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Primo premiums: Beanies, beach towels
There is not a beach in Pittsburgh. The city is known for its steel workers, not its steel drums. Yet on May 30, the Pittsburgh Pirates held a beach party before their game against the Montreal Expos, dumping sand in the parking lot, erecting volleyball nets, blaring beach music and handing out ...
Tags: Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Seattle Mariners
Pepsi eagerly follows Gordon to Busch Series
Through its relationship with Jeff Gordon and its presence at most of the tracks on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit, PepsiCo has managed to bask in the exposure of the auto racing series without footing the expense, or risk, of a front-running race team sponsorship. Pepsi continued along that co ...
Tags: Anheuser-Busch Cos., DuPont, NASCAR, PepsiCo, Winn-Dixie Stores Inc.
Baseball bounces back
In ballpark offices across the nation, calculators are cranking and adding machines whirring, tabulating the streams of revenue stimulated by baseball's home run chase this season. But you need look no further than the turnstiles to find the first of a series of upbeat indicators that will flow ...
Tags: Arizona Cardinals, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Chicago Cubs, ESPN, Fox, MLB, NBA, New York Yankees, NFL, St. Louis Cardinals, Team Marketing Report Inc., Tribune Co., YankeeNets
1998 baseball results again depend on cash
At the most recent gathering of Major League Baseball owners, Commissioner Bud Selig stressed the issue of salary disparity — the widening gap between the payrolls of baseball's winners and losers — so much that it emerged as the theme of the meetings. Baseball's final numbers of 1998 ...
Tags: Baltimore Orioles
Baseball bounces back
In ballpark offices across the nation, calculators are cranking and adding machines whirring, tabulating the streams of revenue stimulated by baseball's home run chase this season. But you need look no further than the turnstiles to find the first of a series of upbeat indicators that will flow ...
Tags: Arizona Cardinals, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Chicago Cubs, ESPN, Fox, MLB, NBA, New York Yankees, NFL, St. Louis Cardinals, Team Marketing Report Inc., Tribune Co., YankeeNets
1998 baseball results again depend on cash
At the most recent gathering of Major League Baseball owners, Commissioner Bud Selig stressed the issue of salary disparity — the widening gap between the payrolls of baseball's winners and losers — so much that it emerged as the theme of the meetings. Baseball's final numbers of 1998 ...
Tags: Baltimore Orioles
Tabasco suit may have broad impact
Buyer beware. That's the message those who deal with motorsports sponsors are sending clients these days in the wake of a well-funded NASCAR Winston Cup effort from Tabasco hot pepper sauce that has wound up in litigation after producing little in terms of results on the track. McIlhenny Co., ...
Tags: Ashland Inc., IEG Inc., International Sports Marketing, McIlhenny Co., NASCAR, Sports and Entertainment International
Tabasco suit may have broad impact
Buyer beware. That's the message those who deal with motorsports sponsors are sending clients these days in the wake of a well-funded NASCAR Winston Cup effort from Tabasco hot pepper sauce that has wound up in litigation after producing little in terms of results on the track. McIlhenny Co., ...
Tags: Ashland Inc., IEG Inc., International Sports Marketing, McIlhenny Co., NASCAR, Sports and Entertainment International
Tabasco suit may have broad impact
Buyer beware. That's the message those who deal with motorsports sponsors are sending clients these days in the wake of a well-funded NASCAR Winston Cup effort from Tabasco hot pepper sauce that has wound up in litigation after producing little in terms of results on the track. McIlhenny Co., ...
Tags: Ashland Inc., IEG Inc., International Sports Marketing, McIlhenny Co., NASCAR, Sports and Entertainment International
1998 baseball results again depend on cash
At the most recent gathering of Major League Baseball owners, Commissioner Bud Selig stressed the issue of salary disparity — the widening gap between the payrolls of baseball's winners and losers — so much that it emerged as the theme of the meetings. Baseball's final numbers of 1998 ...
Tags: Baltimore Orioles
