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Samson: Marlins’ ballpark was no mistake05 / 13 / 13Baseball 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... Tags: Franchises |
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Pens move TV programming to website
The Pittsburgh Penguins have shifted their original television programming from local broadcast partner Root Sports Pittsburgh onto a team-owned website called Pens TV. Based on team research — which says Penguins fans skew higher in online usage than regular Pittsburgh residents — te ...
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3 from Cavs join Phizzle
Three members of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ digital business staff are leaving the organization to join mobile marketing company Phizzle. Mike Maleski, Cavs director of new media sales; Jeff Ryznar, director of strategic marketing; and Jeff Lillibridge, director of website operations, will op ...
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Suns find new president outside of sports
The Phoenix Suns are turning to former Henkel Consumer Goods CEO Brad Casper to run the team’s business operations. Suns owner Robert Sarver hired Casper as the club’s new team president of business operations. JI ...
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Whitecaps chief talks about team’s new home
The Vancouver Whitecaps this month moved into the recently renovated 60,000-seat BC Place stadium, which the MLS team shares with the BC Lions Canadian Football League team. It was a major step up from the Whitecaps’ 20,000-seat temporary h ...
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Welts sees ‘a big upside’ for Warriors
One of the first tasks on the list for newly hired Golden State Warriors President and COO Rick Welts is to install his own top management team as the former Phoenix Suns executive assumes operational control of the franchise with some major front-office jobs to fill. Prior to hiring Welts, Warri ...
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Lightning carves out corners
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Tickets.com signs up Mets for seven years
The New York Mets have signed a seven-year ticketing deal with Tickets.com, consolidating their baseball and special-event business at Citi Field. The Mets switch to Tickets.com, owned by MLB Advanced Media, after spending the past seven seasons with Paciolan. Mets fans will continue to buy ti ...
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Leiweke says change started with listening
When Tampa Bay Lightning CEO Tod Leiweke started with the team in July 2010, he found an outdated building with plastic seats and no food service in the upper bowl, a disenchanted fan base and a season-ticket base of about 5,000. Now, on the eve ...
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NHL’s $51.7M loan to Stars revealed
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