing, to replace print ads that had simple shots of bikes and ad chatter in "weird Euro English" with more eye-catching pictures of Saunier Duval, the Spanish pro cycling team Scott Sports cosponsors.
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