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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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INDY CAR RACING A HIT FOR SPONSORS; PROFILE OF FAN BASE
This weekend''s Toronto Molson Indy Car Race was a big event for sponsors, some spending $25,000 to $700,000 to get their names out during the event. Molson Breweries subsidiary, Grand Prix Management
Tags: Champ Car World Series
LABOR AGREEMENT KEEPING MARINERS FROM PLAYING IN VANCOUVER
The lack of a labor agreement between baseball and its players and the uncertainty over the Mariners'' future in Seattle is "clouding the issue" with regards to the team playing "a handful" of regular
Tags: Facilities, Seattle Mariners
TAMPA SECURES BOND DEAL TO FUND DOWNTOWN TAMPA ARENA
Lightning execs David LeFevre, Steve Oto and Chris Philips, along with lawyers, lender representatives and NHL officials reached a bond deal Friday night which will completely fund a new downtown Tamp
Tags: Facilities, NHL, Palace Sports & Entertainment, Tampa Bay Lightning
NEW YORK BECOMES A THREE-PAPER TOWN
The final issue of New York Newsday was published yesterday after parent company Times Mirror decided to close the "money- losing" paper. Newsday will go back to publishing a Queens edition, as it did
Tags: Media
SUMMER GETS A LITTLE MEANER FOR NBA: MEETINGS CANCELLED
The NBA lockout is "reaching into the wallets of corporate America," according to Peter May in yesterday''s BOSTON GLOBE. May reports that on Friday NBA teams were told the league canceled its biennia
Tags: Cablevision, ESPN, Houston Rockets, Leagues and Governing Bodies, McDonald's, NBA, New York Knicks, Walt Disney
MARKETPLACE ROUND-UP
Fourteen baseball umpires are suing seven manufacturers of baseball paraphernalia for "making money off their likeness without their permission," according to BUSINESS WEEK. Manufacturers says the ump
Tags: Buffalo Bills, Edmonton Oilers, McDonald's, New England Patriots, NFL, Sports Illustrated, Washington Nationals
WIN OVER ARGENTINA SEEN AS MAJOR BOOST FOR U.S. SOCCER
U.S. National Team coach Steve Sampson called the U.S.''s 3-0 win over Argentina in the Copa America tournament "by far one of the biggest wins in U.S. soccer history" (Calvin Sims, N.Y. TIMES, 7/15).
THE GOOD AND BAD OF BASEBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA
While the production of The Baseball Network''s "Baseball Night in America" -- which premiered Saturday night and comes back for Edition No. 2 tonight -- received a coveted "B+" from Rudy Martzke, oth
Tags: ABC, CBS, ESPN, MLB, NBC, News Corp./Fox, Media, Viacom, Walt Disney
NFL NEWS & NOTES
A Federal Appeals Court upheld the NFL''s right to black out games that are not sold out. A Cleveland man who is hearing- impaired sued the NFL, the Browns and Cleveland''s network affiliates charging
Tags: CFL, Cleveland Browns, Edmonton Oilers, Leagues and Governing Bodies, NFL
RAIDERS SAGA ENTERS CLOAK-AND-DAGGER STAGE
After hearing that former Alameda County Supervisor Don Perata had hired a private investigator to "unmask" those behind the citizens group, "Taxpayers for a Vote on Raiders," group spokesperson Paul
Tags: Franchises, NFL, Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers
