UNLV’s campus stadium initiative culminated Thursday with the stadium board approving resolutions endorsing a venue at the university — someday.
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Golf star Phil Mickelson was not involved in insider trading in the shares of Clorox Co when billionaire investor Carl Icahn was attempting an unsolicited takeover of the consumer products company in 2011, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the probe.
With Ultimate Fighting Championship poised for rapid international expansion in 2014, the Las Vegas-based mixed martial arts fight organization faces one major challenge — exporting its signature high-energy fight show production to venues around the world.
UFC content is already broadcast by more than 30 TV networks in 28 languages in 145 nations. Now, the Las Vegas company plans to make fans out of just about anyone on the planet who has a TV screen, a mobile communications device or cash for an event ticket into a UFC fan.
Las Vegas-based Ultimate Fighting Championship expanded its combat sport empire with recent legislative MMA wins in Connecticut and Canada, but as of Wednesday afternoon, it could not get the New York Assembly to make mixed martial arts events legal in the Empire State.
Owners of the Ultimate Fighting Championship have sold a 10 percent stake to a Middle Eastern entertainment company to bolster the mixed-martial arts league’s ability to expand throughout that region and other areas of the world, UFC’s owners confirmed Monday.