:00:00. > :00:00.season. We will also have news on defeat for Scotland in their opening
:00:00. > :00:19.match of cricket's Twenty20 World Cup.
:00:20. > :00:27.Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will bring tomorrow.
:00:28. > :00:37.Michael Booker is the deputy editor of the express. It was a brief
:00:38. > :00:42.moment of power. We will start with the Financial Times, Louise. Maria
:00:43. > :00:46.Sharapova. She has a few problems. Indeed she does. On the front of the
:00:47. > :00:52.Financial Times, there is a brief list of the big sponsors that she
:00:53. > :01:02.has lost, or at least who are wondering about their position with
:01:03. > :01:09.her. Night, Portia, Tahheuer. -- Porsche. She is the first tennis
:01:10. > :01:20.star who has been found to have taken a banned substance. She owned
:01:21. > :01:23.something like $20 million in 2015 --... It is the tie-ups with
:01:24. > :01:26.companies that have made her far wealthier than the earnings for
:01:27. > :01:33.winning tournaments. These are some long-term contract. Nike, supposedly
:01:34. > :01:38.a deal worth $7 million over eight years. She has been with them over a
:01:39. > :01:43.decade. Tahheuer, the Swiss watchmaker, apparently she has had a
:01:44. > :01:48.contract with them since 2005. Porsche, more recent. It is
:01:49. > :01:57.interesting how quickly the corporate sponsors have moved to
:01:58. > :02:00.suspend her. I just saw the film about Lance Armstrong, and even
:02:01. > :02:08.fever in the World Cup, it is surprising how quickly they have
:02:09. > :02:12.suspended. -- they have suspended her. She has done very well out of
:02:13. > :02:15.these, and they have done very well out of her over the years. Otherwise
:02:16. > :02:22.they would have not paid the money. Exactly. They have suspended and
:02:23. > :02:30.postponed, mealy-mouthed words from businesses. They always say that.
:02:31. > :02:33.But you can imagine, if this is investigated, and yesterday when she
:02:34. > :02:37.did the press conference and people were saying, this is her trying to
:02:38. > :02:41.seize the narrative of it all, and say, I have made this huge mistake
:02:42. > :02:48.to stop it is almost in the please forgive me world. It is like
:02:49. > :02:57.choosing, I didn't realise, it was a big mistake. For a decade! She has
:02:58. > :03:03.not gone as far as a nit is a health problem. You could see... It's
:03:04. > :03:08.better they have suspended her than that they haven't. You can see there
:03:09. > :03:14.is our way back for them and there is a way back for hire. It is a
:03:15. > :03:24.lucrative business for both of them. That is the next bit. Rush to
:03:25. > :03:26.suspend Sharapova shows depth of drug problem, that's in the
:03:27. > :03:32.Telegraph. In Australia, where she was tested positive for this drug,
:03:33. > :03:37.they says she is a professional, that it is out of character. Great
:03:38. > :03:42.integrity. The problem is, she's been taking this drug for ten years,
:03:43. > :03:46.and it is suspected of potentially being able to increase blood flow to
:03:47. > :03:51.the heart, which gives you extra in June and is. And yet she has
:03:52. > :03:56.continued to take it. It was only band at the end of last year. We
:03:57. > :04:04.have known about it for one day and it sets off alarm bells. It was an
:04:05. > :04:17.angina joke as well. Jazz mac angina drug. Why would you take a drug for
:04:18. > :04:22.your heart with all kinds of risks that as if you didn't actually need
:04:23. > :04:27.to do it? That is the big question over all of this. You could put the
:04:28. > :04:33.headline on this story - they still don't get it. In some of the
:04:34. > :04:36.sports... That is what they are saying. People depend on these
:04:37. > :04:41.people for so much money that they do try to push it under the carpet.
:04:42. > :04:45.That's why, in all of the sports - athletics, tennis - the Russians are
:04:46. > :04:49.quoted as saying that this is nonsense and there are no problems.
