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The everevolving menu05 / 13 / 13Concessionaires continue to seek innovative ways to serve consumers at sports venues, but they do so with the familiar pressures on pricing. The successful strategy is one that balances that desire to improve the service and product mix while still paying close attention to price sensitivities. Spo... Tags: In-Depth |
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Team doctors fear malpractice suits
High-salaried players such as Atlanta’s Michael Vick make malpractice insurance providers nervous about offering coverage to team doctors. As the calendar pages turned and Michael Vick remained on the sideline, recuperating from a ...
Tags: Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, Football, Minnesota Vikings, MLB, MLS, NBA, New York Jets, NFL, NHL, Pittsburgh Steelers, In-Depth
SBJ AD of the Year: Eric Hyman, TCU
Eric Hyman stands inside TCU’s baseball stadium, part of $35 million in sports facilities recently built at the university. Eric Hyman remembers being turned away by prospectivecorporate sponsors when he first started as athleticdir ...
Tags: Bank One Corp., Colleges, NCAA, In-Depth
Regional AD of the Year winners
As part of our report on college athletics, Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal presents the 2004 General Sports Turf Systems Regional Athletic Director of the Year winners, listed below. The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics administers the regional awa ...
Turnkey Sports Poll
The following are results from the Turnkey Sports Poll taken in May. The survey covered about 400 senior-level sports industry executives spanning professional and college sports. 1. A director of athleti ...
Old school New school
Vince Dooley, Georgia’s outgoing athletic director, considers himself part of the old school as far as ADs are concerned. Dooley, 71, has been with the Bulldogs since 1964 — first as football coach, then as AD. He landed the athletic director spot in 1979 because of his tenure as coach ...
A world of opportunity
F or just about every facet of a multicultural marketing strategy, teams and leagues have found that there’s no one correct approach. Does your non-English-language marketing carry the same basic message and tone as your general-market communications, or do you specifically tailor y ...
Tags: Baseball, Basketball, Chicago Fire, Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, Denver Broncos, Football, Golden State Warriors, Golf, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Dodgers, McDonald's Corp., NBA, New York Jets, NFL, In-Depth, Soccer
Open-wheel racing stuck in the pits
Staking out a place as the dominant car owner coming out of qualifying for this year’s Indy 500, Michael Andretti holds out a glimmer of hope for the brand of U.S. auto racing he was raised in. When the Pettys and Allisons were running stock cars in a circuit that meant little outside th ...
Tags: ABC, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Championship Auto Racing Teams Inc., ESPN, IndyCar, Motorsports, In-Depth, Speed Channel
Turnkey Sports Poll
The following are the results of the Turnkey Sports Poll taken in April. The survey covered about 400 senior-level sports industry executives spanning professional and college sports. Do you think that a professional sports franchise will be located in Las Vegas in the next 10 years? ...
Tags: Baseball, Basketball, Colleges, Football, Hockey, Horse Racing, MLB, MLS, NBA, NFL, NHL, In-Depth, Soccer
Leaving Las Vegas
Legal sports betting in Nevada by sports book and race pari-mutuel categories Legal wagering with sports books in Nevada peaked in 1996 and has declined nearly 25 percent since then. The change coincides with the growing popularity of online sports wagering, which began to take hold ...
Tags: Baseball, Basketball, Football, In-Depth
Rolling the dice on sports sponsorship
The following is a sampling of sports sponsorships linked to the gambling industry: Boyd Gaming Corp. NASCAR Busch Series Sam’s Town 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Sam’s Town Hotel & Gambling Hall); NASCAR Busch Series Sam’s Town 250 at Memphis Motorsports Park ( ...
Tags: Connecticut Sun, Golf, IndyCar, Motorsports, NASCAR, In-Depth, Tennis, WTA
