Mets Ticket Sales Gain Momentum

The Mets sold out their home opener this afternoon against the Nationals after working through some late givebacks of sponsor ticket holds, and are expecting in excess of 100,000 for the weekend series. Ticket sales remain up year over year for the embattled club, though team officials declined to f ...

Wasserman Media Group Inks Deal To Rep Social Vibe

Wasserman Media Group has signed a deal to represent L.A.-based digital advertising technology firm Social Vibe, a company that recently landed $20M in venture capital funding. Social Vibe is targeting sports as a key growth area, and it recently powered a promotion in which players of Fac ...

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LRMR Reaches Deal With Fenway Sports Group

Heat F LeBron James and his marketing outfit, LRMR Marketing & Branding, are now part of the Fenway Sports Group portfolio following the creation of a new broad-based pact in which FSG's Fenway Sports Management becomes the exclusive global representative for LRMR to secure marketing and spons ...

EA Sports Again Pushes Back NBA Game

EA Sports has announced it will take another year off from releasing a simulation NBA game, with a new title in that market segment now not expected until the fall of '12. EA Sports last November formally killed plans to release "NBA Elite 11," its renamed simulation game, after numerous quality ...

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SI Golf Group Releases App

The SI Golf Group has released "Front9," a new mobile golf application for the iPhone and iPad. The $2.99 single-purchase product, the first such app from the SI Golf Group, features news, instruction tips, equipment reviews, travel content, and other information. Updated weekly, the format is ...

Naming Rights For Potential New Liverpool Stadium?

Fenway Sports Group is actively shopping corporate naming rights for a potential new stadium for Liverpool FC, the EPL club it purchased last year. FSG since that acquisition has been deliberating whether to renovate Anfield, Liverpool's 127-year-old home stadium, in a similar manner to what it did ...

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EA Sports Returning To MLB Gaming

EA Sports is returning to licensed baseball video gaming after a six-year absence with the release of "World Series Superstars," a social game on Facebook. The result of a multiyear deal between EA Sports, MLBAM and the MLBPA, the new title will be a team building game similar in conc ...

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MLBAM Debuting New Products For Opening Day

MLBAM today released several new and enhanced digital products to coincide with Opening Day. New features to the MLB.com At Bat mobile application include detailed individual ballpark renderings for the GameDay feature in partnership with Sony, enhanced social media, video highlights and local ...

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Nationals Sign New Concessions Deal

The Nationals today unveiled a new multiyear concessions partnership with Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, bringing several eateries now popular at Citi Field in N.Y. to Nationals Park. The deal will create locations for Shake Shack burgers and shakes, Blue Smoke barbecue, Box Frites fr ...

Bud Selig Speaks At WCOS

MLB Commissioner Bud Selig credited the current 15-year run of labor peace for the record revenue and attendance the league has recorded in recent years.