Masters Returns to Commercial Sponsorship
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The Masters is no longer commercial-free, signing up three television sponsors Friday for the first time since Martha Burk led a corporate campaign against Augusta National and its all-male membership.
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World championship boxing returned to Singapore after a 17-year absence at the weekend and the success of the event was a testament to the determination of promoter John Leung to rejuvenate the sport in the city-state.
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A new era in golf begins in two weeks, and it might expose an old problem. The tour has been trumpeting its new slogan in advertising campaigns over the last month, gearing up for the new FedExCup that tees off Jan. 4 at the Mercedes-Benz Championship. But this big launch in Kapalua might fizzle without its biggest rocket. Tiger Woods might not be there.
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ugusta National Golf Club will restore commercials to the Masters next year, lifting the ban on advertising it imposed in 2003 to shield its three sponsors from a campaign to force the addition of women to the club&#39;s membership.
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THE smile was back on the face of Colin Montgomerie as he prepared to tee off in the German Masters in Cologne today. Monty has just spent three days at EuroDisney with his three children and joked: &quot;I brought
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The Masters will have a guy named Palmer playing at Augusta National next year -- just not the King. Ryan Palmer was among five Nationwide Tour graduates who earned a spot in the 2005 Masters on Monday, when
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All but three of the 24 players who   contested the weekend's Ryder Cup will be back in action at the   $7.5 million WGC-American Express Championship which starts in   Hertfordshire on Thursday.
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Marat Safin defeated David Nalbandian to lift the Madrid Masters trophy and leapfrog Tim Henman in the race to qualify for the Masters Cup.
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Lleyton Hewitt, of Australia, reaches to return a shot against Carlos Moya, of Spain, during the third set of their Tennis Masters Cup match Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004 in Houston.
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Seven of Europe's Ryder Cup heroes  return to team golf when the 2004 World Golf Championship Cup  is staged at the Real Club de Golf de Sevilla from Nov. 18-21.
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An appeals court on Friday ordered a  lower court to revisit a ruling that gave MasterCard Inc.   a coveted sponsorship deal for World Cup soccer  tournaments.
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MasterCard won a legal ruling giving it the right to sponsor the next two World Cup soccer championships.
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Augusta National Golf Club will restore commercials to the Masters next year, lifting the ban on advertising it imposed in 2003.
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands  - The Masters Series will be cut from nine to eight tournaments in 2009, with the end-of-year Masters Cup moving from Asia to Europe.
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Organisers of the 2012 London Olympics unveil two new sponsorship opportunities for major UK firms.
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An appeals court on Friday ordered a lower court to revisit a ruling that gave MasterCard Inc.  a coveted sponsorship deal for World Cup soccer tournaments.
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Michelle Wie will make another appearance on the PGA Tour after accepting a sponsor's exemption Tuesday to play in the Sony Open.