When you're on a roll, the rule is to ride the hot dice and MLS is certainly doing that. Coming on the heels of a very successful men's World Cup with never before seen fan interest in the US, a successful expansion franchise launch in Philadelphia this year and the opening of new stadia in New York and Philadelphia, MLS could rightly consider...
ARTICLEURL How bad is the economy? Bad enough for even NFL teams to go down in value (Forbes)Financial Statements of five major league teams were leaked last week: Pittsburgh Pirates,Tampa Bay Rays, Florida Marlins, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Seattle Mariners,Texas Rangers (Deadspin)It takes cojones; Sosa fumes because Cubs haven't retired his number (Hardball Times)Here's a first, NBC adjust ad breaks to Notre...
Eight of the schools that will be remaining in the Big XII next year recently held a meeting with Learfield Sports, a multimedia rights management company which holds contracts with about 50 university athletic departments. They met to discuss the viability of a Big XII network. The results of the meeting are unknown although all involved have characterized it as just preliminary.EARTICLEURL There...
ARTICLEURL Loyalty is often a strange thing in professional sports. It's often dictated by what have you done for me in the last five minutes especially when you're talking about the relationship between an athlete and a company whose product that athlete endorses.Usain Bolt just re-upped with Puma, a company he has been with since he first started running. The contract, whose terms...
Utah State found itself in a terrible position last week after it made what it considered to be a principled stand in turning down a bid from the Mountain West Conference to honor an agreement among all of the then current WAC members to stay in the WAC. It was promptly stabbed in the back when Fresno State and Nevada leaped over each...
It's a slow Sunday here in the Bluegrass as not even yesterday's storms have been any help in relieving the oppressive 90+ temps and corresponding 85+ humidity, which has been with us seemingly every day this summer, as my latest electric bill shows.ARTICLEURL Good recap of the twists and turns (and necessity of insiders) to bring Sprint Cup to Kentucky (C-J)Arsenal plans to...
Brigham Young has not been a very happy member of the Mountain West Conference for a number of years now. It has complained bitterly since the conference left ESPN and formed its own money losing network with its small reach and the resulting movement of the conference's football games to Versus and the CBS College Network, not exactly America's first, second or third...
The rumors of the death of the career of Stephon Marbury and with it the demise of his Starbury shoes have proven to be just a bit premature. Last season found Marbury a free agent searching in vain for a NBA team willing to sign him to even a one year contract at anything approaching what he thought he was worth, or as...
There are many reasons that the New York Knicks have been as bad as they were before Mike D'Antoni showed up last season, but surely Isiah Thomas was one of the main reasons, so that makes the recent announcement that Thomas is being hired by the Knicks as a consultant all the more curious. Adding to the intrigue, it appears that D'Antoni was...
We all know how tough it's become to finance a college education and getting an athletic scholarship is harder than ever, what with the economy and, at the major college level, the out of control football and basketball arms race, forcing athletic directors to cut programs left and right. Well, here is one scholarship I bet you never thought of: a bass fishing...
The tortuous path to full ownership of the St. Louis Rams by Stan Kroenke should come to a conclusion by August 25. A special meeting of the NFL owners has been called for that date to vote on his proposed purchase of the team pursuant to the exercise of his option to purchase the sixty percent of the club he didn't own once...
Ending a decade long quest, it appears that Kentucky Speedway will finally get a Sprint Cup race beginning in 2011. Formal announcement of the award of the race to the track is likely to be made at a press conference scheduled for Tuesday by the track's owner, Speedway Motorsports, Inc.'s (TRK) Chairman O. Bruton Smith.The race is likely to be moved from one...
A few inks to get Tuesday off to a good start:ARTICLEURL One aspect of the LeBron economic effect: Heat fire entire 30 person season ticket sales staff as all season tickets have been sold (Sun-Sentinel)PGA Tour is relatively healthy, it's a good time to make a deal on golf course membership but it's a lousy time to be in the golf course business...
A Chinese businessman, Kenneth Huang Chairman of Hong Kong based QSL Sports Group and backed by an investment fund said to be one of the largest in the Far East, has reportedly made a bid for Liverpool in the range of 237 million pounds. He has been talking to the club's bankers and would purchase the club's debt from them as his vehicle...
