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The Sports Business Year That Was: A Look Back At '12

12 / 21 / 12

THE DAILY concludes our look back at the sports business year of ’12. We present some of the highlights from the year in college sports, a few of the more memorable tweets of the year and our favorite daily downloads from the past 12 months. Also, our annual holiday carol is written to the cla...

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Annual Sports Business Holiday Carol

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12/22/11
Significant Deaths This Year

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12/22/11
Notable Tweets Of The Year

With an increasing number of sports execs, athletes and journalists taking to social media to express their thoughts, THE DAILY recalls some tweets from the past year that had us talking. SI's Richard Deitsch : "I just checked, and yes, Washington said, 'This is for all the Tostitos' right b ...

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12/22/11
Top Sports Telecasts In '11

NFL game telecasts accounted for each of the top 10 most-viewed sports telecasts on broadcast TV this year, with the BCS National Championship moving to cable and '11 being a non-Olympic year. This season's Dolphins-Cowboys game on Thanksgiving was the only regular-season game to crack the top 10, w ...

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12/21/11
2011 Year In Review

THE DAILY continues our look back at the sports business year of '11. Today, we offer the remaining top stories of the year and five more names that were in the headlines. Also, we present some welcome additions to the sports world and some of the more forgettable moments of the year. We conclude ou ...

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12/21/11
Top Sports Business Stories, Part Two

The SBD/SBJ editorial staff compiled the top sports business stories of '11, in no particular order. Today, we present five of them. See Tuesday's issue for five other top stories . The NFL in September announced a ...

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12/21/11
Sports Business Newsmakers, Part Two

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12/21/11
New Addition To Sports Business Landscape

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12/21/11
Deals That Did Not Get Done

Every year, there are many prospective deals that sound great at the outset, but fall apart before completion. Here are a few of those would-be deals that stood out in '11. Meruelo reportedly refused to meet economic ...

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12/21/11
The "Oops" Moments Of The Year

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