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Golf NGB draws on content from partners for new website; sponsor hunt in full swing05 / 13 / 13The national governing body for golf has launched a website and begun the search for sponsors. The USA Golf Federation, spearheaded by the PGA Tour’s Andy Levinson, established its home page on a network of NGB pages that are hosted at TeamUSA.org. The umbrella site offers governing bodies ... |
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PBR in Vegas seeking growth
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Wealthy NFL teams shared significantly less money in 2011 with financially challenged clubs than in previous years, the league told owners at their fall meeting in Chicago last week. Previously, upward of $100 million was transferred annually to solve a financial disparity issue that the NFL wres ...
L.A. is MIA from NFL agenda
NFL owners meet in Chicago on Tuesday, and perhaps what is most notable about the one-day meeting is what is not on the agenda: Los Angeles. With all the talk in recent months about returning football to Los Angeles, there is no scheduled update, though the league could put it on the agenda at th ...
MLB: Social media helping ratings
MLB has seen a significant increase in social media activity around the postseason, extending a surge in fan interest that began at the All-Star Game in July. According to Bluefin Labs, the Massachusetts-based social TV analytics firm working with the league, the first six days of the playoffs ge ...
Financial struggles could shutter UFL
The United Football League, entering the third week of its season, could shutter shortly if it is unable to pay its players, agents and other sources said last week. The players, these sources said, have yet to be paid this year. Late payments and non-payments to players, other employees and ...
MLB count highest since 2008
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NBA resumes international games
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Tony George leads offer for IndyCar
The board of Hulman & Co., owners of the IndyCar Series, is weighing an acquisition proposal for the open-wheel-racing operation, according to people familiar with the matter. George Former Ind ...
Shield damage
In the mid-1980s, when lawsuits from Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis against the NFL dominated league headlines, then-NFL executive Jim Steeg remembers being worried that football’s popularity could suffer as a result. Longtime league operations guru Bill Granholm counseled him, Steeg recounted ...
