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Cal looks to bundle lab, field naming rights05 / 06 / 13The University of California, Berkeley, seeking new ways to generate revenue for the school and its athletic department, is developing a naming-rights package for Memorial Stadium’s football field that could extend to an “innovation lab” at the stadium and other assets on campus. ... Tags: Colleges |
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SBJ/ESPN Sports Poll
F rom January through December 2000, ESPN Sports Poll, a service of TNS Intersearch, surveyed 2,000 sports fans each month. The following are their responses when asked if they use the Internet to check results from games and sporting events. To read: 74.3 percen ...
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Honorary degree for Yow?
U niversity of Maryland athletic director Deborah Yow was scheduled to receive an honorary degree from the U.S. Sports Academy last weekend for her accomplishments in intercollegiate athletics. The U.S. Sports Academy, based in Daphne, Ala., was ...
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Facilities briefs
Sacramento looks to downtown The city of Sacramento, Maloof Sports & Entertainment and Union Pacific Railroad plan to study the feasibility of a downtown sports and entertainment center. After the city staff determines the cost of ...
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Raycom seeks Charlotte bowl
Raycom Sports submitted a preliminary proposal to the NCAA earlier this month for a bowl game in Charlotte. Charlotte-based Raycom previously has helped organize and run the Sunshine Football Classic, formerly the MicronPC.com Bowl, in Miami. Discussions are under way for moving that game ...
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SportsLine moves back break-even
SportsLine.com's pro forma consolidated revenue was $13.1 million in the second quarter, down from $16.5 million in the same quarter last year. The company lost $26.4 million, or 97 cents a share, compared to a loss of $23.7 million, or 90 cents a share, last y ...
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Wild re-signs analyst Reid The Minnesota Wild signed Tom Reid, its television analyst, to a two-year contract. Terms of the contract were not announced. Reid will again work with play-by-play announcer Mike Goldberg on KMSP-TV over-the-air telecasts and on Fox Sports ...
Atlantic Sun now rises over former TAAC
The Trans America Athletic Conference, a Division I conference based in Macon, Ga., has changed its name to the Atlantic Sun Conference. The name change was prompted by conference members who thought that the Trans America name no longer fit the geographical reach of the conference's schools ...
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Sports profile: Cleveland
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Though Battier's a dream client, pre-draft campaign is wide awake
A s athletes prepare for Wednesday's NBA draft, PR pros, especially those working with projected lottery or first-round picks, are working frantically to make their clients attractive to the media, to sports fans, to the communities where they may b ...
Tags: Basketball, Colleges, ESPN, Marketing and Sponsorship, MTV
USC, broadcaster near choice in hunt for football play-by-play vo ...
T he new Sporting News Radio affiliate in Los Angeles, KMPC-AM, is culling the field and expects to name a play-by-play announcer for University of Southern California football in the next few weeks. (The university and station recently signed a ...
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