The off-season is upon the Bulls as the team will try to bring in a top-name free agent to fill the seats at the United Center. (Courtesy Flickr user Asten)
Articles tagged with: Sports
Written By: David Noell on April 28, 2010
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Written By: Michael Beller on March 5, 2010
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BY MICHAEL BELLER – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
It’s no secret that people have had to cut back across the board during the economic downturn. In the sports world, that’s led to lower attendance and plummeting net gate receipts, the best measure of revenue garnered by teams and leagues from people going to games. In the first quarter of the current NBA season, net gate receipts were down 7.4 percent from the previous season. MLB attendance plunged 6.6 percent to 73.4 million, and the attendance at NCAA college football games dropped 1 percent from 2008, the first time in five years there were less fans through the turnstiles
Written By: Michael Beller on February 18, 2010
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Written By: Michael Beller on February 11, 2010
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BY MICHAEL BELLER – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
The Olympic torch arrives in Vancouver Friday, where thousands of athletes from around the world want to strike gold. Companies looking to do the same should be right there alongside the athletes, as a new study found the Olympics could be the perfect venue to spend advertising [...]
Written By: Michael Beller on January 28, 2010
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A Brunswick bowling alley in Niles, Ill. The company holds a dominant market share in bowling, and net sales in that segment were $82.2 million for the most recent quarter.
BY MICHAEL BELLER – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Written By: Administrator on May 30, 2008
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Don’t play with your food: Are hedge funds to blame for rising food prices?
By Frank Carlson
May 29, 2008
How would you like to earn a million dollars today, just to have it disappear tomorrow? Worse, how would you like it if this happened every day?
That’s exactly what grain elevators are experiencing as record commodity prices [...]
Written By: Justin Amoah on May 15, 2008
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BY JUSTIN A.K. AMOAH – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
NBC barged into the locker room and snatched ESPN’s playbook.
Not literally. But I’ve noticed that a number of NBC’s business and political shows are borrowing — if not outright stealing — their format from sports shows.
Such pilfering shows are also tossing around sports clichés [...]
Written By: Justin Amoah on May 12, 2008
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BY JUSTIN A.K. AMOAH – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
With the NBA playoffs in full swing, we should all be reminded that it’s the Chicago Bulls who are the league’s top financial team.
Over the past five years, the Bulls have won less than 50 percent of their games, but still the franchise has [...]
Written By: Administrator on May 3, 2008
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Chicagoans hungry for books about food, publishers happy to serve up more
by Molly Seltzer
Apr 28, 2008
Loaves and popovers grow lofty and puffy because yeast feeds on sugar and releases carbon dioxide. These rising breads are causing something else to rise — the popularity of food books.
In the [...]