Bruce Ratner Talks New Role

Barclays Center developer Bruce Ratner , speaking this morning in a featured interview at the '13 Sports Facilities & Franchises conference , said his transition from President & CEO of Forest City Ratner Cos. to Exec Chair, along with the installation of MaryAnne Gilmartin to his prior ...

Yankees In Court Today Opposing StubHub

The Yankees and StubHub will be in a Bronx County, N.Y., courtroom today as the club seeks an injunction to keep closed the resale marketplace's pickup location near Yankee Stadium. The Yankees sued StubHub four weeks ago, arguing it was violating state law that prohibits ticket resale within 1,500 ...

March Madness Live Sets Multiple Records

March Madness Live finished the '13 NCAA Tournament with 49 million live video streams and more than 14 million hours of consumed live video, according to data from Turner Sports. The figures are each new event records, and up 168% and 207%, respectively, from '12. Smartphone viewing of MML grew 309 ...

Smartphone/Tablet Video Consumption Rising

Adobe Systems today released its U.S. Digital Video Benchmark report, showing major spikes in online and mobile video consumption during '12. Compiled from traffic from Adobe Marketing Cloud customers, the company in particular measured a tripling of smartphone and tablet video consumption from 3.1% ...

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Red Sox Expect Streak To End Tonight

The Red Sox project that barring highly unexpected walkup sales, tonight's game against the Orioles at Fenway Park will not sell out, marking the first game there not to do so since May 15, 2003. Since then, the club has posted an MLB-record 794 straight regular-season sellouts, including Monday's h ...

MLBAM, Domino's Partner For Promotion

MLBAM has signed a one-year deal with Domino's in which the pizza chain will sponsor a new "DomiNoNo" promotion. In the "Domino's DomiNoNo," the first 10,000 subscribers of the MLB.TV out-of-market package who visit MLB.com/dominos following the completion of a no-hitter will receive a free, two-top ...

MLB At Bat On Pace For Record Downloads

MLB.com's At Bat mobile app surpassed the four-million-download mark five days into the '13 season, a level the app did not reach last year until May 18 (45 days into the '12 season). At Bat remains well on pace to shatter last year's record full-season total of 6.7 million downloads. At Bat – ...

MLB, People Magazine Recognize Veterans

MLB is again partnering with People magazine to create "Tribute for Heroes," an editorial-driven initiative that will recognize military veterans and active duty members for their service. Similar to the high-profile "All-Stars Among Us" effort MLB and People ran in '09-10, the pair will take nomina ...

USA Today Sports Partners With Vivid Seats

USA Today Sports Media Group has aligned with Vivid Seats, designating the Chicago-based ticket resale marketplace as its official ticket partner for USA Today Sports. All relevant USA Today Sports pages, including team, league, schedule, scores and standings pages, will include direct links to Vivi ...

March Madness Live's Popularity Rises

March Madness Live continued its torrid pace through the regional finals, according to new data from Turner Sports. MML now has generated 45 million live video streams, up from 36.6 million during the initial rounds of play, and up 158% from the comparable point in the '12 tournament. MML this year ...

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