:04:50. > :04:53.When we still have federations like that having that attitude, this will
:04:54. > :04:56.keep happening. At the same time, when we have her people, and I
:04:57. > :05:03.imagine she has a big team getting paid a lot, and they need her to
:05:04. > :05:08.survive and keep the big paycheques coming, they will try to news manage
:05:09. > :05:13.this, but reading from Paul Hayward, who has written this piece, they
:05:14. > :05:16.don't get it and the rest of us understand that. They live in this
:05:17. > :05:21.weird bubble where they think they can get away with it. The stunning
:05:22. > :05:27.quote, actually, this is from Steve Simon, head of the women's tennis
:05:28. > :05:32.Association, so he the head of the association. His exact quote is: I
:05:33. > :05:38.am very saddened to hear this about Maria. One would think he would be
:05:39. > :05:43.saddened because of the damage to his board, but that is not what
:05:44. > :05:48.saddens him. It is that Maria, again I quote: Maria is our leader, and I
:05:49. > :05:53.have always known how to be a woman of great integrity. If that is the
:05:54. > :05:59.head of the tennis Association, it kind of says it all. OK. The cartoon
:06:00. > :06:04.on the front of the Telegraph. It is quite interesting, isn't it?
:06:05. > :06:14.Don't take this if you're driving or if you have a 49 million pounds
:06:15. > :06:22.we've all become overnight experts in this banned drug. Reading from
:06:23. > :06:29.the people who made it, they say they are this -- that they prescribe
:06:30. > :06:47.it for six weeks at a time. She has taken it for ten years. He works for
:06:48. > :06:51.the Daily Express, come on! This is the big question. Someone
:06:52. > :06:57.has been speculating on Twitter that if this were Serena Williams, we may
:06:58. > :07:03.have a different situation. There are a lot of people saying, I told
:07:04. > :07:11.you so. With Maria Sharapova, it is the opposite. It is, oh no, she must
:07:12. > :07:15.have made a big mistake. That is the world we live in. Not very nice, is
:07:16. > :07:25.it. I like the comment from the Telegraph sports writer that the
:07:26. > :07:36.Russian tennis Federation says there is nothing... Two of their leading
:07:37. > :07:42.sports administrators have committed suicide, have been found dead. I
:07:43. > :07:48.like the metro's front-page - game over. It all depends on the band. If
:07:49. > :07:53.it is four years, then she is 29, and that probably is it. If it is to
:07:54. > :08:00.make years, which a lot of people are suggesting because there was a
:08:01. > :08:03.mea culpa, then she could go to the Court of arbitration in sport and
:08:04. > :08:09.get it down to one year, in which case Nike and all the others would
:08:10. > :08:14.come straight back in. How? If you are found guilty of cheating... I
:08:15. > :08:21.just don't get it. She says she has taken it for ten years - why isn't
:08:22. > :08:24.it a lifetime ban is like it was only banned at the end of last year.
:08:25. > :08:34.Even though there were so many suspicions about it.
:08:35. > :08:45.Another sport is a news story. The front page of the matter again.
:08:46. > :08:49.Boss covered for Johnson. It is since he was found guilty last week,
:08:50. > :08:53.there has been a lot of pressure on Sunderland to save what they knew
:08:54. > :09:02.and when. Today, they have come out with this statement. The chief
:09:03. > :09:06.executive has designed, is... She saw a note saying that he had
:09:07. > :09:15.admitted he had kissed the 15-year-old. Everyone else apart
:09:16. > :09:19.from the chief executive was cleansed of guilt at the football
:09:20. > :09:22.club. In a subsequent statement, Sunderland have said that Adam
:09:23. > :09:28.Johnson lied to them all the way along. He said he was going to plead
:09:29. > :09:33.not guilty. She said because he did accept some of the offences before
:09:34. > :09:37.the trial. So, it does seem as though she has boxed it all off so
:09:38. > :09:43.as not to blame anyone else at Sunderland. If you take it that
:09:44. > :09:54.these value, she is the CEO. The buck stops with her. But use smell a
:09:55. > :10:00.rat. -- but you smell a rat. It is nicely boxed. She is saying, it is
:10:01. > :10:03.all my fault. She has been at Sunderland for a few years and is
:10:04. > :10:07.very well thought of in the club, I am not sure about the fans. She has
:10:08. > :10:19.taken a bullet for the rest of the team. It seems. To me. It is
:10:20. > :10:23.suggested that she saw 834 of these sex texts. Which is difficult to
:10:24. > :10:28.say. She saw them and she still thought it was acceptable for him to
:10:29. > :10:38.continue. I find that exceedingly odd. 834 - even you and I don't text
:10:39. > :10:48.each other that much. Come on, that is a lot of texts. It was a
:10:49. > :10:53.struggling football club that needed an England international. So I
:10:54. > :10:59.asked, would they do that to their daughters? You are going to be back
:11:00. > :11:02.in an hour to look at more of the stories on the front pages. Many
:11:03. > :11:13.things that. Much more coming up. Right now, Sportsday.
:11:14. > :11:14.Hello and welcome to Sportsday - I'm John Watson.
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