SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated
Blog URL http://thesportsbizblog.blogspot.com
Located Louisville, Kentucky USA
Tags sports, business, law, sports business, soccer, basketball, football, baseball, hockey
Blog about the business of sports. If has to do with money and sports, we discuss it and after all, when it comes to sports, you know it's all about the money.
Latest Blog Posts
- Bayern Munich Lands Highly Lucrative Jersey Deal on Nov 19, 2009 in Bayern Munich soccer sponsorship soccer Manchester United Real Madrid
In the high stakes world of European club soccer, nowhere does the battle takes place for higher stakes than for the name on the front of the jersey. Leading the pack is Real Madrid, the Nuevo Galacticos ribery.jpgrecently renewed its deal...
- The 25 Highest Paid Coaches in the World on Nov 18, 2009 in Notre Dame sports Chelsea University of Kentucky sports economics
What do you think it would take to be among the highest paid coaches in the world? Wouldn't you imagine that you should be at the very pinnacle of your game, having won mutliple championships either for one team. or perhaps, if you're a bit per...
- Supreme Court Won't Hear Redskins Case - Name Stays For Now on Nov 17, 2009 in NFL copyright and trademarks football National Football League sports law Washington Redskins
After a tortuous 20 year legal battle, the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a lower court's ruling that activists had waited too long to bring a case asserting that the Redskins name was so offensive that it did not deserve to receive tr...
- Federer Nets Big Deal with Credit Suisse on Nov 17, 2009 in sponsorship Roger Federer sports marketing tennis
Who says all banks are pulling in their spending. Tennis great Roger Federer has landed a ten year deal, which should take him right into retirement, with Credit Suisse. The deal thought to be worth in the neighborhood of $2,000,000 per y...
- Mazel Tov Yuri, Israel's First World Champion on Nov 15, 2009 in boxing
Last night's Miguel Cotto-Manny Pacquiao title match was being hailed as the return of boxing for the press attention it drew and the number of celebrities who attended the fight. The early rounds didn't disappoint but after Pacquiao dropped Co...
- Leafs Prove Losing Can Pay in the NHL on Nov 13, 2009 in Nashville Predators hockey Florida Panthers Phoenix Coyotes New York Rangers Comcast Toronto Maple Leafs NHL NBC National Hockey League ESPN
Forbes is out with its annual look at the business of the NHL and its valuation of NHL clubs. A number of things are striking at first glance of the valuation of the franchises. The first is that it is clear that in Toronto, you can put s...
- 5 Clubs Beakaway from USL-1 and Form New League on Nov 13, 2009 in US Soccer soccer FIFA USL World Cup MLS
The current situation in professional soccer in the US and Canada at the level below MLS can charitably be described as chaotic. Earlier this year, Nike sold USL-1, the recognized, and despite its name, Division II soccer league in the US and C...
