Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelfh (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
... in Tampa Bay debut Not surprisingly, MLB.com gave it glowing reviews . The New York Times ‘ Richard Sandomir weighed in before the launc h And this one shows that no good deed goes unpunished. A qualified “fine” by Newsday
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
from Richard Sandomir of the New York Times, This isn’t quaint anymore. The league believes the Classic — a regular-season game played outdoors every New Year’s Day — will be a long-term annual event that separates hockey from other sports; it projects the game as a midseason ritual for its fans to root nationally, not for their local teams. Already, there is demand for future games in...
Ballbug (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
Richard Sandomir / New York Times : On Old Cassette, Barber's Voice Brings to Life Game He Missed — No one broadcast Johnny Vander Meer's second consecutive no-hitter in June 1938, but that did not deter fans from telling Red Barber years later how much they enjoyed his call. — Barber should have called it, at least for symmetry's sake.
TicketStumbler Blog (Free subscription) | 24/12/2008
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Some Free Exhibition Tickets? Yanks Can Afford It New York Times - United States By RICHARD SANDOMIR The Yankees unveiled their 2009 recession special on Tuesday: cheap or free tickets to the exhibitions on April 3 and 4 against the Cubs … Yankees roll back ticket prices to 1923 for opener Reuters - USA Fans [...]
River Ave. Blues (Free subscription) | 13/12/2008
With this new stadium on tap, we hear a lot of talk about reduced revenue sharing and higher revenue streams, but a lot of people — including me — don’t quite understand how baseball’s complicated tax structure works. Enter Richard Sandomir. In a fairly comprehensive and comprehendable article earlier this week, The Times sports business [...]
Sports Media Journal (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
Time for our Friday look at what some of the sports media columnists are writing today… We start in New York where Bob Raissman of the NY Daily News questions whether CC Sebathia can handle the pressure of playing in New York. Richard Sandomir at the NY Times examines how boxing still brings in the pay-per-view dollars. Neil [...]
DealBook (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
By excluding the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field from its petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the Tribune Company is keeping the sale of two profitable assets from being detoured by its future in reorganization, The New York Times’s Richard Sandomir writes. Had the team and the ballpark been among the dozens of subsidiaries included in [...]
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
The New York Times by Richard Sandomir Last week, the government came to Citi’s rescue with a stabilization plan that includes backing $306 billion in mostly real estate assets, agreeing to absorb potential losses on that portfolio, as well as buying $20 billion in Citi preferred stock. Banks are well represented in the universe of naming rights — from Bank of America and Wachovia to...
The Sports Economist (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
A sad sign of the times, I think. Richard Sandomir reports : Cynthia Cooper-Dyke cannot fathom it: the Houston Comets, the team she guided to the W.N.B.A.’s first four championships, were shuttered Tuesday by the league, which scheduled a dispersal draft of their players, except the free agents, for Monday. ...The league took control of the Comets over the summer from their underfinanced...
MSNBC.com: Today (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
... The special first aired on Nov. 6 and won rave reviews across the country. After watching it, Richard Sandomir of The New York Times was moved to write: “I have finished crying inside my cubicle after watching NBC's documentary about the Paralympics in Beijing. It is a 90-minute, continuous ‘Oh my’ journey with amputee sprinters and swimmers, wheelchair basketball players and racers,...
Reality TV Website (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... a sailor with Lou Gehrig's disease, and Marin Morrison, a swimmer devastated by a brain tumor." - Richard Sandomir, New York Times "A dramatic and more than occasionally emotional documentary." - Leonard Shapiro, Washington Post "NBC is airing a 90-minute documentary directed by Dave Michaels (brother of Al Michaels) on the 2008 Paralympic Games, and there will be no better television...
The Sports Economist (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
What factors led cable giant ESPN to outbid FOX for the television rights to the post-season BCS games? In a word, they have different revenue streams; two-part pricing if you will. Richard Sandomir investigates : ESPN cannot ignore the deep recession’s impact on advertising. But its subscriber revenue gives it an extraordinary cushion. ESPN charges cable and satellite operators an average...
