**Despite slashing payroll by more than $50 million, the Miami Marlins expect to post an operating loss this season.
**Wichita State University will reap a financial windfall from the school’s first Final Four appearance since 1965.
**Adidas is launching a worldwide merchandise line around international soccer star Lionel Messi. 
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**Miami-Dade County and the Dolphins have reached a deal to give the team $7.5 million a year in hotel taxes to help fund a Sun Life Stadium renovation.
**The NHL has decided against opening the 2013-14 season with its annual Premiere Games in Europe.
**The PGA Tour in 2012 posted record revenues of $1.1 billion, up from a previous high of $1.02 billion in 2010.
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Cereal and snack food aficionados can expect to start seeing a lot more MLB logos on grocery store shelves. The league and Kellogg’s announced a multiyear marketing agreement, making the popular cereal and snack maker an official MLB sponsor. To activate the new sponsorship, Kellogg’s will operate a nationwide sweepstakes featuring MLB branding and team logos on supermarket displays and more than 27 million packages of Kellogg’s products.
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The PGA Tour in 2012 posted record revenues of $1.1 billion, up from a previous high of $1.02 billion in 2010. The record numbers come at a time that all 42 events on the Tour’s calendar have a title or presenting sponsor. Additionally, FedEx last year renewed its multimillion-dollar sponsorship of the season-ending FedEx Cup championship.
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Revenue projections for the casino games earmarked to partially fund the new Minnesota Vikings stadium continue to fall. The games originally were expected to generate $35 million in taxes this year, but officials now anticipate the games bringing in just $1.7 million. Meanwhile, Miami-Dade County and the Dolphins have reached a deal to give the team $7.5 million a year in hotel taxes to help fund a Sun Life Stadium renovation.
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In a surprising move, Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner Ron Burkle had to remove himself from the group bidding to keep the Kings in Sacramento because of his ties to a sports agency. Burkle is an investor in Relativity Media, an entertainment company whose Relativity Sports division represents more than 50 NBA players.
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The NBA could rule as soon as this week on the future of the Sacramento Kings. The league’s Finance & Relocation Committee earlier this month heard presentations from two groups interested in buying 65% of the team from the Maloof family. A vote on the proposals could come Thursday or Friday at the league’s Board of Governors meeting.
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For all the attention given annually to big numbers around The Masters, pro golf’s first Major of the season, the real focus, of course is on negative ones—as in, how many strokes under par the game’s top stars are as they make their way around the hallowed grounds of Augusta National Golf Club. At the end of the day, though, those big numbers mean a lot more to the sport’s long term health than do the green under par digits posted by hand on Augusta’s iconic wooden scoreboards.
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**MLB is suing the South Florida clinic alleged to have provided players with performance enhancing drugs.
**Twenty-one of the 22 U.S.-based NHL teams with available data have posted local TV ratings increases this season.
**Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan is pushing his team to become more involved in the local community.
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**Wichita State University will reap a financial windfall from the school’s first Final Four appearance since 1965.
**Despite slashing payroll by more than $50 million, the Miami Marlins expect to post an operating loss this season.
**One of the stadiums Brazil had hoped to use for the 2014 World Cup is closed indefinitely after authorities said there were structural problems with the building’s roof.
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