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Snapshots: Red Wings named 4th best franchise in sports by ESPN's 'Ultimate Standings' list
The Jaunt: ESPN Ultimate Franchise Rankings Says Angels Best at Doing Right By Their Fans
Arrowhead Pride: The only NFL team besides the Bungles with a record that has gotten progressively worse over the...
Inside the Iggles | A Philadelphia Eagles Blog: How “Ultimate” are the Eagles?
Red Wings named 4th best franchise in sports by ESPN's 'Ultimate Standings' list
Snapshots —
... and maintain the greatest overall reward for their fans. The 2009 Western Conference champion Detroit Red Wings topped or tied all professional sports franchises in three categories, including fan relations, ownership and title track. The Capitals ranked #1 in responsiveness to fan feedback. The Detroit News reports that the Detroit Lions and Toronto Maple Leafs finished as the 4th and 3rd-worst franchises in sports, respectively, and you can check out the Wings' rankings here on ESPN.com .
ESPN Ultimate Franchise Rankings Says Angels Best at Doing Right By Their Fans
The Jaunt —
... Congrats to the Halos for excelling in fan-friendly and wallet-pleasing entertainment. For the complete list of rankings with sortable categories, visit Ultimate Standings 2009. ...
The only NFL team besides the Bungles with a record that has gotten progressively worse over the...
Arrowhead Pride —
... Ultimate Standings 2009 - No. 106 - Kansas City Chiefs - ESPN
ESPN ranked all 122 teams in the four major pro sports in eight different categories. The Chiefs are down from 101st last season. H/T to GenericBrand in the FanShots for the link. Click here for the complete list. ...
How “Ultimate” are the Eagles?
Inside the Iggles | A Philadelphia Eagles Blog —
... Yet another “Best Of” list has been released by the World Wide Leader. ESPN the Mag calls this one “Ultimate Standings.” I guess that means everyone else’s standings are rendered meaningless because ESPN’s is the Ultimate, brother. My only real question regarding the list is how much influence the Ultimate Warrior had in ranking the franchises? I mean if you’re gonna do an ultimate of anything, the Warrior must be consulted. One Warrior Nation will not be ignored. ...
Thursday Bolts - 7.2.09
Daily Thunder.com —
... OKC, declaring the Thunder the eighth-most affordable franchise in sports and the cheapest of any NBA team. The only negative is their home, the Ford Center, which lacks luxury amenities, well-lit concourses and leg room. But even that negative has a positive upside: The Thunder will sink $100 million into the facility over the next two years, adding restaurants, bars, premium seating and a new scoreboard. As Oklahoma City proves, there really is no place like (a new) home.” (Click here to see the scoring system) ...
Four-letter's rankings of Prof. Sports Organizations
Mile High Hockey —
Four-letter's rankings of Prof. Sports Organizations
Doesn't really surprise me that the Avs are 74th, but I got really tickled at the Leafs coming in last out of the NHL.
ESPN Franchise Rankings: How Canadian Teams Fared
TheScore.com Blog —
... In the latest issue of ESPN The Magazine, the ubiquitous American sports network has produced their seventh annual Ultimate Team Rankings, in which they “measure how much MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL franchises give back to the fans in exchange for all the time, money and emotion the fans invest in them.” ...
Thursday Notes: Ricky Sandoval Passes Away
Pride Of Detroit —
... Dennis Northcutt is "excited" about playing for Detroit, so much so that he is coming in with the attitude that the Lions won the Super Bowl last season.
Matthew Stafford and Mark Sanchez have remained good friends and hung out quite a bit at the rookie symposium.
In a ranking of franchises from the four major pro sports leagues, ESPN The Magazine had the Lions at No. 119 out of 122 teams. The Red Wings came in fourth behind the Los Angeles Angels, Carolina Hurricanes, and Pittsburgh Steelers. If ...
ESPN Ultimate Rankings: Flyers Ranked #54
Broad Street Hockey —
ESPN Ultimate Rankings: Flyers Ranked #54
I know how much everyone loves ESPN, so in their yearly team rankings, the Flyers came up 54th out of 122 major league franchises. They were 14th among NHL teams and 3rd among Philadelphia teams. Their best scores came ...
A sportsnation ranks the Yanks poorly
River Avenue Blues —
... Earlier this week, the Worldwide Leaders released the 2009 edition of the Ultimate Team Rankings, and the Yankees did not perform so well. The team is ranked ...
ESPN Ranks Yankees as 107 Out of 122 Pro Teams When it Comes to Giving Back to Fans
YanksBlog.com —
ESPN has released their 2009 rankings of professional sports teams, ordered by the amount that they give back to their fans. The Yankees are ranked a really low 107 out of 122 (the list is comprised of teams from the MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA). Breaking it down by their categories - the team ranks worst in Affordability at 121, beating only the Toronto Maple Leafs, and 26th in Title Track, which is supposed to be an indicator of championships already won and expected to be won in a fan's lifetime. Via ...
NEWS AND NOTES
Mondesi's House —
... --The ESPN Ultimate Team Rankings were released, and the Steelers were 3rd, the Penguins 8th, and the Pirates...94th. If not for cheap seats in a sweet stadium, they'd surely be giving the tire fire known as the Clippers a run for their money. [ESPN.com] ...
ESPN Ranks Hurricanes Number One - A Closer Look
Canes Country —
... A recent article by ESPN Magazine placed the Carolina Hurricanes as the second best "fan friendly" franchise in all of major sports, as well as the number one franchise in the NHL. How did ESPN arrive at those results? What exactly are the numbers comprised of? We have not had a chance to delve into this yet, so let's take a closer look right now.
Peter Keating, the author of the article, describes his exact methodology here. To make a long story short, a consulting firm from Chicago helped with the ...
We're number 100!
Habs Inside/Out —
... ESPN has come out with its seventh annual Ultimate Standings, rating professional sports franchises in terms of how much they "give back to the fans in exchange for all the time, money and emotion the fans invest in them." ...
Requiem for the Nets
Bleed Scarlet —
... Those problems improved dramatically with the Devils once Jeffrey Vanderbeek, formerly a season ticket holder, purchased the team in 2004. They moved into a terrific new arena, the franchise now comes off as far more sensitive to fan concerns (for instance, cutting ticket prices when the economy tanked last year), and even old Lou actually seems to be willing to spend money these days (well, before the economy crashed anyway). Down in Piscataway, it was the former athletic director Robert Mulcahy who was tasked with doing the heavy lifting, but now his replacement Tim Pernetti ...
