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Pac-10 Starting Its Own Network?
Of the six BCS conferences, the Pac-10 has long been saddled with the worst television contracts. Not only is the money not particularly good, but the coverage, in terms of national audience reach, is terrible. Having most of your games on Fox Sports Net not only leaves you at the...
Team Sponsorship May Not Be as Effective as Thought
This morning's post on team branding got me thinking more about marketing. Over lunch something I was reading caught my eye and I went back and read the Turnkey Sports poll for March, 2009. This poll was difference than most Turnkey polls as it polled both industry members and...
How Fast Did Your Team Brand Grow?
Forbes just released a study of the fastest growing team brands in the four major North American sports, excluding Major League Soccer, which sticks to its single entity concept and really doesn't have individual team brands in the truest sense. There are certain patterns common...
Philly Soccer Union
I know that most of you soccer fans have probably seen this already but the logo and name of the new Philadelphia Major League Soccer franchise has been leaked and circulating around the net for a couple of weeks. In case you haven't seen it, here is the crest of the new Philadelphia...
Rachel Alexandra Sold to Curlin's Owner
Back from Chitown for what was a wonderful few days. The weather was great, food was good and the conference was interesting. What more could you ask for? One question for you Chicagoland residents out there - when did the Trib become a tabloid? Not a good move at all for a once great...
On the Road
Posting will be likely non-existent until the middle of next week as I'm off to a conference sans laptop. Should be back in front of the trusty Macbook by Wednesday. Hopefully, you can mudddle along without me.ARTICLEURL
Saints Strike Deal to Stay in Superdome Until 2025
It only took a year of tough negotiating and a change in the resident of the Governor's mansion, but the New Orleans Saints and the State of Louisiana have struck a tentative deal to keep the Saints in New Orleans until 2025. The State will spend $85 million to renovate the Superdome...
Bengals to Appear on Hard Knocks
It could be the entertainment event of the summer. The Cincinnati Bengals, the closest actual team the NFL has to the one quarterbacked by first Burt Reynolds and then Adam Sandler in The Longest Yard (one and two), is under consideration to be the featured team on HBO's training...
Carnivals, We Have Carnivals
This week featured two blog carnivals that I wanted to bring to your attention. Yes folks, even in this new age of Twitter there are still blog carnivals out there worthy of your time and attention and not just because they include my posts. The first is the venerable Haveil Havalim...
Sunday Reading
Here are a few links for your Sunday reading pleasure:75-year old owner-trainer's one horse stable Kentucky Derby contender (Courier-Journal)1970's fashion is back, at least on the golf course (wsj)Will the falling pound and Britain's new tax rate be the end of the dominance...
Boris Becker Cashes in at Poker Tournament
Three-time Wimbledon-champion Boris Becker has found a new career, as a poker player. “Boom Boom” made it deep in one of the most prestigious poker tournaments in the world – the World Poker Tour Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. He finished in 37th place out of 338...
Keeneland Handle a Sign of the Times
Churchill Downs opens its Spring Meet today marking the official start of Derby Week. It also means that the Spring Meet at Keeneland, that historic and tradition bound track in the little city to the west of here has ended. It's an appropriate time then to take a look at the meet...
If you're looking to find the Twitter feeds of athletes and coaches, a speoial area has been set up to make that easier for you. You can just go here and find them all in one place.While we're on the subject, SportsBiz has joined Twitter. You can catch the SportsBiz Twitter...
Baseball's Rich Get Richer
If you listen to Bud Selig, you would believe that this is the golden age of baseball. Attendance has never been higher. Parity, in his mind, has come to the game, as the participants in the World Series have been changing every year. Television deals have been signed at ever higher...
Wimbledon Ups Prize Money; Unveils Centre Court Roof
The stodgiest of the four tennis majors, Wimbledon joined the 21st century this week as the All England Club unveiled a new folding roof for Centre Court. Gone will be those interminable rain delays that played havoc with the draw and caused more than a few people the opportunity to...
Lions Try New Branding
What do you do when you lose all your games? Well, besides firing everybody you can find (and that means you Matt Millen) you change your branding of course. Today, the Detroit Lions unveiled new uniforms and a new Lion logo and even a new font for the Lions typeface. Will it help...
Jake and the Iditarod
or what's a nice Jewish boy doing all the way up in here in the cold with a team of dogs going nowhere? What am I supposed to say, my son the musher? Jake Berkowitz, a 22 year old dog sled racer, originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, just completed in his second Iditarod, placing...
Your Name Here Stadium
Ever want to have a stadium named after you but didn't have a spare $40-$400 million dollars to throw around, especially now that your portfolio has taken such a hit. Well, I have such the solution for you. In Rochester, New York, the Rhinos, one of the country's most successful...
Pepsi Drops Maria Sharapova
What's the price of a shoulder injury to a tennis star? In Maria Sharapova's case, it turns out to be at least a couple of million dollars. Pepsi announced today, or rather its spokesman gave the news in an interview, that its contract with the Russian tennis star and part...
Impact of the Recession Cont'd - LPGA
If you want to see Natalie Gulbis or any of these other LPGA golfers play this year, I hope you have cable or satellite. There will only be a handful of LPGA tournaments broadcast on network television this year and one of them was last week - the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first...
Perry Shows World How to Lose With Class
This one really had to hurt. After leading the Masters for 70 holes, two bogeys cost Kenny Perry the chance, at 48, to be the oldest golfer ever to win a green jacket. Those bogeys on 17 and 18 forced him into that now infamous three way playoff that he lost on the second playoff hole...
MLS Plays the Relocation Card in DC
DC United has had a very frustrating search for a new stadium home. Jurisdiction after jurisdiction has voted down a stadium deal in what can only be described as a highly unusual spate of local legislative good sense. Following this week's surprise rejection by the Prince George...
Sunday Reading
Bluegrass win fuels Derby dream for one horse stable of retired principal (CJ)Can Usain Bolt ever earn 1/10 of what Tiger earns a year? Can any track star? (NYT)Celine Dion's hubby wants to buy the Canadiens; so do the cream of Quebec business community(Montreal Gazette)Global...
Mazel Tov Angel
It's deja vu all over again for Angel McCoughtry. Fresh off of a wildly successful season leading the University of Louisville Cardinals to their first ever Final Four and national championship game appearance, the All-American small forward set another first yesterday by being...
Man U Still Most Valuable Soccer Club
Forbes has released its annual ranking of the world's most valuable soccer clubs and to my great surprise there were no Major League Soccer clubs listed in the top 25. Seriously, though, what is surprising is that even in the face of the worst global economy in nearly 80 years...
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