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Rest In Peace - 2010
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Pat Burns (Ice Hockey); Sparky Anderson (Baseball), George
Blanda (Football), Bob Feller (Baseball(, Ernie Harwekk (Baseball), Ralph Houk (Baseball), Maurice Lucas (Basketball),
Don Meredith (Football), Merlin Olsen (Football), Robin Roberts (Baseball), Ron Santo (Baseball)m Jack Tatum (Football),
Bobby Thomson (Baseball), John Wooden (Basketball)
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Cowboys, Yankees expand joint venture
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| The joint venture established by the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Yankees
is expanding its business to sales training and installing customer relationship management systems while ramping
up staff. The joint venture established by the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Yankees is expanding its business
to sales training and installing customer relationship management systems while ramping up staff.Legends Premium
Services, a new division of Legends Hospitality Management, the company that runs stadium concessions and premium
dining for the Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees, has deals in place with six big league clubs for sales training. |
| In addition, Legends is installing proprietary CRM software systems for the
San Francisco 49ers and the Rose Bowl Operating Co., two clients where Premium Services has full-time employees
selling suites and club seats for stadium projects. Legends had been working for the 49ers as a consultant to set
prices for suites and club seats. In Pasadena, the deal involves IMG-Legends, a separate joint venture between
Legends Premium Services and IMG College focusing on selling premium seats for college sports facilities.For Legends,
the two new lines of business, plus the premium seat sales piece, are part of the plan to expand its parent company,
owned by the Cowboys, Yankees and two private equity firms, Goldman Sachs and CIC Partners. Legends Hospitality
Management is a separate entity from the two teams, but the clubs have officials sitting on Legends’ board of directors. |
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State of Washington high school officials face ban
for charity pink whistles
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| A group of high school football officials in Washington state
were trying to support breast cancer research while working this week's games, so they made a pledge to donate
all game checks to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Then, to top off the charitable gesture, they announced they
would all use pink whistles during the games. Now there's a chance those whistles could cost the refs a chance
to work state playoff games. |
| According to KING 5 News -- with thanks for the news report
above -- and the Associated Press, officials who are part of the Pacific Northwest Football Officials Association
who worked games on Thursday night were informed by the chair of the Washington Officials Association that they
could face a two-game suspension for using pink whistles. The playoff ban is possible because the colored whistles
violate the uniform protocol for state high school officials. Those uniforms allegedly call for black whistles
only, and the WOA claims that no officials asked for permission to use pink whistles for their designated charity
games. |
| The chair of the WOA, Todd Stordahl, told KING 5 News and MyNorthwest.com
he has little choice but to discipline officials who used colored whistles. He claims that letting them continue
without punishment would send the wrong message to student athletes. "They chose not to ask for permission,
not to go the right route," Stordahl told KING 5. "It sends the wrong message to kids that are playing
the game. 'If they broke the rules why can't I do the same.'" |
| Though no discipline has been decided upon, Stordahl indicated
it was likely that pink whistle-blowing officials would be suspended for two playoff games. That would not only
keep the referees from working at the annual pinnacle of their sport, but also cost them two game checks. Considering
that the referees were already donating one game check to charity, that would leave them with three fewer checks
than in a typical season. |
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UMass announces
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Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management
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| The Mark McCormack collection, a vast accumulation of documents, letters, photographs
and memorabilia occupying 35,000 to 45,000 boxes in a warehouse in Cleveland, found a new home last week, as the
family transferred ownership of the historic papers to the sports management program at the University of Massachusetts. |
| Renamed the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management at Isenberg, the
program will house the collection on the 24th floor of the main campus library. The documents, expected to fill
about 10,000 boxes after the elimination of duplicates, will be digitized to allow for broader and easier access,
but also preserved and stored. The McCormack family also made a $1.5 million gift to endow an executive-in-residence
program and an international travel and exchange program. |
| UMass plans to make many of the papers available for study online, as well as
to use them as an integral part of the curriculum, building case studies that will dig deep into McCormack and
IMG. The full transfer is expected to take three years, said program head Lisa Pike Masteralexis, but the school
expects to be ready to unveil the first parts of it in about three months. |
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Houston Regional Sports Network in works
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| The Houston Astros and Rockets have reached an agreement with Comcast to launch
a Houston regional sports network that will air Rockets games beginning in the fall of 2012 and Astros games beginning
in 2013. The teams will own just under 80 percent of the network. |
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NY COsmos look to join MLS
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| Cobi Jones, a member of the '94, '98 and '02 U.S. World Cup teams, has left
his assistant coaching position with the MLS Galaxy to become Associate Dir of Soccer with the N.Y. Cosmos, a prospective
MLS expansion team. Jones’ role with the Cosmos will be to advise and oversee the training and management of any
and all players involved in the club’s soccer programs. In addition, he will serve as an ambassador for the club,
acting as spokesperson and community liaison. Jones is the all-time leader of the U.S. men’s national team in appearances,
and scored the first goal in the history of the Galaxy (Fred Dreier, SportsBusiness Journal). ESPN L.A.'s Scott
French noted the Cosmos are "angling to become" the 20th MLS franchise. Jones said, "I can't go
into too many of the details, but it's something that will pleasantly surprise a lot of people. The ultimate goal
is to get into MLS, but the way they're going about it, I think, is the right way. They want to do amazing things,
not just in the New York area, but for MLS and soccer in the United States and internationally." Jones, who
will commute to N.Y. while continuing to live in L.A., added he will be "shaking hands, pushing the Cosmos
name within [the] United States and internationally, being an ambassador representing the club and organization
in the right way" |
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NBA partners with QuaintEvents
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| The NBA has joined the hospitality business with QuintEvents in a deal that
makes the company the official hospitality provider for the league’s 2011 All-Star Weekend, Feb. 18-20 in Los Angeles.It
is the first time the NBA is partnering with a company to sell all-star hospitality packages to the general publiccranging
in price from $1,599 to $8,299. The packages, which are available in blocks to allow for group purchases, include
tickets for all three NBA All-Star events at Staples Center and pregame and postgame hospitality at the All-Star
Game on Feb. 20. |
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