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  2. Sports broadcasting contracts in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Sky Sports 2024-29: All 93 matches live on Sky Sports and Sky Sports + [9] ITV Highlights until 2027; one semi-final and final live in 2024-25 season with 9 live matches including final in 2025-26 and 2026-27 season National League: DAZN Live until 2025 including end of season play-offs, plus weekly highlights [10] Women's Super League: Sky Sports

  3. Opta Sports - Wikipedia

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    Opta Sports, formerly Opta Sportsdata and more commonly known as Opta, is a British sports analytics company. Opta provides data for more than 30 sports in over 70 countries, with clients ranging from leagues and federations to broadcasters and betting websites. [ 1] The company was founded in 1996, and acquired by Perform Group in 2013.

  4. Paul the Octopus - Wikipedia

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    Paul the Octopus. Paul the Octopus (26 January 2008 [ 1] – 26 October 2010) was a common octopus who predicted the results of international association football matches. Accurate predictions in the 2010 World Cup brought him worldwide attention as an animal oracle . During divinations, Paul's keepers would present him with two food-containing ...

  5. Soccer Saturday - Wikipedia

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    The portions simulcast were between 12:00 and 12:30, and 15:00 and 17:15, although this differed depending on the matches being covered on Sky Sports 1. From the start of the 2010–11 season these simulcasts were dropped and for the next three seasons the programme was exclusive to Sky Sports News.

  6. Statistical association football predictions - Wikipedia

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    Statistical Football prediction is a method used in sports betting, to predict the outcome of football matches by means of statistical tools. The goal of statistical match prediction is to outperform the predictions of bookmakers [citation needed][dubious – discuss], who use them to set odds on the outcome of football matches.

  7. Timeline of cricket on UK television - Wikipedia

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    One of the new channels is devoted to cricket and is called Sky Sports Cricket. [37] 10 August-1 September – Sky Sports broadcasts eight matches live from the 2017 Women's Cricket Super League. This marks Sky’s first major foray into women’s cricket. [38] Sky expands its coverage the following year, showing 12 matches from the 2018 event ...

  8. Sky Sports - Wikipedia

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    Sky also held the rights to show the majority of the matches from the Four Nations and the previous competition the Tri Nations live, with the other games being shown live or in highlights form on BBC Sport and Sky Sports previously showed the 2008 World Cup exclusively live with only highlights on the BBC. This agreement ended in 2012 and Sky Sports surprisingly lost the rights to ...

  9. Sports betting - Wikipedia

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    Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome. Sports bettors place their wagers either legally, through a bookmaker/sportsbook, or illegally through privately run enterprises referred to as "bookies". The term "book" is a reference to the books used by wage brokers to track wagers, payouts, and ...