dfwabel
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Grossi left the Plain Dealer eight years ago after some Tweets regarding then owner Randy Lerner.
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He really must be upset that High Noon was cancelled yesterday as Pablo was with his wife as she delivered their first child.
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4 hours ago, Brian in Boston said:
Apparently, the Vegas Golden Knights are planning to have their AHL affiliate's residency at Orleans Arena be a temporary one. The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that the Golden Knights' top farm team will ultimately play in a 6,000-seat Henderson, Nevada arena. The facility, to be constructed on the site of the Henderson Pavilion, will be located just under 7 miles from the Golden Knights' Lifeguard Arena complex on Water Street in Henderson.
Golden Knights announce new arena for AHL team in HendersonI wonder if this, along with a potential Knights contribution, will aid in UNLV hockey going from ACHA club to NCAA Division 1
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1 hour ago, CrimsonBull9584 said:
I wonder what the expansion plan is for the MEAC. The only remaining HBCUs that they could add are in D2. I find it unlikely that Tennessee State would leave the OVC for the MEAC. Nor do I think any SWAC school would jump ship. D2 is pretty much the only place to go. Further, Kentucky State is planning on moving up to D1 and have been eyeing the OVC. I wonder what they would do if the MEAC were to make them an offer.
The travel costs alone would crush an already tenuous budget in a school with a total enrollment of under 2,500. They would be 450 miles to the closest member school. Maryland-Eastern Shore and Daytona Beach are 680 and 830 miles away respectively
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On 2/5/2020 at 4:07 PM, DG_ThenNowForever said:
One potential benefit of Spotify buying The Ringer is maybe Simmons won't be able to use the network as a nepotism vehicle for giving prime on-air jobs to people whose only qualifications are growing up with or having been related to Bill? Dare to dream.
Apparently, he contractually must stay on, but it seems that the transaction was around $250M.
QuoteSpotify Technology SA is paying close to $200 million upfront for the Ringer, the growing online sports and pop-culture outlet, as part of its push into podcasting, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The previously undisclosed price of 180 million euros will be followed by more than $50 million later, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the terms aren’t public. Spotify, the world’s largest streaming audio service, is expected to detail the costs in a regulatory filing soon.
Simmons was the largest shareholder of the Ringer. HBO, a division of AT&T Inc., owned a 10% stake. The deal requires Simmons to keep working at Spotify for some time, and also includes protections to ensure Spotify doesn’t cut much of his staff, said the person.
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Boise State and MWC are back at square one.
QuoteThe Mountain West Board of Directors has quietly voted to rescind a decision that would end Boise State’s additional slice of revenue from the conference’s TV contract, several sources told the Union-Tribune.
In exchange, Boise State will drop a legal complaint filed last month against the conference and agree to terms of the new TV contract that begins this summer.
Essentially, the two sides are back to square one.
Boise State claims its special “carve-out” for broadcast rights to home football games, granted in 2012 as incentive to return to the Mountain West after nearly leaving for the Big East, has no expiration date and is warranted as the conference’s marquee football program. The Mountain West’s other 11 football members want TV money to be distributed evenly no matter a program’s record or pedigree, as it is in most other conferences.
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10 minutes ago, MBurmy said:
IIRC, that's the second HBCU to leave the MEAC for the Big South in the recent conference shuffle (after Hampton)...I wonder if it's gonna become a trend now?
Unlikely
Hampton has the third largest endowment and NC A&T is sixth among HBCUs. NC A&T also has the largest enrollment on HBCUs, is growing, and seems to have the most support from the NC Legislature. NC A&T has also been touting cost savings since most Big South opponents would be a 4 or less hour bus ride.
Plus, South Carolina State may close due to small enrollment (they are under 1,000) and Bethune-Cookman is in accreditation jeopardy. MEAC may just go down to eight via attrition.
