Sentences with phrase «professional sporting»

Attending a professional sporting event is only partially about the game itself — if you really cared only about that, you'd just stay at home and watch it on TV.

Largely speaking, I'd put good money on the following: - A decent portion of the fan base doesn't know most of the rules of soccer - A decent portion doesn't know how the soccer world works - A decent portion didn't follow any kind of sport prior to Atlanta United - A decent portion never attended a professional sporting event until Atlanta United - A decent portion expect them to perform like uga.

Martinez, a former exterminator, was charged with reckless endangerment and interference with a professional sporting event; he pleaded not guilty and faces a year in jail and a $ 5,000 fine if convicted.

The same violation applies to women in military leadership, women with male subordinates, and women acting as officials at professional sporting events, he says.

Kaepernick was the first player to demonstrate during the National Anthem during the NFL's preseason, but has since been joined by athletes around the country, including at high school games and other professional sporting events.

The cost of attending a professional sporting event these days can really add up.

Whether it's ESPN or Amazon, FloSports still has a long way to go to compete with those behemoths of cable and digital media — especially when those much larger rivals offer more popular professional sporting events.

SeatGeek has grown to forecast ticket prices for more than 10,000 events at any one time, including professional sporting events, concerts and theater performances.

Then, like valuable orchids, they've been planted in La Masia, the training academy of Football Club Barcelona — one of the richest and most beloved professional sports franchises anywhere in the world.

By aggressively pursuing youth sports, then growing with their consumers to supply college teams and eventually professional sports teams, Under Armor seeded, nurtured and grew a large and loyal base of customers.

CNBC's David Faber talks to two successful investors who know what it takes to own and manage a professional sports team.

Why model Riot Games» North American League of Legends Championship Series league after major professional sports leagues with revenue - sharing and a players association?

We've always looked at professional sports, not because we want to model exactly what other sports do, but even when you're attempting to innovate, sometimes there are things that already exist in the world that work really well and work for a reason, and we shouldn't be afraid to use some of that.

This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports at Riot Games, to discuss the world championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4 at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.

«This is my first time working with professional sports, but the business of generating revenue doesn't change»

Professional sports search the world for stars.

It also has become a favorite in the locker rooms of professional sports teams such as the New York Yankees and the Washington Wizards.

At the highest level of professional sports they consider skills and techniques a given.

It also offers a vibrant social scene, several professional sports teams, and a wealth of cultural and historical attractions.

His clients include executives and business leaders in a broad range of industries, including all varieties of financial services (securities and commodities trading and sales, banking, investment and hedge funds), automobile manufacturing and sales, professional sports agency, pharmaceuticals, and high technology.

In an effort to elevate the wealth and standing of eSports, Overwatch League will adopt a similar structure as traditional professional sports leagues, including:

For now she remains focused on broadening the audience for her juices, and has recently begun to attract enviable customers including professional sports teams.

Helping the world play smarter and live more, SportsEngine, Inc., an NBC Sports Group company, is the leading provider of Sport Life Management web software and mobile applications for youth, amateur, and professional sports.

With this in mind, if anyone you love is on the precipice of joining a professional sports league, do them a favor and find their bad tweets before someone else does.

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

For example it manages the back end of online merchandise - auction sites for professional sports leagues, points programs and other «extremely customer facing» consumer brands.

The book is about Alex Ferguson, the former manager for Manchester United soccer club and the most successful coach in all of professional sports.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

For a family of four to watch professional sports, the tickets can range in price from $ 115.76 for baseball to $ 343.32 for football, with basketball ($ 215.92) and hockey ($ 248.72) in between, and theme parks ($ 209.44) in the same general pricing vicinity.

But Wambach is also making a point that other women have echoed, in a year of major achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.

But it could be as simple as knowing college football audiences in Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, Iowa and West Virginia, for instance, are very different than professional sports audiences, or even basketball audiences.

This extensive talent pool is no accident: College and professional sports organizations have invested untold billions to find the next big thing.

Home to eight NCAA Division I college football teams and many other professional sports teams outside of football, Ohio is a state invested in sports, which explains the high interest in ESPN.

Compare this to breaking the color barrier in baseball or the emergence of women's professional sports leagues in soccer or basketball.

The two companies announced an extensive and sweeping business partnership Monday that they say «matches up Canada's leading sports retail brands and the country's largest professional sports organization.»

Besides businesses, we've worked with professional sports teams — we've taken several NFL teams to the Super Bowl and they've credited the process for their win.

Professional sports players tend to perform at their best during seasons when their contracts are set to expire.

That live - watching has translated into big advertising sales for networks and huge broadcasting rights fees for owners of NFL and NBA franchises and other professional sports teams.

But that was just my opinion — so to find out for sure I talked with Dr. Steven Stein, the founder and CEO of Multi-Health Systems (MHS), a three - time Profit 100 (fastest growing companies in Canada) company that helps improve leadership skills and emotional intelligence for Fortune 500 companies, the military, government organizations, and professional sports teams.

We represent sports broadcasters and professional sports coaches, many of whom are former professional athletes who seek Wasserman's counsel as they look to develop and expand their post-playing careers.

The burly entrepreneur continued to play professional football with the Calgary Stampeders even as he ran the store, but eventually gave up professional sports to focus on his business full - time two years later.

For example, Hawke explains how one of the site's customers, Spot Trot, a company that makes apps for musicians like Dave Matthews, was researching how the company could pitch its app - building service to an entirely new market: professional sports teams.

The fields and arenas of professional sports are a testing ground for the return on investment that's possible from data analytics, and nothing did as much to popularize the concept of big data in sports as «Moneyball.»

Rogers has responded by betting big on the last remnant of the appointment - viewing model: professional sports.

And when companies from retail giants to professional sports franchises talk about implementing big data solutions, the conversation often involves analyzing tweets and posts rather than true cutting - edge meta data analytics.

The SIDEKICK is a sod installing device used in professional sports stadiums across America.

The broadcasters and professional sports leagues also feared that nothing in the case would limit Aereo to local service.

When you're on a team, you can't always get what you want — whether that's in business or in professional sports.

After rebranding the operation OneWest Bank, Mnuchin built it with other assets and professional sports team sponsorships into Southern California's largest bank, with 73 branches and $ 23 billion in assets.

Yet it sprawls to cover modern art, modern health care, modern parenting, the absurdities of professional sport, the lot of illegal immigrants, terrorism, AIDS, the difficulties of assembling children's toys and, of course, money.