Sports Business: One City Down and 10 to Go
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Tuesday was the start of the 11-city tour to sell HBOâs $54.95 pay-per-view production of the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather Jr. bout on May 5.
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The N.F.L. announced that clubs will have just 10 minutes between picks in the first round, instead of 15.
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One day after several tournament favorites fell nationwide, top teams returned to form with a few notable exceptions.
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It seemed like an idea whose time had come and gone, but with Pennsylvania and New York State poised to compete for Atlantic City&#39;s gambling billions, the idea of adding
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TEAM owners last night kick-started a week of intense activity that will help to determine who wins control of one of the richest sports in the world.
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Checking in on two underdog picks, as well as some companies left on the bench.
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Imagine being 22, and having to carry a franchise. Now imagine being 22, and having to carry the hopes and dreams of an entire city. A city that's known nothing in sports but heartbreak for two generations. A city so starved for something good its most memorable events were somebody else's triumphs.
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FOXBORO Assistant coaches leave for better jobs. That is the price of a football dynasty doing business. The downtrodden and desperate all want to tap into your winning formula.
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Strange things are happening to the pro teams in this city. The Cavaliers are in the NBA finals. The Indians are in first place. And the Browns drafted an offensive lineman &#151; in the first round. Maybe it's a sign.
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Because of the absolute glut of media outlets now in existence, especially in the realm of sports, there is a tendency to get carried away (to put it mildly) by what is happening in the here-and-now.
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When a regional phone company in Arkansas paid to slap its name on Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, the price seemed steep. Was it really worth $6.2 million for some signs on a building in a small city that got its first major league sports team just two years earlier? Naming rights were a growing business when the 10-year deal was struck ...
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There are times to go with the strong -- and there are times to go against the weak. In this case, Buffalo, Houston, and Miami. Each looked miserable last week and the hunch is this week will be more of the same.
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Steve Galbraith, a money manager at New York-based Maverick Capital Ltd. and a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, is facing what may be a once-a-century scheduling jam.
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Phones across Boston went down yesterday when World Series tickets went on sale. Hotel rooms are already so scarce that Major League Baseball booked rooms at a dozen hotels to come up with the 800 it needs.
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The boxing ring at Madison Square Garden, where Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali plied their trade, went down for the count on Wednesday.
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Bee Staff Writer. LOS ANGELES - One down, two or three to go - that&#39;s the Giants&#39; mantra after they successfully took their first step of a weekend mission at Dodger Stadium.
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The Pac-10 usually finds itself down the list when conferences are being evaluated at this time of year. Not this season.