First on the Internet, still strong

The Dec. 17 edition of Street & Smith SportsBusiness Journal includes an article regarding the merger of Myteam.com and Active Networks. The article states that "the last two dot.coms serving the participatory sports market are merging." Many of ...

Tags: Amateur Sports, Opinion

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Tags: Action Sports, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Olympics, Opinion

Trade-show treasures no secret

I read your article "NASCAR finds treasure in trade-show aisles" in the Nov. 26 issue. I congratulate NASCAR for finding what we have been doing for 15 years at Penn State Sports Marketing — visit prospects and clients at their shows. The Food Marketi ...

Tags: Motorsports, Opinion

Cheer for red, white and blue

W hen tragedy strikes a field of play in the form of the death or serious injury of a participant, the tendency is to shrink back and ponder whether the exercise is worth the cost. When tragedy strikes a nation on the scale that it did to the United ...

Tags: Opinion

Mason put the industry on map

James G. Mason, who passed away on Nov. 26, was a pioneer in the management of sport. Mason, along with Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, developed the idea to prepare students for positions in the administrative side of professional sport. In a letter to Mason, O'Malley asked: "Whe ...

Tags: Opinion

Sports boom turns into a glut

T he headlines do not bode well for sports these days. And I am not talking about athletes being charged with criminal misconduct or the impending labor strife in Major League Baseball. I am talking about the economic downturn affecting the entire s ...

Tags: Opinion

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Sponsor gifts under every tree

T he lineup of this holiday season's college football bowl games yields vital information about the commercial state of sports in these United States. Of the 25 such contests listed in the trusty sports section of my USA Today, 20 carried the names ...

Tags: Opinion

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Burton's SMAANZies awards

I was in Melbourne, Australia, the other day attending a conference on the globalization of sport run by the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ). As the introductions began, the chairwoman kicked things off by chargin ...

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