Tuesday Night Links
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I'll do some links as I watch Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. Bruce Allen of the Boston Sports Media Watch conducts an interview with Albert Breer of the Sporting News, formerly a reporter in both Boston and Dallas and Bruce asks him about which team gets covered more, the Red Sox or the Cowboys. CNBC's Darren Rovell looks back at one of his sports business predictions for this year. The Sports Media Watch has the final weekend ratings. The great Maury Brown in the Biz of Baseball blog says Time Magazine is citing MLB's Instant Replay system as one of top inventions of the year. And in Maury's Biz of Football site, he looks into the NFL's plans to air next ...
NBA D-League Set To Tip-Off Eighth Season Friday
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The NBA Development League’s 2008-09 season begins Friday, Nov. 28, with six games scheduled, including the first-ever game for the Erie BayHawks, who travel to take on the Fort Wayne Mad Ants at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in a Central Division matchup. The following night, the Reno Bighorns tip off their inaugural season, hosting the Bakersfield Jam at the Reno Events Center, in a Western Division showdown. This season, the league’s eighth, and the fourth in which D-League teams have direct affiliations with NBA teams, tips off with seven NBA assigned players on NBA D-League rosters, including Boston’s J.R. Giddens and Bill Walker, playing for the Utah Flash; Golden State’s Richard Hendrix and ...
Magic Johnson on Isiah Thomas: "I couldn’t recommend him again"
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Isiah Thomas won't be getting any NBA job recommendations from Magic Johnson. Isiah Thomas won’t be adding Magic Johnson as a reference on his resume any longer. That’s because Johnson has now publicly said that given the former NBA coach and GM’s performance, both on and off the court, he can’t back him for any job openings. Johnson said will so ...
NHL Reports Increase in Merchandise Sales for Black Friday and Monday
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There may be a recession, but the National Hockey League didn’t feel its effects on the first major shopping days of the Holiday season. The NHL reports that online sales, through shop.nhl.com were up 67 percent from Black Friday and up 10 percent for Black Monday from this time last year. Top selling items, so far for the league, include third jerseys by the Flyers, Bruins, and Penguins, NHL Winter Classic merchandise, and DVDs. "The strong performance of the Shop.NHL.com can be attributed to our strong fan demographics, the product access constraint that we're relieving with an unparalleled variety of NHL merchandise, and a well-executed marketing plan," said Perry Cooper, SVP of Digital/Direct ...
University of Oregon’s New Arena to be Named After Phil Knight’s Son
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Click to see in larger view The University of Oregon’s new $227 million, 12,500 seat arena that will replace aging McArthur Court will be named after Matthew Knight, the late son of Nike co-founder Phil Knight. The announcement was made at Portland’s Rose Garden arena. Matthew, Phil Knight’s eldest son, died in a diving accident in 2004 while in El ...
NBA.com to Stream Entire NBA Development League Showcase Online
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The NBA Development League will hold its annual NBA D-League Showcase from Monday, Jan. 5 – Thursday, Jan. 8 as the NBA D-League’s 16 teams converge on Orem, Utah, home of the Utah Flash, for four days of competition. All 16 Showcase games will be streamed via NBA Futurecast, a platform that provides live, online video streaming to fans, on NBA.com and NBADLeague.com. NBA D-League Central, hosted by Rick Kamla, will air on Monday, Jan. 5 at 3 p.m. ET to discuss the latest news regarding the Showcase. The 16 game slate compliments the season-long NBA Futurecast schedule, which features every NBA D-League game streamed live for free online. NBA TV features an NBA D-League game of the week every Wednesday at ...
NBA on TNT: Comments from Wizards/Cav and Blazers/Mavs Games
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The following is commentary and interviews from TNT's coverage of the NBA. TNT’s NBA Coverage continues Thursday, Jan. 15 at 8 p.m. ET with the Cleveland Cavaliers @ Chicago Bulls followed by the Phoenix Suns @ Denver Nugget **** **** **** **** Game #1: Washington Wizards (89) @ Cleveland Cavaliers (93) Announcers: Marv Albert and Mike Fratello; Craig Sager reporting Fratello on teams being mentally prepared to play on Christmas Day: “A lot of it has to do with the maturity of the players. It’s difficult because sometimes guys start to sulk and drop their heads because it’s a holiday they feel they should have off and ...
