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The Cost Of Owning Stadium & Arena Naming Rights Of the current 121 teams that play North America's top four pro sports games (baseball, hockey, football, and basketball), 83 teams have their home stadiums and arenas named after corporate sponsors.   |
Fast Company
April 2009
Zachary Wilson |
HOK Imagines the Ballpark of the Future A look at the Yankees' and Mets' pricey new homes -- and the baseball stadium of tomorrow. |
Fast Company
July 2006
Paul Lukas |
"Take Me Out of This Eyesore..." The latest in a series of tales inspired by past visions of a perfect future: Shea Stadium was the first of a now-scorned generation of circular, characterless complexes designed for both baseball and football. |
Reason
May 2005
Daniel McGraw |
Demolishing Sports Welfare Two court cases could mean the end of publicly funded stadiums. |
Sports Illustrated
January 10, 2001
Frank Deford |
The hot stove league Once upon a time there was an offseason. Super Bowl? NFL Playoffs? The NBA? Hard to imagine today, but for much of the 20th century, perhaps as late as into the 1960s, the sports calendar effectively ended with the New Year's Day bowl games... |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Patrick Cain |
The NFL: A Pro Football League of Its Own The history of rivals to the National Football League is one of short-lived ambitions |
Sports Central
April 10, 2007
Adam Russell |
Raising the Roof, or Sliding it Into Place? What a wacky first week of the Major League Baseball season. |
Reason
May 2001
Dan Lewis |
It Happens Every Spring Baseball season is upon us. That means the moaning about the sport's economic disparity has likewise gotten underway... |
Reason
November 2001
Sam Staley |
Ground Zero in Urban Decline Cincinnati isn't just a town down on its luck. It's the future of the American city... |
Sports Illustrated
November 29, 2001
Frank Deford |
Owners, aiders and abetters There are plenty to blame for baseball's current woes... |
Sports Central
January 5, 2005
Vince Grzegorek |
We Interrupt This Broadcast... Ad time is increasing and the game is taking a backseat to business. Football is perhaps the biggest causality because the enormous costs networks pay in broadcast rights have to be offset somehow. Basketball is guilty to a less, or at least less noticeable, extent. |
Science News
September 8, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: May the Best Team Win Designing a sports schedule so the strongest team prevails: The winner of the Superbowl or World Series is that season's best-performing team. Right? Wrong, according to scientists. |
Sports Illustrated
October 1, 2002 |
America's Best Sports Colleges Sports Illustrated combined a variety of factors in arriving at its 2002 rankings of Division I schools |
AskMen.com
July 26, 2000
Mark Simmons |
Baseball Finances: Owners & Players Whether it's players asking for astronomical salaries, or owners complaining about million dollar losses, the public in general is bombarded with messages advertising the greed of owners and players alike. |
CFO
July 15, 2008
Kate O'Sullivan |
Going for the Gold Can a savvy finance strategy propel Women's Professional Soccer to post-Olympic glory? |
Sports Central
August 20, 2008
Corrie Trouw |
Preseason Football: Time to Get Used to It In its annual test of just how blindly NFL fans worship their favorite uniform, the league's 32 teams are in the middle of the charade of fake football in half-full stadiums at full price. |
Reason
January 2004
Matt Welch |
If You Build It, They Will Leave Sports teams fleece the taxpayer, again, by threatening to leave even after taxpayers pay for new stadiums to placate team owners. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Tim Reason |
Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2001
John Solomon |
One, two, many Enron Fields! Purists complain about corporate names for new sports arenas, but it's better than subsidizing them with public money... |
AskMen.com
May 10, 2001
Harry Marks |
Top 10 Baseball Ballparks Baseball's back, and what better way to mark this return than with a list honoring the Top 10 Baseball Ballparks in the Major Leagues today... |
AskMen.com
March 26, 2004
Harry Marks |
Top 10: Euro 2004 Stadiums Several stadiums have been erected or renovated in Portugal for Euro 2004. If you're a big soccer fan, consider visiting Portugal and checking out a world-class soccer match at one of these 10 great venues. |
Salon.com
July 25, 2001
Allen Barra |
Throw the bums out! It's time to eject baseball's owners for arguing balls and strikes... |
Salon.com
October 7, 1999
Joan Walsh |
Talking baseball with Hank Greenwald The best broadcaster you won't hear on the air talks about umpire arrogance, the home-run chase and "the Viagra of baseball." |
Sports Central
October 25, 2010
Joshua Duffy |
Baseball No Longer Rules October After more than century of dominance in the american sporting marketplace, baseball is no longer king. |
Sports Illustrated
June 10, 2002
Phil Taylor |
The name game Corporate bids bring blandness to sports arenas. |
