Lobbying On Behalf Of Fantasy Sports ESPN Execs Undecided Over Pawlenty TV Spot McMahon Loses Bid For Conn. Senate Seat Former Athletes Star In Political Races Republicans Buy Ads During Sports Events NFL's Gridiron PAC Hands Out About $600k American Needle Ruling Could Alter Deals Narrow Ruling Made In American Needle v. NFL SCOTUS Overturns American Needle Ruling Reggie Bush Reportedly Settles In Civil Case
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Fantasy Sports Trade Association Hires First Lobbyist, Launches Political Action Committee10 / 19 / 11The Fantasy Sports Trade Association has hired Travis McCoy as its "first federal lobbyist and launched a political action committee to make campaign contributions to lawmakers," according to Fredreka Schouten of USA TODAY. McCoy is a former aide to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and is "... Tags: Law and Politics |
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ESPN Execs Undecided Over Pawlenty TV Spot
Watch The Clip ESPN officials Thursday said that they "were undecided about whether to send” a cease-and-desist letter to Republican presidential candidate T ...
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McMahon Loses Bid For Conn. Senate Seat
McMahon Says She Will Not Return To WWE Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal last night defeated former WWE CEO Linda McMahon for the state's vacant U.S. Senate seat, according t ...
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Former Athletes Star In Political Races
With Election Day under way, THE DAILY takes a look at several candidates with ties to the sports industry, including former athletes and current and former execs. See tomorrow's issue for results of these races. CANDIDATE ...
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Republicans Buy Ads During Sports Events
Political spending on TV advertising is "set to hit $3 billion for this year's Congressional elections," and Republican ad buyers "favor sports programming," according to Ashley Parker of the N.Y. TIMES. Republicans have "bought nearly three times as many ads as Democrats o ...
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NFL's Gridiron PAC Hands Out About $600k
The NFL's political action committee, Gridiron PAC, handed out "almost $600,000 in campaign cash in its rookie election cycle," and players like Colts QB Peyton Manning, Vikings QB Brett ...
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American Needle Ruling Could Alter Deals
Ruling Could Forever Change Marketing, Licensing Deals Between Apparel Cos., Leagues Marketing and licensing deals between apparel companies and sports leagues "could forever chang ...
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Narrow Ruling Made In American Needle v. NFL
Supreme Court Rules NFL Is Not One Entity, But Many Questions Still Remain The U.S. Supreme Court in its ruling in the American Needle v. NFL case "did not set a clear rule" reg ...
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SCOTUS Overturns American Needle Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling against cap manufacturer American Needle this morning, rejecting the NFL’s contention that the league and its teams are a single entity and clearing the way for the company to proceed with an antitrust suit in federal court. A ...
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Reggie Bush Reportedly Settles In Civil Case
Amount Of Bush's Settlement With Lake Is Not Known Saints RB Reggie Bush has "reached a settlement in a civil case brought by Lloyd Lake, one of the financiers of failed marketing agen ...
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Supreme Court Skeptical Of NFL's Case
Levy Argues Teams Must Form "Single, Cooperative Unit" To Produce Football League Supreme Court justices yesterday signaled that they are "not inclined to shi ...
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