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Yankees to stream games online locally

The move is part of an overall renewal of Cablevision's YES Network affiliation deal that was signed earlier this spring but never officially announced. The New York Yankees will become the first MLB team to have its games streamed live online ...

From JOHN OURAND & ERIC FISHER, Sporting News,  6 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Cablevision,  YES Network,  New York Yankees,  Boston Red Sox,  Baltimore Orioles

Numbers have some MLB owners upbeat

The league's roughly six percent drop in attendance thus far this season, while tracking to be the sharpest fall in seven years, is an improvement from April numbers, which showed decreases of about 10 percent. In addition, industry sources said ...

From ERIC FISHER, Sporting News,  29 May 2009
Related Topics: Major League Baseball,  Bud Selig

MLB commissioner Selig's pay climbs past $18 million

The compensation to Selig outlined in the tax filing includes $17.47 million in base compensation, $461,540 in contributions to employee benefit plans, and $422,590 in expense accounts and other allowances. Selig's total marks the largest chunk of a ...

From ERIC FISHER, Sporting News,  2 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Bud Selig,  New York Yankees,  Derek Jeter,  Alex Rodriguez,  Roger Clemens

With Yankees out, Cubs may hold key to MLB's post-season fortunes

Playoff TV ad inventory is more than 80 percent sold on both Turner, which will carry the entire Division Series round and the AL Championship Series, and on Fox, home of the NLCS and World Series. Sales have been boosted by buys from the foreign ...

From ERIC FISHER, JOHN OURAND AND TERRY LEFTON, Sporting News,  30 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Bob DuPuy,  New York Yankees,  Taco Bell,  State Farm Insurance,  Chevrolet

NFL Players Countersues CBS Over Fantasy

NFL Players, the commercial arm of the NFLPA, has fired back in its fantasy football legal fight with CBS Interactive Inc., filing suit against the media company late Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Additionally, ...

From ERIC FISHER, Sporting News,  10 Sep 2008
Related Topics: NFL

CBS sues NFL Players over fantasy football

CBS Interactive seeks a ruling saying that the players cannot control use of the publicly available numbers and cannot demand that CBS pays for their use. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- CBS has filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis to clarify who can use the ...

From ERIC FISHER, Sporting News,  5 Sep 2008
Related Topics: NFL,  Major League Baseball

NHL could suspend MSG's ownership of Rangers

The NHL has proposed disciplinary proceedings against Madison Square Garden that could result in the suspension or termination of the company's ownership of the New York Rangers, according to a draft letter written by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman ...

From TRIPP MICKLE AND ERIC FISHER, Sporting News,  19 Jun 2008
Related Topics: New York Rangers,  Gary Bettman

Justices decline to hear fantasy sports case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by Major League Baseball Advanced Media and the players association in their case against CDM Fantasy Sports. The justices' decision ends a bitter legal fight that lasted more than three ...

From ERIC FISHER, Sporting News,  2 Jun 2008

Business of recruiting creates heavy web traffic

SportingNews.com, owned by the same parent company as SportsBusiness Journal, will feature all of the news as its main story throughout the day. ESPN.com, similarly, will make the event a lead story on its main page and generate a seven-figure count ...

From ERIC FISHER, Sporting News,  5 Feb 2008
Related Topics: ESPN,  Yahoo!,  Nike

Baseball owners extend Selig's contract

Selig then said at SBJ's World Congress of Sports 10 months ago that, "Even in Monopoly, you get a 'Get Out Of Jail Free' card, and I'm going to use mine." But the sport's enormous economic growth in recent years, and the continued prodding from ...

From ERIC FISHER, Sporting News,  17 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Bud Selig

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