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Reinsdorf values people he knows and trusts05 / 20 / 13When Steve Schanwald was in the intensive care unit of a Chicago hospital, recovering from surgery after a heart attack, one of the first people to call him was Jerry Reinsdorf. He told the Bulls’ executive vice president of business opera... Tags: Events and Attractions |
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PGA Tour event uses Living Social
Add the Wells Fargo Championship to the list of professional events trying to spur ticket sales through Living Social. The May 2-5 PGA Tour event launched a Living Social promotion last week, offering a new line of hospitality for $159 on weekdays and $189 on the weekend, per ticket. ...
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Q&A with … NY/NJ Super Bowl's Al Kelly
Now that Super Bowl XLVII has passed, it’s on to the daunting task of running the first Super Bowl to be played outdoors in a cold-weather market. Next year’s game will be a massive challenge in its own right, but it could also determi ...
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Fanatics tries on licensee role
NFL licensing partners are stepping up their game for the Super Bowl. Established boundaries are crossed when a licensee becomes a retailer, or vice versa. For the first time, Fanatics.com, which administers e-commerce for nearly every sports pr ...
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Where’s the party in NOLA?
New Orleans may be a town famous for all-day carousing, but the Super Bowl party scene will have some noticeable absences this week. The NFL Commissioner’s Party, which started as a media gathering at the first Super Bowl and eventually ga ...
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It's crunch time for sponsor activation
Activation plans for the NFL’s roster of corporate partners are nearing completion as the final day of the season approaches in New Orleans. NFL official brewer Anheuser-Busch will continue to be a top advertiser, running 4 1/2 minutes wor ...
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Small town, Big Game
Photo by: TERRY LEFTON / STAFF In Ada, Ohio, population 5,947, a small group of fans joined roughly 47 million other people in the U.S. who combined dinner with watching the AFC Championship Game ...
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X Games hit Aspen with four global sponsors
When ESPN hosts the first installment of its global X Games series in Aspen, Colo., this week, it will have only four global X Games sponsors — two fewer than ESPN hoped to have. The company, which will host X Games in Aspen, France, Brazil, Germany, Spain and Los Angeles, sold sponsorships ...
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Super Bowl: It takes a village
Starting with next week’s affair in New Orleans, the NFL will require all Super Bowl host cities to offer a themed, downtown-like village as a destination that can be branded Super Bowl Boulevard. After the success of last year’s Super Bowl in Indianapolis, an event that won rave revi ...
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CES: The next big thing?
T he 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show in no small part was about who wasn’t there as much as who was. No Apple, Amazon or Google, as usual. Microsoft this year abdicated its customary, high-profile keynote slot to open the show, leaving the position for Qualcomm. ESPN downshifted ...
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Baseball HOF cuts net loss to $2.08M
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum posted a net loss of $2.08 million in 2011, according to its recently filed tax return, the eighth year in the red in the past decade for the baseball shrine. The fiscal loss for the Cooperstown, N.Y.-based hall during the year ended Dec. 31, 2011, na ...
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