This Week's Newsmakers: Blackhawks Continue To Make Strides
THE DAILY each Friday offers our take on the performances over the past week of people and entities in sports business. Here are this week’s newsmakers.
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Blackhawks To Televise All Games
In Local Market Next Season |
WIN: BLACKHAWKS -- Under the direction of Chair ROCKY WIRTZ and President JOHN MCDONOUGH, the team is trying hard to become a relevant part of the sports scene in the Windy City, this week announcing all 82 games next season will be broadcast locally for the first time. The news comes after other recent initiatives to stir interest in the club, including floating the idea of playing a game at Wrigley Field. While it appears the club will narrowly miss out on the playoffs this season, a young team combined with a rejuvenated fan base has to have the front office excited about the near future.
LOSE: MAX MOSLEY -- Everyone from BERNIE ECCLESTONE to F1 car manufacturers to the Bahrain Crown Prince has asked Mosley to keep his distance from the circuit after the FIA President reportedly participated in a "Nazi-style" sado-masochistic orgy. You know you have had a bad week when you build your defense around the idea that the five-prostitute orgy was a regular one, not Nazi-related.
DRAW: NFL -- The league's owners meeting features apologies from ROBERT KRAFT and BILL BELICHICK, talk about the end of Spygate and unanimous approval of ROGER GOODELL's integrity proposal. But Goodell surprisingly will not declare the Pats/MATT WALSH issue dead just yet, and the black cloud of labor dissonance continues to loom over the league.
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