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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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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
Clinton mess may derail antitrust bill
Baseball's antitrust exemption appears to have survived yet another congressional term. Legislation meant to restrict the long-standing exemption as it applies to labor relations has run into two formidable hurdles: an otherwise occupied House Judiciary Committee and a ticking clock. The bill ...
NBC's NASCAR race may hint at future
NBC's willingness to shell out about $5 million a year to broadcast a race from the Miami-Dade Motorsports Complex in Homestead, Fla., and join the parade of networks carrying NASCAR Winston Cup racing offers a reminder of the wealth that TV rights can generate. It also raised a question: How ...
Tags: ABC, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Chicago Bulls, ESPN, Fox, International Speedway Corp., Los Angeles Lakers, NASCAR, NBA, NBC, New York Knicks, NHL, Penske Corp., Speedway Motorsports Inc.
Tenacity is key for new Brewers boss
Amid the memorabilia that brighten Wendy Selig-Prieb's office — the autographed baseballs and bobbing-head dolls, the photograph signed by Henry Aaron and the lithograph signed by Robin Yount — hangs a black-and-white poster of Ken Sanders, a journeyman who pitched for the Milwaukee Brew ...
Tags: Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, Time Warner
Salary talk dominates meeting
MILWAUKEE — They discussed much but did little. That's what came from the latest quarterly baseball owners' meetings, held last week in Milwaukee, home of baseball's newly confirmed commissioner, Bud Selig. Selig announced action on only two items: ¥ The passage of a rule to allow an own ...
Tags: Milwaukee Brewers
Oriole boss on Expos: Not in my back yard
MILWAUKEE — Those near the nation's capital who are lining up to bid for what soon may be a nomadic baseball franchise, that of the long-embattled Montreal Expos, should be reminded of this point: Two years after baseball's last aborted flirtation with Northern Virginia, the man who lives up t ...
Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp., Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, New York Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants
Chicago won't forget Sosa
Sammy Mania lives on — at least in Chicago. Though eclipsing Roger Maris' mark of 61 homers no longer will get Sammy Sosa in the record book, it will get his picture on a commemorative T-shirt. Apparel manufacturer Pro Player Inc. said it will produce a shirt to mark Sosa's achievement i ...
Tags: Pro Player Inc.
Texas misses second Winston Cup date when NASCAR chooses new mark ...
Good news for Homestead played as bad news in Fort Worth. When the Miami-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex was awarded a 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup date, as was expected, earlier this month, it marked the third year in a row that Speedway Motorsports Inc.'s Texas Motor Speedway was passed over for ...
Tags: Anheuser-Busch Cos., NASCAR, Speedway Motorsports Inc.
NCAA may disable high-tech 'lumber'
Andy Lopez speaks frankly when he's asked whether bat technology has outrun the confines of college baseball, and whether coaches from top-line programs are willing to speak up and do something about it. "As college coaches, we have financial responsibilities that we're trying to meet, so you ...
Tags: Easton Sports Inc., NCAA
R.J. Reynolds giveaway pays off
When R.J. Reynolds said No Bull, it meant it. The cigarette manufacturer has given away $3 million this year to drivers and fans as part of an incentive package tied to five NASCAR Winston Cup series' keystone events — the Daytona 500, Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, Brickyard 400 at Indian ...
Tags: NASCAR
