Sports' popular products will also be included in the NBC Sports Group's digital assets.
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Club owner Fenway Sports Group is deciding on whether to build a new stadium or revamp Anfield.
"The complementary nature of this partnership is unmatched in digital sports media, " said Mark Lazarus, Chairman, NBC Sports Group.
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There have been rumours, too, that John Henry of the Fenway Sports Group will sell the Boston Red Sox.
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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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Mr. Beusse said he expects the acquisition of FSV to more than double the traffic to the USA Today sports group.
What the sports group still lacked was depth of coverage of individual sports to match its geographic reach, Mr. Beusse said.
Though those efforts largely eliminated the company's near-term liquidity concerns, Times Co. has continued to pursue a sale of Fenway Sports Group.
The Hicks Sports Group had owned the Rangers owners since 1998.
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Ayre said he had been in contact with the Fenway Sports Group, which also owns baseball's Boston Red Sox, about the best way to handle this situation.
Sports' original reporting expertise, coverage of big events, Rivals college content and popular fantasy sports products with NBC Sports Group's growing digital assets, and significant television promotion and integration.
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Besides the Red Sox, Fenway Sports Group also owns the Liverpool Football Club, about 80% of the New England Sports Network and 50% of Roush Fenway Racing, a NASCAR team.
"The real problem with spectator numbers and media reach is that the European leagues are the leading football propositions in the region, " said Jamie Cunningham, chief executive of Professional Sports Group.
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He left in 1991, and after stints elsewhere, he retired from management in 2000, only to return as boss when Boston-based Fenway Sports Group acquired the club over a year ago.
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Sports and the NBC Sports Group will continue to maintain separate sites and editorial control of their respective newsrooms and digital properties, they will collaborate on premium sports news and events coverage both online and on the air.
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Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has, likewise, been backed by his club's American owners -- Fenway Sports Group -- to overhaul the team and try to return to the glory days of the 1970s and '80s in which the team won four of its five continental crowns and 11 of 18 English championships.
This week, as part of a 500-person layoff plan that we reported in October, Time Inc. let go of 25 staffers from the Sports Illustrated Group, which includes Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Golf magazine and their online counterparts.
Not necessarily, says sports business consultant David Carter, who runs the Sports Business Group in Los Angleles.
Dan Jones, head of the sports business group at Deloitte, agrees that Uefa's message seems to be getting through.
"I think it's clear that the business will not be negatively affected, " says industry consultant David Carter of the Sports Business Group.
"Manchester United continue to successfully leverage their global brand, " Austin Houlihan, Senior Manager in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said in a statement.
That man is Glenn Sugiyama, who leads the sports practice group at DHR International, one of the five largest search firms in the country.
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He is leading the advisory committee on privatizing the clubs, which includes Deloitte Sports Business Group and Dentons, a global law firm with its headquarters in London.
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"Manchester United has been transformed as a football club under the management of Sir Alex Ferguson, " according to Dan Jones, partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte.
Finacially, United continue to reach new audiences and according to Austin Houlihan, Senior Manager in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, the club is on track to overhaul the Spaniards.
"Looking out at the horizon, teams are looking at their local sponsorship deals expiring over the next two or three years, " says industry consultant David Carter of the Sports Business Group.
Henry, whose New England Sports Venture group completed their takeover of the club in October, was sampling his first Anfield experience along with newly-appointed director of football strategy Damien Comolli.
"Clubs have been relatively restrained in their player transfer-fee spending, in spite of the upcoming uplift in their broadcasting revenues, " said Dan Jones, partner in the sports business group at Deloitte.
Partner in the Sports Business group at Deloitte, Dan Jones, told CNN that only a "tiny percentage" of footballers earned more from product endorsements than they do from their player wages.
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