Archive for the ‘Sports Biz’ Category
Sunday, April 5th, 2009
The NY Times flexes their journalistic prowess today, uncovering a little-known group of baseball card collectors that share their exuberance in the "breaking" (ie. opening) of a box of new cards by posting their videos on YouTube.
“When you’re in a card store and you’re opening up a box of cards, ...
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
There's only one thing in the world that could be more exciting that watching a baseball player walk. Obviously, that would be a movie about baseball players walking. Steven Soderbergh has apparently decided to turn Michael Lewis's Moneyball into feature film.
Brad Pitt has signed on, probably to play Billy Beane. ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
This post is about HRJ Capital, an investment firm with both Private Equity and Venture Capital arms. No, this isn't another Wall Street story. It's a sports story, because HRJ was started by ex-49ers Ronnie Lott, Joe Montana and Harris Barton in order to invest money from big-name athletes, ...
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