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Below are a few links to get your Thursday off to a good start. However, before we get to the links I have to talk about one thing I saw last night. I turned on the Barcelona - Seattle Sounders soccer game, only to find a real assault to the visual senses. Here was Seattle in its usual home bright sea green unis playing Barca who was in their new road kit. Now, I understand that European soccer clubs make no attempt to have road kits that match the clubs' colors, but Barca's bright neon peach jerseys and socks were just a little too much - especially in high definition. Now, ESPN chose to call it orange but it sure looked like neon peach to me, as you can see in this picture of Messi from tonight's game. So, now on with the links.

In keeping with the soccer spirit, Manchester United may have lost to Barcelona in the European Champions League Final, but still managed to take home more money from UEFA's Champions League distributions. (Sports Business News)

It's good to be a Manning, Giants sign Eli to a six-year, $97 million extension, with $35 million guaranteed, making him the highest paid player in the NFL (and his family) (NY Times)

Florida voters may be able to give the rest of the country a real blessing, Lou Holtz considers a race for Congress from Central Florida (Orlando Sentinel)

US District Court Judge in Delaware opens the way for betting to begin when football season opens as he denies request for preliminary injunction, says he'll rule on NFL's summary judgement motion in November (ESPN)

NBC agrees to allow free distribution of its mun2 channel for showing of US-Mexico World Cup Qualifier, so it will at least be available on satellite and in sports bars. I thought I saw during the game tonight ESPN2 tout that it would be on ESPN as well, but it was only on for a minute and I'm not sure positive about it. I could not confirm the ESPN showing on ESPN.com (US Soccer)

Full post as published by Sports Biz on August 06, 2009 (boomark / email).