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How to stage modern sports experience in nontraditional setting05 / 20 / 13T oday’s venues for sporting events are pushing the boundaries of traditional risk management for event organizers. From college basketball on aircraft carriers to regular-season football games abroad, event risk paradigms often depend on th... Tags: Opinion |
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New home, familiar old problems
“D ownsizing" is what some couples do after their children have grown up and left home. Unloading the big house and moving into cozier digs makes sense when a family's numbers shrink, although when your kids are Gen X or Yers, you never know when they might show up ag ...
Tags: Opinion, Track & Field
IOC, clean up judging system
As the Salt Lake City vote-buying scandal erupted, the Olympic community sought to immunize the athletic competition itself from the taint of political gamesmanship among cities competing to host the Games. The Olympic Games are about the competition between athletes, it wa ...
Sports without promos
I didn't get a chance to watch much of the Winter Olympics. Every time I turned on NBC, I saw the Dave Matthews Band performing or some Canadian figure skater crying or Bob Costas sitting in front of a live-on-tape fireplace, so I figured the actual sporting events must b ...
Some pros too easy to scam
T he rule in the news business is that if you have a good story, you write it every once in a while. The magazine U.S. News & World Report proved that again with another account of how various con artists had swindled various National Football League players out of man ...
Tags: MLB, NBA, New York Knicks, NFL, Opinion
Sponsor banks on youth sports
M ost of us had our first experience with sports sponsorship as kids, when, with our friends, we trooped down to the neighborhood business strip to solicit Ace Cleaners or Gino's Pizzeria to buy jerseys for our baseball team. We'd bypass the corner bank on our foray. Banks were to ...
NASCAR's a winner off the track
W hat if you had Sunday badges for the Masters and couldn't find a client or a customer to entertain at Augusta National? What if you purchased Super Bowl tickets and your best business prospect declined your invitation? Unlikely to happen, you say. After all, the Masters tou ...
Tags: Motorsports, NASCAR, Opinion
Zimbalist fires back
Rob Manfred's response to my Dec. 24 SBJ column oscillates among the surreal, amusing, puzzling and illogical. Manfred insists upon portraying me as a shill for the players association. Referring to me, he writes: "His opinions are those of the players association and nothing more ...
