2007 has been filled with big crises that presented PR challenges, from the Virginia Tech massacre to Don Imus to the NBA's gambling referee. PRWeek has done a nice job summing up the year in PR with its 2007 Book of Lists, including 10 PR Crises that...
Want to learn how not to screw up a fantastic opportunity to manage a well-known and much-loved brand? Take a pointer or two from The Knicks' management. MSNBC broke it down nicely, explaining how the New York Knicks are becoming "the biggest punchline in American sports." Management deals...
This paper points out that in order to make any product work, whether it's a sports team product or whatever, one really need to figure out what the brand is. And in this world since there are so many brands asking for the attention, a lot of it depends upon...
Memorial services for Jackie Boone, wife of longtime Jazz broadcaster and ex-Jazz player Ron Boone, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Calvary Baptist Church, 1090 S. State in Salt Lake City. Jackie Boone, 62, passed away Tuesday night at the Huntsman Cancer Institute following a...
Morris Almond can shoot. That much the Jazz knew when they selected the shooting guard from Rice University in the first round, No. 25 overall, of the 2007 NBA Draft. Almond also can score. He proved that at Rice, where he...
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan on Wednesday used a simple question about the conditioning status of young big men Kyrylo Fesenko and Kosta Koufos to deliver a rather strongly worded warning to one of the two. And it wasn't directed at Koufos, a teen-aged rookie first-round draft choice...
Oklahoma City's NBA franchise has yet to determine where on the radio and television dials its games will be found during the upcoming season. What has been determined is sports reports on television and radio stations won't have any kind of shortage of NBA talk. ...
Maybe you've heard this before: A high profile NBA power forward says he is on board with his team, all systems go as the free agent signing period approaches. It looks like a long and happy relationship ahead. But before you can say "Benedict Arnold" he's staging...
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Clippers acquired center Marcus Camby from the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday for the option to exchange second-round picks with the Clippers in 2010. Camby led the NBA in blocked shots with 3.61 per game last season, only the second player in...
He was a lottery pick, taken No. 12 overall in the 2005 NBA Draft -- the same draft that nine selections earlier landed the Jazz point guard Deron Williams -- despite his having just turned 18 years old at the time. But Yaroslav Korolev's career with the...
LOS ANGELES AFP — The Los Angeles Clippers acquired forward Marcus Camby from the Denver Nuggets for a second-round draft pick on Tuesday. Camby is considered one of the top defensive players in the National Basketball Association. He became just the second player in NBA history to lead...
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Former "Fab Five" and NBA Pro Jalen Rose Gives Back to the Community by Donating $50,000 to Students from Detroit and His Alma Mater Southwestern High School DETROIT -- For the sixth consecutive year, The Jalen Rose Foundation announced today that NBA star, member of the University of...
NEW YORK -- Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy made more than 100 phone calls to a fellow official at the same time he was providing information to gamblers during the 2006-07 season, Fox News reported Monday. Citing court documents and phone records it obtained, Fox reported Donaghy...
A Belgium-based brewing company's purchase of the USA's top beermaker, Anheuser-Busch, could spell trouble for the American sports industry, sports marketing executives say. Anheuser-Busch agreed Sunday to be bought out by InBev for $52billion. Sports teams, TV networks and media outlets depend on A-B for advertising...
NBA Hall of Fame Legend Oscar Robertson's Leading Specialty Chemical Company will Market 'Powered by SDC' Spectrum 24 Disinfectant SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PURE Bioscience today announced an agreement with Orchem Corporation for distribution of PURE's silver dihydrogen citrate SDC-based disinfectant under Orchem's...
SHANGHAI, July 14 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- PPLive Inc. ( http://www.pplive.com/ ), a leading internet TV broadcasting and online video streaming media company in China with over 100 million users worldwide, announced today that it has signed a partnership with China Central Television's CCTV.com, the official Internet platform of the 2008 Olympics,...
LOS ANGELES -- Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced a powerful slate of new initiatives during a special media briefing before the start of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Among the announcements made today: The Sims[TM] introduced an all-new franchise with SimAnimals[TM], EA signed up with legendary development...
Hosted by Chauncey Billups of the Detroit Pistons DETROIT, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Get your golf clubs ready! The Children's Center 24th Annual Celebrity Golf Classic is just around the corner on Monday, July 28, 2008 at the Birmingham Country Club. The day is sure...
Entriq , aleading digital media company that makes it easy for content providers andbroadcasters to quickly and efficiently get their video content to viewers,today announced that its newest customer, AutomotiveStreetStyle.com has selected its PUBLISH solution from among a slate of top tier digitalvideo providers. AutomotiveStreetStyle.com, founded by former NBA...
