Maybe the NHL should shoot for a lockout-shortened hockey season every year?
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Free Tickets, Half-Price Jerseys: After Lockout, NHL Rolls Out Deals to Make Nice with Fans
The NHL lockout is over, and the shortened season’s first games are taking place this tomorrow. But will fans, who have been frustrated for months while players and team owners squabbled, actually show up as paying customers?
NHL Lockout Is Over! Guess Who’s Happier than Fans or Players?
All along during the NHL lockout, fans have felt like they’ve been held hostage by both sides of the negotiations. But that’s nothing compared with businesses that rely on NHL game-day crowds — which have been laying off …
Hockey’s Wealth Redistribution Problem: What’s Really Behind The NHL Lockout
Blame owners, not players, for the NHL’s financial problems.
Why Prices for Sports Teams May Stop Skyrocketing
One of the more interesting nuggets in the 30th edition of the Forbes 400 is this: In 1982, nine members of the inaugural class of the richest Americans owned sports teams. In this year’s gilt grouping, the number is 32. That’s …
10 Best & Worst Sports-Team Relocations in History
There’s no shortage of speculation about which NFL team might relocate to Los Angeles, despite recent news that Anschutz Entertainment Group, a leading force in the development of a downtown stadium, has been put up for sale by its billionaire owner. But for all the excitement in the nation’s second-largest media market about the return …
NFL, MLB Say They Aren’t Considering Ads on Uniforms
But once the NBA starts bringing in millions of dollars, it’s difficult to think they wouldn’t reconsider.
Why $1.5 Billion For The Dodgers Might Be A Bargain
Editor’s note: This post proved prescient when, two and a half weeks after it was first published, the Dodgers were purchased for $2 billion. TIME’s Sean Gregory sizes up the deal here.
As Major League Baseball moves closer to …
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