| | The Daily Insider
Afternoon News & Headlines
Monday, November 29, 2004
4:00pm ET | |
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| • | Sirius Satellite Radio Announces Three-Year Deal To Broadcast NCAA Tourney |
| • | Firm Owned By Suns Investor Inks Seven-Game Sponsorship Deal With Team |
| • | The Athlete’s Foot Expecting To Open 80 Stores In India Through Planet Sports |
| • | Lance Armstrong To Appear Tonight On CBS’ “Late Show” W/ David Letterman |
| • | Buzzer Beaters/Tonight’s Events/Channel Surfing/In Other News/The Daily Stat |
SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO TO BROADCAST MEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT
Sirius Satellite Radio today announced a three-year partnership with the NCAA, under which Sirius will broadcast every NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament game through ‘07. There will be no blackouts and no extra charge to subscribers (Sirius Satellite Radio).
SUNS INVESTOR’S FIRM TO SPONSOR TEAM FOR SEVEN GAME NIGHTS
The Suns today announced a partnership with Continental Promotion Group (CPG), under which the company and select CPG clients will act as Game Night sponsors for seven ‘04-05 Suns games. The game night sponsors will receive exposure through PA announcements and signage at America West Arena during their game. Fans attending the games will receive a special offer from the night’s sponsor. Suns investor Sam Garvin owns CPG (Suns).
BUZZER BEATERS
The Athlete’s Foot today inked a 15-year partnership with Planet Sports to become The Athlete’s Foot’s master franchisee in India. The Athlete’s Foot projects 80 store openings over the life of the deal, beginning with the opening of stores in Bangalore and Mumbai next year (The Athlete’s Foot).
Idea Sports Entertainment Group today acquired the rights to reality show “America’s Top Driver” from The Adler Group (Idea Sports Entertainment Group).
NASCAR today announced that several licensees are releasing NASCAR-themed holiday gifts to be sold on NASCAR.com, at Hallmark and Kohl’s, among other retail outlets. The products include holiday tree ornaments, stockings and figurines (NASCAR).
TONIGHT’S EVENTS
The Troy, Michigan, City Council will hold a 6:00pm ET meeting at Troy City Hall to “provide an update on the possibility of [a minor league baseball] team playing in a stadium to be located on the Civic Center site” (DETROIT NEWS, 11/28).
The Philadelphia Eagles will host their annual “NFL 101 Workshop for Women” from 6:00pm-10:00pm ET at Lincoln Financial Field. The workshop continues tomorrow.
CHANNEL SURFING
ESPN2 will air NCAA basketball: Purdue-NC State at 7:00pm ET and Nevada-Kansas at 9:00pm.
NBA TV will air Celtics-Magic at 7:00pm ET.
U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Brandi Chastain will appear on CBS’ “Listen Up” at 8:30pm ET.
ABC will air “MNF”: Rams-Packers at 9:00pm ET.
ESPN will air figure skating: Grand Prix Paris at 9:00pm ET.
Lance Armstrong will appear on CBS’ “Late Show” at 11:35pm ET.
Giants DE Michael Strahan will appear on “BDSSP.”
HEADLINERS
Here are tonight’s headline guests on the following talk shows:
| “Late Show” | Matt Damon |
| “The Tonight Show” | Michael Moore |
| “The Late Late Show” | Ben Stein |
| “Late Night” | Tiger Woods (r) |
| “Jimmy Kimmel Live” | Joss Stone |
TODAY’S ARTICLES OF INTEREST
The N.Y. TIMES’ Frank Rich writes of the controversial “MNF” intro featuring Terrell Owens and Nicollette Sheridan, “The hypocrisy embedded in this tale is becoming a national running gag. As in the Super Bowl brouhaha, in which the NFL maintained it had no idea that MTV might produce a racy halftime show, the league has denied any prior inkling of the salaciousness on tap this time – even though the spot featured the actress playing the sluttiest character in prime time's most libidinous series and was shot with the full permission of one of the league's teams in its own locker room” (N.Y. TIMES).
The S.F. CHRONICLE’s Scott Ostler writes, “We need to give the Olympics a home. We need to find a nice deserted island somewhere in the South Pacific and anchor the Olympics there. Call the place Olympicland. Build stadiums, arenas, hotels, restaurants, parks. Put up a Bourbon Street-type fun zone, a kiddie area, shopping. Olympicland would support itself just from the Games' visitors, but it could also be rented out for Super Bowls, World Cups and Tiger Woods' five-year anniversary party” (S.F. CHRONICLE).
See The Daily Insider’s Articles of Interest section for more sports business-related links.
TODAY’S TEASER…
What famous actor said “A hot dog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz?”
IN OTHER NEWS……
USA TODAY reports that DirecTV is “preparing to offer a [DVR] service in mid-2005 that could duplicate virtually every feature now available from current partner TiVo, plus provide video on demand similar to what’s offered on cable.” The new service will not have the “ability to jump over commercials.” More than 61% of TiVo’s 2.3 million DVRs “belong to DirecTV subscribers” (USA TODAY, 11/29).
THE DAILY STAT: N.Y. TIMES BESTSELLING NONFICTION
The following presents best selling nonfiction books for the week ending November 28 (NYTIMES.com, 11/29):
| RK | HARDCOVER NONFICTION |
| 1) | AMERICA, Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin & David Javerbaum (Warner) |
| 2) | LEARNING TO SING, Clay Aiken w/ Allison Glock (Random House) |
| 3) | WHEN WILL JESUS BRING THE PORK CHOPS?, George Carlin (Hyperion) |
| 4) | HIS EXCELLENCY, Joseph Ellis (Knopf) |
| 5) | HOW TO TALK TO A LIBERAL, Ann Coulter (Crown Forum) |
| 6) | CHRONICLES: VOLUME ONE, Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster) |
| 7) | WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS?, Thomas Frank (Metropolitan/Holt) |
| 8) | FAVRE, Brett & Bonita Favre w/ Chris Havel (NFL Publishing/RuggedLand) |
| 9) | THE LAST SEASON, Phil Jackson w/ Michael Arkush (Penguin Press) |
| 10) | EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES, Lynne Truss (Gotham) |
…TODAY’S ANSWER
Humphrey Bogart
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