Report: Ecclestone describes flap over reported Hitler comment as ‘misunderstanding’

September 30th, 2009 Jets WR Clowney: Benching was 'misunderstanding'FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Maybe David Clowney should have retweeted his entire message to Rex Ryan.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - Bernie Ecclestone has reiterated that he will continue to run Formula One despite copping some criticism about how he has been handling the sport from Sir Martin Sorrell, a director of the company that owns the sport. Ecclestone, who owns the commercial rights to F1 through his company Formula One Management, said at the Singapore race that the comments were just sticks and stones and not the start of a campaign to oust him from his post, The Sun reports.

September 26th, 2009 SINGAPORE - Despite criticizing the World Motor Sport Council's verdict on former Renault team chief Flavio Briatore's lifetime ban from motor racing, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has warned Briatore against challenging the verdict in civil courts as it would only make matters worse. "It would be stupid of Flavio to do that.

September 25th, 2009 SINGAPORE - Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has said that the World Motor Sport Council's verdict on former Renault team chief Flavio Briatore, who has been banned for fixing last year's Singapore Grand Prix, was too harsh. Briatore was banned indefinitely from all FIA-sanctioned events for his role in the fixing-scandal when driver Nelson Piquet Jnr was told to crash into a wall to bring out the safety car.

September 4th, 2009 LONDON - Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has insisted that the Indian Grand prix will go ahead as per the planned schedule of 2011, and said that the race in Greater Noida will happen. Ecclestone was reacting to Indian Sports Ministry's decision to reject a request by race promoters JPSK Sports to remit 22.5 million pounds in foreign currency to Ecclestone's British-based Formula One Administration (FOA).

September 1st, 2009 Ecclestone worried Renault may pull out of F1LONDON — Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is worried Renault may pull out of the sport following accusations the team ordered a crash to help Fernando Alonso win a race. Renault's departure would be a blow to a sport that lost Honda after last year's championship and is set to lose BMW at the end of this season.

September 1st, 2009 LONDON - Bernie Ecclestone has admitted that Formula One had been rocked by race-fix fears. Motorsport chiefs have launched a probe into last year's Singapore Grand Prix after claims Nelson Piquet was ordered to crash by Renault, allowing team-mate Fernando Alonso to pull off a shock win, reports The Sun.

August 22nd, 2009 Families for Owens, Long take in long jump finalBERLIN — The families of Jesse Owens and Luz Long took in the long jump final Saturday at the world championships from the box where Adolf Hitler once sat for the 1936 Olympics. It was inside the Olympic Stadium, with Hitler looking on, that Long, the German long jump great, famously befriended Owens.

August 5th, 2009 LONDON - President and CEO of Formula One Administration, Bernie Ecclestone, has expressed confidence in seven-time Formula One (F1) world drivers' champion Michael Schumacher to provide Ferrari their first win of the season. The 40 year-old German is set to make a comeback into F1 racing for the European Grand Prix as a replacement for injured Ferrari driver Felipe Massa, who is recovering from serious head injuries sustained during the qualifying rounds of the Hungarian Grand Prix 11 days ago.

July 11th, 2009 LONDON - Max Mosley will live up to his promise and not seek another term as president of motorsport's governing body FIA, Formula One commercial rights boss Bernie Ecclestone has said. "I have no doubt in my mind, as long as I've known Max, he's always done what he said he would do," Ecclestone told The Times.

July 9th, 2009 LONDON - Formula One head Bernie Ecclestone has for his support of Adolf Hitler's style of functioning saying he was an "idiot" to discuss Hitler or Saddam Hussein. Ecclestone apologised through a German tabloid saying: "I'm sorry.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - Formula One commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone has claimed that there has been a "big misunderstanding" over his comments about Nazi dictator Hitler that appeared in the press over the weekend. Ecclestone had said that Hitler was a "man who could get things done" during an interview in which he expressed strong views on dictators.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON — Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone faced criticism from politicians and Jewish groups Saturday after being quoted as saying that Adolf Hitler "got things done." In an interview with London's The Times newspaper, Ecclestone expressed a preference for "strong leaders," citing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Max Mosley, outgoing head of Formula One's governing body, as examples. He was quoted as saying that democracy "hasn't done a lot of good for many countries — including this one." "In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people, able to get things done," Ecclestone was quoted as saying.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone has said that he preferred totalitarian regimes to democracies and praised Adolf Hitler for his ability to "get things done". In an outspoken interview with The Times, the 78-year-old billionaire chastised contemporary politicians for their weakness and extolled the virtues of strong leadership.

June 8th, 2009 Report: Favre had surgery on shoulderBrett Favre recently had arthroscopic surgery on his ailing right shoulder, ESPN reported Sunday night, another indication the three-time NFL MVP is considering coming out of retirement. ESPN, citing two anonymous sources, reported that Favre had surgery last month to repair the torn biceps tendon that bothered him late last season with the New York Jets.