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Tripp Mickle
Staff writer Tripp Mickle covers motorsports, action sports and the Olympics.
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Dew Tour to become Olympic qualifier05 / 20 / 13When the Dew Tour added a winter series in 2007, organizers wanted to turn the three-event series into Olympic qualifiers. That would allow NBC, which owned the tour, to promote the athletes and the 2010 Vancouver Games, raise the profile of snowboarding, and make it possible for snowboarders to ear... Tags: Olympics |
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Teams to watch
Chicago Blackhawks With the death of Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz, the focus will shift to the future ownership and control of one of the league’s six original teams. The team has bled money of late, claiming losses of $31 million last season, and many loca ...
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Wirtz ‘always had time for hockey’
When hockey agent Alan Eagleson developed the idea for a series of hockey games between Canada and the Soviet Union in 1972, he found an unlikely ally in Bill Wirtz, owner of the Chicago Blackhawks. NHL owners planned to prevent their players from participating in the nine-game serie ...
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What to watch this season
Expansion Is Vegas in the NHL’s future? Viva Las Vegas. Bright lights are going to set one league on fire, and the NHL appears intent on making hockey the city’s first big league sport. The league has already met with Jerry Br ...
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WCSN gets equity backer; deal with ESPN
World Championship Sports Network has secured the financial support of a private equity firm and finalized a distribution agreement with ESPN360. The moves position the Olympic sports network for continued growth online and on TV. New York-based private equity firm InterMedia Partners w ...
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Experts: Gaming series demise just the start
The unexpected and sudden demise this month of the World Series of Video Games is being seen by rival competitive video-game operators and its own parent company as the first of what will be many closures and mergers in the cluttered industry. The World ...
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Clubs make rivalry official
Texas and Oklahoma have the Red River Rivalry, Cal and Stanford have the Big Game, and the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings hope to create the I-5 Challenge. The Ducks and Kings will be playing for more than pride and points this year. ...
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AHL team’s use of li’l influencers draws NBA’s eye
The AHL’s Lake Erie Monsters have launched a grassroots marketing campaign catering to elementary school pupils that has been endorsed by the NBA’s team marketing and business operations department. The Monsters selected 100 fourth- through sixth-graders to promote the team at the ...
Sponsor party at Panthers player’s home pays off
The Florida Panthers’ private party for corporate partners at captain Olli Jokinen’s home last month helped the team renew the deal of one corporate partner and extend another, team executives said. Lexus, which had one more year in its seven-figure contract with the Panthers, extend ...
Dew ends X Games ties for AST’s winter event
Mountain Dew’s announcement last week that it will title sponsor the new AST Winter Dew Tour series means it will withdraw its support of the X Games, a property it supported for 13 years as a founding partner. Naming rights to the NBC and Live Nation series come at a cost sources put b ...
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MLS beefing up team services; NBA vet Mott will run division
Eager to follow in the footsteps of other major leagues, Major League Soccer has enhanced its own team services division. Like the expanded club and team services divisions the NHL and NFL are launching, MLS’s department will add staff and encourage teams to share best-practice i ...
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