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Salon.com
March 19, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
XFL makes history! Unfortunately, it's in the flop category.   |
Salon.com
February 12, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
XFL, Week 2: Sacked! After a big debut, ratings for the "smashmouth" football league tank... |
Salon.com
February 1, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
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... |
Sports Illustrated
April 5, 2000 |
Understanding Wrestling-America ...We really seem to have three Americas now, don't we? There is the United States of America, Miami-America and Wrestling-America.... |
Salon.com
March 19, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Is the WWF on the ropes? Sunday's Wrestlemania broadcast, with its much hyped match between Hulk Hogan and the Rock, might not have been enough to save Vince McMahon's crumbling empire... |
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... |
Sports Illustrated
February 7, 2001
Frank Deford |
Great X-pectations XFL is far from matching wrestling's allure... |
AskMen.com
April 4, 2001
Mark Simmons |
WCW Takeover Vince McMahon recently announced that his WWF would be purchasing its former archenemy; World Championship Wrestling... |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Diane Brady |
Is The WWE Rousing Itself Off The Mat? Vince McMahon's wrestling empire is getting a second wind -- but the Street isn't sold yet. |
Salon.com
February 12, 2001
King Kaufman |
Amateur hour The XFL can't seem to get beyond ineptitude and lame behind-the-scenes material... |
Salon.com
February 7, 2001
Allen Barra |
Smashmouth football sucks The XFL thinks its brutal, dumbed-down product is what fans want. Actually, fans want more scoring and fewer commercials... |
Salon.com
May 11, 2001
King Kaufman |
It leave me The XFL belongs to the ages now, and we're left with only our memories, if we can remember any... |
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 |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2005
Steven Mallas |
WWE's Moving On Will moving to the USA Network really improve WWE's prospects? Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Wrestling With the Future World Wrestling Entertainment takes bigger steps into video on demand, but the fight may be already over. |
Sports Illustrated
February 5, 2001
E.M. Swift |
Take the XFL, leave its announcers Memo to Dick Ebersol and Vince McMahon: Your product doesn't offend me. Your announcers do. Big time... |
Sports Illustrated
September 24, 2002
Mark Beech |
In Need of a Fix Vince McMahon's once mighty wrestling empire is on the ropes -- for a reason that the fans of real sports can appreciate. |
Salon.com
June 19, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Destiny's double dribble What happens when a television network tries to entertain an arena full of basketball fans with platinum pop groups? The fans bite back... |
Sports Illustrated
January 3, 2002
Frank Deford |
Games glut All-sports, all-the-time has caused ratings erosion... |
AskMen.com
June 26, 2002
Mark Simmons |
Why Did NBC Drop The NBA? With ABC and ESPN picking up the torch from NBC for the rights to broadcast NBA games, analysts are asking whether the Peacock Network made the right decision by letting the NBA go. |
Sports Illustrated
May 30, 2001
Paul Zimmerman |
Catching up is hard to do When I returned from three weeks abroad and I had gone through the mountain of newspapers in front of me, I was struck by one singular thing: Practically nothing had happened on the football landscape. Make that nothing unexpected... |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Alternative Leagues Real pro wrestling... New SlamBall season coming soon... Arena Football team value skyrockets... Euroleague hoops immensely popular... |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005
Lowry & Grover |
NBC: Now It's Wait-And-See TV The ex-ratings champ hopes its fall lineup will still be worth a premium to advertisers. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Least Profitable Sports Leagues Many pro sports leagues are running in the red. Here's a look at some of the least profitable pro sports leagues in recent years. |
AskMen.com
May 30, 2002
Mark Simmons |
WWF.com: Who Should It Belong To? To think that if it were not for the World Wide Web, pandas and wrestlers could coexist in harmony... |
Salon.com
June 20, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
NBA in disarray Come back, Mr. Jordan: The NBA Finals are in danger of going down as the lowest-rated playoffs since 1981, while couch potatoes turn off college games, too. What's wrong with hoops? |
Salon.com
August 1, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
The GOP Convention ratings debacle, Day 1 CBS and ABC tune in, America tunes out and NBC wins by ignoring the convention entirely. |
