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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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Nothing is free about these deals
The first 30 dominoes to fall in Major League Baseball's free-spending winter shopping spree cost the industry more than $65 million in annual salary increases, with each player earning an average of $2.17 million more per year. The average raise for a free agent was 64 percent. While increas ...
Tags: Arizona Cardinals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Angels, Miller Brewing Co., New York Mets, New York Rangers, New York Yankees, Southwest Sports Group, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers, Time Warner, Walt Disney Co., YankeeNets
Tobacco deal clouds future for tracks
Head to any of the 100 or so short tracks across the country that compose the organized, grassroots base of motorsports, and you'll find at least one constant: A red-and-white Winston Racing Series billboard. That may be changing, however. Owners and managers of those small and midsized faciliti ...
Tags: Lincoln National Corp., NASCAR
Speedways will do anything to bring in cash — almost
More than one Charlotte family has asked H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, the president of Charlotte Motor Speedway, to allow it to bid a final farewell to a loved one from the sacred center of his 11Ú2-mile asphalt oval. Wheeler has allowed Richard Petty and the employees of his Driving Experience to give ...
Tags: NASCAR, Speedway Motorsports Inc.
Bristol offers Vols chance at NASCAR-size crowd of 150,000
In its grand bid to take over the planet, stock car racing has set its sights on one of Dixie's jewels: a University of Tennessee football game that could break the sport's all-time attendance record. Management from Bristol Motor Speedway met in October with Tennessee Athletic Director Doug Di ...
Tags: NCAA
Virginia team exec scores with colleagues
In an era when owners buy struggling minor league baseball franchises with the plan of moving them to baseball-hungry cities, Calvin Falwell has kept the Class A Lynchburg Hillcats stable as the Virginia ground they play on. Though their attendance often has lagged behind other Carolina League ...
Tags: Atlanta Braves, Chicago Bulls, Chicago White Sox, CHL, Cincinnati Reds, Connecticut Sun, Dallas Stars, Fox, Golden State Warriors, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota Twins, New York Giants, New York Yankees, News Corp., Oakland Athletics, RDV Sports, Sacramento Kings, San Francisco Giants, Southwest Sports Group, Time Warner, YankeeNets
Pricey free agents push up ticket prices
Ticket prices are rising along with salaries in Major League Baseball next year. Eleven clubs have announced some form of ticket increase for the 1999 season, with the bulk of them implementing across-the-board hikes. The Detroit Tigers and New York Mets both said they expected increases, though ...
Tags: Arizona Cardinals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Angels, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals, Walt Disney Co., YankeeNets
Keystone job: Keep unity in the union
Don Fehr's future walked through his office door in 1975, when Andy Messersmith, a 19-game winner who had played the season with the Los Angeles Dodgers without a contract, won an arbitration case that would change the inner workings of sports forever. Baseball's owners appealed the case in fede ...
Tags: Fox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Miller Brewing Co., News Corp.
New tobacco limits won't burn the big guys
NASCAR's Winston Cup and the leading CART teams backed by cigarette companies appear to have escaped largely unscathed from the latest agreements limiting tobacco sponsorships, but the NHRA may find itself looking for new support. The consensus from behind the scenes last week was that the motor ...
Tags: NASCAR, Penske Corp., Professional Sports Car Racing Inc.
Free agents offer hope at a big price
For a decade, the Detroit Tigers have been saying goodbye. Goodbye to Kirk Gibson, Jack Morris and Lance Parrish, the cornerstones of their 1984 World Series team. Goodbye to Cecil Fielder, their home run hero of the '90s. Goodbye to Travis Fryman, once entrenched as their building block for the fu ...
Tags: Detroit Tigers, MLB
Agents pitch sales ability
Randy Johnson's agent is doing the math, whipping through a series of figures that support his contention that his client, unlike all others save Mark McGwire and possibly Sammy Sosa, provides a road that leads a baseball franchise directly to the bank. "In terms of economics, I represent a guy ...
Tags: Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Fox, Houston Astros, MSG Network, New York Mets, New York Rangers, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Southwest Sports Group, Subway, Texas Rangers, Time Warner, Toronto Blue Jays, YankeeNets
