Topic: Marc Ganis
With the homestretch of its season in sight, the NBA is bracing for a second straight year of losses. Commissioner David Stern estimates that half the league's 30 teams will finish 2009-10 in the red, the same number as last season ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tiger Woods has just made life a whole lot tougher for athletes looking to score big deals to pitch a company's products or services.The lurid, unrelenting media coverage of the world No. 1 golfer's fall from grace ...
Three months ago, Pappas, armed with $2.5 million in start-up financing from family and friends, hired as chief executive Mark Mastalir, a former Wrigley ( WWY - news - people ) and Nike ( NKE - news - people ) executive and a one-time senior director of business development ...
Less than an hour before game time, Boog Powell, the former Baltimore Orioles slugger turned stadium restaurateur, stands in his usual spot, greeting fans lined up for his sizzling pork and beef dishes at Boog's Barbeque Pit, along the concourse beyond ...
For the first time in the current financial crisis, a team from the powerhouse of sports leagues, the NFL, is for sale. To hear sports-business experts tell it, look for the price to confirm that the toughest economy in years doesn't ...
Back then, when the New York Yankees were in the midst of a mini-dynasty (four titles from 1996 to 2000), owners pointed to the Yankees' dominance as they screamed for luxury taxes and increased revenue sharing to bring more competition to the ...
Cubs deal consultant spoke of `opportunities' in e-mails to top Blagojevich aideA sports consultant helping Tribune Co. with a potential Wrigley Field sale said in an e-mail to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's top aide that the results of the presidential election ...
Excerpts of consultant Ganis' e-mails with former Blagojevich chief of staff HarrisExcerpts of e-mails from Marc Ganis, a Tribune Co. consultant on Wrigley Field business deals, to John Harris, then chief of staff to Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Allegations involving state assistance from ...
"It's called dead money," says industry consultant Marc Ganis of Sports Corp. Limited. " And while it's tough to figure a precise number--how much of the $126 million the Giants spent on pitcher Barry Zito, who was banished to the bullpen ...
All sports teams want bragging rights, but with the cost of a new stadium now more than $1 billion, it's naming rights they're after.. 'There's more value to what's being offered,' said Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp Ltd ...