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Afternoon News & Headlines
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
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| • | Contrary To Several Reports, Malcolm Glazer Not Meeting With ManU Investors |
| • | Sony Entertainment Today Inks Deal To Sponsor CBS’ HD NFL Broadcasts |
| • | Hurricanes Ink Termidor Termite Protection To Multiyear Sponsorship Deal |
| • | Carmelo, Tony Parker And Pau Gasol Gracing Cover Of “NBA Live 2005” |
| • | Pebble Beach Tops Golf Magazine’s List Of Top Public Golf Courses |
| • | Buzzer Beaters/Tonight’s Events/Channel Surfing/In Other News/The Daily Stat |
MALCOLM GLAZER NOT MEETINGWITH IRISH MANU INVESTORS
Contrary to several reports,REUTERS writes Malcolm Glazer “has no plans to meet with Irish investorsJohn Magnier and JP McManus” today to discuss the futureownership of Manchester United. A source said that “categorically” the meetingwas never scheduled. The source also “declined to comment on whether McManusand Magnier would consider an offer from Glazer” (REUTERS,8/10).
SONYENTERTAINMENT TO SPONSOR HD NFL BROADCASTS ON CBS
CBS Sports today announcedthat Sony Electronics will sponsor threeHD NFL broadcasts each week during the regular season, as well as all of thenet’s playoff games. Fox previously announced that it will air regular andpostseason games in HD. ABC is airing its preseason and “MNF” games in HD aswell (THE DAILY).
CBS SPORTSPRESIDENT SEAN McMANUS DISCUSSES PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
CBS Sports President SeanMcManus hosted a conference call this afternoon to discuss the net’scoverage of the ’04 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Kohler, WI. McManus, when asked if he expects ratings to suffer because of NBC’s Athens Gamescoverage, said jokingly, “We were told the Olympics start September 15, I don’tknow what your calendar says.” McManus, on expected ratings: “Thecompetition is going to be a little tougher than it normally is on thisweekend, but like all programming, especially golf, to a large extent ourratings are going to be determined by the quality of the leaderboard and thequality of the competition. ... The single most important determining factor isthe presence, or lack thereof, of Tiger Woods” (THE DAILY).
TERMIDOR TERMITE PROTECTIONTO SPONSOR THE HURRICANES
BASF Professional PestControl today announced a multiyear sponsorship deal with the Hurricanes. Under the partnership, BASF’s Termidor Termite Protection brand will receivebroadcast exposure and signage at RBC Center. Termidor also sponsors theLightning, Triple-A Int’l League Durham Bulls and NC State Univ. (Termidor).
AAA CHARLOTTE KNIGHTS STILL SEEKING DOWNTOWN BALLPARK
The CHARLOTTE OBSERVERreports that the Triple-A Int’l League Charlotte Knights will present aproposal for a downtown stadium, but a majority of Mecklenburg Countycommissioners “are committed to putting a park” on the land targeted by theclub. Last month, the commissioners endorsed holding a November referendum on$69M in park bonds, which would include $24[M] to turn the county-owned landinto an urban park.” Tonight, the commissioners will decide whether to approvethe proposed September 8 public hearing date on the bonds (CHARLOTTEOBSERVER, 8/10).
BUZZER BEATERS
The woman accusing KobeBryant of rape today filed a civil suit in federal court in Denver against Bryant for an unspecified amount of monetary damages (REUTERS,8/10).
The City of Chicago has“rejected a building permit application for ramp repair work performed atWrigley Field and instructed the Chicago Cubs to provide additional informationabout the repairs ‘as soon as possible’” (CHICAGOTRIBUNE, 8/10).
South Carolina-based cc&cmanagement group has reached an agreement with the United States Adult SoccerAssociation to become its exclusive marketing agent (cc&c).
EA Sports today announcedNuggets F Carmelo Anthony, Spurs G Tony Parker and Grizzlies F PauGasol as the cover athletes for “NBA Live 2005.” Anthony will appear onthe game throughout North America, while Parker and Gasol will appear on thecover in France and Spain, respectively (EA Sports).
Mutual of Omaha todayannounced that U.S. Olympic swimmers Amanda Beard, Kaitlin Sandeno,Brendan Hansen and Aaron Peirsol will endorse the company throughits Gold Medal Team through the ’08 Olympics. Mutual of Omaha has been a USASwimming sponsor since ’01 (Mutual of Omaha).
Sports Marketing firm ZymanGroup Founder & CEO and former Coca-Cola CMO Sergio Zyman todayappeared on CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” where he said, “I think an overallover-the-top sponsorship of the Olympics gives you great awareness, but you’vegot to bring it down to sales and to the bottom line. If not, it’s not worthit” (“Power Lunch,” CNBC, 8/10).
Venus and Serena Williams appeared this morning on“Live! With Regis & Kelly” and NBC’s “Today” before heading to Athens. On “Live!,” Venus displayed her design of an Olympic Village apartment forNYC2012’s Olympic bid (THE DAILY).
Altitude Sports &Entertainment today announced a multiyear TV rights deal with the Univ. of Northern Colorado to air as many as ten UNC events, including two football games (AltitudeSports & Entertainment).
