Closing Bell

Tuesday 4:00pm ET...Latest News....Over The Net

  • Tennis Channel Signs Deal With Verizon For Carriage On FiOS
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers Renews Sponsorship Of The Players
  • Lexus Announces Plans For Brand's First-Ever Super Bowl Spot
  • Tim Tebow Turns Down Invite To Be Guest CBS Studio Analyst

The Starting Five....

The most-read stories today on SportsBusinessDaily.com:

1) Chiefs Deny Tapping Phones, Monitoring Employee Whereabouts At Arrowhead Stadium

2) Wasserman Media Group To Sign Andrew Luck For On-, Off-Field Representation

3) New Yorker Looks At Anschutz-Leiweke's Relationship, Future Plans

4) Jets Exec VP/Business Operations Matt Higgins Leaving The Team After Eight Years

5) M&M's To Introduce "Ms. Brown" Character During First Quarter of Super Bowl

The Daily's Hot Reads....

Muhammad Ali turns 70 today, and YAHOO SPORTS' Kevin Iole writes, "Ali means different things to different people, though he's a towering figure to nearly all " ( SPORTS.YAHOO.com ). The Newark STAR-LEDGER's Jerry Izenberg writes, "Don't try to tell me that Muhammad Ali is 70 years old this morning. … Tell me instead the calendar is a liar and a fraud " ( Newark STAR-LEDGER ). The BOSTON HERALD's Ron Borges writes, "He always stood for something, even when he cannot stand on his own " ( BOSTON HERALD ).

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

Headliners....

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

“Late Show” Ricky Gervais
“Tonight Show” Sam Worthington
“Late Late Show” Colin Firth
“Late Night” Kyra Sedgwick
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” Katherine Heigl
“Conan” Antonio Banderas

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

2003

The NFL names  Steve Bornstein   Exec VP/Media and President & CEO of the new NFL Channel , which is slated to launch in Fall '03.

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I love it that we beat the hot, sexy southern cities. Michigan and Ohio, in particular, we always struggle to have these kinds of wins when we're competing against these hot, sexy cities. And I love it today that we stuck it to them and we won.
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