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The Daily's Hot Reads For Wednesday: Art For Art's SakeThe Baltimore SUN's Childs Walker writes, "Late Ravens owner Art Modell might face an easier path to the Pro Football Hall of Fame if the museum follows through on tentative discussions of putting 'contributors' in a different voting pool than players " ( Baltimore SUN ). ESPN.com's Brant Jame... |
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NFL Properties named SUSAN MCBRIDE ROTHMAN as Senior Dir of Licensing-Adult. She will be responsible for NFL Properties'' Adult licensing category, and head the women''s brand (NFL Properties)....The
Tags: Cablevision, Madison Square Garden, NFL, People and Pop Culture
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Alongside these guys, the robber barons were sissies." -- Houston Mayor Bob Lanier, on NFL owners (HBO, 12/7).
Tags: Front Page, HBO, NFL, Time Warner
STADIUM NOTES
The new Texas Motor Speedway is planning the first major Indy-car Race ever held at night and is expecting a sellout crowd of 175,000, according to the FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM. Speedway GM Eddie Gossa
MEDIA NOTES
The Dolphins'' Bryan Cox filed a $15M lawsuit against WIOD-AM in Miami and a talk show host who parodied Cox and said he is gay. The lawsuit accuses WIOD of slander and unauthorized use of his name, a
Tags: ABC, AFL, Cablevision, CBS, Chicago Bulls, ESPN, HBO, Miami Dolphins, Microsoft, NBA, NBC, New York Knicks, News Corp./Fox, NFL, Media, Sun Microsystems, TBS/TNT, Time Warner, Viacom, Walt Disney
SPORTS MARKETING WILL HIT $3.5B IN '96 WITH MARQUEE EVENTS
Marketers will spend $3.5B to advertise during sporting events next year, up 27% from 1995, according to Robert Coen, longtime forecaster for McCann-Erickson. USA TODAY''s Wells & Enrico note the lure
Tags: Anheuser Busch, McDonald's, NBC, PepsiCo, Media
OILERS' MOVE DRAWS MORE ATTENTION FROM MEDIA THAN FANS
HBO''s "Inside the NFL" examined the Oilers'' move out of Houston, interviewing both Oilers Owner Bud Adams and Houston Mayor Bob Lanier. HBO''s Andrea Joyce notes both sides claim to have offered eac
Tags: Anheuser Busch, Edmonton Oilers, Franchises, HBO, NFL, Time Warner
WAR OF WORDS HAS BEARS STADIUM PLAN IN DEEP HIBERNATION
Talks have "temporarily" broken off in Chicago on Mayor Richard Daley''s $156M Soldier Field renovation effort, with team and city officials calling each other "liars" yesterday, according to the CHIC
Tags: Chicago Bears, Facilities, NFL
THE MOOSE IS ON THE MOVE TO THE GREAT WHITE NORTH
The IHL''s Board of Governors voted Thursday to allow Moose Owner Kevin MacLean to move the team from Minnesota to Winnipeg, according to the Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE. The move is contingent upon sign
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THE SPORTS BUSINESS DAILY'S BLACKOUT MONITOR
The following NFL games failed to sellout for this weekend and will be blacked out in their home markets: GAME LOCAL TIME NETWORK Detroit at Houston 1:00pm Fox New Orleans at Atlanta 1:00 Fox Green Ba
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HOUSE SEEKS DELAY OF BROWNS VOTE; NFL MEETS CLEVELAND GROUP
Henry Hyde, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has asked the NFL to postpone its scheduled January 17 vote on the Browns'' proposed move to Baltimore for "at least a month." The House plans to
Tags: Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Edmonton Oilers, ESPN, HBO, Leagues and Governing Bodies, NFL, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Time Warner, Walt Disney
