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SBD/Issue 217/This Week's SBJ
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Published August 5, 2003
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this week’s issue of SportsBusiness Journal as well as www.sportsbusinessjournal.com
for these stories and more.
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| • | IMG’s TWI division developing sports-related reality programming |
| • | IRL asking $10M for a minimum five-year series title sponsorship |
| • | Grizzlies collect $52M now on long-term $90M naming rights deal |
| • | Poll finds Kobe is not hurting his sponsors or the NBA |
| • | IBM renews USTA partnership for three additional years |
| • | One-on-One interview with Packers President & CEO Bob Harlan |
| • | News & Notes from the International Association of Assembly Managers Conference |
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| • | The
Lefton Report: Competition within the credit card
category heats up in the NFL; Andre Agassi inks two-year deal with AmEx with a
new spot already filmed; Nextel signs Jay Fiedler to one-year deal; Gillette
expands its Canada-only NHL deal in two-year renewal. |
| • | Tube Talk: SportsLink L.A. launched to sell local
commercial time ion all L.A. sports cable nets; HBO Sports Archives to sell
clips to other programmers; Time Warner Cable has rolled out its digital sports
tier to 23 of 31 regional cable systems. |
| • | Labor & Agents: NHL’s outside counsel Bob
Batterman says he is “very pessimistic” about looming labor talks; 330
prospects scheduled to take NFLPA’s test, up 34 from the last agent exam |
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Campus Beat: More on the two-in-four rule court battle;
AXA Financial to help football coaches with financial planning; UMass’ new
logo. |
