Paul Swangard
Paul Swangard
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The NHL has taught us that the players need to understand that this is about extending the revenue opportunities to keep the dollars flowing. If you want to make millions, (you) have to do some things that are creative. It's about as saturated a marketplace for sports today than we've ever seen before.
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The notion of what it represented is not a bad idea in 2006. This idea that someone is willing to pay for the Olympics when they want it, how they want it.
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Ultimately, his success on the field would open some new doors.
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Until the product is back on the shelf, you can't say what the market is going to be. The NHL hopes its core fans are the first to come back -- and that they bring a friend.
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Clearly in an era in which most athletic departments are told to be self-sufficient, they should look more like the way a business is structured.
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If you don't pay attention to them long term, you are going to wake up one day and have asked yourself, 'Where did all your fans go?'
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I don't know if we'd call this a renaissance, but I think he's certainly coming back to life both on and off the court. He may never get back to where his potential was two or three years ago, but there was always the sense that he could rebuild some of that equity. ... It's clear he's well on his way.
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Finance 101 will tell you, if you take the value of her figure skating revenue streams and discount it, this is a multimillion-dollar disappointment.
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Fans of college football, particularly those who are spending a lot of their dollars, see things less as fans and more as investors. It does beg the question: What point do we damage what was a tradition-based event? I think you can have the best of both worlds.
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While not unprecedented, it takes us into a potentially new era. It's sort of the last bastion in American sports. We haven't been willing to accept it. I'm not sure if that's right or wrong, it's just not been done.
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With all due respect to the Indians, I'm not sure there's an insatiable appetite for Indians programming and nothing else.
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To the degree that she reflects the franchise's style and savvy, she is well respected in a male-dominated sports property. That respect goes all the way up through the league's operations. She has established herself as one of the major team executives in all of sports.
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Globally, the NFL is playing a little bit of catch-up.
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What the NFL taught us . . . is that I can take an absolutely meaningless game between two teams that no one cares about, take them to Mexico, and turn it into an international marketing platform.