A LIGHTER BUZZ
ENTERTAINMENTWEEKLY notes that the Mets’ audio engineering crew allowed the magazine to suggestmusic for a game in July. Some of their choices “made them nervous (CheapTrick’s ‘Surrender’ for an opponent’s pitcher change).” Mets Producer of Video& Entertainment Vito Vitiello: “We don’t want to show up theopposing players. We used to play [Dr. Evil’s] laugh from Austin Powers aftera strikeout and got in a little trouble from the MLB” (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY,8/13 issue).
TONIGHT’S EVENTS
The Chargers will launch anew program for San Diego law enforcement officers who investigate childabductions during a 2:00pm CT news conference. Chargers President DeanSpanos will attend.
The MLB Cardinals begin aroad trip against the Marlins, and the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH reported thatbroadcaster Wayne Hagin will miss the trip as he “continues torecuperate from a throat condition” (ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 8/10).
The Mariners will distributeEdgar Bears bearing the likeness of DH Edgar Martinez to the first15,000 fans 14 and under through the gates at Safeco Field prior to the team’s7:05pm PT game against the Twins.
CHANNELSURFING
As part of its ongoing ESPN25programming, ESPN will air “Who’s No. 1: Biggest Chokes” at 7:00pm ET and “TheHeadlines: No. 5” at 8:00pm.
ESPN Classic will air Part IIof “Bud Greenspan’s Reflections: 100 Years of Olympic Glory” at 7:00pm ET.
Discovery Times will examineperformance enhancing drug use by athletes in “Doping to Win” at 8:00pm ET.
ESPN will air the LittleLeague Regionals: Arkansas-Texas at 8:00pm ET.
Vikings QB Daunte Culpepper, Cardinals WR Anquan Boldin, comedian CarrotTop and actor David Carradinewill appear on FSN’s “BDSSP.”
ESPN will air the WorldSeries of Poker: Limit Hold ‘Em at 9:00pm and Pot Limit Omaha at 10:00pm ET.
Former anchor GayleGardner will join Stuart Scott as part of ESPN’s “SportsCenter” OldSchool at 11:00pm ET.
ESPN’s “OTL Nightly” willexamine sports agents Carl and Kevin Poston at midnight ET.
A&E’s “Biography” willprofile the Manson Women at 8:00pm ET.
HEADLINERS
Here are tonight’s headlineguests on the following talk shows:
| “Late Show” | Ben Stiller (r) |
| “The Tonight Show” | Damon Wayans |
| “The Late Late Show” | Garry Marshall |
| “Late Night” | Seth Green |
| “Jimmy Kimmel Live” | Jon Heder |
TODAY’SARTICLES OF INTEREST
In a USA TODAY Money Cover Story, Stephanie Armour profiles the career assistance some U.S. sponsors are providing to athletes. Home Depot has 71 employees competing in Athens thissummer “through a program that paysqualifying athletes full time and benefits for 20 hours of work a week.Online career network Monster has a program (TeamUSAnet) to help Olympicathletes and hopefuls transition to employment. And financial services firmEdward Jones provided one of its Olympics-bound employees a portableworkstation so he could stay in touch while training” (USA TODAY).
In an L.A. TIMES front-pagepiece, Glionna & Abrahamson write, “While acknowledging the gapthat remains between some of its own top-level athletes and the world'sbest, China has set its sights on the 2008 Beijing Games to make a statementabout its growing athletic excellence before millions of hometown fans” (L.A.TIMES).
See The Daily Insider’s Articles ofInterest section for more sports business-related links.
TODAY’S TEASER…
Sports & Entertainment: Which former NBA player did not appear in the ’95film “Forget Paris,” in which Billy Crystal plays an NBA official?
1) Kurt Rambis
2) Marques Johnson
3) Dan Majerle
4) Rick Mahorn
IN OTHER NEWS……
Charter Communications lost58,000 subscribers in Q2 ’04, dropping its total subscriber count to 6.1million. The company lost $415M in the quarter, compared with a loss of $37Min the year ago period. Revenue grew from $1.17B to $1.24B (WALLSTREET JOURNAL, 8/10).
EchoStar added 340,000subscribers in Q2, bringing its total to 10.1 million. Net income for theperiod was $85.3M, 34% lower than the $128.8M earned in the year ago period. Revenue rose 26% to $1.78B (BLOOMBERGNEWS, 8/10).
THE DAILY STAT: GOLF MAGAZINE RANKS THE TOP 100 PUBLIC COURSES
The following details GOLFMAGAZINE’s ranking of the top ten U.S. public golf courses. The panel ranking thecourses is comprised of PGA sections directors, regional golf associationdirectors and golf writers, among others (GOLF MAGAZINE, 8/10 issue):
| RK | COURSE | LOCATION | GREENS FEES |
| 1) | Pebble Beach | Pebble Beach, CA | $395-420 |
| 2) | Pacific Dunes | Bandon, OR | $60-200 |
| 3) | Bethpage Black | Farmingdale, NY | $78-98 |
| 4) | Pinehurst No. 2 | Pinehurst, NC | $245-345 |
| 5) | Whistling Straits – Straits Course | Kohler, WI | $272 |
| 6) | TPC at Sawgrass Stadium | Ponte Vedra Beach, FL | $180-322 |
| 7) | Bandon Dunes | Bandon, OR | $60-160 |
| 8) | Kiawah Island Ocean | Kiawah Island, SC | $170-290 |
| 9) | World Woods Pine Barrens | Brooksville, FL | $40-120 |
| 10) | Spyglass Hill | Pebble Beach, CA | $275-300 |
…TODAY’SANSWER
RickMahorn
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