Yahoo Returns To Top Of ComScores

Yahoo Sports in December returned to the top of the monthly comScore reach rankings among U.S. sports sites, continuing a back-and-forth with ESPN for the top spot over the past five months. Yahoo last month led the way with 40.01 million unique visitors. The rest of the list mostly held form compar ...

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Revival Of "MLB 2K" A One-Year Deal

Yesterday's surprise video game licensing deal involving 2K Sports, MLB, MLBAM and the MLBPA to  revive the thought-extinct "MLB 2K" franchise is a one-year pact designed to buy time for baseball until the next gaming console cycle. Sony and Microsoft are both said to be working on next-genera ...

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MLB Owners To Vote On Indians' Control Exec

MLB owners meeting today in Paradise Valley, Ariz., will likely vote on a transfer of the status of the Indians' designated control exec from team Owner Larry Dolan to his son, Paul , the club's Chair & CEO. The largely seamless transfer, part of a long-planned transition in the Dolan family' ...

2K Sports Suprises With "MLB 2K 13" Release

2K Sports this morning made a surprise announcement that it has renewed its video game license with MLB, the MLBPA and MLBAM, and will release "MLB 2K 13" on March 5 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 featuring Rays P David Price on the cover. 2K Sports had a five-year deal with MLB that expired las ...

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MLB Owners Meetings Begin Today

MLB owners today will begin a two-day quarterly meeting in Paradise Valley, Ariz. In addition to continued planning for the upcoming season and World Baseball Classic, owners will hear presentations on the global economy and political climate from columnist George Will , a frequent consultant and a ...

T-Mobile, MLB Ink Three-Year Deal

T-Mobile, the country's fourth-largest wireless carrier, has signed a major three-year sponsorship with MLB and its teams that also includes extensive rights with MLBAM, giving baseball its first league-level telecommunications sponsorship deal in nearly 15 years. The agreement was announced last ni ...

ESPN Going Without Booth At '13 CES

The '13 Int'l Consumer Electronics Show opens today in Las Vegas, and organizers are again expecting this week to set event records, even with several major companies including ESPN and Microsoft decreasing their CES profiles. The Consumer Electronics Association, which produces the event, has sold ...

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CBS Unveiling New Features For Super Bowl Stream

CBS Sports' digital stream coverage of Super Bowl XLVII on Feb. 3, the second online airing of the game following NBC's initial efforts last year, will feature first-ever live coverage of the halftime show featuring Beyonce, near real-time presentation of the commercials from the TV broadcast and a ...

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CES Opens Today In Las Vegas

The '13 International Consumer Electronics Show opens today in Las Vegas, and organizers are again expecting this week to set several event records, even with several major companies, including ESPN and Microsoft, decreasing their CES profiles. The Consumer Electronics Association, which produces th ...

EA Sports, Monster Partner On Headphones

Monster and EA Sports today at the Int'l Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will announce a partnership in which the high-end audio products company will produce a new gaming headphone called the EA Sports MVP Carbon by Monster. The headphone, bearing the EA Sports logo, will be available at re ...