Sentences with phrase «of sports person»

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At the moment, the ability to watch live sports seems to be one of the few things that keeps large numbers of people subscribing to cable at all, and ESPN — and its owner Disney (DIS)-- have counted on the fact that this relationship is rock solid.

Unfortunately his opinions aren't met with enthusiasm from his superiors and after dishonorably being stripped of his high earning clients and elite status within the agency Jerry steps out into the sports business armed with only one volatile client and the only person with belief in his abilities with the impossible task of rebuilding what he once had.

«We knew we wanted to focus on the process of getting ready for a race weekend, which is a logical storytelling structure for people who follow the sport and for those who don't.

Click through to find out what it takes to join the tiny group of elite business people who own the most valuable sports franchises in the United States.

Shares of the company, which owns a number of landmark titles including People, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune, climbed as much as 9 % Thursday on the news that it has hired Morgan Stanley and Bank of America as financial advisers.

A fourth round is now being planned that specifically matches people looking for mentors, working parents interested in sharing tips, those in search of a wingman (or woman) for events, or sports fan hoping to connect with fellow enthusiasts.

Back in 2000, when more than a 100 people died in Ford Explorers, many of them equipped with Firestone tires, there was a national debate over large sport - utility vehicles and whether they were prone to rollover.

On the other hand, a step - in system might attract more older people and women to snowboarding, especially from the ranks of experienced skiers, thus sending the sport's growth rate even higher.

Due to the shock of the reunion, a large portion of the infrastructure of volunteering (e.g. sports clubs associated with firms) collapsed and people randomly lost their opportunities for volunteering.

A few people wore dresses or nice pants, and some others arrived in costumes, but at least half of the attendees sported yoga or running gear.

The team will comprise people on Pike's gaming team and Master's sports group and will have access to all of Nielsen's measurement capabilities, including Repucom, which Nielsen acquired last year.

That's how the U.S. mounted a sprawling corruption probe of FIFA, the organizing body for the world's most popular sport, eventually ensnaring more than 40 people, including soccer officials and sports - marketing businessmen.

The Coca - Cola system has also donated nearly 25,000 cases of water, milk, sports drinks and other beverages to people in the affected areas.

«Question them as if you want that person to be your employee,» advises Michael Bracko, a veteran sports physiologist and director of the Institute for Hockey Research in Calgary.

For today's meeting, Butterfield, sporting camouflage suede wingtips and argyle socks, has prepared a list of «teachable principles» he wants his people to internalize.

Whether it's coaching a kids» sports team like the CEO of Insureon, playing a regular game of pickup soccer like celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson, or extending a standing invitation to your friends for a Sunday evening supper like Huckabee, all the successful people profiled in the book plot out their weekends in advance (though not every minute; just a few «anchor events,» as Vanderkam dubs them) and make active use of the hours they have.

Voted one of the top football and sports bars in America by Draft Magazine, Forbes, Esquire and MSN City Guides, the 5 - acre property is legendary to tailgaters, averaging three live bands, three DJs, and 100 part - time employees to manage anywhere between the 6,000 - 8,000 people that show up for a standard Packers home game.

If there are two things marketers and advertising people have heard and talked about ad nauseam over the last few years, it's the importance of social media engagement and the increasing value of live sports on TV.

That gives people the opportunity to race at the highest level of the sport, and we don't want to lose that, but when you add new top teams... making sure that you have an equally attractive environment for pro-am independent teams is a challenge we're up to — but it's easier said than done.

Much of the clothing that people now consider work - appropriate incorporates sports - inspired materials like spandex, Lycra, and other synthetic fibers.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation strips its background checks data of applications for conceal - carry permits, typically made by people who already own guns, to give a better reflection of actual purchases.

In Song's opinion, there are two kinds of entrepreneurs: people who build a startup because they're passionate about a specific business — a desire to create the world's largest cold - pressed juice empire, say, or a sudden insight that betting on video games is the future of fantasy sports — and people who are entrepreneurs because that's just the only thing they can imagine doing.

