Richard Seidlitz Director of Licensing NFL

For anyone who loves professional sports -- watching them rather than playing them -- Richard Seidlitz's job as the director of licensing for the National Football League sounds like a dream come true. And for Mr. Seidlitz, it is.

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Scout.com: The Elephants in the Room

As Braylon Edwards sat nearby, sportswriter Buzz Bissinger tore into sports blogs, blaming them for the doom of quality sports journalism. OBR publisher Barry McBride argues Bissinger and others need to stop picking on easy targets, and focus on much more challenging problems...

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ESPN - Freakonomics on Celtics Stat Whiz Mike Zarren - TrueHoop By Henry Abbott

When I met the Celtics' Mike Zarren at that MIT conference a few months ago (he's the part of Boston's front office that is neither Danny Ainge nor a scout -- they run a lean operation), it was clear the dude had not only uncommon insight into basketball statistics, but also unco …

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NBC Super Bowl Ads to Cost $3 Million - WSJ.com

The Super Bowl has always been a tough ticket, but now NBC is telling advertisers it will cost them $3 million just to get into the game -- for 30 seconds.

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Questions for Lew Wolff - WSJ.com

Many Bay Area fans cheered in 2005 when a group of investors led by real estate magnate Lew Wolff announced its purchase of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics for about $180 million.

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What Fantasy Can Learn from the NFL Draft - WSJ.com

Stricter time limits are just one of many practices a fantasy draft could learn from the real one.

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A Draft-Day Genius

If there's a second thing that every draft pundit agrees on, as the National Football League draft, which takes place today and tomorrow, approaches, it's that the president of the Indianapolis Colts knows more about the draft than anyone.

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Social oriented fantasy sports websites in demand

Mike Levy, the founder of CBS SportsLine ( formerly SportsLine but bought by CBS in 2004 ), is preparing to announce his newest venture, OPEN Sports Network.

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And Then There Was One

By the start of the 2007 season, only Rob Fleder and Glen Waggoner remained as veterans of every season since 1980. And now there's one: Mr. Waggoner has retired from Rotisserie baseball.

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ClayNation: Justice is blind in Fantasy leagues - CBSSports.com

Right now the Supreme Court of the United States is deciding whether or not to grant a writ of certiorari to the Major League Baseball Player Association and Major League Baseball Advanced Media in their appeal of an 8th Circuit decision affirming the right of a Fantasy football  …

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Size Does Matter, But…PTI & Around the Horn

Take my favorite hour of television bar none, the 5pm-6pm (EDT) block on ESPN of Around the Horn (ATH)and Pardon the Interruption (PTI).

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Fantasy sports are for real

Fantasy sports have really exploded across the country in the last decade. It used to be only hardcore stat geeks that played, but now it seems almost everyone does.

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AT&T stadium deal with Cowboys would be more than a name

According to a draft document obtained by the Star-Telegram on April 11, AT&T and the Cowboys are in serious negotiations to put the telecommunications giant's name on the team's new stadium in Arlington, calling it AT&T Field.

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A Web Shift in the Way Advertisers Seek Clicks - New York Times

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Big Brown's Stock Is Up, but It Could Really Soar - New York Times

I.E.A.H. is applying the lucrative lessons its founders learned on Wall Street to an industry that has proved inscrutable to many other successful businessmen.

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Tension Over Sports Blogging - New York Times

Tension over sports blogging is one of the strains between sports franchises, leagues and reporters to have emerged during the digital age.

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The Associated Press: Enthusiasts find big is not always best with social networks

Forget Facebook, MySpace or any other online hangout that boasts tens or hundreds of millions of people.

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The Evolution from Homers to Holds in Fantasy Stats

In its first several years, fantasy baseball was scored using eight categories – home runs, batting average, runs batted in and stolen bases on the hitting side; wins, earned run average, WHIP (walks and hits divided by innings pitched) and saves on the pitching side.

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The Don Sells MLS Soccer to the Wall St. Set

The MLS commissioner was once again a guest on Bloomberg News talking about how this is going to be the best year yet for the League of Extraordinarily Underpaid Gentlemen

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How Sportswriting Lost Its Game

Does sports journalism suck? In terms of urgency, the question is less national defense and more spilled milk, but I do feel like weeping whenever I peruse ESPN.com, fending off the bilge and looking for a piece that tackles an actual ethical or social issue.

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Fantasy Sports vs. Social Media « Trying to Understand a 3.0 World

For those of you who have been living under a rock, fantasy sports have been growing exponentially over the past few years.

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NFL's Giants Redeeming $100 Million in Auction Debt

The Super Bowl champion New York Giants are losing in the bond market after interest costs for a new stadium reached as high as 22 percent, forcing the football team to redeem $100 million of auction-rate securities.

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Wall Street Journal Online Employs STATS' Online Sports Solution

STATS LLC, the world's leading sports information provider, and The Wall Street Journal Online announced today that www.wsj.com will utilize STATS' hosted online sports solution.

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Andy Staples: A closer look at the small and LARGE print of recruiting letters - Andy Staples - SI.com

Forcier has offers from schools in all six BCS conferences, so the letters posted on his site offer an excellent cross-section of big-time programs. And like Gundy's all-caps missive, each says a lot about the coach and the program he represents.

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Questions for Ted Leonsis

Washington Capitals Owner On Why Hockey Will Never Have As Many Fans as NFL, MLB

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