We are moving forward with the finest officials in sports back on the field.
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He had heard the rumblings that his team wanted to move him out of one of the most prestigious positions in sports: center field for the New York Yankees, onetime home of Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle.
Unlike sports in which the home field advantage is attributed to the officials, the researchers believe psychological factors are at work here.
Dan and Keri work in the field of disabled sports, Keri for Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association and Dan for the Chicago Park District.
The issue has again put front and center the question of whether sports figures, often lauded as heroes, should be judged in the annals of sports history by way of their off-the-field conduct.
Leadership is a singular quality, whether in the boardroom, the political arena or on the sports field.
In a culture that encourages the constant search for the limits of human achievement, we, the fans, the consumers of popular sports entertainment, revel in record-breaking, gravity-defying, barely believable feats on the field of play.
In Ghana, for example, Vega has sponsored schools, clinics and sports teams, most notably the national teams in track and field and boxing.
The earnings window for athletes in sports like gymnastics, track and field, wrestling, and figure skating is very small, both in terms of the number of athletes that will cash in as well as the length of time they have to cash in.
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College sports offers the most uneven playing field between schools in terms of financial capabilities and exposure.
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And the 13 channels in Asia show sports like table tennis and men's field hockey.
The primary reason why performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are outlawed in professional sports is that they give users an unfair advantage over the rest of the field.
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In September, 2009 a bankruptcy court approved the sale of the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and a 25% stake in a regional sports channel from Tribune Co. to Tom Ricketts.
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Friendly with LeBron James and a number of sports superstars, Jay-Z could quickly make Roc Nation a force in the agency field.
Teams like Portland and Utah in the NBA, Ottawa in the NHL, and San Francisco and Chicago Cubs in MLB outdraw the median attendance within their sports without having stars or with little recent on-field success (the Giants recent World Series notwithstanding).
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"He can talk to them about both their on-field and off-field businesses, and in the way that he has migrated from singer to producer to sports-team owner, show them a path that I'm sure a lot of them would like to follow one day, " Mr. Horowitz said.
Kraft is among the most highly regarded owners in professional sports, having created, out of an ash heap, a perennial winner on and off the field.
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But you can't chalk up NBC's success only to having a relatively clear playing field, or to using sports promotion that's proven to be very unreliable in the past.
Nobody in sports had ever faced the sort of pressure, and abuse, that Jackie Robinson did when he took the field for the first time in a Brooklyn uniform on April 15, 1947.
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This is also because, unlike American sports where drafts and salary caps tend to level the playing field over time, soccer teams in the same league can have radically different resources, sometimes by a factor of 10 or more.
And to keep the playing field even, we limited the contenders to cities with at least 75 cumulative seasons in the four major sports leagues.
If PEDs are made legal in professional sports, then suspicion would no longer need apply and the best players would be fairly rewarded for their on-field performances.
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There are three major stadiums within walking distance, with year round spectator sports, most notably Coors Field, the home of the Colorado Rockies, which also helped usher in the quality baseball stadium revival when it opened in 1995.
In an attempt to level the financial playing field for broadcasters, British regulators want British Sky Broadcasting to offer its main sports channels, Sky Sports 1 and 2, to other cable, Internet and terrestrial channels at cheaper wholesale prices.
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