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New bid format for NCAA sites05 / 20 / 13The NCAA has completed an overhaul of the bid process for 84 of its championships across all three divisions, including the Final Four, and will award close to 500 sites this year. It’s easily the largest bid process in the history of college sports’ governing body, and the selections... Tags: Colleges |
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New NHRA owners fire up marketing plan
The new owners of the NHRA Pro Racing division didn’t shy away from comparisons to the NASCAR model last week while announcing their $121 million acquisition. HD Partners Acquisition Corp., a group of former DirecTV executives who raised $150 million from investors to pursue a sports enter ...
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Aflac near deal with Roush Fenway, talking with NASCAR
Aflac is on the verge of securing a multiyear team sponsorship deal with Roush Fenway Racing, while also talking to NASCAR about acquiring official status in the category of supplemental insurance, sources say. Allstate owns the categories for auto, home and life insurance, but declined an ...
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CLC will operate within new IMG college division
IMG has quietly created a new division called IMG College Sports that’s intended to serve as an umbrella unit for the company’s future college ventures. Vanderbilt is lining up with IMG’s Collegiate Licensing after leaving in the 1990s. IMG’s entry into colle ...
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Alltel considers next move after AT&T ruling
The court ruling that allowed AT&T to rebrand its No. 31 Cingular racecar has Alltel thinking about challenging the restrictions placed on its NASCAR team sponsorship. Without contract specifics on NASCAR’s restrictions, a judge allowed AT&T’s logo on No. 31 ...
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NASCAR unleashes LeadDog on Champions Week
NASCAR has selected LeadDog Marketing, New York, to be its agency of record for all of the events related to Champions Week in late November. Nextel Cup drivers round Manhattan corners in November as part of Champions Week. Jim Obermeyer, NASCAR’s managing di ...
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Speedway aims to be year-round destination
As vacationers speed down International Speedway Boulevard toward Daytona Beach, they see the iconic and monstrous speedway on one side of the road and a series of strip shopping centers on the other. Daytona Live! is a $250 million mixed-use development planned acros ...
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Tracks shift gears on improvements
The rain-soaked Nextel Cup race at Richmond earlier this month was a wash. The race cars were covered and put to bed, the drivers long since retired to the comfort of their luxury RVs. The Neon Garage at Las Vegas Motor Speedway raised the bar for tracks and the ...
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ISP gains foothold among midmajors with SBS acquisition
ISP Sports has acquired Sports Business Solutions, a marketing consultancy that works primarily with athletic programs that are outside Division I-A. SBS was created in 2004 by Jerry Reckerd, a former generaal manager of Wolfpack Sports Marketing at North Carolina State University. SBS’s c ...
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Promotion built around Montoya
Texaco/Havoline, the primary sponsor for Juan Pablo Montoya’s No. 42 Dodge, is bringing together several of the sponsors at Chip Ganassi Racing for a sweepstakes built around the popular Colombian driver. The “42 Days of Racing” promotion kicks off June 17 and ...
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Cars get into uniform for USO
Ten NASCAR Nextel Cup and Busch cars, including those driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jeff Gordon, will be sporting military-themed paint schemes this weekend, and Motorsports Authentics is producing the licensed die-cast cars, apparel and other novelties to raise money for the USO. ...
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