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The 2012 Power 100 ranking of the most powerful athletes in sports (created by Bloomberg Businessweek and Horrow Sports Ventures) was just released. This Power list looks at athlete’s performance both on-and off-the field. For an inside look at the multibillion-dollar world of professional sport, pick up a copy of Beyond The Scoreboard by Rick Horrow, America’s leading expert in sport business, and coauthor Karla Swatek and check out the Inside Sports Business web site and app!
With the 2012 London Games officially less than a year away, expect to start seeing more and more Olympic athletes signing endorsement deals. To mark the year-out milestone to the London 2012 Olympic Games, Citi, an official sponsor of the 2012 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams and the U.S. Olympic Committee, last week held a ceremonial Citi Team USA flag-raising event outside the Citibank Financial Center at its headquarters in New York City. Olympic silver medalist Alicia Sacramone (...
” The words of high-profile sport agent Leigh Steinberg help explain why negotiations between players and owners in all four of America’s major professional sports are taking on so much importance in 2011. As outlined by America’s leading sport business expert Rick Horrow in the upcoming Beyond the Scoreboard: An Insider’s Guide to the Business of Sport (Human Kinetics, 2011), the collective bargaining agreements (CBA) of football, baseball, basketball, and hockey are due to expire over the ...
Hurt by a record number of player withdrawals, the 2011 MLB All-Star Game earned its lowest overnight TV rating ever. The game’s 7.9 overnight rating was down 13.2% from last year’s All-Star Game and down 37% from the contest a decade ago. The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets, both embroiled in ownership scandals, are seeing sharp drops in TV ratings as well.
According to USA Today and other media outlets covering the countdown, 2012 London Games organizers are "pleased with what they’ve done and confident they’ll put on a great show." Trial events around the city have begun, with the first one in Olympic Park itself scheduled for August 16, in the Games’ temporary recyclable basketball arena, which will house men’s preliminary games, women’s games through the quarterfinals, and all handball medal matches. (The remaining basketball games will be ...
While the Summer Olympiad occurs only every four years, extreme sport counterpart X Games are an ESPN fixture every summer. ESPN’s 17th annual Summer X Games took place July 28-31 in Los Angeles. While the X Games contributed to ESPN leading all weekend sports telecasts last weekend, and ABC saw the X Games return to that network after a hiatus last year, the 2011 X Games’ Saturday coverage saw only a 0.6 overnight Nielsen rating, down 33%. ESPN commentators noted throughout the three-day ...
This week, the Associated Press revealed that U.S. is one of at least five countries that have “filed preliminary paperwork required by the IOC ahead of any potential bids for the 2020 Olympics." The compliance forms are a new IOC requirement ahead of the extensive formal bid process. The deadline to submit such forms was Saturday, and the USOC reportedly has until September 1 to submit the names of any 2020 American applicant cities to the IOC.
Judging by the unprecedented interest in this upcoming NFL season, you would think that the league was ending a multi-year hiatus. Under the CBA, the NFL’s salary cap drops to id="mce_marker"20.375 million per team this season, down from id="mce_marker"28 million in 2009, but teams are required to commit more to player salaries in a given season. Ticket aggregation service TiqIQ says secondary market NFL tickets are averaging id="mce_marker"86.62, up 22% from last season.
The granddaddy of all college football conference schmoozefests, otherwise known as SEC Media Days, kicked off in Hoover, Alabama. The granddaddy of all college football conference schmoozefests, otherwise known as SEC Media Days, kicked off on Wednesday in Hoover, Alabama. The three-day event, signaling the unofficial start of the Football Bowl Subdivision’s season, features boldface name football coaches, top players from each team, and somewhere between 900-1,000 members of the media.
By all accounts, the amazing trajectory of the national team throughout the FIFA Women’s World Cup is energizing American soccer at all levels of the game. But by all accounts, the amazing trajectory of the national team throughout the just-completed FIFA Women’s World Cup is energizing American soccer at all levels of the game. According to WPS CEO Anne-Marie Eileraas, ticket sales have increased, traffic to the league’s website has quadrupled, and interest in establishing expansion WPS ...
