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Posts Tagged ‘Business of Sports’

Local Olympic athletes host “Walk to London” to celebrate the summer games

It’s more than 5,000 miles to London and Olympians and Paralympians are challenging the community to walk there with them. In celebration of the 2012 summer Olympic games, Colorado Springs Olympians and Paralympians will be part of the “Walk to London 2012” event, joining residents in community walks and rallies where every step will be [...] [...]

Colorado Springs Sky Sox winning the business game (access required)

by Monica Mendoza Published: March 2,2012

Tags: Business of Sports, sky sox

Sky Sox baseball is all about the game — but it’s not the game you might expect. Sure, it’s America’s favorite pastime, rich with history of the iconic dugout, mound and diamond where minor-league players hustle toward a shot of getting called up to the big leagues. But it’s also a business game, an effort [...] [...]

Springs should focus on improving its sports and outdoor economy (access required)

by Tom Duening Published: September 2,2011

Tags: Business of Sports, Duening

The economic development research is increasingly united around the finding that industry clusters are critical to long term, sustainable growth. This is not news to the economic development leaders of our community. Most of the studies, reports and consultant reviews have advocated cluster development. What seems to be more at issue is where to focus [...] [...]

Growing Springs’ sports economy will cost money (access required)

by Allen Greenberg Published: August 27,2010

Tags: Business of Sports

Jim Morris, the president of the Indianapolis Pacers, made several good points about the business of sports at a lunch this past week sponsored by the Economic Development Corp. and Sports Corp. What he left out of his remarks was also pretty compelling. Primarily, his speech was about reminding Colorado Springs that its amateur sports [...] [...]

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