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9781600376436

Beyond the Box Score : An Insider's Guide to the $750 Billion Business of Sports

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  • ISBN13:

    9781600376436

  • ISBN10:

    1600376436

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-02-20
  • Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
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Summary

Have you ever realized that the sports industry is the only industry in the world that has its own section of the newspaper? And that more newsprint, magazine, and digital column inches are being devoted to the big business of sports each year?

Author Biography

Rick Horrow is the leading expert in the business of sports. As CEO of Horrow Sports Ventures, he has been the architect of 103 deals worth more than $13 billion in sports, performing arts, and other urban infrastructure projects. Horrow is also Sports Business Analyst for CNN, the FOX family of media properties, including FOXSports.com, FOX Sports Radio, and the FOX Business Channel, BBC, and BusinessWeek.com. He also has an upcoming weekly half-hour tv program on Versus, “The Sports Take With the Sport’s Professor.” Karla Swatek has served as Marketing Director for Horrow Sports Ventures since 2003. Swatek served as Publicity Director of Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, and Pfeiffer and Company, San Diego before establishing her own company, Swatek and Davidson Associates, a San Diego, CA-based business marketing firm, in 1999. She has also served as Planned Television Arts' affiliate West Coast Publicity Director in addition to handling independent projects.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. VII
Introduction Looking at the World Through Rose Bowl-Colored Glassesp. IX
The Mega Master Super Series XLXLp. 1
Meet the Commishesp. 25
Remote-Controlling what you See on Sports TVp. 33
Not Far from the Madden-Ing Crowdp. 47
Meet the Commishes:p. 65
The Big Labinskip. 71
Case Study: Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texasp. 93
The Government Gets into-and out of-the Gamep. 99
Case Study: OKC, MAPS, The Hornets, the Sonics, and the Thunderp. 113
So you Wanna Own a Sports Team?p. 121
Meet the Commishes:p. 159
One Union under Center: Athletes, Agents, and their Dealsp. 167
Meet the Commishes:p. 191
Ticket to the Futurep. 197
Acknowledgementsp. 207
About the Authorsp. 209
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