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The first World Golf Championships event of 2012 returns to The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Dove Mountain, near Tucson. Also leading the list of the 64 golfers who qualified for the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship is charismatic world No. Despite Tiger being eliminated on Wednesday, Golf Channel’s three-day average viewership was up 84 percent from 2010, while weekend viewership on NBC rose 71 percent.
The NHL’s current CBA is set to expire on September 15, 2012, before the season starts, and many hockey experts agree that the league’s next labor deal could be almost as contentious as the one that canceled the 2004-2005 season. Among the many issues that will be on NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman’s table come fall are buyouts of guaranteed contracts, player fines for misconduct, players’ ability to play in the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, and the NHL’s concussion policy. Bettman and ...
The London Olympic Games will top a record-breaking 5.5 billion viewers worldwide after NBC and other global TV networks enable viewers to watch every sport in real time on their HDTV big screens, desktops, tablets, handhelds, Mac Book Airs, and Big Macs. In the wake of its landmark TV rights deals with CBS, Fox, NBC, and ESPN, the NFL will finally close a carriage deal for its NFL Network with Time Warner Cable. The NFL has already committed to adding four additional regular season games to...
**The organization that manages Lucas Oil Stadium expects to lose money from hosting the Super Bowl. 2. The PGA Tour and Hyundai are close to signing a massive $100 million sponsorship deal. 2. The PGA Tour signed Allegheny Sports Medicine to a four-year sponsorship deal, making the orthopedic care and rehabilitation service its “Official Sports Medicine Sponsor.
Stacked on top of each other are signature events from the NFL, NBA, NASCAR, and golf, as well as the Academy Awards, often referred to as “the Super Bowl for women. This week, we’ll cover the three events whose lead-up to February 26 is the longest: NASCAR’s Daytona 500, the NFL Combine, and the WGC Accenture Match Play Championships. 2012 Daytona 500 (Fox, 1:29 p.m. ET) Even though the Daytona 500 is still over a week away, we’re well into Speedweeks, NASCAR’s annual fortnight-long kickoff...
