Sentences with phrase «sports team owners»

Those billionaire sports team owners are phony conservatives; milking the public teat to build their stadiums *****

Her list of offenders includes absent and abusive fathers, downsizing corporations, sports team owners too concerned with profit to show loyalty to the cities where teams were first formed, and armed forces too bloated by bureaucracy and careerism to provide the kind of first - among - equals training that helps boys become men with a vision of serving their communities.

She would also join a small group of women sports team owners.

For most business owners — sports team owners included — the primary objective is to increase revenues.

Celebrities, CEOs, sports team owners, and politicians have all been spotted with archaic, clunky flip phones.

New to our roster of exclusive speakers is renowned professional sports team owner and media and technology entrepreneur, Peter Guber.

The issue is sport team owners, and their pernicious ongoing plans to have governments finance building sports stadiums.

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While giving examples of the team's management dysfunction, Fox Sports reported that the Bills» general manager — normally in charge of personnel matters — wasn't even aware that coach Rex Ryan had been fired until owner Terry Pegula told him so.

That's where League of Legends resembles a pro sport, so investors, players, and team owners want ways to make pro sports money — and debates over how to do that have heated up online.

Our goal is to have sophisticated owners of teams that can operate at a high level, know how to build businesses, know how to build sports, and who aren't going to be working against each other, but are going to be collaborating in the best interests of fans around the world.

A dealer - owned co-operative, Home Hardware has worked hard in recent years to stress its connection to the communities where it operates, by sponsoring local minor sports teams and tournaments, and playing up its «Home Owners helping home owners» ad camOwners helping home owners» ad camowners» ad campaign.

If Beyoncé does invest in the Rockets she'll join a growing list of celebrities and entertainers who hold ownership stakes in sports teams, including Memphis Grizzlies part - owner Justin Timberlake, Miami Dolphins investment group members Jennifer Lopez, Venus and Serena Williams and Will Ferrell, who owns a stake in Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Football Club.

At the team owner council meetings, I get to see what NASCAR is doing to help the sport.

In a note, analyst Michael Senno wrote that «as an owner of sports cable networks and teams, we believe that MSG is well positioned to capitalize on the increasing value of premium sports content, which should result in AOCF and free cash flow growth above its peers and, combined with incremental leverage, lead to solid shareholder returns.»

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.

Bunchman and his team select and train local owners with the goal of positively influencing children through sports.

The idea is that if sports teams and stadium owners build apps that can connect to different equipment in their facilities, like point - of - sales systems and scoreboards, they can create more compelling apps for their fans.

In this case, though, Cuban and many other sports - team owners are speaking with one voice.

Xperiel's app - development tool also lets stadium owners and sports teams create mobile apps that use a smartphone's sensors in conjunction with so - called beacons that stadium operators can place throughout the facility.

Humphrey's research has shown that owners almost never lose money on the sale of a professional sports team.

Fast forward to today and Allen has a networth of $ 20.9 billion, is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., the owner of two sports teams (the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers) and the founder of multiple philanthropic foundations including the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Other sports - team investors hailing from the tech industry include Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob, and Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer.

Anyone else notice that the owners of three of the four major Boston sports teams were sitting together at the Celtics playoff game the other night?

Yankee fans pretend to hate owner George Steinbrenner, but they know, deep in their hearts, that it is entirely right that their team's fortunes are in the hands of the Ivan the Terrible of the sports world.

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The owners are not ready to spend like they do with all their sport teams.

Ferrari will provide Liberty Media with a big test in that this discussion about prize money will determine how much the new owners of F1 will allow themselves to be dictated to by big teams in the sport.

The McLaren boss thinks that Ferrari is going to fight the sport's owners pretty hard if the extra payments the team receives come under threat

Georgia Rosenbloom Frontiere, owner of the L.A. Rams, and Joan Kroc, owner of the San Diego Padres, can pick up a phone and alter the destinies of a certain number of people, but Frontiere and Kroc both inherited their power, along with their teams, from their late husbands; neither woman has a voice that counts in the owners» circle of her sport.

This year, when Capital Cities Communications, ABC's new owner, sent its management team in to «restructure» the network's sports department, de Varona, 39, was restructured out of the executive half of her job.

Even if games are missed, the owners are guaranteed to receive, on schedule, the first - year payment — about $ 23 million per team — from their new four - year, $ 2.6 billion television contracts with NBC and Turner Sports.

The commission members are former IndyCar team owner Tom Kelley; Tim Clauson, an ex-race car driver and mechanic whose son Bryan started the 2012 Indy 500; Earl Goode, former chairman of Indiana Sports Corp. and a former aide to former Gov. Mitch Daniels; Ryan Kitchell, CEO of Indiana University Health and the state's former public finance director; and Chris Atkins, director of Indiana's Office of Management and Budget.

