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• Citizen Sports Fantasy Football for Facebook to Test Ability to Build Major Business in Social Network Application Category

  - 2008-08-26

  Citizen Sports Network today said that it has surpassed 200,000 Facebook sign-ups and secured seven figures in sponsorship deals from AT&T, FinishLine and others in advance of its inaugural season of Fantasy Football 2008 on Facebook. This customer and investment combination has strongly positioned Fantasy Football 2008 on Facebook...

  Tags: Branding, Facebook, Fantasy, league, MARKETING, NFL, Sports Illustrated

• Online Marathon for Olympics Fans, Lunch Breaks Not Included

  - 2008-08-20

  More than half-way through the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, today reported that U.S. fans continue to follow the games online in strong numbers, with slightly larger audiences on work days than weekends (Table 1). Nielsen Online data also showed that during the recent...

  Tags: MARKETING, NBC Universal Inc., Nielsen, Sports Illustrated, video

• Matthews to meet with officials over HGH reports

  - 2007-11-07

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Los Angeles Angels outfielder Gary Matthews Jnr was set to meet Wednesday with Major League Baseball officials regarding reports he received human growth hormone HGH, according to local media. Matthews received an HGH shipment in 2004, according to a February report by Sports Illustrated, but...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, MARKETING, MLB, Sports Illustrated

• Expectations on the rise for 2006-07 Jazz

  - 2006-11-01

  So, how well will the Jazz perform this year? Expectations are fairly high -- both locally and nationally. Among the national media, the Jazz are picked to make the playoffs by both Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News. SI even rates the Jazz the fourth-best team...

  Tags: Denver, E-mail, MARKETING, NBA, Sports Illustrated

• Brady's Bunch; Leive's looking for a backyard.(People & Players; Cynthia Leive )(Biography)

  - 2005-07-04

  Byline: James Brady It's been four years since Cynthia Leive became editor of Conde Nast's 66-year-old Glamour, and in that time the tall, slender and very pretty Leive, married to a filmmaker, has produced two babies and re-invigorated her monthly (a National Magazine Award...

  Tags: brand, Branding, GIS, International Olympic Committee, MARKETING, Newsweek, SOFTWARE, Sports Illustrated, TVs

• HOT DESERT NIGHTS; FROM SIZZLING STRIP JOINTS TO PRIVATE PENTHOUSES, THE APPAREL APPARATUS DRANK, DANCED, DINED AND DEALT THROUGHOUT THE WEEK IN LAS VEGAS.

  - 2005-02-21

  Ben Sherman and Maxim at 40 Deuce Ben Sherman's Ricardo Meyer and Miles Gray with Maxim's Stan Williams The Crowd Gets Down Chaps and Sports Illustrated at Light Chaps' Kevin Mahoney and Model...

  Tags: brand, Branding, MARKETING, Nordstrom Inc., Sports Illustrated, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc.

• Getting Your Phil (Publishers Weekly)

  - 2004-11-08

  And this time it's not Dr. Phil, but coach Phil--Phil Jackson, that is: the nine-time NBA champion coach, whose book climbs to #6 in its second week on PW 's nonfiction list. The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul went on sale on October 21...

  Tags: ESPN, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, NBA, NETWORKING, Sports Illustrated

• Media & marketing

  - 2004-07-12

  Robert Bradford has joined GKM as vice president. Bradford brings nearly 20 years of public relations experience to the firm. Amy O'Dorisio has joined Nuffer, Smith, Tucker as an account coordinator. Prior to joining NST, O'Dorisio held positions at Sports Illustrated, Major League Baseball Productions, and in the ballpark department...

  Tags: MARKETING, MLB, Sports Illustrated

• People & Players.(Los Angeles Parade)(New York Account Planners)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-01-05

  Los Angeles Parade sponsors the 56th annual Toys for Tots luncheon. The event is presented each year by the Advertising Club of Los Angeles in conjunction with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. (From l.) Jim Hackett Sr., VP-advertising, Parade; Gerry Byrne Sr., adviser, Parade; Brad Ball,...

  Tags: brand, Branding, MARKETING, Parade, Sports Illustrated, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• People & Players.

  - 2003-09-01

  Brooklyn, Mich. TNT analyst Wally Dallenbach (l.) gives 3 Doors Down lead singer Brad Arnold a spin around Michigan International Speedway prior to TNT's coverage of Nascar's Winston Cup Michigan 400. Detroit The GM Planworks team sweeps the races at Popular Mechanics' Motor...

  Tags: advertisement, General Motors Corp., MARKETING, media, Sports Illustrated