Strat-O-Matic Turns 50
Before there were online fantasy sports, there was a cards-and- dice game that got the everyman-as-GM game rolling.
Before there were online fantasy sports, there was a cards-and- dice game that got the everyman-as-GM game rolling.
The average NBA team is now worth $369 million, 1% more than last year. But several of the league's 30 teams have not fully recovered from the recession, and as a result values are still 2.6% below the $379 million peak average they hit two years ago. read »
A decade ago Jerry Colangelo built the Arizona Diamandbacks into a world championship team by deferring player salaries. But the team became mired in so much debt that the league eventually instituted rules to prevent another team from the same folly. In 2007 commissioner Bud Selig said the sport was healthier than ever. And two years ago MLB's CFO told CFO Magazine that baseball's finances were an A- or B+. Then last year the Texas Rangers were drowning in so much debt (including $25 million in[...] read »
EMC and Oracle jump into the Amazing Race. Ok, not the ABC television show. But two of their employees, EMC’s CMO, Jeremy Burton and Oracle's Vice President Of Application Development, Christophe Job, on their own, have joined forces to compete in a new sport called “Adventure Racing.” What is Adventure Racing? read »
The Geek Picture of the Day has got no arms left. read »
EMC's CMO Jeremy Burton's on the throttle vying for a trip to Victory Lane.
Two billionaire brothers and Forbes 400 Rich List members have different investment styles that seem to fit the teams they are interested in buying. Alec Gores (net worth: $1.7 billion) is reportedly interested in buying MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers, while his brother Tom (net worth: $2.4 billion) is looking in to buying the Detroit Pistons of the NBA. read »
Last Wednesday at a New York City restaurant, I found myself sitting with LA Lakers executive Jeanie Buss and TV and radio host Gayle King, discussing men. read »
The controversial 1963 Pontiac Bonneville ambulance that allegedly carried President John F. Kennedy from Air Force One to the Capitol after his death sold for $132,000 on Saturday. read »