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For whatever reason NASCAR cannot come to the conclusion that it’s track in Fontana, just outside of Los Angeles, cannot support two race dates each and every year. For those of you movie buffs this track is built on the site where the conclusion to Terminator 2 was filmed.
With that being said NASCAR has been racing there since 1997. Then it only had one date, early in the ...
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Autos
How can you have 1 million hours of Olympic coverage, and still manage to piss people off? NBC shows us how.
As some of you may have heard, there is this thing called the 2008 Olympics going on over in Beijing right now. As some of you may have also heard, there is this Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt…he’s pretty fast. He ran in the 200 Meter finals today at 10:20 am (10:20 pm ...
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Olympics
Usain Bolt
At this point I am going to say yes he his. Mostly because he will make far more money in sponsorships then he will make actually plying his trade. Remember Jordan’s first NBA contract was 10 years for 25 million dollars.
Phelps already is making 3-5 million dollars a year in sponsorship from Omega, Speedo, Visa, AT&T, and Hilton Hotels. Pizza Hut is also getting into this ...
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Olympics
Michael Phelps
Michael Jordan
Lets get one thing straight…Michael Phelps is unstoppable. And, as it stands right now, he’s on top of the world, he is clearly the biggest story of the 2008 Olympics (even with Usain Bolt breaking world records with his shoe untied and his arms outstretched). But will Phelps’ dominance translate into endorsement dollars and have the same sort of impact that another ...
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Golf
Tiger Woods
No I do not mean big talented players; I mean big time investment groups which are buying up Minor League Baseball teams like there was a blue light special on them.
Nolan Ryan is part of a group that has been buying failing franchises, mostly from Canada, and moving them to Texas. His group now owns stakes in three separate minor league clubs.
The real big players here are Mandalay ...
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MLB
Dayton Dragons
New York Yankees
Did any of you watch the preseason game Buffalo Bills against the Pittsburg Steelers?
Did you notice anything weird?
This was a home game for the Bills but the game was not played in Buffalo, nope this one was contested in Toronto, Canada at the Rogers center, formerly known as the Sky Dome.
This game was part of a huge deal between Rogers Communication and the Buffalo Bills to play ...
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NFL
Buffalo Bills
So I am cruising around on Forbes.com earlier today and I come across this article the best GM’s in sports. So I click on it, check it out and of course I expect to see guys like Billy Beane of the Oakland A’s rated pretty high on their list. Which of course he was, I mean they wrote a book about how he manages that club that I would bet most of us have read.
What really ...
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NBA
Kevin McHale
Holland
Detroit Red Wings
Minnesota Timberwolves
So awhile back we had a little discussion here on the merits of publically financed Stadiums . At the time I was very much in favor of the public using tax dollars to fund stadium construction. However after reading Forbes list of the most profitable stadiums and finding out not one of the top ten is owned by the public, I may have to reconsider.
It should come as no Surprise that the ...
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NBA
Staples Center
Madison Square Garden
Los Angeles Lakers
As a part of duties here at SBD, I do a lot of research. I read a lot of sports and business publications, and every so often I come across interesting information that I then share with all of you.
In this case I was researching who owns the major sports franchises. It is of particular interest to me since many of them live in my home state of Michigan. Mike Illitch owns both the ...
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NHL
Toronto Raptors
Toronto Maple Leafs
Canada
The Summer Olympics got underway Friday night in Beijing, China. I of course am a huge sports junkie and every two years my attention turns to the summer and Winter Olympics for my sports fix. However it seems to me that this year there is little to no fan fare for these games, and I really cannot place my finger on why.
It seems that this year, as opposed to year’s past we in ...
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Olympics
USA
Usually when Gary Sheffield decides it is time to run his mouth I pay him no mind. This was the case last summer when he went off on a tirade about how Major League Baseball owners like signing Latin American players because they are easier to control.
Last summer I paid that comment no mind. Now it appears those baseball owners, or the people who work for them like to sign Latin ...
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MLB
New York Yankees
Melky Cabrera
Chicago White Sox
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First off, let me say…thank goodness this is
over. I had been boycotting sportscenter because they were
doing nothing more than beating the Favre story into the ground (think Pedro Gomez covering Barry Bonds during the HR chase). ...
You know, I hear that Hitler had a blog too…
Honestly, what did the sports world blame all of its ills on before blogging became so popular?
Bloggers, now that they’ve ruined the way the world looks at athletes , have decided to set their sights on a lower income bracket, namely, sports journalists.
The whole “to-do” stems from Mike Nadel, of the Gatehouse News ...
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MLB
ESPN
Erin Andrews
For the past four race season NASCAR has sent its number two National Series, the Nationwide Series, to Mexico City for a Road Course race. For the most part the racing has been excellent but the people are starting to not show up. Each year the attendance of the event has decreased.
2005 Attendance was 94,229
2006 - 72,971
2007 - ...
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Autos
The first thing we need to get clear here is fantasy sports is a huge business. I feed my family on money made from writing fantasy focused sports stories. Not only that but on average I add another 5 grand or so to my 1040 tax form each year in cash and prizes. Make no mistake fantasy sports is a huge operation, where many of us are winning stuff, and creating careers.
The next ...
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found this 15 days ago on
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…and he probably thinks you’re a pansy too.
2008. The unorthodox year of the Madden curse. First,
there’s a retired/wants to play/willing to take $20 million to retire/wants to play for the Vikings, or Green Bay, if he’s the starter/Aaron Rodgers Player Hater, Brett Favre on the cover . And now? Well, Jim Brown has decided that Madden shouldn’t be played by ...
I don’t have exact figures for ESPN yet, but those are on the way. I will also have ratings figures for all of you once they are published later this week. What I do know is I watched a good majority of the on air coverage along with my family and I bet many of you turned into this year’s X games as well. This event has turned into a huge money maker not only for the network, but ...
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Other
Travis Pastrana
Dave Mirra
ESPN
I think all of you know by now that I am a NASCAR idiot. My main writing job is NASCAR and I try very hard not to only write about NASCAR here at SBD. However when events make me write more then one NASCAR entry a week here, I do so.
This week we learned through a lawsuit that has been filed what a top talented crew chief makes. We come to find the Doug Ritchert, former crew chief for ...
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Autos
TNT has just concluded its six weeks of NASCAR race coverage and for the most part it looks like they did pretty well in the ratings department.
To truly understand this we need to know that one rating point is worth just north of 800,000 total viewers. For TNT’s 6 races there were around 1.2 million viewers on average.
Here is a breakdown of their six races and their rating ...
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Autos
Don’t you sort of wonder what took so long?
For all of you “X-treme” sports fans out there, you already know that X-Games XIV begin today on ESPN. For those of you looking to get your X-Games fix when you can’t watch it on TV? Your prayers, albeit years late, have been answered. ESPN will be unveiling the Action Sports Network, so lovers of all extreme sports, ...
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Favre to Jets: 10 Reasons why it is the single biggest ...