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Tuesday Tidbits (Wed.Edition)

Welcome to the belated edition of Tuesday Tidbits. I'm moving slowly this week for a variety of reasons so I didn't get around to this yesterday. Nevertheless, here are a few items of interest from...

Started in SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: umbro, usc, southern cal, joe torre, street sense
Get Ready to Samba

FIFA confirmed the obvious yesterday and awarded the 2014 World Cup to Brazil, the lone bidder from South America. In the rotation order in effect, 2014 was South America's turn, and the South...

Started in SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: sepp blatter, soccer, womens world cup, fifa, world cup
Curlin Settles Horse of the Year

In a dramatic finishing kick to the Race of the Year, Curlin ended any debate over who should be the Horse of the Year. Expertly ridden as usual by Robby Albarado, Curlin used a blazing drive down...

Started in SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: fen-phen, robby albarado, horse racing, street sense, breeders cup
NCAA Settles with North Dakota Over Fighting Sioux NIckname

The NCAA has settled the lawsuit filed by the University of North Dakota over the use of the Fighting Sioux, allowing UND the right to use the nickname and imagery for three years while it tried to...

Started in SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: nicknames, ncaa, fighting sioux, university of north dakota
Shareholders Bitch Slap Dolans

It's just not the Dolans year. First, their boy, Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden lose a big sexual harassment suit, then MSG goes and sues its own league in the NHL and now the shareholders of...

Started in SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: madison square garden, nba. new york knicks, cablevision, new york rangers, james dolan
Ranger v. NHL - the NYT speaks

I previously discussed the Rangers suit against the NHL in which the team's rhetoric features phrases like “unrestricted power,” “illegal cartel,” “seizure,” “crackdown” and “blatant expropriation of...

Started in SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: hockey, antitrust, new york rangers, nhl, sports law
Tuesday's Tidbits

There may be no bigger Red Sox fans than executives at Fox. Game 7 of the ALCS drew 9 million viewers and an 11.7/18 household rating and share, the largest League Championship TV audience and...

Started in SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: carnival of sports business, mlb boston red sox, team mclaren umbro, lewis hamilton, kimi raikkonen
NFL to Toronto, Eh - Part II

The NFL move to Toronto took on the look of inevitability this week as the Buffalo Bills asked the city and county and the NFL for permission to play an exhibition game in Toronto in 2008, followed...

Started in SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: nfl, cfl, toronto argonauts, buffalo bills, professional football
College Arms Race: Exhibit A - Ohio State

Friday, the Wall Street Journal devoted a feature story to an examination of the enormity that is the athletic budget of Ohio State. It's an interesting look at the state of college athletics. The...

Started in SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: college football, college basketball, ohio state, bcs
Is Nike After Umbro?

It was a gloomy week for English soccer fans after the national team faced a Russian storm and saw its hopes for European qualifications meet the same fate as Napoleon's Russian campaign. ...

Started in SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: umbro, soccer, england, nike, world cup