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    U.S. Sports Leagues Prepping for Worse 2009
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    Signs of possible weakness are already apparent as such sports as the National Football League, Major League Baseball, golf and NASCAR each have felt different kinds of pain—from sponsors reducing spending to lower attendance to job cuts. "There used to be a theory ... that we seemed almost to be recession proof ... This is different clearly." Baseball has responded by freezing employment and league budgets, while many teams did not raise 2009 ticket prices. Full Article at The Epoch Times
    There used to be a theory ... that we seemed almost to be recession proof ... This is different clearly.
    Bud Selig – Bud Selig SOURCE: The Epoch Times 12 months ago
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U.S. Sports Leagues Prepping for Worse 2009
  1. Our revenue reduction is quite small, but it looms large because the margins at the National Football League in total are not enormous
    SOURCE: The Epoch Times 12 months ago
  2. What we're seeing now is a pullback on spending by corporations ... and those things come home to roost in ways that can negatively impact us.
    SOURCE: The Epoch Times 12 months ago
  3. It's unlikely that we won't suffer (in 2009)
    SOURCE: The Epoch Times 12 months ago
  4. Next year, we will not obviously make that kind of a gain
    SOURCE: The Epoch Times 12 months ago
  5. The no-shows are up a little bit
    SOURCE: The Epoch Times 12 months ago
  6. The mentality has been that these have been a separate budget ... don't touch it. All that has been changed ... Those sacred cows are now being challenged very seriously.
    SOURCE: The Epoch Times 12 months ago

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