Hawks looking to sell equity Charlotte looks to Nets for rebranding Galaxy aims for second-screen users Lew Wolff: Keeping focus Yankees give Man City local pull Message to Kings: ‘Sell, sell, sell’ Kroenke comfortable wearing 2nd hat Blazers win NBA promo award Samson: Marlins’ ballpark was no mistake Concessions helped Sacramento group
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Hawks hire investment bank to sell equity06 / 10 / 13The Atlanta Hawks have hired investment bank Inner Circle Sports to try to raise tens of millions of dollars from new limited partners to pay for projects that could include a new practice facility, scoreboards at Philips Arena and a branding campaign, sources said. ... Tags: Franchises |
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Yankees give Man City local pull
The addition of the New York Yankees as a partner in Manchester City FC’s purchase of a New York MLS expansion franchise was kept under wraps for more than six months. Joe Ravitch, co-founder and partner of global merchant bank The Raine Group, points to November for when the idea of a part ...
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Message to Kings: ‘Sell, sell, sell’
Shortly after NBA owners voted to keep the Sacramento Kings in California, NBA Commissioner David Stern relayed a quick message to the team’s marketing chief, Jeff David. “It said ‘sell, sell, sell,’” said David, who as senior vice president of sales and marketing is ...
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Lew Wolff: Keeping focus
F ew team owners have been forced to show as much patience in recent years as Oakland A’s managing partner Lew Wolff. With his club’s bid to move out of the aging O.Co Coliseum to downtown San Jose on hold amid a league study of the ma ...
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Charlotte looks to Nets for rebranding
Editor's note: This story has been revised from the print edition. The Charlotte Bobcats plan to use the Brooklyn Nets as the primary model for rebranding themselves as the Charlotte Hornets. Bobcats owner Michael Jordan last week officially announced the team would return to its old Horne ...
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Galaxy aims for second-screen users
The Los Angeles Galaxy this week plans to launch what it is touting as the first second-screen experience of its kind in MLS. The Galaxy Social Hub Connected by Chevrolet, available via iPhone, Android and other platforms, will aggregate social media conversations about the franchise in one locat ...
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Kroenke comfortable wearing 2nd hat
Josh Kroenke says his appointment as Colorado Avalanche president should negate the perception that he and his father, Stan — owner of the Avs and NBA Nuggets — favor one Denver-based franchise over the other. “It was a perception created by a few people here,” said the 33 ...
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Blazers win NBA promo award
The Portland Trail Blazers have won this year’s NBA award for best local team promotion held during the recently completed regular season. The Blazers were recognized with the award at the NBA’s annual sponsorship meetings, held last week in Los Angeles. As was the case last year (th ...
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Samson: Marlins’ ballpark was no mistake
Baseball in Miami has been anything but boring in recent years. The Miami Marlins built a modern ballbark relying heavily on public money, hired the colorful and sometimes controversial Ozzie Guillen as manager, lost 93 games last season, fired Gu ...
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Concessions helped Sacramento group
State Sen. Darrell Steinberg (left) and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson celebrate news of the vote. Photo by: ICON SMI In the days leading up to last week’s vote that denied an ...
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Leiweke: Don’t underestimate me or MLSE
As Tim Leiweke heads to Toronto to begin putting his imprint on the Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment conglomerate, the newly hired CEO knows the talk that is following him north of the border. “I hear people saying that the MLSE platform is not near the platform of AEG and that I won&r ...
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