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The Portland Trail Blazers fired player personnel and salary cap expert Tom Penn late Tuesday.
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Nike Inc. on Thursday reported an increase in third quarter sales and earnings, surpassing analysts expectations and sending its shares to a new 52-week high in after-hours trading. (NKE)
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Restaurants and retailers are hoping to cash in on the ?madness? from this year?s NCAA men?s basketball tournament.
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The Philadelphia Phillies said Wednesday they are capping season ticket sales at 28,750.
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Northtown Automotive Group submitted the sole bidding for the naming rights of the former Amherst Pepsi Center.
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The switch to better digital television technology isn?t better news for Seattle-area NCAA basketball tournament television viewers this year.
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A computer ranking system by three Georgia Tech professors predicts Kansas will face Duke in this year?s NCAA basketball final with Kansas emerging as the victor.
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President Obama has picked Siena College to beat Purdue University in the first round of the NCAA men?s basketball tournament.
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Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer and key member of the Big Red Machine Johnny Bench will lead the Findlay Market Opening Day Parade.
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Tiger Woods? highly anticipated return to professional golf is expected to be a boon for Baltimore?s CBS affiliate carrying coverage of the event.
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Perky's Foodservice Concepts Inc. has partnered with professional golfer John Daly to bring ?compact pizzerias? to golf courses, convenience stores, bowling centers, truck stops, casinos, bars and other venues.
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Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday it agreed to acquire Citizen Sports, which provides sports applications for social networking sites and mobile devices. (YHOO)
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Basketball mania is getting ready to descend on Dayton the next two weeks, bringing thousands of visitors and possibly millions of dollars to the area.
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American Airlines Center is responding to changing market conditions by announcing that it will reduce the price of selected premium tickets for next season as part of a restructuring of the center?s Platinum seating product.
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A construction executive, a former power company executive, and a sports executive are the newest additions to the board of Children?s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
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Former Braves ace John Smoltz will be back in Atlanta, though not on the pitcher?s mound.
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The Phoenix Mercury and Tempe-based identity theft prevention company LifeLock have expanded their sponsorship agreement to include placement of the LifeLock logo on the team?s official practice jersey for the 2010 season.
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World Golf Tour closed a $10 million Series C financing round led by JAFCO Ventures, the venture capital arm of Japan-based private equity firm JAFCO Co.
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The National Basketball Association has unanimously approved Michael Jordan?s acquisition of a controlling interest in the Charlotte Bobcats.
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McLean-based Capital One Financial Corp. is betting big on college sports, signing a multi-year marketing deal with the NCAA. (COF)
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Arizona House Majority Leader John McComish is working on an amendment to a bill that would help finance a spring training stadium in Mesa for the Chicago Cubs.
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Officials with the Kentucky Exposition Center are expecting heavy congestion around the state fairgrounds this weekend because of NCAA Division I Women?s Basketball Championship first- and second-round games and two separate canine events.
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Longview Golf Course in Timonium is reopening with a new look ? and a new name.
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Franklin County commissioners have signed off on a one-year extension on Arshot Investment Corp.?s plan to develop a motorsports and entertainment complex at the former Cooper Stadium site on Columbus? west side.
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The Times Union Center has offered a 10-year contract to an affiliate of the New Jersey Devils professional hockey team, arena general manager Robert Belber said Wednesday.
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Sacramento city leaders agreed Tuesday to begin analyzing the downtown arena proposal preferred by the mayor?s task force.
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The AutoZone Liberty Bowl is moving back to New Year?s Eve.
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The Consol Energy Center, where the Pittsburgh Penguins will play hockey next season, is on track for an August opening, team president and CEO Ken Sawyer said Tuesday during a tour of the facility. (CNX)
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IF Management Inc., a company that represents radio and television personalities, has formed a partnership with Blue Entertainment Sports Television, a division of Blue Equity LLC.
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Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, director of neurological surgery at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, has been named co-chairman of the National Football League?s Head, Neck and Spine Medicine Committee.
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The men?s and women?s basketball teams from Ohio State University are among fans? top 10 favorites in the run-up to the March Madness tournaments, according to a new poll from Harris Interactive. (HPOL)
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The Pimlico Special has been axed for the second straight year because it doesn?t have the payout potential horse owners are seeking.
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The Phoenix Coyotes are having a stellar year on the ice, but the hockey franchise can?t shake its financial troubles.
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Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew is representing the NFL today at the National Press Club, where he will discuss the league?s initiative to combat childhood obesity.
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The Minnesota Twins have added food from two more Minneapolis restaurants to Target Field?s menu: chili from The Loon Café and pork chops from J.D. Hoyt?s.
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An initial estimate by the head of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau puts the visitor spending of fans at this past weekend?s Southeastern Conference Men?s Basketball tournament at $12 million.
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Ohio State University is willing to give Jim Tressel another two years as head coach of the Buckeyes football team under a contract extension that would run into 2015.
