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Reinsdorf values people he knows and trusts05 / 20 / 13When Steve Schanwald was in the intensive care unit of a Chicago hospital, recovering from surgery after a heart attack, one of the first people to call him was Jerry Reinsdorf. He told the Bulls’ executive vice president of business opera... Tags: Events and Attractions |
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Ticket challenge: Getting price right
A few years ago, the vice president of ticket sales for the St. Louis Cardinals, Joe Strohm, had all the same qualms about dynamic pricing as many in sports. He thought it was fine for airlines and hotel chains to move their prices up and down along with demand, but thought the tactic made little se ...
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League-owned teams = headache
Two weeks shy of this season’s NHL trade deadline, the Phoenix Coyotes clung to the Western Conference’s eighth and final playoff spot, a scant three points ahead of Calgary and Colorado and only five points ahead of 12th place, where they languished seven days earlier. Asked whether ...
Daily duel
When Nigel Eccles joined his five partners from the Internet startup Hubdub at the popular South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, in 2009, it was to bury an idea that only three months earlier had brought in $1.5 million from investors. While well-designed and artfully executed ...
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NBC climbs back into boxing ring
The last time NBC tried to bring boxing back to its schedule, it teamed with Telemundo to air fights showcasing four young Latino fighters promoted by Main Events: Rocky Juarez, Juan Diaz, Kermit Cintron and Francisco Bojado. The networks stuck a toe in with three dates in 2003, then came back with ...
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Showtime taking the fight to HBO
The newly hired head of Showtime’s sports division stood in a hotel meeting room in Atlantic City a few weeks ago, showing off a slickly produced promo for the first multimillion-dollar fight of 2012, the rematch between welterweights Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto. As if cued by the fading pict ...
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Top Rank signs AT&T as sponsor
Boxing promoter Top Rank will add AT&T to its sponsorship roster next year, expanding the presence of a brand that in recent years has affixed its name to many of Top Rank’s bigger fights, but never as a committed package. ...
Little-known boxer gets his shot with Subway
When light heavyweight boxing prospect Mike Lee first met executives from Subway to discuss endorsement opportunities earlier this year, the fighter came away from the sit-down at a Manhattan Starbucks thinking it was a courtesy call. Senior writer ...
HBO’s ‘Fight Day Now’ debuts
Editor's note: This story is revised from the print edition. The president of boxing promotion company Top Rank watches ESPN’s “College GameDay” with envy on Saturday mornings in the fall, sucked in by the contagious excitement of a live audience, a sea of fans decked out in ...
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Fox flexes promotional muscle for UFC
Lorenzo Fertitta, the billionaire owner of the UFC, on Saturday night will watch the property he bought a decade ago make its debut on Fox, which will air Cain Velasquez’s heavyweight title defense against Junior dos Santos. Promotion was not the only reason that the UFC chose Fox. The network’s financial package, which sources placed at an average of $90 million a year for seven years, or more than double the reported $35 million a year that the UFC had received from incumbent Spike, certainly helped.
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A second look at secondary ticketing
Early into a Friday night game at Turner Field in Atlanta at the end of July, an in-house TV spot took over a center-field video screen the size of Iowa, reminding fans to head to Braves.com for all their essentials: To get a second look at a diving catch, replace an old ballcap or secure seats for ...
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