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Don Fehr looks back 30 years later on MLB strike

Journal - 08/12/2024
Some of the memories have faded now. Thirty years later, Donald Fehr doesn’t remember exactly how he spent the final moments of the 1994 Major League Baseball season, which ended on Aug. 12 when the players began a strike that ultimately led, one month later, to the...

Closing Shot: Olympic Edge

Journal - 07/29/2024
Sisters Madison Smith and Britt St. George founded their boutique talent agency in 2018 with the goal of helping athletes and influencers build their personal brands, but it was a direct message that year that led to their unique position heading into the women’s gymnastics competition at...

Closing Shot: Canada Cashes In

Journal - 07/22/2024
Golf has been booming in the United States since before the pandemic, and the same can be said for north of the border in Canada, where this week’s CPKC Women’s Open is expected to hit a number of high-water marks. The tournament’s 50th edition returns...

Closing Shot: Atlanta Open Takes Final Bow

Journal - 07/15/2024
Bill Oakes fondly remembers the press conference during which USTA Southern announced it was bringing Indianapolis’ longtime ATP 250 event to Atlanta. Then-U.S. Open Tournament Director Jim Curley handed Oakes, who was to be the first director of the Atlanta Tennis Championships, a shred of paper with...

Closing Shot: Crew Up

Journal - 07/01/2024
Lamar Hunt didn’t set out to change the trajectory of U.S. pro soccer by building Crew Stadium. The Major League Soccer team he owned, Columbus Crew, needed a place to play. The massive Ohio Stadium football venue the Crew called home in the late 1990s was about...

Closing Shot: Sliding Into Retirement

Journal - 06/10/2024
After almost 40 years in sports, USA Luge CEO Jim Leahy will slide off into the sunset at the end of this month after an 11-year stint leading the national governing body. Leahy, who announced his retirement in January , has worked across myriad...
Quote Of the day

There is actual real tangible value with Caitlin. The venues, the disparity in attendance and the disparity of audience on TV is crystal clear. When she's playing, just the difference she makes in that.

-- Playfly Sports President Craig Sloan, on the effect Fever G Caitlin Clark has had on the WNBA so far. SBJ, 8/14
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