Tuesday 4:00pm ET....Latest News....Tsingtao, Heat Announce Deal

• Tsingtao Announces TV-Centered Partnership With Heat

• Bill Conlin Retires Amid Report Of Alleged Child Molestation

• Time Warner Cable Makes Three Personnel Moves Official

• Vineyard Vines Announces Licensing Agreement With NHL

The Starting Five....

The most-read stories today on SportsBusinessDaily.com:

1) DeMaurice Smith Reportedly Could Leave NFLPA If Promised Bonus Is Not Delivered

2) Red Sox' New Spring Training Facility Taking On Feel Of Fenway Park

3) Power Outages Delay Steelers-49ers Game, Leave Fans In The Dark

4) Hawks Struggle To Draw NBA Stars To Atlanta Despite On-Court Success

5) The Sports Business Year That Was: A Look Back At '11

The Daily's Hot Reads....

The SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE's Tim Sullivan writes, "Perhaps the Padres are the cheap, misguided, underfinanced carpetbaggers their most strident critics believe them to be, but that subjective analysis ignores the elephant in the boardroom. So long as revenue disparities continue to grow in a sport with no salary cap , mid and small-market clubs are destined to operate at a severe competitive disadvantage" ( SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE ).

Also:

• New Orleans to reap financial rewards of series of college bowls.

• Tracing UCF football's path from upstart to Big East invitee.

• NBC Sports Group Chair Mark Lazarus on his vision for the brand.

• New Red Sox GM Ben Cherington may be off to a shaky start.

See the Hot Reads section for more sports business-related links.

Headliners....

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

Notes & Quotes From This Day In SBD History....

2001

Red Sox CEO John Harrington recommends to his limited partners that "the team's  next owner should be a newly combined group led by" the John Henry - Tom Werner and Joseph O'Donnell - Steve Karp groups. The Henry-O'Donnell group "is offering roughly" $650M for 53% percent of the franchise and to buy out the team's limited partners.