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Plaintiff in lawsuit over Liverpool purchase seeks documents from Fenway Sports Group05 / 20 / 13The owner of the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Sports Group, has been able to stay out of the years-long controversy and lawsuits sparked by its 2010 purchase of Liverpool FC — until last week. Mill Financial, a former lender to Liverpool, asked a New York state court on Monday to launch legal pro... Tags: Law and Politics |
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Yanks crank marketing bank
What can the New York Yankees do as an encore after their unprecedented 1998 season? For one thing, start marketing. At least that is the mission Joe Perello has set for the club, which historically has done little to promote its on-the-field product. But Perello, hired from credit card giant MB ...
Tags: Cleveland Indians, L.L. Bean, MBNA America Bank, MLB, New York Knicks, New York Yankees, Steiner Sports Marketing, YankeeNets
Loan secured, Pens turn to reorganization turn to reorganization
The Pittsburgh Penguins survived a few hard checks from some of their creditors, but after receiving the blessing of a bankruptcy court judge last week for a new $20 million loan, the team can skate comfortably through the season. The infusion of capital will keep the team afloat through the res ...
Tags: First Union Corp., Fox, Game Plan LLC, Leisure Management International, NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins
Big Apple takes NBA lockout hit
The New York City economy stands to lose $236 million if the NBA season is canceled because of the ongoing players lockout, the city's comptroller has warned. The brunt of the losses would hit Madison Square Garden, home of the New York Knicks, and the dozens of hotels, restaurants and bars that ...
Tags: MSG Network, NBA, Brooklyn Nets, New York Knicks, YankeeNets
Heisman home forms Chapter 11 strategy
Saturday was the Downtown Athletic Club's big moment, the day it awarded the Heisman Trophy, but a day at the end of January when a Bankruptcy Court judge will hear arguments about the future of the New York club is shaping up as the most important in its history. The club filed for Chapter 11 ...
Tags: Advantage, Centaur Properties, Chase Manhattan Corp., Collegiate Licensing Co., Just For Feet Inc., Wendy's International Inc.
Motorsports stocks still drawing a crowd
Corporate America's booming interest in auto racing shows no signs of slowing. More than 150 investment and auto racing professionals squeezed into a New York hotel conference room last week for Josephthal & Co.'s second annual conference on auto racing, twice the number that attended the invest ...
Tags: Championship Auto Racing Teams Inc., IndyCar, Kmart Corp., NASCAR, Pilson Communications Inc.
Yankees' deal talks hit a snag
The on-again, off-again talks between Cablevision Systems Corp. and the New York Yankees may be stuck in neutral, but few experts think the ultimate outcome will be anything other than the sale of the storied baseball team to the media giant. The same trend that sparked the discussions prevails ...
Tags: Bonham Group Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp., MSG Network, New York Knicks, New York Rangers, New York Yankees, News Corp., Southwest Sports Group, Texas Rangers, Walt Disney Co., YankeeNets
Roller hockey league goes no-owners route
Roller Hockey International has become the latest professional sports league to eliminate individual team ownership. Following the path of the American Basketball League and Major League Soccer, the in-line roller hockey league will own all its teams, which will be managed by promotion-rights owner ...
Ex-Arena chief selling team
Another Arena Football League expansion franchise was set to be sold last week, but don't look for either a press release from the league or a high-profile news conference like the one that introduced the new Los Angeles team a week earlier. The franchise will not be sold by the league but by a ...
Tags: AFL, NFL, Staples Inc.
As '99 nears, WTA still a tour to be named later
For only the second time since Billie Jean King convinced the tobacco brand Virginia Slims to support a fledgling women's tennis tour in the early 1970s, women's professional tennis may enter a new year without a title sponsor. Despite the pomp surrounding the resurgence of the women's tennis g ...
Tags: Chase Manhattan Corp., Corel Corp., Integrated Sports International (ISI), Millsport LLC, WTA
ATP throwing Super 9 tourneys into marketing pool
In a significant attempt to bring financial order to a disjointed sport, the ATP Tour plans to pool commercial rights to the Mercedes Super 9 tournaments. The Tour will also include the year-end World Championship rights, plus all of the ATP's sponsorships and TV licensing fees. All these right ...
Tags: ISL Marketing, Octagon Group