It's a place where people will be able to improve and be better and stronger and more effective, and the effect of that spills over from endurance sports to impact other aspects of people's lives... so in many ways it also feels like a mission of doing good.

Whether it is word - of - month praise or people sporting the SoulCycle gear around town, this devotion keeps propelling the brand forward.

In fact, many headlines around sports argue there is too much money in recruiting young people — imagine what a good problem that would be to have for the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Harry is an avid fan of rugby and even coached at schools around the U.K. to encourage young people to learn the sport.

From the great Sir Jackie Stewart to the current Formula 2 world champion hoping to break through to F1, we meet the people who are at the centre of most exciting sport in the world.

In a sport where every fraction of a second saved can mean millions of dollars earned, we meet the people in the pits who feel this pressure more than anyone else.

They are heading to alternative platforms to find people like Brodie Smith, the world's most famous ultimate - frisbee player; or the Bryan brothers, golfers who do trick shots on Instragram; or Dude Perfect, a crew of athletic, goofy amateurs that perform sports stunts.

Feb 26 - U.S media company Meredith Corp said on Monday that it would sell the UK arm of Time Inc, months after announcing its acquisition of the publisher of People, Sports Illustrated and Fortune magazines.

Watching video of our favorite sports team or TV show, reading our favorite newspaper, or playing our favorite game are not just entertainment or information but a shared experience and opportunity to bring together people who care about the same things.

One day Life magazine came to Eugene to take pictures of this sport called jogging, and 5,000 people must have shown up.»

It stands as one of the seminal descriptions of a sport that some estimates claim now occupies 25 million people nationwide.

CNBC reported Monday that 21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Disney, leaving behind a media company tightly focused on news and sports, according to people familiar with the situation.

So why are people so outraged by executive compensation, but not by the salaries of sports figures?

But anyway we did it and then finally I went to these acting classes there and I met some people and a cinematographer at Universal years ago named Irving Glassberg called me up and said who I'd met and he had... We talked about sports and swimming and all that kind of stuff.

«If people are training at 30 or 40 or 50 minutes a day, they don't need extra carbohydrates, they don't need sports drinks, they don't need any of that stuff.

Lots of people say they want to ditch cable TV for the Web, but can't because they want to watch sports — specifically the stuff on ESPN, which has a hammerlock on much of the sports world.

Tony Rader, the vice president of Schwob Building Company, a general contractor in the Dallas area, said his company has started handing out flyers at sporting events, churches and schools in hopes of luring more people into the field.

• Meredith (NYSE: MDP) is in late - stage talks to acquire Time Inc. (NYSE: TIME), the publisher of Fortune, Time, Sports Illustrated, and People, for roughly $ 2 billion, according to Bloomberg.

The sports network has been seen by many as the strongest channel in the TV universe, because live sports is such a massive draw for many people, and ESPN controls some of the most popular events in every sport.

As part of the changes, Time Inc., which owns Time, Fortune, People, Money, Sports Illustrated, and other magazines and websites, is officially centralizing its advertising sales under one executive, Mark Ford, who is the company's Chief Revenue Officer Global Advertising.

The sporting - goods chain sold a gun to Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, though a different gun was used in the shooting.

When this group of people starts something, they will finish it no matter what,» one of the sport's devotees, Ralph Crowley, told Foley.

«To put all of your emphasis on one person in any sport I don't think is a sound move.

Sitting with his niece, they were glued to the screen watching the story of one of sport's most infamous people, Tonya Harding.

«People need something to bitch about, it's part of sports,» Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons told Fox Ssports,» Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons told Fox SportsSports.

The training that goes behind (combat sports) is of more and more interest to people.

The company, majority owned by Walt Disney Co., has lost 3.2 million subscribers in a little over a year, according to Nielsen data, as people have «cut the cord» by dropping their cable - TV subscriptions or downgraded to cheaper, slimmed - down TV packages devoid of expensive sports channels like ESPN.

My idea is to sell personalized sporting equipment with a person's name or whatever they want written on a basketball or football in permanent ink in the font of their choosing through the internet.