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Archives: May
2005
Global Spectrum ousted as Dodge Arena manager
Chicago
Baseball Rivalry Heats Up
RE/MAX is Now the
Official Real Estate Partner of Little League
Baseball and Softball
The Value of
That Box of Baseball Cards Your Mom Tossed? If
You're a Child of the '50s, Try $6,500
Derek Jeter
launches official Website
Hidden risks of summer sports
camps revealed
Benching Bacteria from
Athletics: New Sporting Goods Line Answers Call for Protection
Against Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Infections
Spring Training Online gears up for 2006
Ball Park
Pens showcases quality writing instruments
handcrafted from wooden stadium seats from
demolished ballparks
Centerplate dishes up better news for 1st quarter
Ballpark Digest Directory launches "Directory Newswire"
Gatorade
recognizes Justin Upton with its National Player
of the Year Award
Latest Nike marketing campaign recommends running
barefoot
SportsTicker selects Mainstream Data for content
delivery
Mediaone and
Zoomedia ink strategic partnership |
A
list of complaints ranging from the quality of
concessions to the way the Dodge Arena’s books
were done led to the ouster of Global Spectrum LP
as the manager of the city-owned venue’s
day-to-day operations. Philadelphia-based Global
Spectrum LP had a contract with International
Coliseums Co. to run the $18 million, 5,500 seat
arena. ICC, in turn, worked for the Texas
Municipal Facilities Corp., the nonprofit,
city-established entity that owns the arena.
OfficeMax,
one of the nation's largest office supply
retailers, is helping Chicagoans celebrate the
longstanding rivalry between Cubs and White Sox
fans with a Crosstown Classic "What's Your Team?"
sweepstakes. One lucky Cubs and White Sox fan will
each win the ultimate fan experience including
game tickets, throwing a ceremonial pitch at a
Cubs or White Sox baseball game, team jerseys,
dinner with a team personality, and watching
batting practice on-field. OfficeMax also will
give away more than 10,000 prizes with instant-win
game pieces that will be distributed throughout
Chicago during the month of June.
In
an agreement announced today, global real estate
franchisor, RE/MAX International has become the
official real estate partner of Little League
Baseball and Softball in the United States and
Canada. The arrangement affords RE/MAX offices and
associates the opportunity to become involved in a
wide variety of sponsorships of an array of Little
League programs at the local, league and district
levels as well as RE/MAX participation in five
regional finals and the Little League Baseball
World Series scheduled for August 19-28, 2005 in
Williamsport, Pa.
Mom's across America better hope there's no civil
suit. According to a recent study by Beckett
Media, the acknowledged authority on the trading
card hobby for over 20 years, the value of the
baseball cards found in a typical shoebox in the
late '50s would equal thousands of dollars today.
"If you take a typical kid who lived in
middle-America back in 1957 as an example, we
figured he'd have kept roughly 100 cards in a
shoebox," says Beckett Price Guide analyst Rich
Klein. "That's a fair assumption given the size of
a youth shoebox and the dimensions of the cards
from that era.
Four-time
World Series champion and New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter
launched his new official website, located at
In the
face of a looming epidemic of overuse injuries among young
athletes, CATZ -- Competitive Athlete Training Zone -- issued
a warning to parents about the hidden risks of Summer Sports
Camps. Many parents fail to recognize that intensive
sport-specific training puts their child at a greater risk of
injury. CATZ provided tips to help parents ensure their young
athletes remain injury-free during camp the summer. While
intensive practice for soccer, basketball, hockey and other
team sports can enhance performance and bring great success,
it can also lead to trouble for a child's growing body.
We had a fabulous
Spring Training 2005, and now it's time to start
planning for Spring Training 2006. You won't see
any 2006 schedules until after the World Series,
but that doesn't mean you can't start the planning
process. Want to keep kept current on Spring
Training 2006 developments?
Hold
a bit of baseball history in your hands! Prior to
demolition or remodeling, the wooden seats from
many old ballparks were removed to make way for
plastic seats and luxury boxes. The seats were
usually destroyed or discarded.
In
its 20th Anniversary season of honoring the
nation's elite high school athletes, Gatorade(R)
Thirst Quencher, in partnership with Scholastic
Coach & Athletic Director magazine, today
announced Justin Upton of Great Bridge High School
in Chesapeake, Va., as the 2005 Gatorade National
Baseball Player of the Year.
Today
Nike recommends that athletes start training like
they're barefoot. In one of the company's largest
spring marketing campaigns, Nike will present the
revolutionary new Nike FREE shoe and educate
athletes on the benefits of barefoot training. The
new lightweight and flexible design of Nike FREE
combines nature with technology to simulate the
act of running barefoot on grass helping to
strengthen muscles, prevent injury and improve
overall athletic performance for a multitude of
sports.
SportsTicker
and Mainstream Data announced today that they have
entered into an agreement calling for Mainstream
Data to provide content delivery to several
hundred SportsTicker subscribers across North
America. SportsTicker has moved its network to
Mainstream's Medias satellite and Internet
technologies.
MediaOne
(www.mediaoneservices.com), a leading provider of
live broadcast and studio production services,
today announced a strategic partnership with
Zoomedia, Inc. (www.zoomedia.com), a San
Francisco-based communications agency, to provide
an array of broadband communications services and
products for the biotech and life science
industries.