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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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Look who’s talking: ESPN, NHL
The NHL and ESPN are in discussions about bringing the league’s games back to ESPN2 as soon as the 2008-09 season. Multiple sources described the conversations as preliminary. The two started talking the week of July 16 when the NHL approached ESPN about NBC’s nine-game regular-season sched ...
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Fuel TV, Speed to partner on shows
Fox networks Fuel TV and Speed are expected to announce their first collaborative programming effort this week. The networks have partnered to deliver an hour of freestyle motocross programming to both channels. The one-hour block, “Moto Mix,” will feature the best of Fuel TV ser ...
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Popular no matter what you call sports
The addition of supercross to the X Games this year has fueled a debate about whether supercross and motocross are action sports or motorsports. “It is the original action sport,” said Steve Astephen, president of action sports at Wasserman Media Group. “It’s an individual, hard-core event ...
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Motocross continues to evolve, grow
Though the supercross season ends each May, most of its riders, sponsors and fans keep going. They turn their attention outdoors to the Toyota AMA motocross series, a 12-race championship that concludes in September. The motocross series preserves the grassroots of the sport, and caters to ...
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Revved up and on a roll
Kevin Robinson cut through a crowd of people and shuffled down an aisle of 18-wheelers just outside Las Vegas’ Sam Boyd Stadium. The smell of high-octane fuel and the steady staccato of revved engines surrounded him. Supercross visits 18 cities each season and attrac ...
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WMG dives into pool for live webcast
USA Swimming will become the first of three national governing bodies in a partnership with Wasserman Media Group to webcast an event live with the agency this week. The 2007 ConocoPhilips USA Swimming National Championships will air over five nights on a test Web site (www.usaswimming.spor ...
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Average attendance up at MLS but television ratings flat
A blend of new stadiums, new players and a new market has pushed MLS’s average attendance up 1.6 percent — to 15,057 a game — at the midpoint of the season. At the same time, the league’s success at the gate was tempered by flat television ratings. Toronto FC had an avera ...
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MLS adds franchise; are more on the way?
Major League Soccer’s expanding owner-operator base scooped up another new member during the MLS All-Star break. Lew Wolff , who owns a large percentage of the Oakland A’s, will return MLS to the Bay Area with a second edition of the San Jose Earthquakes, an expansion franchise that will give ...
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Fire sale: AEG has deal to sell Chicago team
AEG has a preliminary agreement to sell the MLS Chicago Fire to Andell Holdings, an investment firm owned by Andrew Hauptman and his wife, Ellen Bronfman Hauptman, Andell Holdings confirmed. “The transaction is expected to be completed within 30-45 days and is subject to various closing conditio ...
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SCP signs Real Madrid for U.S. rights, tours
SCP Worldwide is expected to announce a five-year partnership with Real Madrid that will see it manage the Spanish soccer club’s broadcasting rights and tours in North America. The agreement marks the Spanish club’s first major push into the U.S. market. It’s also the latest evolution in a ...
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