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On 2/2/2020 at 12:02 PM, lilben777 said:
I’ve said that BYU & Boise would jump to the PAC, helps there new tv deal and maybe have a real network like the SEC, ACC and B1G have, right now there’s is mostly regional. I think teaming up with ESPN or getting more FOX help would be good. And if they wanna go to 16 I’ve said SD St and prob UNLV. This might be the opening the Dakota’s need to go FBS (via the MW) if they want to. That is if they upgrade there facilities
Last week, BYU signed a new agreement with ESPN to have their home games there through the 2026 season. It also provides them with access to ESPN owned bowl games in the even years, as in the odd years, they will play in the Independence Bowl, if eligible.
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On 1/26/2020 at 12:21 PM, GDAWG said:
His suggestion of Indiana State, the school of Larry Bird, to the Big Ten, a P5 conference makes no sense. If the Big Ten was to expand, it would be from the MAC. My guess is that he is an alumni of Indiana State or is related to alumni of Indiana State.
There's just one MAC school who is even close to qualify academically: The University at Buffalo.
They are an AAU member (like 13 of B1G's 14 members), award terminal degrees in both medicine and law, and garner research dollars with a R1 Carnegie classification, but they ain't getting in.
With the population shifts, many of the MAC have declining enrollment due to the declining in state populations. NIU has a 20% lower enrollment since 2013 and 6,000 less from 2009 and nearly every Ohio school is in the same boat with Akron who cut 80 degree programs (18%) and offered buyout to half of the faculty last year.
12 hours ago, Maroon said:As a Missouri State fan, I find it laughable that anybody would suggest ANY MVFC team to the Big Ten (NDSU and SDSU are the only teams that really could even justify FBS right now based off football success, and they wouldn't be going to the Big Ten that's for sure), but INDIANA STATE? You're talking about a state school with an enrollment just north of 12k. Excluding the one private school, the smallest state school in the B1G is Iowa with 33k+ students (and Northwestern is a private school with 20k+ at that). If any school in the MVFC would have a chance in hell of ever making it to any P5 conference within the next 50 years it would be Illinois State or Missouri State... and that ain't happening 'neither. If an FBS move ever happens for them it'd have to be something like the MAC or Sun Belt.
No need for a third Indiana school not named Notre Dame and for they're tied to the ACC contractually for years.
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The Tampa Bay Rays are now playing hardball with the most lucrative piece of property in the city.
Rays officials have told City Council members that the team will hold up any attempts to develop the 86-acre Tropicana Field site while its locked into playing at the dome through the 2027 season.
That’s what team president Brian Auld conveyed to council members during a spate of rapid-fire meetings held Tuesday and Wednesday, according to two council members.
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QuoteThe revelation of the Rays’ hardball stance comes the day before what could be a contentious meeting between the City Council members and the Krisemans administration on Thursday about the fate of the Rays and the land underneath the Trop.
Council members Amy Foster and Darden Rice both said Auld, in his meetings with them this week, referenced a quote from former St. Petersburg city attorney John Wolfe that appeared in a July 15, 2019 Tampa Bay Times article about the redevelopment of Tropicana Field.
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Penn National Gaming buys 36% share of Barstool
They're basically a gambling conduit for Millennials, Gen-Y and Gen-Alpha when they become of age.
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1 hour ago, gosioux76 said:
I know nothing about modern turf technology, but doesn't it seem more than reasonable to make turf in which design elements can be interchangeable? Like, replaceable endzone designs, etc. I might be asking too much.
A retractable roof or multi-use NFL stadium typically has a turf laid down in segments and taped which can easily picked up. College venues are laid down and sewn together since they don't need to change any.
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8 minutes ago, GDAWG said:
Curious to see what Globe Life Park and Audi Field look like for football and whether or not the football hashmarks will be visible during DC United games.
They will likely be visible since green paint does not match the actual grass.
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6 minutes ago, DG_Now said:
I listened to the latest Book of Basketball 2.0 podcast (because I'm dumb) and I realized they're just using old content they recorded for an NBA Rewatchables series they decided to rebrand.
This evolution of Bill Simmons is a real drag. And it makes me really miss Deadspin.
