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“I’m completely mystified,” says one Indian reporter.

Interesting perspective on the eve of the conventions.

It's not your imagination. Mattress stores are popping up everywhere.

I love Marketplace for tackling things like this!

At the Hotel Monaco, there are extra-tall robes on each bed, and staff members will literally give coaches the shirts off their backs. Welcome to a hotel designed to meet every last need of NBA teams on the road.

A look behind the scenes at a very specialized industry, playing host to pro athletes.

Why Clemson’s Students Wouldn’t Pay For Sports

While revenues for colleges sports continue to rise, so do costs, often at a higher rate. The students at Clemson fought back when asked to bail out the athletic department.

#Clemson #college sports #athletic departments #universities

Our daughter died 10 days before Christmas. Here’s what we learned.

Sensational writing.

For Reds reporter C. Trent Rosecrans, the lasting memory of Ken Griffey Jr. is of a loving son, not of a sweet swing.

The best Ken Griffey Jr. story you’ll read today.

#KenGriffeyJr #Junior #Reds

From the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl to the Motel 6 Cactus Bowl, marketers have a lot of faith in college football's ability to sell fried chicken and hotel rooms.

More than 1.7 million fans will attend Bowl games this season. Many more will watch on TV. Here’s an interesting look at the value of sponsoring these games from the perspective of the impact it has on stock values for the sponsor.

#cfb #bowlgames #ncaa #ncaafootball #sportsbiz

From Australia to America, the sports broadcast landscape is changing.

The Cubs hit six home runs in their Game 3 victory. The men who caught them paint a revealing portrait of eternal hope in Wrigley Field's bleachers.

When every game is getting so much coverage, coming up with a unique angle is crucial to make your story stand out. Kudos to Jeff Passan for his - ahem - home run with this story of Game 3 at Wrigley Field.

JACKSON, Miss.—Josh Brooks flipped open his laptop and consulted Amazon.com. I had just mentioned something we did in the backyard on July 4, and suddenly the athletic director at Millsaps College had another idea for the most interesting student section in America. All I said was that an inflatab...

Sometimes, it’s not about the game. Create (then market and sell) an experience.

In a move that reflects a shifting media landscape, Swindon Town F.C. has largely barred reporters from interviewing players and coaches, and it plans to provide its own content.

Today’s media landscape makes it possible to cut out the middleman and go directly to your audience with your own messaging, as this soccer club in the U.K. has done. Things have been increasingly moving in this direction, but these limitations on the media are pretty unprecedented. Will this become a trend?

#england

The San Francisco 49ers are changing how they operate to deal with the shorter attention spans of the smartphone generation of players.

File under: Reminder why doing it the way it’s always been done probably won’t work anymore.

The 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah ran the sixth-fastest Belmont Stakes ever, but if he were racing against Secretariat’s record time in 1973, he would have been a distant second. Watch the two races side-by-side.

This is really cool.

The German government sent a shipment of arms to Saudi Arabia in order to secure support for their bid to host the 2006 World Cup, according to the latest sensational claims in the FIFA scandal

Rocket-propelled grenades were sent in an effort to host a soccer match. Unbelievable.

#germany sent rocket propelled grenades saudi arabia swing 2006 world cup vote

The South American soccer federation, which is part of FIFA, has diplomatic status on par with an embassy. That means that inside its luxurious grounds, Paraguayan law does not apply.

The incredible turn of events involving FIFA in the past 10 days has been fascinating. Every day there is a new development, many of which seem harder to believe than the previous. This story shows they operated as if above the law because, in fact, they were.

The other night during the #NBALotteryDraft, the @Lakers content kept jumping out at me. It was clear they had put in the time to design a look and feel. Their graphics were sharp, consistent, on brand and visually appealing. I became even more impressed as I started looking through their stats. Three tweets alone garnered …

This should be mandatory reading.

#real-time content #social media #social media and sports

Machines are taking on jobs that once seemed robot-proof. But can a machine replace radio reporters? We pit a human against a machine to find out.

As if there was not enough about today’s marketplace to worry journalists about their future, there continue to be developments of technology that can automatically write a story. The news guy in me hates this, but the efficiencies of such technology are hard to argue with.

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