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Afternoon News & Headlines
Monday, August 30, 2004
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| • | Apparel Firm Marshall Gobuty Int’l Files $8M Patent Suit Against Nike |
| • | Salt Lake City Maintains Its Status Atop Metered-Markets For Summer Olympics |
| • | NBA Debuting Line Of Menswear Including Blazers And Neckties Tonight |
| • | Cars.com Today Launches New Campaign, Set To Sponsor ESPN Programming |
| • | U.S. Gold Medalist Carly Patterson To Appear Tonight On CBS’ “Late Show” |
| • | Buzzer Beaters/Tonight’s Events/Channel Surfing/In Other News/The Daily Stat |
MGI FILES $8M PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUITAGAINST NIKE
Marshall Gobuty Int’l hasfiled an $8M patent infringement suit against Nike in U.S. District Court inthe Southern District of New York. Thesuit alleges that Nike has manufactured, marketed and sold products resemblingMGI’s Handcuffs apparel by cloning the line. The suit seeks temporary and permanent injunctive relief (MGI).
NBA DEBUTING MENSWEAR LINE AT MAGIC INT’LAPPAREL SHOW
The NBA tonight will debut aline of menswear at the Magic Int’l apparel show in Las Vegas. The collection includes woven shirts,blazers, neckties and argyle socks, and will be available beginning with thisyear’s holiday season. The shirts, viaHeadmaster, will incorporate team logos, while the blazers, via Unk, featurethe name and number of NBA players on the back. The neckties, via Ralph Marlin, and argyle socks, via For Bare Feet,will feature team logos (NBA).
ESPN PROGRAMMING AMONG THE PLATFORMS FORCARS.COM CAMPAIGN
Cars.com today launched an adcampaign, via DDB Chicago, to coincide with the fall car-buying season. Included in the campaign is sponsorship of“Top-Ten” and “Call of the Day” segments on ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” as well as apresence on “NFL Postgame SportsCenter” and “Baseball Tonight.” The campaign portrays the joy a consumerfeels in finding the right car (Cars.com).
SALT LAKE CITYKEEPS TOP SPOT AMONG METERED-MARKETS
The following presents thetop ten Nielsen metered-markets for NBC’s primetime coverage of the AthensOlympics, compared to the Sydney Games. The ratings and shares reflect the 17-day average of the markets (NBC):
| ATHENS OLYMPICS | SYDNEY OLYMPICS |
| RK | MARKET | RAT/SHR | MARKET | RAT/SHR |
| 1) | Salt Lake City | 26.0/45 | Salt Lake City | 21.5/39 |
| 2) | Portland | 21.8/38 | Sacramento | 20.0/34 |
| 3) | Indianapolis | 21.6/34 | Portland | 19.1/34 |
| 4) | San Francisco | 21.5/37 | San Francisco | 18.7/34 |
| 5) | Columbus | 20.9/33 | St. Louis | 18.5/31 |
| 6) | Denver | 20.7/36 | Seattle | 18.1/34 |
| 7) | Oklahoma City | 20.2/31 | Denver | 18.0/31 |
| 8) | San Diego | 20.1/35 | Columbus | 18.0/30 |
| 9) | Sacramento | 19.5/33 | Indianapolis | 17.5/29 |
| 10) | Minneapolis-St. Paul | 19.3/35 | Los Angeles | 17.4/30 |
| 10) | Phoenix | 19.3/31 | | |
| 10) | Las Vegas | 19.3/31 | | |
FEUD BETWEEN WASHINGTON POST AND REDSKINS ESCALATES TODAY
The brewing feud between theWashington Post and the Redskins escalated today as the paper erroneouslyreported this morning that the Redskins had cut DB Ryan Clark, Redskins VP/Football Operations Vinny Cerrato released a statement today reading in part, “Thisguessing game to decide who will be cut has consequences, especially when thepaper goes with information from uninformed sources. I wonder sometimes whether they stop to thinkthat they are playing with people’s lives and careers” (Redskins).
BUZZER BEATERS
The PGA Tour today announceda partnership with America Online to provide video tournament previews, dailyround summaries and instructional content at no cost to AOL for Broadbandmembers (PGA Tour).
After signing a two-yearsponsorship deal with the Dolphins earlier this year, DHL today unveiled someof its signage that will appear at Pro Player Stadium (THE DAILY).
World Poker Tour Enterprisestoday announced that it is developing a Professional Poker Tour featuring onlyprofessional poker players. The companyis in discussions with Travel Channel for broadcast rights (World Poker Tour).
