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Scott Blackmun, USOC The Big Winners From Last Night's Sports Business Awards05 / 23 / 13The sixth annual Sports Business Awards had a decided Olympic feel to them, as the USOC was named Sports League of the Year, beating the NFL, NBA, MLB and PGA Tour, while USOC CEO Scott Blackmun took home the award for Sports Exec of the Year. The recognition was the culmination of a... Tags: Events and Attractions |
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Turner, NCAA Team For Entrepreneurial Initiative
Turner Sports and the NCAA are teaming up to establish the “Next List Summit,” a Final Four weekend initiative to showcase college student entrepreneurship, creative thinking and innovation. A’s VP & GM Billy Beane, the subject of Michael Lewis’ best-seller “Moneyba ...
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WBC To Pay For Injured Players
Players injured during the World Baseball Classic will "have their salaries paid by the WBC organization while they are unable to play for their major league teams," according to a source cited by Buster Olney of ESPN.com. That would mean players such as Yankees 1B Mark Teixeira and Dodgers SS Hanle ...
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French Open To Increase Prize Money
French Open Tournament Dir Gilbert Ysern said the event plans to increase prize money "spectacularly" over the next four years, according to Christopher Clarey of the N.Y. TIMES. While Ysern declined to give precise figures, he acknowledged “surprise at the magnitude of the U.S. Ope ...
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Women's World Cup Names Final Venue
BC Place Stadium in Vancouver will host the '15 FIFA Women's World Cup championship match in what will mark "the first World Cup soccer final on artificial turf," according to Monte Stewart of the CP. FIFA has "frowned on using artificial turf in major men's events and professional leagues, bec ...
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Rochester To Host Outdoor Hockey Festival
The AHL Rochester Americans on Thursday announced that Frontier Field will host an outdoor hockey event this year from Dec. 13-22. The festival will kick off with a regular-season AHL game featuring the Amerks, and will include a college hockey double-header for the Rochester Institute of Technology ...
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NCAA Enhances Tourney's In-Game Experience
A trip to the NCAA Tournament in the past meant sacrificing updates from other games and instant replays, video elements that are commonplace inside most venues. But that is not the case with the new-look NCAA Tournament. This season’s tournament is taking a more fan-friendly approach to impro ...
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USTA Responds To Player Pressure
The U.S. Open's move yesterday to increase its payout to players and permanently establish a Sunday men's final followed a series of meetings between the USTA and “many of the top players, who for the past year have been pressuring the Grand Slam tournaments over prize money,” acc ...
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Team USA Must Invest To Win WBC
The WBC would "matter more" to American fans if Team USA "fully invested in the effort to win, in a way that more completely realized the potential" of int'l baseball, according to Jon Paul Morosi of FOXSPORTS.com. That means "greater representation among star players on Team USA." National soccer t ...
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WBC Sets Attendance Record
The '13 World Baseball Classic, won last night by the Dominican Republic, finished with a total attendance of 885,212, a new event record. The total includes games played last fall in the WBC's new qualifying round. The event attendance for games played since the full tournament began March 2 was 78 ...
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USTA To Up U.S. Open Prize Money
The USTA today announced that U.S. Open prize money will increase to $50M by ’17, "roughly double what it was last year," according to Howard Fendrich of the AP. The USTA also will "permanently schedule the men's semifinals on Friday and men's final on Sunday" as of '15. As part of a ...
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