50 years ago this week the Wide World of Sports debuted on ABC: “Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport. The thrill of victory, and agony of defeat. The human drama of athletic competition. This is ABC’s Wide World of Sports.” Today ESPN’s SportsCenter ran through their list of the 10 best Wide World of Sports... (more)
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Normally I rely on the mobile edition of Yahoo Sports but recently realized they are completely missing any coverage of NCAA Women's Basketball, specifically the Final Four tournament now in progress.
Fortunately, ESPN mobile is giving the women equal billing with a dedicated section just for the NCAA Women's Tournament. (more)
After buying something from the online NFL store this Christmas, I quick received a barrage of spam from nfl.com. Fortunately those messages subsided once I “unsubscribed”. I guess they still felt it important to send me this email titled “Thanks and a Look Ahead” from Roger Goodell, the NFL Commissioner. Too bad the NFL players don’t have a similar platform... (more)
My father-in-law always liked to stay informed by “reading what the other side is thinking”. In order to do that for sports, you have to go local. Here is what the local papers in San Francisco and Texas are saying this morning: Freakin’ amazing! Giants win first World Series in 56 years! (San Francisco Chronicle) Rangers de-clawed, antler-less when it... (more)
Watching the Great American Race yesterday, I couldn’t help but notice that Ask.com has tuned into NASCAR in a big way. Sure enough, it turns out that Ask.com has signed a big deal with NASCAR: Ask.com, a leading search engine and an operating business of IAC, announced Wednesday it has entered into partnerships with NASCAR, NASCAR.COM and Hall of Fame... (more)
Getting geared up for the Super Bowl this weekend, which also means the usual anticipation, discussion, and review of all the TV advertising contained within. (About 33 minutes’ worth according to the NY Times.) On the NY Times site today I discovered this cool multi-media exploration: The Super Ad Bowl:Two Decades of Players. They have a breakdown of all ads... (more)
The baseball statistician Bill James wrote a great article called Boycott the BCS! this week in Slate, calling for his colleagues to boycott the BCS system for post-season college football. (more)
This week the Sports Business Journal published their analysis of NASCAR sponsors’ exposure value for 2008: For the second straight year, SportsBusiness Journal/Daily teamed with Kansas City-based sponsorship measurement firm Image Impact to measure the exposure received by companies doing business with NASCAR. This year, we captured and assessed more than 138,000 sponsor impressions, 44 percent more than last year’s... (more)