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MLS TV deal
In his analysis, JLF senior vice president Jon Pritchett see many positives in the proposed Charlotte Major League Soccer expansion, not the least of which is the league’s new TV…
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Mecklenburg commissioners sign off MLS stadium funding
Charlotte Observer reports the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners to provide funding for a proposed $175 million Major League Soccer stadium. The stadium proposal is part of Charlotte’s bid –headed…
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Mecklenburg/Charlotte’s MLS Stadium Plan Is A Bad Deal For Taxpayers
Tomorrow, Thursday, January 26, the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners will vote on a plan to build a new soccer stadium on the site of Memorial Stadium as part of…
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Regulation
Local Governments, Investors Kicking Around Plans For MLS Team
I remember when Major League Soccer launched in 1996. It was just a handful of teams, and none of them were close to North Carolina. If you’d told me then…
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Lots of soccer coming to North Carolina all of a sudden?
A month ago, the Carolina Railhawks announced that they were changing their name to North Carolina F.C. and making a bid to join MLS. Last week, Bruton Smith, who owns…
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NASCAR HOF predictions 2015/2016
Not because I’m a NASCAR fan, because I’m analytical. The basics: There are 20 nominees to get in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The top five vote getters get in,…
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Bruton Smith won’t be happy
Seems that the N.C. Supreme Court has decided not to address his appeal of a lower court ruling that he and Charlotte Motor Speedway never had a deal with Cabarrus…
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More NASCAR as a parody of itself
The Charlotte Observer’s Jim Utter, on the series’ 2015 schedule: Then there’s Atlanta, which hosted a pair of Cup series races from 1960 through 2010 before track owner Bruton Smith…
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Bruton Smith not moving CMS race
To Las Vegas. In 2014. Despite Smith having said in May that there was a 70 percent or 100 percent given that transfer would go down. No real surprise there.…
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NASCAR ticket sales still slow
The UPoR has a front-page article out today on the still-sluggish demand for NASCAR tickets. Some highlights: • Admission revenue at Charlotte-based Speedway Motorsports Inc. fell 11?percent over the past…
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Bruton Smith: NASCAR needs to be dumbed down
By adding mandatory cautions or breaks in races. So reports ESPN’s Terry Blount. The money quote: Someone once said we’re in show business. Well, if we’re in show business, let’s…
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Re: N.C. CEO pay
The Charlotte Observer compiles a list of top CEO compensation in North Carolina. Many are based here in the Triad.