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LPGA 2010 Tour Dates Highlight Difficulties
As we all know, sports has been particularly hard hit by the Great Recession as companies slash marketing budgets, fans are pressed to come up with cash for the ever increasing ticket prices, and TV ratings for most sports are tanking as narrowcasting takes holds. One of...
Bayern Munich Lands Highly Lucrative Jersey Deal
In the high stakes world of European club soccer, nowhere does the battle takes place for higher stakes than for the name on the front of the jersey. Leading the pack is Real Madrid, the Nuevo Galacticos ribery.jpgrecently renewed its deal with online gaming site Bwin...
The 25 Highest Paid Coaches in the World
What do you think it would take to be among the highest paid coaches in the world? Wouldn't you imagine that you should be at the very pinnacle of your game, having won mutliple championships either for one team. or perhaps, if you're a bit peripatetic, for multiple...
Federer Nets Big Deal with Credit Suisse
Who says all banks are pulling in their spending. Tennis great Roger Federer has landed a ten year deal, which should take him right into retirement, with Credit Suisse. The deal thought to be worth in the neighborhood of $2,000,000 per year, which puts it in line without...
Mazel Tov Yuri, Israel's First World Champion
Last night's Miguel Cotto-Manny Pacquiao title match was being hailed as the return of boxing for the press attention it drew and the number of celebrities who attended the fight. The early rounds didn't disappoint but after Pacquiao dropped Cotto in the fourth round...
5 Clubs Beakaway from USL-1 and Form New League
The current situation in professional soccer in the US and Canada at the level below MLS can charitably be described as chaotic. Earlier this year, Nike sold USL-1, the recognized, and despite its name, Division II soccer league in the US and Canada. Following completion...
Leafs Prove Losing Can Pay in the NHL
Forbes is out with its annual look at the business of the NHL and its valuation of NHL clubs. A number of things are striking at first glance of the valuation of the franchises. The first is that it is clear that in Toronto, you can put six junior league players on the...
Interesting Reading
Below is a collection of links to articles I have read lately that I think you may find interesting:
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Co-owner of Boston Celtics running for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat (Bloomberg)
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Battle of the Blades, Canada's answer to Dancing with the...
2020 Olympics
Now that the 2016 Summer Olympics have been awarded to Rio, campaigning has begun for the 2020 Games. Candidate cities are starting to express their interest or at least begin a whisper campaign of their candidacy. In addition, applications for the 2018 Winter Games have...
Where's the Outrage: Clips Owner Pays Millions to Settle Racial Discrimination Charges
Donald Sterling is the not only the extraordinarily cheap owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, but a Southern California real estate developer with hundred of apartments throughout the Southland. Three years ago the Justice Department sued him alleging that he favored Korean tenants...
Adidas Ends Relationship With UCF Over Jordan Wearing Nike
The UCF Knights basketball had an exhibition game against St. Leo Wednesday night and every player but one wore adidas shoes as is required by the school's contract with the shoe and apparel contract. The exception, as we would expect, was Marcus Jordan, Michael's youngest...
Adidas Plans Huge Push Behind World Cup and New Zidane Boot
Athletic wear sales tend to run in cycles. Interest often peaks around major sporting events and companies assoicated with star athletes see their sales rise as the athletes medals move up the metal scale. With 2010 approaching, adidas sees its biggest marketing event of...
Election Results; The Day After
Yesterday's elections produced a few surprises and a couple of results with significant impact in the world of sports. First, the upset victory of Chris Christie in New Jersey, where he knocked off incumbent governor Jon Corzine puts the renovation of the Izod Center, the...
Rondo Signs for $55 Million; Did Celtics Overpay?
It's been reported last night and today that the Celtics have signed point guard Rajon Rondo to a five year contract, worth at least $55 million. He would have been a restricted free agent at the end of the season, and likely the best point guard on the market, but he was...
BetonsSports.com Founder Gets More than Four Years in Jail
Concluding a more than four year investigation, BetonSports.com founder Gary Kaplan pleaded guilty yesterday to several felony counts and was sentenced to more than four years in jail. Kaplan, jailed since his arrest more than two years ago, had been charged by the US Attorney...
Newstex Interview
An interview I did with Newstex, the excelllent content syndicator, can be found here. If you're not familiar with Newstex, they syndicate content to a variety of outlets including Reuters and Lexis-Nexis. You can find out more about what they do here.
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North American Sports Day
Sunday will be a groundbreaking day in the annals of North American sports As far as I've been able to determine, Sunday will be the first day on which all four/five major professional sports leagues have played regular season or playoff games on the same day. So far...
McCourts Battle Each Other Tougher Than Dodgers Fought Phils
The McCourt divorce is going to be the gift that keeps on giving this season. Already, 700 pages of documents have been dumped on Los Angeles Superior Court, and the fight is just beginning. We're talking about preliminary motions here; we haven't even gotten to...
Coyotes Sold to the NHL
Phoneix, your long nightmare appears to be over. Jerry Moyes has agreed to sell the Coyotes to the NHL. While the deal must still be approved by the bankruptcy court judge, that would seem to be mostly formality at this point since the deal was struck under his guidance...
Michael Jordan's Son Could Cost UCF It's adidas Contract
Marcus Jordan is an 18 year old college freshman basketball player at UCF, formerly referred to by its proper name: the University of Central Florida. When Marcus was being recruited by the UCF coaches he was promised that he could wear a particular shoe when he played for...
Myron Rolle: NFL Delayed for a Rhodes Scholarship
There is a must read story in the New York Times today catching up with former Florida State defensive back Myron Rolle, who put the NFL on hold to accept a Rhodes Scholarship and a year at Oxford. All too often we hear coaches, athletic directors and university presidents...
Goodell Says London May Get NFL Franchise
The NFL is holding its annual regular season game at London's Wembley Stadium Sunday. This year features the New England Patriots playing the Tampa Bay Bucs, who are owned by the Glazer family, owners of the English Premier League and European Champion League's defending...
A New Civil Rights Movement for the MIddle Class
This is a non-political blog and while I have strong political views and am very active in politics, I have not used this blog to discuss those views or issues, save the joy I felt, and still feel, with the election of President Obama. However, I am breaking that stance for a...
Dodgers Owner Fires Wife as CEO
Los Angeles Dodgers fans better enjoy the memory of this year's run to the NLCS. It may be the last time the team gets there for a while if what has happened to other team's whose owners went through bitter divorces are any indication. Dodgers' owners Frank...
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