It was quite the week at Minneapolis North High. The school hosted the Middle School basketball championships, a girls’ game against a City Conference rival the following evening, and a boys’ game the next night. Here is how the final three days of the week unfolded. Wednesday Feb. 4: The Minneapolis City Middle School boys’ and girls’ basketball championships were … [Read more...]
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Best values for sports fans
Do fans get their full value when they attend live sporting events? Do they go home happy afterwards or suffer buyers’ remorse? Team Marketing Report (TMR) last month released the NFL “Home Field Disadvantage” report. They used a formula to “create a cost-per-win average” by multiplying a team’s average ticket price by the number of regular-season home games, then dividing it … [Read more...]
Blacks were ‘born to wrestle’
But so far, getting them on the mat has not been easy This column continues the Only One series in which this reporter shares his experiences as the only African American journalist on the scene. There’s a simple, one-handed measuring tool to gauge diversity, which often is used at sporting events: If you can count all the Blacks in attendance with one hand, diversity is … [Read more...]
Cost of attending pro games steadily rising
Whether it’s the NFL, NBA, NHL or Major League Baseball, the average ticket continues to not be cheap. Game prices rarely go down, says the Chicago-based Team Marketing Report (TMR), which uses a Fan Cost Index (FCI) formula to determine the approximate cost of tickets, two beers, four soft drinks, four hot dogs, parking, two programs, and two adult hats for a family of four … [Read more...]
Brady & Belichick win Super Bowl XLIX!
GLENDALE, AZ — They did it! New England’s Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are champions again after winning a 28-24 gut-wrenching Super Bowl victory over defending champion Seattle. B&B is one of my favorite refreshments on ice with lemon; Sunday, Belichick & Brady put the Seahawks on ice. Seattle actually led 24-14 going into the fourth quarter only to have Brady throw … [Read more...]