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Michael Smith

The leading reporter covering the dynamic business of college sports, Michael Smith joined Sports Business Journal in 2006 after having spent 18 years with daily newspapers, most recently covering the University of Kentucky basketball program for the Louisville Courier-Journal. His résumé also includes stints covering the University of South Carolina and the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets. BEATS: college sports, high school sports

Multimedia rivals IMG, Learfield partner to sell tickets

Journal - 04/02/2012
IMG College and Learfield Sports have found that competition can make for strange bedfellows, the latest example of that being the two collegiate multimedia rivals teaming together to sell college tickets. IMG College has been trying to cultivate the emerging ticket sales and marketing space for the last...

Muscle Milk beefs up college presence

Journal - 03/26/2012
Whenever the University of Oregon’s popular duck performs pushups to celebrate a touchdown, he goes up and down on a platform adorned with Muscle Milk’s logos. It’s not certain if the guy inside the duck costume uses Muscle Milk’s protein supplement, but Oregon’s athletes do as part of a...

Tweets play role in dunk contest

Journal - 03/26/2012
This week’s college dunk contest will get an assist from Twitter users. Intersport’s popular event at the site of the Final Four will be decided for the first time, in part, by votes on Twitter from fans watching on ESPN. The dunk contest, which has been run...

Dial Global boosts NCAA's radio reach

Journal - 03/19/2012
Radio broadcasts of the NCAA tournament are running on more than 500 stations nationally, as well as on new online and mobile streaming outlets, in the event’s first year on the Dial Global network. Westwood One, which has owned the NCAA’s radio rights since 2003, merged with Dial...

ESPN, Fox may share Big 12 rights

Journal - 03/19/2012
The Big 12’s pending media rights extension with ESPN is being patterned after the Pac-12’s TV rights deal, sources told SportsBusiness Journal last week. That’s because the deal, which still is weeks away from being signed, is expected to have ESPN and Fox Sports sharing some broadcast and...
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