Closing Bell

Monday 4:00pm ET....Latest News....A Season On The Shrink

  • NFL's McCarthy Says Season-Ticket Sales Are Now In Decline
  • Bodenheimer Says ESPN Would "Grow The Olympic Movement"
  • Marv Albert Joins CBS Sports As NFL Play-By-Play Announcer
  • NASCAR Fines Childress $150,000 For Altercation With Busch

The Starting Five....

1)  Fox Says It Wants Next Four Games As Bidding For U.S. Olympic Rights Begins
2)  Judge Rules NHL-MillerCoors Deal Violated Previous Deal With Labatt's
3)  And The Crowd Goes Wild: Entrepreneur Starts Site For Daily Deals On Tickets
4)  Shaun White Could Leave Red Bull After Sides Fail To Extend Sponsorship
5)  Sprint In Talks With NASCAR To Extend Title Sponsorship Of Top Series

Channel Surf....

Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon will appear on CBS’ “Late Show” at 11:30pm ET.

Headliners....

Here are tonight’s headline guests on the following talk shows:

“Late Show” Meredith Vieira
“Tonight Show” Katie Couric
“Late Late Show” Don Cheadle
“Late Night” Kathie Lee Gifford
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” Wanda Sykes (r)
“Conan” Ice-T

Notes & Quotes From This Day In SBD History….

1995

BRANDWEEK reports the Baseball Network has "teamed All-Star balloting sponsor Texaco with MCI to facilitate the game's first teleballoting system ." The three MLB sponsors prepare to start a print effort in USA TODAY to give fans "a giant version of the ballot" and a toll- free 800 number that they can call to vote.

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[Manfred] mentioned the words ‘salary cap’ but he mentioned it in a sense of like, ‘I don’t want to talk about it,’ and maybe that’s because of what Harper said. We probably had a much different meeting than they had.
-- Red Sox P Lucas Giolito, on the tone of the team's clubhouse meeting with MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred -- which came right after Manfred was confronted by Phillies 1B Bryce Harper over the idea of a salary cap.
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