Salon.com
August 3, 2000
Carina Chocano |
Republican landscaping Where the Rock meets the Shrub, the uncanny parallels between wrestler and candidate sprout like sagebrush on the Texas prairie. |
Salon.com
May 26, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
Photo finish Read 'em and sweep: ABC and NBC tie for the May TV ratings sweeps, but both sides claim victory. |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Andrew Rice |
The Smackdown Candidate Former World Wrestling CEO Linda McMahon made her fortune selling the staged battles of Hulk Hogan and The Rock to millions of fans. Now she's selling herself as Connecticut's next senator. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
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? |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Football's Double Reverse NFL fans, it's almost time to adjust your remote-control preferences. Come next year, Disney's ABC will hand off the Monday Night Football franchise to its ESPN subsidiary, while ESPN will be handing off its Sunday night gridiron contests to rival General Electric's NBC. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Madden Moves to NBC The network shows it's serious about its new football deal. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Top TV Network Contracts Televised sporting events have huge audiences. The bigger the game, the bigger the audience. In America, no game is bigger than the Super Bowl. More than half of all the television sets in the U.S. are tuned in to the NFL's championship game. |
BusinessWeek
August 9, 2004
Katie DeWitt |
NBC's Marathon Of Coverage Spread over seven channels, the network will offer more programming than the past five summer Olympics combined. And for the first time, all 28 Olympic sports will air on TV. Will viewers have the stamina to stay tuned for more than 1,200 hours of Games? |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2004
Steven Mallas |
WWE Goes SVOD Vince and company are ready to pile-drive some value out of its vaults by offering subscription video-on-demand. This would allow viewers to watch wrestling 24/7. |
The Motley Fool
May 16, 2005
Brian Gorman |
NBC: Praying for Ratings NBC is embracing religious-themed programming to help its ratings slump. The benefits are less than clear. |
AskMen.com
April 20, 2003
Thomas Anderson |
Start Learning From Your Mistakes Rest assured that everyone, including yourself, is likely to commit a few errors in judgment. The only question is: are you wise enough to learn from them? |
The Motley Fool
June 10, 2010
Adrian Rush |
NBC's Hockey Power Play Last night's Stanley Cup clincher was a relative ratings win. |
The Motley Fool
February 12, 2010
Eric Bleeker |
NBC's Winter Olympics Nightmare Will the peacock's loss on the Vancouver Games be Disney or News Corp.'s gain? |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2004
Brian Gorman |
NBC's Non-News The network needs more than publicity stunts to keep its status as a leader. |
Search Engine Watch
August 21, 2008
Erik Qualman |
NBC's Olympic Fool's Gold; Google Comes Home Empty-Handed It's understandable that an older-school company like NBC may get some things wrong, and rely on old metrics to judge success. But Google didn't exactly turn in a world-record performance for the Olympics either. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Fool's Look Ahead Monday: The new trading week starts with grocers like Kroger and Ingles Markets... Tuesday: World Wrestling Entertainment continues to resonate with viewers... etc. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2006
Steven Mallas |
Should WWE Still Make Movies? WWE loses its second match with Hollywood. Investors, the movie business is a risky gamble, but this isn't an XFL proposition -- far from it. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2005
Steven Mallas |
WWE in a Sleeper Hold Slumping revenues have World Wrestling Entertainment down but not out, but the stock has definitely been pinned to the mat. |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2009
Nathan Alderman |
NBC Jumps the Gun NBC apparently has cash to burn. After spending the money to produce new episodes, it's just decided to cancel the forthcoming second season of a critically acclaimed (if admittedly low-rated) drama series ... before a single installment even aired. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2006
Steven Mallas |
NBC Broadcasting Good Times GE is predicting better times for its NBC Universal segment. Investors should nevertheless contain their enthusiasm on the outlook for NBC Universal. |
Sports Illustrated
February 26, 2001 |
From sublime to ridicule Letters on humor, backyard wrestling, and more... |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2007
Steven Mallas |
NBC Needs Managerial Heroes The network is in trouble -- can new management save the day? |