Is he, in fact, one of the smartest owners in pro sports, a businessman whose teams are powerful and profitable and whose employees are deeploy loyal?

On Monday, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and the city of Columbus sued Columbus Crew SC owners Precourt Sports Ventures and Major League Soccer in an attempt to ensure that Ohio law regarding the potential relocation of sports teams is enfSports Ventures and Major League Soccer in an attempt to ensure that Ohio law regarding the potential relocation of sports teams is enfsports teams is enforced.

Look at Silent Stans other sporting teams, which of those are like Chavski and their owner who wants to win????

The Ohio legislature responded by passing a statute known as the «Art Modell law,» named after the Browns / Ravens owner, forces an owner of a sports team that uses public resources to give six months notice of their intention to relocate and give local people and municipalities a chance to purchase the team.

Some around the league, however, wondered how the owner of a team (Jerry Jones) could gain admission to the Hall before a commissioner who grew the NFL to become the most popular sport in America.

The Russian owners or really owners of teams outside of the US / Canada are just running these teams as pet projects, or they're actually part of larger sports organizations.

The owner not interested in winning titles but puts profit 1st which is the reason why he bought us, lets be honest, the old board sold the profit making business idea over a successful sports team.

The situation at the club is poisonous we have a manager who decides his own fate a board room full of greedy geriatrics and a majority owner who uses the club as a big ATM who knows sod all about football we all know his sports teams are sh*t the sooner this cancer is cut out of the club the happier we will be

Ramsey is not a playmaker... He is an all round utility player... A good one if you like that kind of style... I don't... But playmaker he is not... After last night a serious owner of a top flight sports team paying some of the highest whack on the planet would be saying ok there is something wrong here..

What does Okubo, the first non-American or non-Canadian owner of a North American major league sports franchise, think of the sorry spectacle his team has become?

Davison has also driven sport cars and credits IMSA Prototypes Lites driver and team owner Joel Janco for helping him find sponsorship for IndyCar.

No matter how you slice it, this admission is reason enough for termination of both Wenger and Gazidis... this owner, who has personally poisoned every major sporting organization he currently owns in North America (Rams, Avalanche & Nuggets), has no regard for the concerns of the fans, just ask anyone in St. Louis, home of the once - vaunted «Greatest Show on Earth»... they had to endure numerous losing campaigns under his reign, before suffering the ultimate humiliation, as he moved the team to Los Angeles to quench his seemingly unending financial thirst... do you think it's a coincidence that ever since his arrival both Wenger and Gazidis have made grand claims each and every May to secure season ticket sales then fail to live up to the billing... they will do anything to make money except the very things that would make the most sense from a soccer perspective: buying a world - class striker since RVP, a Viera - like boss in the midfield and a dominant, physical CB in the mold of Adams or Sol... let's face it, they didn't even try

I think it is an interesting thought, what would happen if we got an owner who cared about us as a sporting team and not just a piggy bank...

Fourteen months ago, after signing a 10 - year, $ 103 million extension with the Patriots, Bledsoe heard team owner Robert Kraft compare him to New England sports legends Ted Williams, Bill Russell and Larry Bird.

(3) this team is rotting from the inside out and it's going to take some unprecedented moves on the part of this board and the fans to facilitate the necessary changes... this club must rid itself of it's absentee billionaire landlord before we become just another sporting wasteland in this man's collection of flailing clubs... when this is done it will expose just what exactly has been going on behind the scenes and I'm afraid of what will be uncovered because if Wenger's business model is as antiquated as his football philosophy it could look an awful lot like and old Monty Python sketch in the backroom... we need to replace the owner with someone who actually cares about this club and isn't afraid to wear their emotions on his or her sleeves or spend their own money to achieve greatness... this new owner needs to find someone who represents the same sort of cutting edge that Wenger represented in his early years then pair that individual with someone who knows how to conduct transfers in the modern era... then and only then will we find a way to escape the malaise that has permeated our once storied club for way too many years

But despite the potential of social media to bridge the gap between the sport and its fans F1's previous owners put heavy restrictions on how teams and drivers could utilise it — especially when it comes to video — because obviously if Bernie couldn't make money from it, he wasn't interested.

At the meeting Spears, her manager Larry Rudolph and producer Ann Carli, who produced the singer's first feature, Crossroads, pitched NASCAR brass on a story about the daughter of a successful stock car team owner and how the young woman (played by Spears) inspires a former driver to return to the sport.

The National Football League (NFL) is a dominant entity in professional sports in the USA, and the league is a money - making behemoth for the cartel of team owners, the players, and even for a