The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
The Texan billionaire who split the world of English cricket has lost a longrunning and bitter legal battle against 66yearold businesswoman.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
England are refusing to abandon their five-year deal with Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford despite heavy criticism for their participation in the recent Super Series event in Antigua.
aangirfan (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Photo from: photo-sleuth.blogspot.com/2008/02/ashe-school... Sir Allen Stanford is the Texan billionaire who organised a $20 million tournament which split the world of cricket. Officials from Venezuelan military intelligence have raided a branch of his bank over claims that its employees were paid by the CIA to spy on Venezuela . - Stanford in CIA spying row Mandelson and Brown The power behind the...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
One of the more laudable stated aims of Sir Allen Stanford's dollar-saturated cricket-fest in Antigua was to prevent the drift towards American pursuits by West Indies youngsters, understandably seduced by the riches on offer for sporting success in the States.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Andrew Baker assesses what Kevin Pietersen's side would have done with Sir Allen Stanford's winners cheque.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Texan billionaire now at the centre of an international spying row it can be revealed.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
The Texan billionaire behind the controversial 20 million £12 million winnertakesall tournament which split the world of cricket is now at the centre of an international spying row it can be revealed.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
THE cheque was handed over, Sir Allen Stanford’s newly-rich Superstars did a lap of honour and expensive fireworks exploded in the Antiguan sky. “The winner takes it all,” played the DJ Chickie Baptiste. “The loser’s standing small.”
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
It was indicative of the whole learning curve that has been the Stanford Super Series that throughout the big night one familiar face was kept largely out of the picture.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Sir Allen Stanford's Superstars became dollar millionaires shortly after eight o'clock on a balmy Caribbean evening, when they completed a rout of an England XI to take $1m a head, the richest prize ever offered for a team sport. For Stanford and his side, even for his concept of raising the profile of cricket in the region, it was an unalloyed triumph. For England cricket it was an unmitigated disaster....
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Sir Allen Stanford was thrilled with his Superstars after they thumped England to win $20 million in Antigua.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Sir Allen Stanford must sometimes wonder why he bothered. Perhaps his motives for staging the Stanford Super Series are not wholly beneficent, but then he has put up far north of $100 million (£62m) to get this show on the road. Beneficiaries there will undoubtedly be, not least the broke and inefficient West Indies Cricket Board, to whom the sponsor of the event will give $17.5m over the next five...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Rebuilding work on island devastated by volcano in 1995 relies on funds continuing for domestic Twenty20.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Kevin Pietersen's England battle it out with Chris Gayle's Stanford Superstars for cricket's richest prize. With $20m of Sir Allen Stanford's hard-earned cash awaiting the winning side in Antigua, follow the action from the Twenty20 showdown as it happens...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
The reputation of cricket has suffered a fresh blow as new controversy swirls around Sir Allen Stanford the man behind last night's 20 million £12 million winner takes all match.
