Your sports knowledge is your best weapon. Are you ready to take on the challenge? With questions ranging from classic moments to the latest headlines, Playoff Quiz provides hours of endless entertainment. Test your knowledge of sports history and current events. Learn new facts, stats and trivia about your favorite sports while you play. Play! … Read more
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CAA Sports Property Sales, the division of the top talent agency working on expensive stadium naming rights deals (i.e. the $500 million-plus deal to name the LA Clippers' home Intuit Dome), has promoted executives from long given to new leadership roles. Alexa Cook, who joined the Century City-based agency in 2010 and focused on business … Read more
Telemundo is shaking up the management of its sports division, Telemundo Deportes. The Spanish-language media company, owned by NBCUniversal, said Joaquin Duro will become executive vice president of the division and will report to Telemundo Enterprises President Luis Fernandez. Duro succeeds Eli Velazquez, who will leave the company at the end of the month. In … Read more
Leonard Asper’s Anthem Sports and Entertainment has acquired Hollywood Suite, an independent Canadian broadcaster that carries four HD movie channels. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but pending regulatory approvals, Anthem will acquire the commercial-free movie channels featuring mostly Hollywood titles from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, which will be distributed to 10 … Read more
Canadian telecom giant BCE Inc. has reached an agreement with rival telecommunications and cable giant Rogers Communications to sell its 37.5 percent stake in Maple Leafs Sports Entertainment for C$4.7 billion (US$3.46 billion). The deal increases Rogers’ majority stake in MLSE, which includes the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors professional sports teams, to 75 … Read more
Inspirational sports dramas usually share key elements: struggle, setbacks, perseverance, and hard-fought triumph. Even more effective if the film centers on a protagonist who is disadvantaged, financially or physically, to inject that underdog spirit. First-time director William Goldenberg has all of this in Unstoppablethe incredible true story of wrestler Anthony Robles, who was born with … Read more
In a move that disrupts the business models of regional sports networks in the country’s largest television market, YES Network and MSG Networks will launch a new app called The Gotham Sports App that will bring together all of their live games and programming under one app. YES, the television home of the New York … Read more