| Evanston man auctioning off massive baseball card collection
April 4, 2007 - Major League Baseball is underway again. Another seven months until the national pastime fades into the off-season. But, for one Evanston man, there is no such thing as an off-season. That's because Lionel Carter has been collecting baseball cards year-round since 1933. And now ABC7's Frank Mathie says all those cards are headed for the auction block. .
Football Manager MMO announced
A massively multiplayer version of Football Manager has been confirmed by Sports Interactive, and will be released on the PC and Mac, though not for a while, as the developer have confirmed the title will not be out in March 2008. While release is along way off, SI are plotting a beta test of the MMO footie manager game which will begin next month. Oh, and the game's called Football Manager Live. Creating a custom team, FM Live will see you locking managerial horns with up to 1000 other gamers on each server. "Imagine a cross between Football Manager, fantasy sports and auctions sites - and you are part of the way to understanding Football Manager Live," enthused SI boss Miles Jacobson. "It's great to be able to announce the game, and we can't wait to see the reaction to the beta when it launches next month." Players joining the game will either be assigned an automatically picked squad, or select your own with a 100K per week wage budget.
Bidding Cities Should Be Treated With More Respect
SPECIAL TO GAMESBIDS.COM - Bidding for events is a major new product which is becoming increasingly important to international sports organisations and the international governing bodies. Is this new product being treated with sufficient seriousness and receiving the respect that it deserves? The bidding roller-coaster seems to gather greater momentum each year. Almost every month now there is a vote taking place to award the rights to host a major event to some deserving city or country. We have just heard the announcement from IAAF about their selected hosts for their World Athletics Championships in 2011 and 2013. Next month we will know who will host Europes second largest event in 2012, the UEFA EURO. In July the IOC will select the host city for the Olympic Winter Games of 2014 with decisions of the host cities for the All African and Commonwealth Games coming later in the year.
London pre-open: Wall Street record to lift London
LONDON (SHARECAST) - London is expected to start brightly after another record high on Wall Street overnight. The higher offer for Alliance Boots and possibility of a bidding war should also help sentiment. Traders predict Footise will open up at least 20 points. Alliance Boots will be the main interest early on. It has agreed a 10.6bn takeover offer from a pairing of private equity firm KKR and its own deputy chairman Stefano Pessina. The new offer is worth 10.90 a share in cash, up 50p per share from their previous offer of 10.40. The move that may spark a bidding war with a rival consortium led by Terra Firm, newspaper reports this morning suggested. Ad giant WPP's first-quarter like-for-like revenues increased 4.3%, slightly below market forecasts. The firm said there had been some softness in the US in the last few months offset by improvements in Western Europe.
Asus auctions unique red laptop for Comic Relief
There's literally only one red Asus S6F laptop on the planet, and if you want to avail yourself of the opportunity to win it - and do some good into the bargain - visit eBay or Harrods this weekend. Asus is offering the machine for auction, with bidding taking place online at ebay.co.uk and at retailer MicroAnvika's store-in-a-store on Harrods' third floor. The one-of-a-kind laptop will go to the highest bidder while all the proceeds go to Comic Relief. The notebook is clad in red leather and comes bundled with a suitably hued mouse, mousemat and carrycase. The auction kicks off tomorrow, Saturday, 31 March at 3pm BST and ends on Monday, 9 April at 3pm BST. .
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