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Rick Alessandri named special advisor and equity investor of Women’s Professional Lacrosse League (WPLL) (link)

Alexandra Baldwin promoted to President of the Web.com To […]

You watched the Super Bowl, and you saw the ads. Some made you laugh, some made you cry, some made you scream in horror.

As always, USA Today’s “ad enthusiasts” (whatever that means) ranked the ads.

The t […]

In the last two weeks, I went to the winter fan festivals for both Chicago baseball teams. I know, I know, I have a very glamorous job.

Aside from the vague optimism that radiates at these “fests,” there wer […]

Links to recent — and interesting — sports business stories of TMR relevance around the interwebs…

Loyal Knicks Fans Deserve a Medal. But a Refund?
TMR Executive Editor Jon Greenberg spoke with Richard San […]

Peter Sorckoff’s wife had a very good question for him.

Given his marital status, why was he downloading Tinder, the dating app, on his phone?

“The thing became a fascination to me,” Sorckoff told Team Marke […]

It’s the first day, almost second night, of Hanukkah and all I want is a President Abe Lincoln Christmas tree ornament.

I know, I know, I’m a bad Jew. But after combing through Major League Baseball tea […]

The average NBA ticket is up 3.4 percent — to $54.98 — according to our Fan Cost Index, but that number doesn’t tell the whole story.

As FCI fans know, the average ticket price doesn’t include pricey prem […]

In 1985, box seats for the “I-70 Showdown” World Series at Royals Stadium cost $40. Plaza reserved seats cost $30 and standing room cost $20.

In the ALCS that year, I can tell you that a view level box seat […]

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think the Philadelphia 76ers, which have lost 111 games the past two seasons and are expected to lose a bunch more in 2014-15, need 47 different seat categories.

In every sec […]

NFL training camp season is a wonderful time to be a football fan.

Those few weeks a year teams spend training at small colleges, their own facilities, random towns (Oxnard, Calif. for the Dallas Cowboys) and […]

So, NFL training camps open this week, and I’m busy readying the 2014 Fan Cost Index, as well as putting together some stories for a special MLB FCI package. Yet, here I am writing about a Mid-American C […]