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Going for the Gold Can a savvy finance strategy propel Women's Professional Soccer to post-Olympic glory? |
AskMen.com
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Alternative Leagues Real pro wrestling... New SlamBall season coming soon... Arena Football team value skyrockets... Euroleague hoops immensely popular... |
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Most Profitable Sports Leagues The top five richest pro sports leagues. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
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A Breakout Year For Soccer? Investors seem to think MLS has a big future. You be the judge. |
Salon.com
February 12, 2001
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XFL, Week 2: Sacked! After a big debut, ratings for the "smashmouth" football league tank... |
AskMen.com
February 5, 2003
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Why The NFL Is So Fantastic As the NFL powers into the 21st century, it is head and shoulders above all other professional sports circuits. It is firing on all cylinders; both in terms of financial metrics and public relations goodwill. |
Salon.com
March 19, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
XFL makes history! Unfortunately, it's in the flop category. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
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The NFL: A Pro Football League of Its Own The history of rivals to the National Football League is one of short-lived ambitions |
AskMen.com
Simon Kuper |
3 Big Questions (And Answers) For Soccer In 2011 Question One: Will Jose Mourinho leave Real Madrid if he fails to take the Spanish title from Barcelona? |
Sports Central
February 25, 2008
Jon Gonzales |
Happy 25th, USFL! (Or What Could've Been) Had the United States Football League continued down the path it was blazing, and had a few breaks gone its way, it likely would have survived to today. |
Salon.com
February 1, 2001
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The XFL won't work Wrestling impresario Vince McMahon and NBC have teamed up for an ultrarough new football league. They're gonna get sacked... |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2004
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Hockey's Hard Times At its best, hockey is a beautiful sport, blending brutality with finesse. Now, the league must score with the game's dwindling television audience. |
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January 12, 2007
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Soccer Bends It for Beckham Major League Soccer bends its rules to crank up Brand Beckham. |
Sports Illustrated
June 7, 2000
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Garber talks Ten months after leaving the NFL to take over as MLS commissioner, Don Garber sat down with me in his Manhattan office on Tuesday for a wide-ranging discussion on MLS, its present and its future.... |
Sports Central
July 3, 2004
Marc James |
The Naked Truth on Women's Hoops Despite its operational flaws, the WNBA does have a noteworthy history, being the only professional women's league to come close to a decade of continuous operation |
Sports Illustrated
June 17, 2002
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No vacancy U.S. has no room for soccer on its full sports plate. |
Sports Central
October 19, 2011
Vito Curcuru |
How the Players Can Win the NBA Lockout The NBA players need to leverage their talent to win the lockout. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Female Athlete Salaries Women typically have equal opportunities to play sports as men, but, too often, the compensation is anything but equal. |
AskMen.com
Lewis Helfand |
Strikes & Lockouts In Professional Sports Everything from ticket sales to stadium parking takes a significant hit when games are canceled. The strikes and lockouts listed below show just how much professional athletes, teams, and even leagues stand to lose when faced with a work stoppage. |
Salon.com
February 7, 2001
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Smashmouth football sucks The XFL thinks its brutal, dumbed-down product is what fans want. Actually, fans want more scoring and fewer commercials... |
Sports Illustrated
July 18, 2001 |
Divided we stand There's a league for everyone these days. Declining TV ratings for individual sports are caused by an increase in choices. |
Sports Central
February 14, 2011
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Why the NBA Has the Best All-Star Game The NBA All-Star Game has started to separate itself as the best event of its kind among the four major sports. |
AskMen.com
Mark Simmons |
soccer betting What do we think about when high-budget sporting franchises come to mind? Baseball? Basketball? Hockey? Although all of these might be valid answers to the question, soccer should also be added to the list. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Big Paydays In Obscure Sports Being a pro in a widely-followed sport is not the only route to a fat paycheck. Many people taking part in activities we may not even consider to be real sports are also raking in the big bucks. |
Outside
June 2008
Mark Anders |
Turf Battle U.S. soccer fans are turning to homegrown hero Taylor Twellman, the New England Revolution's 28-year-old striker. |
AskMen.com
Rob Fox |
Thierry Henry Won't Save Soccer In America Beyond the money, it's difficult to see why a player of Henry's stature would want to compete in a league that's seen by many outside of North America as a golden retirement home for European and South American pros. |
AskMen.com
November 15, 2000
