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• CBSSports And Sports Illustrated Strike Print, Digital Content Deal

  PaidContent - 2009-08-31

  The difficult media landscape is encouraging more content companies to start sharing resources, and today’s big partnership comes from CBSSports.com and Sports Illustrated. The two will mix and distribute each other’s content across their online properties, as well as in Sports Illustrated magazine. The deal also includes CBS Interactive’s...

  Tags: Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Magazines, TV, Broadcast, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Time Warner, Time Inc., David Kaplan

• Best Ever April Fool's Pranks from Business

  BNET - 2009-04-01

  The Find: It's April Fool's Day in gloomy times and everyone could use a few laughs, so Business Pundit is rounding up the ten best April Fool's pranks by companies of all time. Enjoy. The Source: The blog Business Pundit. The Takeaway: Forget the...

  Tags: Sports Illustrated, Burger King Corp., Richard Branson, Blogging, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Jessica Stillman

• Bill Conlin: Phillies should consider Hunsicker as GM

  - 2008-09-02

  W HEN I'M King of the World  . . . Gerry Hunsicker will be in play when Dave Montgomery launches the process of hiring general manager Pat Gillick's successor.If you think the remarkable blossoming of the serially moribund Tampa Bay Rays is due to the genius of 31-year-old Andrew Friedman,...

  Tags: Games, General Motors Corp., Sports Illustrated, team

• 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

• Taco Bell offers to make anyone a swimsuit-model photographer

  - 2008-02-25

  IRVINE, CALIF. -- Taco Bell has tied itself to the release of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue with an online rnicrosite that allows visitors to become virtual photographers and shoot pictures of model Daniella Sarahyba. The site, www.directdaniella.com, is part of an integrated campaign that includes print and online advertising,...

  Tags: Sports Illustrated, Taco Bell Corp.

• 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

• Boxer Mosley's name linked to BALCO: report

  - 2007-09-28

  NEW YORK AFP — Fighter Shane Mosley used the notorious BALCO steroids "the clear" and "the cream" as well as EPO before a 2003 fight against Oscar de la Hoya, the SI.com sports website reported on Friday. The report on the Sports Illustrated website said that BALCO investigator Jeff...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, Sports Illustrated

• In the air.(Sports)

  - 2007-05-11

  Remotely interesting: NBC reported 13.8 million people tuned in to its Kentucky Derby coverage Saturday. ... HBO replays Floyd Mayweather's split-decision win over Oscar De La Hoya at 9 p.m. Saturday. A Sports Illustrated poll of the players on the PGA Tour found that...

  Tags: ESPN, Games, NBC Universal Inc., Philadelphia, Sports Illustrated

• Pro wrestlers latest linked to US internet steroid case

  - 2007-03-20

  NEW YORK AFP — Eleven professional wrestlers have reportedly been linked in documents to the internet drug distribution ring that has produced charges against 20 people. In a web site posting, Sports Illustrated magazine said investigators uncovered the names while sorting through information seized in raids last month on...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, prescription, Sports Illustrated