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Gulati talks about FIFA post, state of soccer06 / 17 / 13U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati will not discuss much about the 2014 FIFA World Cup for one simple reason: The U.S. men’s national team has not qualified for it yet. Beginning with a match Tuesday against Honduras at Rio Tinto Stadium in Utah, the club has three matches left to ... Tags: In-Depth |
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Tournment turning points
Dome for a home The NCAA had experimented with playing the Final Four in a dome. The 1971 championships were held in the Astrodome and the 1982 Final Four was played in the Superdome. But in the 1990s, with the tournament growing and ...
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The future of the tournament
Courtside signage For as long as the NCAA has had a corporate sponsorship program, only two brands have been visible at courtside during the tournament — the NCAA and whichever brand Coca-Cola has promoted. At one time it was Dasani water, and recently it’s been Powerade, which pl ...
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Key tournament innovations
Capturing the Madness When March Madness on Demand (now March Madness Live) launched on CSTV.com in 2005, CBS was offering only regional TV coverage of the early rounds. MMOD was the only way for viewers to watch any or all of the games be ...
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MLS highs and lows
Scoring goals ■ Seattle Sounders: Led the league last season in average attendance (43,144) — 20,000 more than the second-place The Seattle Sounders continue to be a crowd pleaser. Photo by: Getty I ...
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From the club president's desk
With the 2013 Major League Soccer season opening, six club presidents took the time to share their thoughts on some of the major issues surrounding their teams and the league. Here are highlights of what they had to say to SportsBusiness Journal MLS writer Christopher Botta. ...
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NBC ready for year two
NBC believes that Major League Soccer’s television presence will benefit this season from the network’s deal to broadcast English Premier League games. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” said Jon Miller, president of programming for NBC Sports and NB ...
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What's next for New York?
If everything comes together for Major League Soccer this year, the league will announce a second team in the New York market to begin play in 2016, receive a $100 million expansion fee for the franchise, finalize a deal for a $300 million soccer stadium in Queens, and introduce an extravagantly wea ...
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Dew's action sports timeline
1993 ■ “Do The Dew” TV campaign features action sports. ■ Sponsors Burton’s U.S. Open of Snowboarding. 1995 ■ Becomes the first sponsor of the X Games. 1996 Tara Hamilton Ph ...
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How they Dew it: An Oral History
It was such a simple phrase: Do the Dew. When Pepsi introduced it in 1992, no one anticipated it would change sports marketing and raise the profile of a series of fringe sports like skateboarding and BMX. But that’s exactly what happened. The phrase, along with its catchy ads, pushed ...
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NASCAR's faces of the future
When its ratings dipped, attendance faltered and sponsorships shrank after the recession, NASCAR regrouped. The sport’s sanctioning body crafted a five-year plan designed to improve its communications, upgrade its facilities, sharpen its digital media operations and diversify its fan base by ...
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