The National Hockey League kicked off 2014 with the biggest ice hockey bash ever on Wednesday, firing the opening salvo in a “shock-and-awe” campaign designed to turn casual fans into avid ones.

Leeds have confirmed they are in talks with an unnamed group of potential investors.

EACH year in Green Bay hundreds of new Packers fans are born. They are carried home from hospital wrapped in green and gold NFL Packers blankets, sucking happily on Packers soothers and fed from Packers baby bottles.