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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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Hang on tight
When the Emmy-winning producer charged with repackaging the Professional Bull Riders tour for television went to his first event in San Antonio six months ago, he was struck by how a night among snorting, stomping animals and the larger-than-life cowboys who ride them differed from what he had seen ...
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Finkel-led promoter Empire getting regular slot on FSN
The sports and concert promotion company headed by Hall of Fame fight manager Shelly Finkel has landed a monthly slot for its boxing cards on Fox Sports Net. Beginning later this month, The Empire Sports & Entertainment will deliver “Fight Night in America,” a boxing card to ai ...
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O’Reilly, MetroPCS use bout to try boxing
Editor's note: This story is updated from the print edition. Top Rank’s coming pay-per-view featuring Mexican legacy Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. against Pawel Wolek attracted a pair of new sponsors sampling the sport: O’Reilly Auto Parts, which is running an in-store pay-per-view rebate ...
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WSB ready to fight for attention in Americas
The latest big idea to come to boxing resides beyond the center-field wall of the Class AAA baseball stadium in downtown Memphis. There, in a high-rise apartment complex, the 15 members of the Memphis Force boxing team eat and sleep. They train a half-block away, at a YMCA that the team’ ...
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Boxing startup readies launch despite snags
The worldwide boxing startup that will blend aspects of the amateurs and pros in an unprecedented team format has encountered a series of early snags in the Americas, hampered by a compressed run-up that ran afoul of regulators in three U.S. states. Still, organizers of the World Series of Box ...
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McCormack’s legacy finds a home at UMass
The yellow and red packets arrived each month, crammed to the bursting point with letters, contracts, memos and proposals, a compilation deemed so sensitive that the recipients were told to shred their copies before tossing them out. In London, in Paris, in Hong Kong — whereve ...
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NBA enjoys the benefits of sharing
A few years into the life of the NBA’s team marketing division, its leader, Bernie Mullin, was presenting data at a league meeting. For the first time, his group had asked the teams for the financial details of all their sponsorships. Anheuser-Busch knew how much it paid to sponsor each ...
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Architects design flexibility into projects
During the stadium binge of the 1990s, the sports architecture firm then known as HOK built three baseball parks that each included more than 100 suites for three teams: the Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers and Cleveland Indians. As the recession has dampened demand for suites, all ...
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Jordan mingles with staff: ‘Call me MJ’
The Charlotte Bobcats manager of season-ticket sales was raised on the south side of Chicago, then went on to play safety at the University of Illinois. He turned 29 in May, which means he was 2 years old when the Chicago Bulls drafted Michael Jordan and was a college senior when Jordan ...
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‘He’s all in’
AP IMAGES At the urging of NBA Commissioner David Stern, Jordan became more visible to fans, moving out of his perch in a suite and buying a pair of seats at the end of the Bobcats bench. Beneath a small canopy shading the first tee at a golf course on ...
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