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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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Race to host Olympics begins
T he race has begun! The selection of Beijing to host the 2008 Summer Olympics begins the stretch run for the eight U.S. cities vying to become our country's candidate to host the 2012 Games. To this point, the cities have focused on demonstrating to the U. ...
WNBA's Hiring Practices
A fter months of research, the most dramatic conclusion emerging from the 2001 Racial and Gender Report Card is this: When women play sport among men, they do better than men at achieving racial and gender equity in hiring practices. Th ...
Tags: Baseball, Basketball, Colleges, Football, Hockey, Olympics, Opinion, Soccer
NASCAR Seeks Broader Appeal
T he 1965 Anthony Newley musical, "The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd," parodied what Kenny Kane, publicity director for Phoenix International Raceway, identifies as the main attractions — noise, colors and personalities ...
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Bighorn Battle Debated
I f you were like me and watched any or all of the Battle at Bighorn on ABC Sports, you probably are wondering why you did. Sure, the alternate-ball matchup pitting Annika Sorenstam and Tiger Woods against Karrie Webb and David Duval produced some d ...
Ripken's Marketing Lauded
H e is a lock for the Baseball Hall of Fame. But he belongs in the Marketing Hall of Fame as well.At the end of the 2001 season, Cal Ripken will retire. There is no question he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame, not so much for his baseball num ...
In Our View
Subscribing to the theory that silence is golden, Commissioner Bud Selig and Major League Baseball have been mum on their strategy for the coming labor negotiations. And who's to say that's not the right course for a war council preparing for a high-stakes battl ...
Letters From Readers
Bigger things in store for insightful Costas Bob Costas' Op-Ed piece in your July 16 issue ["Baseball's landscape is changing, old warrior is not"] was right on target. As he articulated so well in his book, "Fair Ball," it's long past time for change in baseball's collective-bargaining ...
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