Tag: National Basketball Association

Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber did his best retired National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern impression last week following the announcement that FC Cincinnati will be joining the league as an expansion team in 2019.

The operators of the soon to be closed Milwaukee arena that among other tenants houses the NBA Bucks informed the Wisconsin Department of Workforce that they are laying off the 651 people who have full time, part time and per diem jobs at the place as the building is closing because a new arena is opening nearby.

When did Kansas City become a viable option for National Basketball Association owners as a possible expansion location? An unnamed league executive told NBA scout and college basketball TV commentator, Jarrett Sutton, that Kansas City will get an NBA team.

The reality has set in. There will be no turning back and the sports world in the United States is going to have to adjust to what most of the other sports operators in the world have understood for decades. There is gambling on sports and there is nothing you can do, so embrace it.

Legalized sports betting is coming to New Jersey very soon and more than likely Delaware very quickly. The Supreme Court of the United States has struck down the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act that limited betting on professional sports and college sports to just four states.

There is a major horse race taking place in Louisville on Saturday. The Kentucky Derby. Three years ago, there was the hope that American Pharoah by winning Thoroughbred Racing's Triple Crown, would help revive the horse racing industry. It didn’t.

Alameda officials want to get out of the deal with Oakland in the ownership of the Coliseum and the arena in the city. They are negotiating an exit deal. The thought is let Oakland manage the property and decide what to do with the stadium and arena and parking lot.

Neither the National Basketball Association nor the National Hockey League is looking to add another team in the New York City metropolitan area but that apparently is not dissuading an investor in Suffolk County or county officials from putting up a building in Ronkonkoma.

Rick Pitino caused the NCAA problems yet Dr. Mark Emmert just goes on with almost no criticism of his lack of performance in NCAA...

It is going to be a tough row to hoe for Louisville to land an NBA franchise.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zer6IB8rG34   The National Basketball Association is far more interested...