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Scouting reports an online phenom for Cooperstown05 / 13 / 13The National Baseball Hall of Fame has generated a significant groundswell of digital traffic and publicity from its recent online release of scouting reports for more than 12,000 current and former big league players. The project is part of “Diamond Mines,” a new exhibit developed wi... Tags: Media |
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NBC Sports Radio rolling out apps
NBC Sports and radio partner Dial Global this week will relaunch the online home for NBC Sports Radio and release new mobile applications, highlighting the network’s increased emphasis on its radio programming and products. The enhanced Web page, at NBCSportsRadio.com, will include live str ...
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Deal joins Perform, Sporting News
Perform Group and American City Business Journals have struck a major joint venture to combine Perform’s U.S. sports assets, including its popular ePlayer sports video service, with ACBJ’s Sporting News brand. The new company, Perform Sporting News Limited, will operate under the bra ...
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MiLB hires new chief marketer
Minor League Baseball has hired former IMG College executive Michael Hand as its new chief marketing officer, setting in motion a new national marketing strategy titled Project Brand. Hand, previously the senior vice president of marketing and strategy for IMG College, will lead the property&rsqu ...
Who’s in the lineup?
Bud Selig retire? That’s been much more of a punchline over the years than anything else. The notion of the ninth commissioner of Major League Baseball stepping down after what is now two decades of running the game has been widely laughed off as nonsense. And why not? Selig, now 78, repeat ...
Tags: In-Depth, MLB Season Preview
Issues on MLB’s plate
COMPETITIVE BALANCE A pressing issue in the mid- and late 1990s, expanded revenue sharing and the marked growth of jointly held assets such as MLB Advanced Media have improved balance on and off the field considerably in more recent years. As a result, nine different teams have won the last 1 ...
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MLB commissioner scouting report
Rob Manfred Photo by: Lavonne Hall Executive vice president, economics and league affairs Major League Baseba ll The skinny: The league’s longtime lead labor lawyer has seen his sta ...
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Push for global baseball draft intensifies
MLB and the MLB Players Association are feverishly trying to create a joint framework for the first international draft before a June 1 deadline. An eight-person working committee made up of team, league and union executives are planning to meet regularly during the next 10 weeks to try to create ...
Turner: March Madness audience to grow
Turner Sports is predicting a bigger audience this year for March Madness Live, despite last year’s traffic dip and a further embrace in 2013 of user authentication to watch games on digital platforms. The company last year shifted the business model for March Madness Live to a TV Everywher ...
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MLB draft-pick compensation questioned
The MLB Players Association and some baseball player agents think the sport’s shift to attach draft-pick compensation to only top-tier free agents may have inadvertently interfered with the market for those players. Under terms of the collective-bargaining agreement, teams can receive draft ...
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LockerDome gets $6M in venture capital
LockerDome, a St.Louis-based, sports-oriented social media network, has closed on a $6 million round of Series A venture capital funding that includes St. Louis Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III and former NHL most valuable player Chris Pronger. Cultivation Capital Growth Fund, also based in St ...
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