Earlier this week, HR 2267, the bill which will repeal UIEGA, the Unlawful Interstate Enforcement Gambling Act and permit, regulate and tax online gaming. The gaming allowed is primarily poker - sports betting is specifically excluded thanks to the lobbying efforts of the NCAA, NFL and the major professional leagues. One should not get too excited about this milestone, however, as there is still...
Here are a few links for your weekend reading pleasure. What else are you reading this weekend? Jaguars sell naming rights to Jacksonville stadium to EverBank for relatively cheap $16.6 million over 5 years (Times-Union) video of announcement hereCould this be why A-Rod is having trouble hitting number 600?Is rebranding the Pac-10/12, of which this new logo is a part, just a prelude to...
If you are a college sports fan, you have probably paid money to IMG sometime in the past year, likely without realizing it. IMG, which is more commonly thought of as a large sports and entertainment management firm, representing Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer and Roger Federer, among others. However, it began a push into college sports in 2007. If you bought any officially...
There must be at least a dozen different ways to gauge the popularity of a major league sports franchise. If we're talking about a European soccer team, the easiest way may be to look at the value of its jersey deal - how much is it getting paid to wear its sponsor's name on the front of its jersey. With the exception of...
Here are some links to kick off your week:Real Mallorca, co-owned by Rafael Nadal, barred from the Europa Cup due to finances (Guardian)Competitive cheerleading held not to be a sport for Title IX purposes by US District Court in Conn. (NYTimes)Despite dropping $9 million due to his "troubles", Tiger still leads the US athlete money list by a whopping $30 million over Mickelson...
Were you one of the thousands who couldn't sleep at night and tuned into ESPN's late night live broadcasts from Down Under of Aussie Rules Football? Ever thought you could play it if given the chance? Now is your opportunity, thanks to the creative mind of one Miro Gladovic, Melbourne native, former Footy player, and FIFA player agent. In conjunction with the Australian...
The 2010 World Lacrosse Championship is currently talking place in England and the Iroqouis Nationals, a team composed of members of the Native American tribes that make up the Iroquois Confederacy whom are credited with inventing the sport, have been denied entry to the UK in a passport dispute. The Nationals travel on passports issued by the Iroquois which the UK refuse to...
In what surely must be one of the biggest surprises of this or any other year, unemployed Army and Air Force veteran and virtual unknown Alvin Greene captured the Democratic primary for election to the US Senate from South Carolina. Greene had spent little money, had not campaigned at all and trumped the Democratic Party's preferred candidate retired judge Vic Rawl, who spent...
ARTICLEURL It was a well-deserved and historic win for Spain, even if the game was not one of the more artistic World Cup finals on record. For that we have to thank both the Dutch with their non-stop running at Spanish legs and the English referee who handed out yellow cards like candy. I suppose he could have handed out several more red...
Sorry for my absence from the blog this week. I came back to the Bluegrass from a brief visit to Chicago to visit relatives and immediately upon returning to the Ohio Valley Steamroom was felled by some ailment caused no doubt by the thick layer of ozone that has been hanging over the Valley for the last couple of weeks. I know the...
Nationwide, the UK's largest building society, has been the sponsor of the English national soccer team for the last eleven years. Prior to the World Cup, Nationwide was reportedly ready to sign a new four year 20 million pound sponsorship agreement. Inexplicably, given this era of tight sponsorship budgets and the general demoralized state of the British economy, not to mention the rest...
It seems that Kobiyashi just couldn't help himself. Just because he had become a competitive eating free agent and was no longer going to participate in the Nathan's Famous Contest didn't mean he could pass it up. No, those competitive juices were flowing too great to miss it, so he showed up in the crowd wearing a black T-shirt with "Free Kobi" on...
This week's sign of the apocalypse, with apologies to SI, is the sudden appearance of a free agency dispute in the world of competitive eating. As today is the July 4, we celebrate not only the 234th birthday birthday of the Republic, or more accurately the 234th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, but the annual appearance of the Nathan's Coney Island Hot...