Mark Simmons |
XFL: As If Football Needed Any More Attitude On February 3rd, 2000, Vince McMahon, Chairman of publicly traded WWF Entertainment Inc., announced to investors that the venerable "sports entertainment" cash cow was going to start a football league, aptly named the XFL... |
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Dave Golokhov |
David Beckham's MLS Team Since retiring from the sport, Beckham has been searching for the right place to land his MLS expansion team. According to some early reports, he's going to get a discounted rate of $25 million to start up the franchise in Miami. |
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Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Teams Which five squads were the most profitable sports teams in major professional sports during the 2005-06 seasons? Hint: it's not the Yankees or the Red Sox. |
Sports Central
December 17, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
MLS Grows Up Lamar Hunt's dream of America as a Soccer Nation is still unfolding. But his vision of Major League Soccer as a professional sports league has become a reality. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2007
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Are You Ready for Some More Football? The country isn't ready for another football league. If there's a way to out-NFL the NFL at its own game, don't you think someone would have come up with the better mousetrap by now? |
Salon.com
February 20, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Is the XFL taking the WWF down with it? As smashmouth football ratings continue to fall, some wonder whether Vince McMahon is endangering his wrestling empire... |
Sports Illustrated
January 3, 2002
Frank Deford |
Games glut All-sports, all-the-time has caused ratings erosion... |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004
Jack Ewing |
Can Football Be Saved? In Europe, football is more popular than ever -- but the losses keep mounting. What can be done to fix the business? |
Sports Central
November 28, 2006
Mark Chalifoux |
How to Save the WNBA With a few quick simple fixes, the WNBA could quickly establish itself as the next great major sports league. |
Sports Central
May 3, 2011
Brad Oremland |
Boycotting the NFL Draft For now, the league is locking out the players with one hand and promoting its annual draft with the other. It's hypocrisy. It's not football, and it's not fun. Call me in September, Commissioner Goodell. |
AskMen.com
June 23, 2004
Lewis Helfand |
Pensions In Pro Sports Comparing the pensions of the major professional sports leagues. |
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Steve Seepersaud |
How Athletes Are Cultivated How do aspiring sports stars hone their talents so they're ready for the big time and the dollars that are up for grabs? How much money is involved in cultivating talent? |
Fast Company
November 2010
Patrick J. Sauer |
NBA Effectively Utilizes Social Media to Connect With Fans How the NBA has shot past its rivals in connecting with fans via social media. |
Fast Company
September 2015
KC Ifeanyi |
Can the NFL trounce FIFA to define "football" once and for all? The stateside popularity of American pigskin has always been as fierce as soccer's unshakeable foothold in Europe and Latin America. |
AskMen.com
May 16, 2013 |
David Beckham Retires David Beckham signed a five-month contract with Paris St-Germain for this season, which he announced today would be his last as a pro soccer player. |
AskMen.com
October 18, 2000
Mark Simmons |
World Wide Web Of Sports: Going Online If you wonder where the world of sports is headed next, then look no further. Sports commissioners and league presidents are actively searching for new ways to branch out and keep adding fresh blood to their pool of fans. They have found the answer: The Net. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
The Business Of Statistics Statistical data is a hot commodity as sports leagues, teams and fans all crave numbers. For two of the industry's major players, Elias Sports Bureau (ESB) and STATS LLC, stats are a round-the-clock business that brings in a lot of money. |
InternetNews
May 5, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
MLBAM Goes Beyond Baseball Diamond Major League Baseball's Internet subsidiary has launched a spin-off company to hawk technical expertise to sports leagues and franchises. |
Sports Central
April 15, 2013
Adam Russell |
MLB Should Consolidate the Leagues Could there ever be the possibility of MLB proposing a unified organization with consistent rules and a more objective schedule? If enough fans jump on the bandwagon, it most certainly could be possible. |
BusinessWeek
November 1, 2004
Mark Hyman |
An Entire Season in the Penalty Box? As incredible as it seems for a league that sells 90% of available tickets and last season generated revenues of $2.1 billion, the National Hockey League may sit this season out. Who blinks first in negotiations between the owners and the union will depend on willpower and finances. |
Sports Central
September 2, 2005
Kevin Ferra |
It's Just American Football, or is it? The NFL is the top American sports leagues and is looking to expand into many international markets, including Europe, Canada, China and Mexico. |
Fast Company
April 2014
Josh Dean |
How A Risky Ad Campaign Turned The Portland Timbers Into One Of Pro Sports' Hottest Startups In their short life, the Timbers have quietly become a fixture in the league -- and are changing the way MLS teams think about marketing themselves. |
Sports Illustrated
April 25, 2001
Frank Deford |
The name game WUSA may lead American women to claim soccer as their sport... |
