Andrew Zimbalist News
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Officials in Sacramento, California, are furious that the owners of the Kings basketball franchise, the Maloof family, said they are backing out of a handshake deal in February to invest $73 million in a project to build a new arena downtown.
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Magic Johnson’s winning $2.3 billion offer for the Los Angeles Dodgers probably was fueled by what one sports economist called a “wild bidding process” that will unfold between Time Warner Cable Inc. and News Corp.’s Fox Sports for the Major League Baseball team’s broadcast rights.
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John Calipari of the University of Kentucky has the best odds to win the men’s college basketball championship among the coaches at this weekend’s Final Four. He also has the most incentive, at least financially.
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Louisiana State University football coach Les Miles has $5.7 million riding on tonight’s Bowl Championship Series title game.
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Hosting the National Football League’s Super Bowl in 2014 will increase the value of naming rights to the News York Giants’ and Jets’ shared stadium, according to economist Andrew Zimbalist .
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Fred and Jeff Wilpon said they may sell up to 25 percent of the New York Mets because of a lawsuit in the Bernard L. Madoff case, after insisting for months the baseball club was safe from the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history.
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Urban Meyer’s $4 million annual salary as the new football coach may be a profitable investment for Ohio State University even if it poses ethical questions.
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College football’s Bowl Championship Series should be investigated for violating U.S. antitrust laws, a group of economists and legal professors says.
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Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan and the rest of the group that led the Texas Rangers from bankruptcy to the World Series are getting a quick payback.
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The stadium where Qatar will host the 2022 World Cup final isn’t built yet. Neither is the city.
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