Raise Money For A Good Cause & Network With Other Sports Biz Pros In Your Area

Our friends at the TheBusinessOfSports.com and TSBX are again hosting their popular series of global sports business networking events later this month. Now in its second year, #SBWeek features a full week of sports business networking events in 25 cities across the globe. Tickets for these events are $5 each, with 100% of ticket sales being donated to UNICEF’s Sport for Development (S4D) prog...

Man U Set To Sign Billion $ Nike Renewal

Man U is set to score a cool billion in its renewal with Nike. According to reports, the world famous football club will more than double its existing apparel deal with the apparel maker, which runs through 2015 at £23.5 million per season. The new kit deal will reportedly pay Manchester United £60 million per season over the course of 10 years. £600 million = $1 billion. If reports are true, ...

Chanel Turns Paris Fashion Week Into A Giant Supermarket

The ironic thing about Chanel's recent Paris Fashion Week show, one of the most anticipated each spring, was that despite being surrounded by laundry detergent, brooms and bottled water, there was no sponsorship at all. That's because thousands of run-of-the-mill supermarket products were re-branded under the Chanel Shopping Centre brand. How commercially un-commercial!

LeBron On Sponsorship Slip: #SMH

Samsung's most notorious endorser had phone trouble yesterday. No biggie, happens to everyone. But then this.... (via Business Insider) To his credit, The King, who reportedly rakes in some $50 million from product endorsements each year, quickly erased that tweet (after a few thousands retweets) and followed up with this to his 12 MILLION FOLLOWERS...

Beer Makers Pull Parade Partnerships

Beer and St. Patty's Day go hand in hand, but this year several notable sponsors will be absent along this year's most famous parade routes. Three notable brewers (and longtime sponsors) have pulled their sponsorships in response to the fact that lesbian and gay groups won't be allowed to march openly. Late last week, Sam Adams announced it would pull its sponsorship of the Boston St. Patrick...

The Field of 68 Sponsors

The brackets are out. For apparel geeks, the field of 68 looks something like this: Nike/Jordan (45), adidas (18), Russell Athletic (4), Under Armour (1). Chris Littmann of Sporting News built a neat apparel bracket in case you're interested. Here's the real one (click to enlarge)...

NBA Commish: Jersey Ads Inevitable

New NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says jersey sponsorships in the league will likely happen within the next five years. "I think it's inevitable," Silver said at this week's IMG World Congress of Sports presented by SportsBusiness Daily/Journal. The move would make the NBA the first of the North American big four to have jersey ads. It is estimated that ads on NBA game jerseys could bring in $1...

College Football Playoff Gets First Partner

ESPN and Dr Pepper today announced that the soft drink brand will be the first official partner of next year's inaugural College Football Playoff, in addition to serving as the presenting sponsor of the new College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy. Championship Partner designation represents the highest level of sponsorship and activation. “Dr Pepper is proud to continue its lon...

New on SponsorPitch: Deal Database + Deal Pages!

As some of you have already seen, SponsorPitch has been beta testing two new features over the past few weeks. Today, we're excited to roll out the deal database and deal pages to all users. The idea behind the deal database came from a longtime SponsorPitch member who suggested a better way for searching through the tens of thousands of sponsorship deals that are catalogued on SponsorPitch, ...

Superstar Loses Sponsorship With Company He Part-Owns?

It is no secret that lifestyle apparel brand, Quiksilver, has been reducing its roster of athletes and event sponsorships in recent months so it may not actually be an April Fool's Day joke that 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater is reportedly splitting with 23-year sponsor, Quiksilver. Either way, ending a sponsorship is a little different when the athlete being sponsored owns, or at ...