Five years ago, Sports Authority signed a sponsorship deal with their hometown major league baseball team, the Colorado Rockies. They’d become the team’s “exclusive sporting goods retailer,” and the team would put ads for them in the stadium, on the backs of tickets, and in stadium programs. These ads have stayed up since Sports Authority filed for bankruptcy, and the team wants the retailer to pay up for the two and a half months that the ads have remained up. [More]
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Rockies Want Sponsorship Money From Sports Authority, Say They’re Promoting Liquidation Sales
By 6.13.16
Fired St. Louis Cardinals Exec To Plead Guilty To Hacking Houston Astros Front Office
By 1.8.16
Sports-related chicanery often ends in suspensions and the occasional expulsion, but rarely does it rise to the level of actual crime. Then again, it’s not every day that one team illegally breaches the private network of another. [More]
Did The St. Louis Cardinals Hack Houston Astros’ Front Office? FBI Investigating
By 6.16.15
Major League Baseball is a huge business and much of a team’s financial success depends on its ability to win on the field. So the idea of one team possibly breaching another team’s network to get information on player personnel isn’t very different from two rival manufacturers trying to steal trade secrets. That’s why the FBI is investigating claims that the St. Louis Cardinals might have hacked into the computer network for the Houston Astros’ front office. [More]
