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Dew Tour to become Olympic qualifier05 / 20 / 13When the Dew Tour added a winter series in 2007, organizers wanted to turn the three-event series into Olympic qualifiers. That would allow NBC, which owned the tour, to promote the athletes and the 2010 Vancouver Games, raise the profile of snowboarding, and make it possible for snowboarders to ear... Tags: Olympics |
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SPOTLIGHT New Olympic roles for Neal, Zenkel NBC Sports and Olympics added two more members to executive staff in preparation for life after the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games. David Neal, who has headed production for NBC's coverage of the last ...
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Dick Pound's IOC Letter
July 24, 2001 I thought I should write to you following the IOC elections that were held last week. As you know, I presented myself as a candidate to become president. My platform was based on continuing reform of the IOC, a reform that I promised you during the Salt Lake City scandal ...
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Sega Spends $20M For Games
Sega of America will spend $20 million behind the launch of its new Sega Sports video games this fall as the company moves away from being a hardware manufacturer and begins selling software only next year. Its NFL 2K2 game, which hits stores next ...
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Coast To Coast
ATLANTA Turner Sports rolls out gift certificates Atlanta sports fans may now have a passport to paradise. The Braves, Hawks and Thrashers are offering a gift certificate program for the purchase of spo ...
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Earth To The NCAA
E arth to the NCAA ... Earth to the NCAA ... Come In! How could that overly righteous group of bureaucrats, currently in the midst of lobbying Congress for anti-gambling legislation and whose slogan, "Don't Bet On It," is plastered all over college teams' locker ...
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BofA Ready To Run With Games
B ank of America will make the Olympics the primary theme of its fourth- and first-quarter brand campaign, and has signed U.S. athletes Bonnie Blair , Dan Jansen , Cammi Granato , Jonny Moseley and Kristi Yamaguchi as spokespersons. ...
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Coast To Coast
BOSTON Some oppose 2005 PGA tourney Some club members at the Country Club in Brookline, Mass., are opposed to holding the 2005 PGA Championship at their course. Certain club members told the Boston Herald that the course has just recently recovered from the 1999 ...
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NBC's Quiet Pre-Olympic Push
E ven with world figure skating champion and proven marketing dynamo Michelle Kwan in the mix, a relatively subdued countdown to the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games appears inevitable. There are multiple agendas at work. NBC , th ...
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Betting agency stock on a slide
Shares of Italian betting agency SNAI are down 60 percent this year, but it's no fault of the agency's favorite horse. SNAI acquired a 50 percent interest in champion trotter Varenne for $1.5 million a year ago. This year, Varenne (also owned by Dany ...
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Allstate's olympic package
J ust as corporate America was casting a frequently indifferent eye on the Olympics, along comes Allstate Insurance Co. with a major financial commitment to the U.S. Olympic team through 2004 and to the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games. ...
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