The Academy of TelevisionArts & Sciences yesterday distributed the 56th annual L.A. EmmyAwards. The following detailssports-related winners (DAILYVARIETY, 8/30):
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM/PERSON | STATION |
| Sports Feature | “The 2004 Lakers: I Am My Brother’s Keeper” | KCAL-Ind |
| Sports Series | “Dodgers Dugout” | KCOP-UPN |
| Sports Special | “Extreme Sports” | KCBS-CBS |
| Sports Reporting | Lindsay Soto | FSN West |
| Live Sports Coverage | Ducks-Red Wings playoffs | FSN West |
TONIGHT’S EVENTS
TheTug McGraw Foundation will celebratewhat would have been McGraw’s 60th birthday with a fundraising event– “Celebrating, Remembering, Believing!” – at McFadden’s Restaurant &Saloon from 7:00-9:00pm ET at Citizens Bank Park.
Sirius Satellite Radio, NFLpartner and presenting sponsor of tonight’s Titans-Cowboys preseason game, willair a sneak preview of “NFL Sunday Drive” prior to its broadcast of the game (Sirius Satellite Radio).
CHANNEL SURFING
USA Network will airearly-round coverage of the U.S. Open at 7:00pm ET.
ESPN2 will air Cubs-Expos at 7:00pm ET.
ABC will air NFL preseason: Titans-Cowboys at 8:00pm ET.
Former NFLer Jason Sehorn will appear on-stageduring PBS’ coverage of the Republican National Convention at 8:00pm ET.
Mets P Tom Glavine, beach volleyball Bronze Medalist Holly McPeak and tennis analyst Bud Collins will appear on FSN’s “BDSSP.”
Gymnastics Gold Medalist Carly Patterson will appear on CBS’“Late Show” at 11:35pm ET.
Mary Lou Rettonwill appear on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” at 12:05am ET.
HEADLINERS
Here are tonight’s headlineguests on the following talk shows:
| “Late Show” | Carly Patterson |
| “The Tonight Show” | Dave Chappelle |
| “The Late Late Show” | Lesley Stahl |
| “Late Night” | Eric Bana (r) |
| “Jimmy Kimmel Live” | Bob Odenkirk |
TODAY’S ARTICLES OF INTEREST
The N.Y. TIMES’ StuartElliott writes of the advertising on Athens Olympics coverage, “There wereentertaining commercials among the more than $1[B] worth of spots that ran fromAug. 13 through last night. But it is difficultto recall them in the aftermath of the exhausting, hucksterish din. … Notonly were most of the commercials for the Chevrolet division of the GeneralMotors Corporation delightful, but there were enough of them to offer varietyamid the repetition. … There were scores of commercials from Olympic sponsorsand suppliers who sought to wrap themselves around the rings, but none soclever as those from the DHL delivery service owned by the Deutsche Post” (N.Y. TIMES).
The ORLANDO SENTINEL’s RickMaese writes of the Summer Olympics, “The television ratings still aren't whatthey were just eight years ago, and those who have tuned in have seen a sea ofempty seats. … Overallinterest is in question and Olympic officials are all scrambling for ananswer: Are the Summer Games still relevant?” (ORLANDO SENTINEL).
See The Daily Insider’s Articles ofInterest section for more sports business-related links.
TODAY’S TEASER…
Sports: Mariners RF Ichiro Suzuki has 209 hits, 48 short ofthe single-season record of 257 with 32 games remaining. GeorgeSisler set the record in 1920. Whowas the last person to get 250 hits in one season?
THE DAILYSTAT: ATHENSOLYMPICS FINAL MEDAL COUNT
The WALL STREET JOURNALreports that the economic model designed by professors Andrew Bernard and MeghanBusse to predict the medal standings “had its shining moments, but it alsoproduced a few notable misses. Thecomputer projected that the U.S.would win 93 medals; the U.S.took home 103.” The model “came withinthree medals of a perfect prediction for 23 of the 34 countries tracked and thecomputer model did a pretty good job predicting gold medals” (WALLSTREET JOURNAL, 8/30). Thefollowing presents a final medal count for the Athens Olympics:
| COUNTRY | TOTAL | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE |
| U.S. | 103 | 35 | 39 | 29 |
| Russia | 92 | 27 | 27 | 38 |
| China | 63 | 32 | 17 | 14 |
| Australia | 49 | 17 | 16 | 16 |
| Germany | 48 | 14 | 16 | 18 |
…TODAY’S ANSWER
Bill Terry and Chuck Klein reached the250-hit plateau in 1930. Terry had 254 hits while Klein had exactly 250.
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