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John Lombardo
Staff writer John Lombardo covers basketball and the Arena Football League.
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For the WNBA, time for a clutch 305 / 20 / 13The WNBA is counting on a trio of players it’s calling the “3 to See” to help it rebound from record low attendance last year — even though the three have yet to see their first regular-season games. Rookies Brittney Griner, Elena Delle Donne and Skylar Diggins are at the ... |
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NFL’s expansion debate could go into OT
Anxious investment groups in Los Angeles and Houston may have to wait longer than expected before NFL owners determine where to put the league’s 32nd franchise. After owners met last October in Kansas City, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said he expected the league to complete the expansion pro ...
Tags: Carolina Panthers, Florida Panthers, Microsoft Corp., New Coliseum Partners, NFL, Walt Disney Co.
Attendance falls, then the ax
If the five NFL owners who pink-slipped head coaches last week needed reasons beyond their teams' won-lost records, they only had to look at the sight — or even the threat — of escalating numbers of empty seats inside their once-packed stadiums. g For Chicago Bears owner Michael McCaskey ...
Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Carolina Panthers, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Chicago Bears, Florida Panthers, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Vulcan Ventures, Washington Redskins
This is not your father's bowling alley
Stung by the Asian economic crisis and in the midst of a restructuring, the Brunswick Corp. is looking to attract a younger domestic market with a new branding effort that converts bowling alleys into bowling "zones." The Lake Forest, Ill.-based sports equipment and bowling compa ...
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Bears' hunt intensifies
After watching Connecticut lure New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to Hartford with a new $375 million stadium, Chicago Bears owner Michael McCaskey is cranking up lobbying efforts of his own for a new suburban home. McCaskey, who refuses to discuss his stadium plans publicly, is quietly me ...
Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Chicago Bears, Chicago White Sox, KPMG Peat Marwick, New England Patriots, NFL, Washington Redskins
NBA woes of little help to ABL franchise
Not having the Chicago Bulls around would seem a marketing bonanza for the ABL expansion Chicago Condors, but the team hasn't siphoned much interest from basket- ball-starved fans during the NBA lockout. Since opening their inaugural season with a sellout of 7,000 fans at the University of Illin ...
Tags: Chicago Bulls, Fox, NBA, WNBA
In sports wars, a vet takes command
arvey Schiller oversees the voluminous sports programming of Turner Sports Inc.: The NBA on TNT, Atlanta Braves baseball on TBS, golf, professional wrestling, the Turner-conceived Goodwill Games, Olympic coverage and figure skating, and now boxing and the NHL expansion Atlanta Thrashers, who will s ...
Tags: Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Thrashers, CBS Broadcasting Inc., ESPN, Fox, NBA, NBC, NCAA, NFL, NHL, Oakland Raiders, Time Warner
Hartford sets bar too high, critics say
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Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, KPMG Peat Marwick, New England Patriots, NFL
At last, niche pioneer hits the green
ou'd think that a guy who was about to spend millions of dollars launching a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week golf channel would have had an obsession with the sport. Or at least be good at it. Think again. Armed with a grand total of six rounds of golf under his belt and a rock-solid gut instinct, ...
Tags: Classic Sports Network, Comcast Corp., Crowley Cellular Telecommunications, ESPN, Golf Channel, IMG, LPGA, Newhouse Broadcasting, Times Mirror Co.
Pats' guarantees face legislative resistance
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Skills contest signs 2 sponsors
Organizers of an inaugural college football skills challenge planned during Super Bowl week have signed two presenting sponsors and are nearing a title sponsorship package with a computer company. Officials at Chicago-based Intersport Inc. said that Volvo and National Car Rental Inc. have agreed ...
Tags: Fox, Intersport Inc., National Car Rental Inc., NFL
