The NCAA just has a knack for finding itself in court. I think it may because it is an academic organization composed of college presidents who, for the most part, have never been outside of academia and as a result don't always think through the practical ramifications of the policies that they decide to put into place. A good example of that is...
You didn't think the NBA was going to let the NHL have the entire comics stand to itself did you? Of course not. The NBA, in conjunction with broadcast and digital partner ESPN and its corporate parent Disney, which now owns Marvel, has brought to the basketball and comics fans in all of us the Marvel inspired variant covers for each NBA team...
The NBA has long banned performance enhancing drugs and now it has, for the first time in league history, banned a performance enhancing shoe. The new Concept 1 shoe by Athletic Propulsion Labs, a $300 basketball shoe containing a spring-based system said to enhance a wearer's vertical leap by as much as 31/2 inches. The NBA said in a statement: TA "Under league rules,...
ARTICLEURL You have to hand it to Gary Bettman when he comes up with a good marketing idea and this one should be an excellent entree to young boys who may now not be tuned into hockey. The NHL in conjunction with Stan Lee are going to be rolling out a series of 30 superheroes called the Guardians, one in each NHL city,...
Breeders Cup
As Keeneland Opens, the Lack of Casino Gambling's Effect on Kentucky Racing is More Evident Than Ever
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ARTICLEURL Keeneland opens its Fall Meet today in a weekend whirlwind of nine graded stakes featuring five Grade I stakes, with eight of the nine races being "Win and You're In" Breeder's Cup specials. The strong weekend of stakes masks a continuation of the downturn in Kentucky racing and breeding that has been evident since the Churchill Downs spring meet, continuing through the...
The calendar has not been turned back several months and today is not April 1. The owner of the Boston Red Sox, New England Sports Ventures, has apparently won a bid to purchase Liverpool FC despite opposition from the current owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Hicks and Gillett are in default on some 200 million pounds to the Royal Bank of Scotland...
Okay, I can read a calendar but it's a little hectic around here right now (political campaigns we're working on are heading to the wire) so you get some reading links early:ARTICLEURL Is Tampa Bay a bad sports town or are all those empty seats just due to the economy (TBO Online)US Supreme Court let stand ruling granting the interlocking letters "SC" trademark...
International Sporting Spectacles on the scale of the World Cup or the Olympics, and to a lesser extent, the Asian Games, the Pan American Games and the Commonwealth Games have been used for decades to announce a country's entrance to the world of civilized nations. They have been a sort of debutantes ball if you will as countries from Korea to China to...
