Inside the Industry: Sports business news to take you from a fan to a pro
The NBA lockout is over! Is there any other piece of news as noteworthy as this? Um, YES. Hallelujah! The biggest piece of sports business news broke this past week: after 5 months and $100M in revenue lost, yes, the NBA Lockout is OVER! Anyone else hear crickets? That’s the sound of the 61% of Americans, [...]
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The 149-Day NBA Lockout is Coming to an End
The negotiating between the owners and players went into the morning hours today in the 149th day of the lockout. And at 3 a.m., a tentative agreement had been reached for the season to officially start on Christmas day, making it a 66 game season. We are still not sure the why and how each [...]
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Inside the Industry: Sports business news to take you from a fan to a pro
It’s business time, and while I can’t pay you back for your PPV bill, I promise this will be worth more of your time than a 64 second MMA fight. Sorry Cain. “California Love!” Yesterday, AEG revealed official plans for the construction of the new $1.1 billion Farmer’s Insurance stadium at LA Live. The stadium [...]
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Inside the Industry: Sports business news to take you from a fan to a pro
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: business baby. Join us as we fill you in on the latest and greatest in the sports business world from the week that was. Still not convinced? I’ll give you Shaq in a santa hat. On Monday, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced new ticket prices for existing [...]
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Inside the Industry: Sports business news to take you from a fan to a pro
While you were watching the Cards make it to the World Series, the Oregon Ducks unjustifiably dominating the Arizona State Sun Devils (I’m still trying to dispute that pass interference call), or just sleeping after a long three day sports bender, conferences were realigning, McDonald’s was closing an 8-year contract to continue advertising to sedentary [...]
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NBA cancels first two weeks of season, America yawns
The NBA will not have a first fortnight of basketball action. David Stern said so Monday night. There was some outrage, but much of it was muttered in between penalty flags during last night’s Detroit Sportsapalooza. The two weeks will cost the NBA roughly 200 million in revenue, which is fine since the two labor [...]
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So there’s no NBA. So what?
I can sum up what I’ll be doing while the NBA floats off into lockout ether in five words. Football. College Football. College Basketball. No, wait! You should really read the rest of the story anyway. Please… The National Basketball Association is many things. What it is not is the National Football League (it just [...]
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Strictly Business: Recapping the top stories from the Sports-Industrial Complex
Sports are more than just fantasy football leagues and greasy remote control buttons from the quivering, hot wing sauce-laden hands of husbands and college undergrads everywhere (though these are some of the things we all love most about sports). Nay, sports are about getting dirty. I’m talking about multi-billion dollar investment deals and free agent [...]
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The 2012 NBA Doomsday Draft
What if the NBA lockout got real ugly and the league had to start over from scratch? Lucky for you, we thought of just what could happen in a situation just like this! Presenting, the 2012 NBA Doomsday Draft.
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Does the ‘overseas’ contract make sense for NBA players?
Great moments in labor disputes: NBA players packing up and taking their game to Europe. Will it happen? To what extent? Will there be any basketball this year? WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
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