News and opinions on the business side of sports
29
Jun
Tweet Today’s post is courtesy of guest blogger Dr. Don Sandusky of Primo Sport Inc. It’s a tough call, but Adidas’ new match ball just might beat out the Vuvuzuela horns as the most polarizing thing on South Africa’s World Cup pitch. The Jabulani ball — translated as “Celebration” — has been criticized for its [...]
28
Jun
Tweet We are days away from arguably the most important and historic free agency period in NBA history. The biggest question is, where will LeBron James sign? Stay at home in Cleveland? Hit the Big Apple? What about Chicago? The sports media cannot stop talking about this question, with everyone spouting their own theories and [...]
25
Jun
Tweet After a hectic couple of weeks, I need to ramp up my writing again. So let’s get it started today with some links and recaps of some interesting sports business stories from the past couple of days. Brits May Challenge Visa’s 2010 Olympics Exclusivity – Marc Perton, The Consumerist (thanks to @khuda1 for the [...]
24
Jun
Tweet By now, you’ve heard about the United States’ Men’s Soccer team’s win over Algeria. If you live under a rock or have no friends, the short story is that even though they had a valid goal disallowed, and Algeria had many solid chances, the U.S. pulled out a win when Landon Donovan (right) buried a [...]
18
Jun
Tweet According to Wikipedia, ‘Ambush marketing’ is defined as ‘a marketing campaign that takes place around an event but does not involve payment of a sponsorship fee to this event.’ In South Africa, ambush marketing is a crime. Or more specifically one can violate the ‘Contravention of Merchandise Marks Act.’ On Monday, Denmark and the Netherlands [...]
16
Jun
Tweet On a quick personal note, I just got married over the past weekend, which was the most incredible day of my life! With everything going on, I do not have time to blog this week, so here are two of posts “from the vault” that I really liked and wanted to share with you [...]
10
Jun
Tweet Our next SportsBiz Live Chat is scheduled for today, Thursday, June 10 at 2:00pm EDT (11:00am PDT). The chat room will open at 1:45pm so we’ll be ready to go right at 2. The topic for today’s chat is college athletics and the various conference expansion scenarios, and the chat will be hosted by [...]
9
Jun
Tweet I have a major announcement: The Business Of Sports is going to expand to a 16 blog network, complete with a championship blog-off (presenting sponsor TBD) and a 7-year, multi-billion dollar television contract with ESPN 3. OK, so none of that is true, but it seems like every college sports conference out there has [...]
8
Jun
Tweet In case you missed it, there was a big story last week about the University of Kansas box office ticket scalping scandal. As the story goes, some number of staff members sold at least $1 million worth of “comped” tickets secretly to local donors and ticket brokers, pocketing the money for themselves and not [...]
7
Jun
Tweet A few weeks ago, we gave away an advance copy of “Delivering Happiness,” a book by the CEO of Zappos.com, Tony Hsieh (Congratulations Alan Cassinelli!). Today, the book officially goes on sale. If you’re anything like me, you appreciate finding out a little about a book before you buy it. Will it be worth your [...]
