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Empire of Sports, the multiplayer online role-playing game, has announced a new partnership with Barcelona on the day the club recaptured the Champions League trophy over Manchester United.
This 1 year contract of US$1 million is based on the participation of FC Barcelona on the online world of sport. The users of the game will have access to a special Barcelona VIP section, with dedicated competitions, in-game privileges and the chance to interact with other users. In addition, FC Barcelona will generate income from a percentage of the annual subscription’s player to access the section.
FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta hope that FC Barcelona presence in Empire of Sports will continue to increase the level of support for both FC Barcelona and football, and Alexis Galley, chief executive of Empire of Sports, is very proud to welcome FC Barcelona into their virtual world of sport and give them the space to work closely with their fans and supporters.

Struggle is bound to ride shotgun with Strasburg during his fast-track journey through the upper reaches of the minor leagues and into the big leagues. Barring a cataclysmic turn of events, he will be the first pick in the June 9 draft, going to the abysmal Washington Nationals. The hitters he faces will be professionals, beginning the day he reports to whatever minor league outpost the Nats send him after he signs for the most money ever handed an amateur.
Eventually he’ll face Albert Pujols(notes) and David Wright(notes) and Ryan Howard(notes).Struggle will clear its throat and make its voice known.
Comparatively, Strasburg heard only whispers Friday against Virginia in what is almost certain to be the flame-throwing right-hander’s last college game.Virginia beat San Diego State 5-1 in an NCAA regional opener at UC Irvine, handing Strasburg his first loss since last summer’s Olympics.

World champion Lewis Hamilton says he will continue to struggle to get near this season’s front-runners because his McLaren cannot yet truly compete.
The 24-year-old Englishman made up ground in Monaco on Sunday largely because six drivers crashed out or retired - but, despite being held up in traffic, he did manage to showcase his raw driving ability during some laps of Monte Carlo’s tight, twisting street circuit.
Hamilton finished ninth but was off the pace and lapped in Barcelona, where the circuit is very similar to that of Turkey in terms of the demands it puts on a car.
Hamilton now sits ninth in the drivers’ championship, 42 points behind Brawn leader Jenson Button, and the Englishman tipped his compatriot to take the 2009 title after his convincing win in Monaco.

Carlo Ancelotti took a step closer to becoming Chelsea’s new manager after he announced his contract at AC Milan has been terminated by mutual consent.
But the Italian, who guided Milan to third in Serie A, said a move to Stamford Bridge had yet to be agreed.
He said: “I have agreed to leave Milan. The decision was by mutual consent. But a move to London is not certain yet.”
Chelsea have refused to comment on the claims in Ancelotti’s book.
Leonardo will be officially named as Milan’s new coach on Monday.
The 39-year-old former Brazil international was appointed as the club’s technical director in 2008.

Nadal, bidding for a record fifth successive French Open crown, slumped to his first defeat at Roland Garros after winning all of his 31 matches since his 2005 debut. His 2-6 7-6 (7-2) 4-6 6-7 (2-7) fourth-round loss was made harder to swallow as it came against a man he described as one of the most unpopular in the locker room after an acrimonious Wimbledon clash in 2007.
“It’s not a tragedy, I had to lose one day,” said Nadal, who had routed Soderling 6-1 6-0 at the Rome Masters just a month ago.
“I must accept my defeats with the same level of calm that I accept my victories,”
“He didn’t surprise me because I know how he plays and how dangerous he can be. I didn’t play my best. I played very short and I couldn’t attack. I made it easy for him.”

The National Hockey League (NHL)rule book spells out 87 rules and hundreds of sub-rules that govern its game. There is an 88th rule that goes unwritten: The league’s braintrust can invalidate any of the others, so long as it behooves their short-sighted and selfish interests.
No group of management has so mangled its sport as the NHL, and its never-ending quest for redemption and relevance turned laughable again Sunday night following Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals at Joe Louis Arena. The league overturned an automatic one-game suspension handed down to Pittsburgh star Evgeni Malkin(notes), whose post-whistle elbow and subsequent fight with Detroit’s Henrik Zetterberg(notes) earned him an instigator penalty.
Because Malkin’s antics came with 19 seconds remaining in the Penguins’ 3-1 loss that left them facing a 2-0 series deficit, it triggered Rule 47.22, which hands down the one-game ban to players who instigate a fight in the game’s final five minutes. It is a rule to prevent the kind of thuggery and frustration spilling that Malkin displayed. The punishment fits.

English Premier League football club, Portsmouth as been sold to Sulaiman al-Fahim. The deal was agreed upon and concluded on Tuesday evening in Rome and “a period of formal legal and financial due diligence will commence next week so that the transaction can be completed as soon as possible,” says a spokesperson for the club.

The deal is being done by the new owner’s investment company, Al Fahim Asia Associates (AAA).

According to PR Weekly, UK pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sport has called Frank PR to help raise consumer awareness during two upcoming football matches: The FA Cup Final and England v Kayakhstan.

After losing one of two live Premier League rights packages, Setanta is facing some financial strain. Marketing director Timothy Ryan said the broadcaster is “under¬going a strategic review and going through fundraising” and “not making any fixed appointments”.

Senior officials at Nokia Siemens Networks announced more then ten mobile television broadcasting networks in Africa will be ready for the world championship, putting World Cup coverage as “the biggest driver of infrastructure rollout since the Olympics.”

Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Namibia are all currently launching the DVB-H mobile tv broadcast system with many more expected to follow.

FIFA is predicting a record audience for the 2010 games, exceeding the 26.3 billion people that watched the 2006 events.

Match Hospitality AG, being the Fifa Hospitality Programme rights holder till 2014, has appointed Aristeia Sport Communications to be the exclusive sales agent for the 2010 Fifa World Cup.

Aristeia will be responsible for match tickets, entertainment, parking, stadium facilities, etc. They also plan, for the first time ever, to offer “full” hospitality packages with tourism attractions and accomodations in and around South Africa.