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Buzzer Beaters....06 / 18 / 13Tennis Channel has extended its deal with Jim Courier , who will now appear as an analyst during Wimbledon and the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells ( Tennis Channel ). Excel Sports Management today announced that it has signed golfer Chris Williams for representation. Williams will make h... |
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NBC LOSES ANOTHER MJAOR NFL MARKET IN OILERS MOVE
When the Oilers announced the outline iof their deal with Nashville yesterday, NBC Sports faced the loss of another major NFL TV market. Houston is currently No. 11, while Nashville is No. 33. This wo
Tags: ABC, Cleveland Browns, Edmonton Oilers, NBC, News Corp./Fox, NFL, Oakland Raiders, Media, St. Louis Rams, Walt Disney
THERE WAS AN OLD UNIVERSITY, WHICH LIVED VIA THE SHOE
Shoe companies, "the foot soldiers," according to Roger Thurow in this morning''s WALL STREET JOURNAL, "have stormed the ivory towers of academia ... holding the gates wide open and welcoming the grav
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KING TRIAL: COURT TAKES ON LOOK OF THE BOXING WORLD
The actions in Judge Lawrence McKenna''s federal courtroom yesterday were "as bizarre as anything ever witnessed in a Las Vegas boxing ring," according to NEWSDAY''s Greg Logan. After jurors in promot
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LEAGUE NOTES
The "hottest topic" at the WTA Tour Championships in New York has been a rumored boycott of the Australian Open by Tour players after the tournament decided to offer unequal prize money to men and wom
Tags: Leagues and Governing Bodies, MLB, New York Yankees, Sports Illustrated, YankeeNets
ESPN CHILTON SPORTS POLL: MORE CORPORATE RECOGNITION
1,022 respondents (U.S. residents age 12+) were surveyed October 3-November 6 and asked to name the top corporate sponsors for October ''95 events. The Top 5: 1995 BREEDER''S CUP 1995 WORLD SERIES Coc
Tags: Anheuser Busch, Coca-Cola, General Motors, McDonald's, Nike, PepsiCo, The Back of the Book
SALES OF NBA ACTION NOT A MOVING AT RECORD CLIP IN ANAHEIM
Despite strong attendance at the six regular season Clipper games played at Anaheim last year, Orange County is proving to be a "tougher sell" for the NBA this year. Earlier exhibition games against t
Tags: Chicago Bulls, Franchises, Los Angeles Clippers, NBA, Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns, RDV Sports
EXECUTIVE TRANSACTIONS
JOHN FILIPPELLI has been named Fox Sports'' Coordinator Producer of Baseball. Filippelli is a four-time Emmy Award- winner and former coordinating producer of The Baseball Network and MLB broadcasts f
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NOT O.K. IN TAMPA BAY: SEAT DEPOSIT PROGRAM ENDS TONIGHT
Tampa Bay''s charter seat deposit program draws to an end tonight -- "all but certain short of its goal." The TAMPA TREIBUNE''s Henderson & Chastain write the question for organizers is, "Did they get
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NHL FACES ITS OWN GAME OF FRANCHISE MUSICAL CHAIRS
The issue of "floating franchises" is one of several "pressing matters" on the agenda for the NHL''s Board of Governors meeting in Palm Beach, FL, next month, according to Tony Gallagher of the Vancou
Tags: Edmonton Oilers, Leagues and Governing Bodies, New York Jets, NHL
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Another day, another NFL franchise is moving." -- Gary Myers, on the Oilers-to-Nashville (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 11/17).
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