As it stands, the likelihood of MLB playing with fans in attendance this season is close to zero. Due to the unprecedented nature of these times, MLB clubs are looking into ways to increase sponsorship sales by adding tarp advertising to the empty seats filling the stadium. According to a Read more…
As Major League Baseball works toward a resolution to have an 82-game season this year, minor-league baseball is preparing for its fate during the COVID-19 pandemic. When MLB announces a plan for the 2020 season, it appears the hammer will drop on MiLB. Click here to read the story at msn.com. Discussion Read more…
When you can’t do what you should be doing, what do you do? That’s the question Rochester Red Wings General Manager Dan Mason is asking as Frontier Field sits empty. “It’s really difficult,” Mason says. “What I would do for a 35-degree game right now with 500 people in the Read more…
While a few live sporting contests have resumed, for the most part, we are relying on old footage to scratch our sports itch. As we have noted, with no games, numerous teams, organizations and figures have done their part to keep fans enthused about their respective athletic endeavors in other Read more…
n Madison, the “Duck Pond” is a stadium where the hometown baseball team plays. The Madison Mallards play their home games at 2920 N. Sherman Ave in the stadium at Warner Park. But there’s so much more than baseball going on at the pond this summer. From princess night to Read more…
With no minor league baseball games to be played, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos are getting creative and diving into the hospitality business. The team, the Class AA affiliate of the Minnesota Twins that plays in the Southern League, listed Blue Wahoos Stadium on Airbnb, starting at $1,500 a night (plus Read more…
If NBA games resume this season — and possibly into the start of next season — there will be no live fans in attendance at the games. However, there could be virtual fans. The league is looking into this, according to a couple of recent statements, including one from the Bucks’ Chief Read more…
The sudden disappearance of sports will erase at least $12 billion in revenue and hundreds of thousands of jobs, an economic catastrophe that will more than double if the college football and NFL schedules are wiped out this fall by the coronavirus pandemic, an analysis conducted for ESPN shows. Click here to Read more…
Major League Baseball has seen this play before: A global calamity spreads fear and panic. Equity values plummet. The future gets scary. And prices for the most valuable teams in the league hold their lead. Click here to read the story at forbes.com. Questions for class discussion: What is revenue? Why is Read more…
Like many Americans around the country, Gwen Berry is weighing her financial options. She is thinking about filing for unemployment, or seeing if she can get a day job, like the one she once held at Dick’s Sporting Goods, to help stem the financial tide left behind by the coronavirus. Read more…