Speaking of Simmons, I thought you were going to post about the The Ringer Union taking to Twitter complaining that Bill hasn't said anything about the possibly sale to Spotify and the fate of their jobs.
The old man in me thinks this is such a passive-aggressive move that would even make Kevin Durant proud. So very Millennial of them.
And Molly Lambert, who never worked for The Ringer, just Grantland didn't help the cause. Per The Big Lead:
QuoteOn Wednesday, Molly Lambert, a culture writer who worked under Simmons' umbrella at Grantland but not The Ringer, sent a thread of since-deleted tweets: "imagine still posting content on twitter without talking to your staff who you've left in the lurch," she tweeted. "Grantland ended very badly this way because of some backstabbing cowards, really hope they don't do @RingerUnion the same exact way. if you want to present your staff as a fun friend group, be an actual friend. I would say I can't believe the audacity of ringer management to treat the staff like this but unfortunately I can, because it's what they also did to us."
Lambert finished with a tweet referring to Simmons' announcement Ringer Films and HBO are collaborating on a music documentary series that will be in the vein of 30 for 30, saying, "making professional announcements on your twitters while stonewalling your staff about the future of their jobs is truly coward :censored:, I stand with the @RingerUnion."
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43 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:
It's probably still cheaper to use U of H. And a 3/4 empty stadium will look worse on TV.
In one of these XFL threads I linked to the report which the athletic department presented to the Board of Regents with their stadium rental pricing to be approved. It was only $37.5K per day plus expenses.
The U of H football Twitter also has shots of the project, and it looks like midfield and the ten yard space where the AAC logo and the donor's name on the field has been taken up.
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4 hours ago, VDizzle12 said:
I'd assume it's because they couldn't get deal with a big apparel company. Seems like this would have been perfect for Under Armour or Adidas since they had an AAF deal.
I'm actually shocked that the uniforms nice though.
Neither UA not Adidas had an "AAF deal". AAF has their on-field and sideline apparel deal with Starter. Having the AAF shut down after eight weeks cost Starter some $$$, probably enough not to dive back in with an XFL bid.
More importantly, Under Armour's earnings have been disappointing since 2016, to the point that founder Kevin Plank stepped down as CEO last year. They are cutting spending and are under investigation for accounting fraud.
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On 1/18/2020 at 7:13 PM, dfwabel said:
Exactly.
And unless they lay grass in Houston, it ain't gonna change either.
From today's scrimmages/TV dry run.
I wonder if XFL is going pay to be tarp off Upper Decks since they won't be sold
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2 hours ago, anythinglogos said:
On the mobile site, I can’t seem to type at all if I’m replying to a post with a picture in it. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
It is difficult to copy/paste post quotes from a page you may link to as well
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3 hours ago, CrimsonBull9584 said:
How can you say that Salt Lake had the worst when they could't even change the design? That's not their fault and to say that their field design was bad is not fair to the team. I'm sure had they been allowed to do something with the field, it would have been good.
Exactly.
And unless they lay grass in Houston, it ain't gonna change either.
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Bill Simmons may sell The Ringer to Spotify
QuoteSpotify Technology SA is in talks to buy sports and pop-culture outlet the Ringer, according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that would let the audiostreaming giant break into broader digital media and bring a network of more than 30 podcasts under its roof.
The Ringer reportedly attracts more than 100 million downloads a month and would diversify Spotify's current offerings. Last year Spotify spent $400 million to buy three podcast companies and has been consistently adding original content through other deals.
Apparently, podcasts generate $15M in revenue annually for The Ringer.
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On Sunday night, Mike Rhyner, who started Dallas' first all-sports station in D/FW (KTCK/The Ticket) in 1994 the week of the second Cowboys/Bills Super Bowl, retired.
He released his announcement via his daughter's YouTube page.
Will Cain did a very nice shout-out/appreciation.
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Sports media nepotism train keeps rolling along.
Division 1 College Conference Realignment
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New USC AD Mike Bohn, "Everything is on the table."
Also note that even with their third highest fundraising year, UCLA Athletics still ran a $18.9M deficit