January 2010
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Tiger Woods Atop Sports Biz Power List
Bloomberg BusinessWeek today released its ranking of the top 100 most powerful athletes in American sports — and despite all his outside troubles, Tiger Woods ranks at the top. Another golfer, Phil Mickelson, ranked third, showing the strength of the sport in terms of marketing.
The top 20 also includes five basketball players, five football players and three each from baseball and...
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See, Players Unions Have a Heart...
Let’s face it, professional athlete players associations are a breed apart from the unions to which average Americans belong. Their core functions are the same, advocating and negotiating on behalf of their respective constituencies. But millionaire players have a set of needs that is quite different than, say, the Local Union No. 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
It is...
Jets Dishes Inspire Cuisine War
New Yorkers, it seems, can’t get enough of their Jets these days. Even in restaurants. WCBS-TV reports that the venerable Gallagher’s Steak House in midtown is serving up a variety of lunch specials named in honor of their favorite Jets players. Included are such delights as:
“Shonn Greene Spinach Salad”
“Darrelle Revis Endive and Beet-up the Offense” Salad
“Rex Ryan Classic...
On sewage treatment, and moving on
Funny little “Weird News” story making the rounds today about a Knoxville, Tenn., lawyer Drew McElroy, who has filed paperwork to have the city rename a sewage treatment plant for departed Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin.
I admire the dedication of Mr. McElroy to UT football, and can sympathize with the school having lost its coach after one year. It may not be fair to the...
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Yanks Lead MLB in Philanthropy too
Once again, in times of adversity, the Yankees come up big.
As with the tragedy at Virginia Tech, Hurricane Katrina and the hurricane in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua in 2007, the Yankees have stepped up to the plate first and loudest with a $500,000 donation to support rescue and relief efforts in Haiti.
Major League Baseball has followed suit with a $1,000,000 donation of its own...
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Pro Football HOF List More Impressive than...
I suppose this might go in cycles, but I think it’s interesting to look at the list of Pro Football Hall of Fame 2010 finalists and compare it to the much-discussed Baseball Hall of Fame list. The standards, procedures and restrictions are different for induction into Canton. Notably, a selection committee has selected 15 modern-era and two “senior” nominees, and to be...
Two kinds of dumb
In Hoosiers, the best basketball movie ever and one of the 100 or so movies in my all-time top 10, one of the town leaders, George, played by veteran character actor Chelcie Ross (you probably also remember him as old man Harris in Major League and maybe as Dan Devine in Rudy), says to Gene Hackman’s Coach Norman Dale, “Look, mister, there’s… two kinds of dumb, uh…...