SPORTSBIZ
Only at The Washington Times: Tim Lemke discusses the business of sports.
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A-Rod and William Morris
Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has signed on as a client of the William Morris Agency, one of the premiere agencies in Hollywood.
All-Star Game ratings and Brett Favre
Two notes of interest, which have absolutely nothing to do with one another except I didn't feel the need to make two separate posts.
Sad Day in Detroit
Next week's All-Star game is getting a lot of buzz because it's part of the farewell tour of Yankee Stadium. And at the end of this season it will be sad to say good-bye to a place associated with that much baseball history.
Those Dismal TV Ratings
There can't be one specific reason that only 9,000 households are tuning in to games. But I do have one theory that hasn't really been touched on elsewhere.
U.S. Open dough
OK, so perhaps we've been a little too obsessed with tennis recently. We'll stop it. We promise. But before we quit it's worth noting the recent news from the USTA, which bumped up its prize money for the U.S. Open.
Ethiopia at RFK
The Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) will hold its largest fundraiser this week inside RFK Stadium.
If a soccer ball is kicked and no one sees it....
Germany won 3-2, but the television feed was in and out for much of the second half.
World's Most Expensive Dress Shirt?
Put this in the "some people will buy just about anything" category.
Sports owners and politics
A quick examination of the donations made by D.C.-area sports team owners shows some strong Democratic leanings, with support of both Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton.
A soul-crushing nightmare of unimaginable horror
Don't you know that a golf tournament without Tiger Woods is like a Thanksgiving without turkey?
A day where nothing got done
Whatever economic boost we got from those stimulus checks was probably shot to heck by the complete lack of productivity in American offices this afternoon.
