| Yahoo Sports Close to Acquiring Rivals.com
Yahoo is close to acquiring college sports network rivals.com, its biggest sports acquisition since Broadcast.com, reports paidContent.org. The price could reach an estimated $100 million, which is overpriced according to paidContent: "One exec involved in online sports acquisitions told us $50-75 million would be more realistic given a model that can - and has been - replicated." But the acquisition would be a boost to Yahoo Sports, which has been looking for ways to catch up with ESPN.com and deal with FoxSports.com. Yahoo already has a sports-content sharing deal with Rivals.com, which also supplies content to USAToday.com, AOL Sports, SportingNews.com, MSNBC.com and SI.com. .
Springfield sports store owner receives sales award
A Springfield business owner was recently recognized at the Play It Again Sports National Conference and Tradeshow, Grassroots Newswire reported.
Jeff Salyers, owner of Play It Again Sports in Springfield, received a sales excellence award at the Las Vegas event.
Play It Again Sports has more than 400 North America locations that are individually owned and operated, The store sells used and new sports and fitness gear. .
Smizik on TV: KDKA sports anchor finally gets talk show
One of the more amazing things about local radio the past few years is that of all the various openings there have been for talk-show hosts, John Steigerwald never was given his own program. ESPN Radio 1250, Fox Sports Radio 970, KDKA-Radio and WPBG (NewsTalk 104.7) all have filled slots, but none went to Steigerwald. As a full-time sports anchor for KDKA-TV, Steigerwald can't work just any shift, but for someone as knowledgeable, as well-spoken and as highly opinionated as Steigerwald you'd have thought they'd find a spot. At last, someone has. WTZN-FM (93.7)/The Zone, a CBS-owned station, has given Steigerwald, who briefly did a Saturday morning show on Fox Sports Radio a few years ago, an hour every weekday at 9 a.m. "The John Steigerwald Show" is worth a listen. Steigerwald says his show is about "sports and other stuff," and sometimes the other stuff takes precedence.
Phil Lewis: Letters, on Duke and letters
“For several years now, I have made fun of the Naples Daily News, its content, and the staff of grammar and spelling challenged ‘journalists' who work for it. Today's (Thursday, April 12) edition made me realize that I have been much too kind in my opinion of your ‘newspaper.' “The charges against the Duke players have been dropped. Their reputations and college careers are ruined, their parents' financial security is probably in shambles, the DA lied to get re-elected, and the accuser has been shown to be a liar. “And where does the NDN choose to put the news that the charges were dropped? Where any good paper, trying to be fair and unbiased in reporting, of course, would put it: THE SPORTS PAGE!!!" “The only thing you missed was having Tom Hanson write the article and printing it in the classifieds.
Analysis: McClatchy Pact Opens Door to Yahoo ‘a la Carte’
The WSJ is reporting that McClatchy, the publisher of 30 newspapers, is set to be the 12th newspaper publisher to join the Yahoo consortium, leaving behind Gannett and Tribune, which had hoped to work with McClatchy to build an alternative national ad network. Meanwhile, The L.A. Times reports that Yahoo has agreed to provide prominent links on section fronts for Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance to consortium members in exchange for their implementation of the Yahoo search box (and everything else).. It has previously been whispered that the consortium is working with Yahoo on a used cars portal. McClatchy is still tied to Gannett and Tribune via its stake in CareerBuilder, so it won’t be using HotJobs. It is also a partner in Classified Ventures, which owns cars.com, so it isn’t clear to what extent it can work with Yahoo on autos.
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