This week’s top news in the #SportsBiz includes Orlando City Soccer eyeing a spot in Major League Soccer. Other news includes Fox holding a Super Bowl ad contest, fantasy sports proving to be a viable business, Toyota and NASCAR holding a tweet race, and Manchester United cashing in on sponsorships. Read on. Sports Jobs Orlando…
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Group M Steps Up Its Sports Game With Sponsorship Division
Group M has recently turned their business efforts toward sports. SponsorCom is the newest addition to the Group M family, acting as a full-service sports sponsorship and rights division for an already-strong company based out of Australia. The fact that Group M is the leading global media investment management operation should alone be enough to persuade…
3 Tips To Landing Sports Journalism Jobs
From sports business to sports media to sports technology and sports sponsorship, all of these fields fall under sports journalism jobs, which require a canvas in which to draft your words and voice an opinion when you’re a journalist. No matter what sector of the sports world you cover, you’ll need to become familiar with several…
The Top News in #Sportsbiz – 08.26.13 – 09.02.13
Top news in the #sportsbiz this week includes Wayin helping the St. Louis Rams connect with fans. Other news includes “The Meeting 9” offering action sports networking, ESPN facing anti-bundling questions, the NFL pressuring ESPN to back out of the “Frontline” documentary and AT&T promoting and protecting its sponsorship deals. Read on to get your…
Top Sports Executives Meet To Discuss Second Screen Trends
Sports fans are a demanding bunch. They want stadium Wi-Fi, more pixels, and on-the-go content. Not only that, but fans are demanding content on multiple screens at one time. While watching the game on TV, people are turning to their tablets, phones, and computer screens to track fantasy stats, watch replays, and converse on social…
The Top News in #Sportsbiz – 08.19.13 – 08.26.13
There is a lot of great news coming from the world of #sportsbiz this week. On top, Twitter advertising partnerships may be where the sports business world is headed. In other news, the Dodgers’ win streak leads to a local business boom, how the US open will be utilizing more technology this year, the healthy…
The Top News in #Sportsbiz – 08.12.13 – 08.19.13
The top news in #sportsbiz this week includes a major move for Arizona State University, as they begin to offer a sports business degree program. Sports networking site inRecruit.com is growing as evidenced by Brown University joining the site. Other top news includes Fox Sports 1 hitting its projected 90 million homes, Wells Fargo sponsors…
Clay Travis Joins Fox Sports 1 As A Triple Threat
Clay Travis started his career with a Juris Doctor degree from Vanderbuilt University Law. After deciding law wasn’t the career path he desired, he turned to sports. Travis made his way through the sports industry by writing for sites such as Deadspin, CBS Sports, and the has-been FanHouse. He also created multiple sites of his…
The Top News in #Sportsbiz – 08.05.13 – 08.12.13
Take a look at this week’s top news in the sports biz. The top stories include the Mark Emmert and the NCAA dropping out of the jersey business, The Whistle as a startup company, ServiceMasters becoming title sponsors, FIA Formula E, and Orlando City Soccer club pushing for a new stadium. Sports Business NCAA to…
USA Today Sports Editor Position For New “Quick Hit” News Coverage
If you happen to be a sports editor looking to work in a fast paced environment, USA Today may have a sports editor position for you. The position revolves around the NFL and a “quick-twitch” style of news reporting. So be prepared to work in a fast-paced environment. USA Today Sports Has Open Sports Editor…
Media Picks Oregon Ducks as Pac-12 Title Favorites
The offseason loss of Head Coach Chip Kelly doesn’t seem to be a factor in the media’s outlook of the Oregon Duck’s season. In a recent poll, the media chose the Ducks as Pac-12 Title favorites, even over the defending champions, the Stanford Cardinal. The Ducks just barely edged out the Cardinal in a recent media…
Sports Cliché Week: To Use or Avoid Clichés?
Well… it’s Sports Cliché Week! So we here at Sports Networker decided to give you our take on using clichés in your writing. Should you use them or lose them? Here’s what we say! Sports Cliché Week: For a long time sports journalism explained the outcome of professional sports contests like this: “Sometimes teams win…