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The Duke University men?s basketball team may have swept the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the hardwood this year, but the Blue Devils couldn?t knock their archrival out of the No. 1 spot in the Harris Poll?s annual ranking of the most popular college basketball teams.
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The Houston Dynamo and KHOU-TV/DT have renewed their broadcast agreement for the 2010 season, meaning all non-nationally televised Dynamo games will air on KHOU 11.2, the station?s digital channel.
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Milwaukee's Arena Football League team, the Milwaukee Iron, pledged Tuesday to provide its fans with free season tickets next year if it fails to make the playoffs this season.
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Houston leads the nation in another kind of March Madness.
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Comcast Corp. and DirecTV said Monday after the markets closed that they have reached an agreement that allows DirecTV to carry Comcast?s Versus channel again. (DTV) (CMCSA)
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Right on time for March Madness, United Parcel Service Inc. is beefing up its advertising presence with CBS Sports by becoming an Official NCAA Corporate Partner. (UPS)
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Yahoo Inc. is reportedly ready to buy an online sports site this week. (AAPL) (YHOO)
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The Salvation Army has awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to Hawaiian Dredging Construction Co. to build the $133 million Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Kapolei.
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Comcast Corp. and Augusta National Golf Club said Monday they are teaming up to make next month?s Masters Tournament available in 3D on the 3D-enabled television sets and computer monitors that are just being rolled out. (CMCSA) (SNE) (IBM) (PC)
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Information technology workers need to be sure that they are ready for the start of the NCAA basketball tournament, a Cisco Systems Inc. unit warned on Monday.
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With attendance slumping, the Golden State Warriors will drop prices up to 28 percent for fans who buy season tickets for next year.
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Former football coach Jim Leavitt filed a lawsuit against the University of South Florida and its foundation.
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The Philadelphia Union continued to add to its roster of corporate sponsors Monday, signing a multiyear deal with Horizon Services Inc.
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UNC Charlotte has released veteran men?s basketball coach Bobby Lutz from his contract, effective immediately.
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Lyle ?Butch? Jones, the University of Cincinnati?s newly hired head football coach, will get a salary of at least $1 million in his first year, according to a contract presented for trustees? approval.
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The University of Louisville has received a limited number of tickets for the first and second round of the NCAA men?s basketball tournament games at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla.
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Austin's indoor football team the Turfcats kicked off their first season Sunday with Talk 1370 AM broadcasting game play-by-play.
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So the UFL, which is essentially positioning itself as a farm system for the NFL, is interested in San Antonio.
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An online sports registration company in Saratoga County has signed an exclusive agreement with a subsidiary of Foot Locker Inc. to sell custom-made apparel to youth sports organizations. (FL)
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Jeff Vinik won?t cross his arms for a photo.
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Marc Ashton CEO, Foundation for Blind Children
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Round Rock may finally see its first convention center built after city council members recently voted to buy a 43-acre plot for a 70,000-square-foot building.
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Nike Inc. is seeking to wrest control over 66 Internet domain names it says are hawking counterfeit goods.
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Aramark Corp. will remain Oriole Park at Camden Yards? concessionaire through at least the 2010 season.
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When Gov. Sonny Perdue released his budget proposal earlier this year, it included $10 million in bond money to help build a College Football Hall of Fame but no money for the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
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Two Houston-area dads who spent years coaching youth athletics grew frustrated at a lack of accessible statistics for their players, teams and leagues.
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It started out as a conversation over a basket of French fries at Cruisers Grill between Bobby Handmaker and Joe Adeeb about how they could team up to help keep the Jacksonville Jaguars in town.
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An official with The Players Championship said tight budgets and queasy attitudes that kept some businesses from sponsoring last year?s tournament are easing.
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While basketball teams at Wright State University and the University of Dayton await their postseason fate, the farthest thing from the minds of the players and coaches is probably the long-term economic impact of playing in a tournament.
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Amateur sports may produce major economic wins for Charlotte. But first the tourism and hospitality boosters who have been pushing the effort must craft a new game plan to build the facilities needed to attract national competitions.
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Prospects for building a new speedway at the Metrolina Tradeshow Expo grounds may be close to hitting the wall.
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The sale of the Texas Rangers stalled last week, sources said, after Major League Baseball informed the team?s creditors that there would be delays in responding to the lenders? concerns about the deal.
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The Minnesota Wild has a strong following in the so-called ?State of Hockey,? but owner Craig Leipold wants to broaden the team?s reach nationally and internationally.
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The University of Louisville athletic department is putting up big numbers in its effort to sell an inventory of 105 new luxury suites.
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The University of Louisville athletic department is planning a blitz in April when current season ticket holders for men?s basketball will be able to choose seats in the city?s new downtown arena.
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If Milwaukee community leaders want to use sales tax proceeds to help fund a new basketball arena in downtown Milwaukee, they have a lot of convincing to do.
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