Closing Bell

Wednesday 4:00pm ET....Latest News....Goal To Go

  • NBC 95% Sold Out Of Ad Inventory For Super Bowl XLIX Telecast
  • Dick's Sporting Goods Holding Early Talks About Going Private
  • Jameis Winston Hires The Legacy Agency As He Enters NFL Draft
  • MLS Unveils '15 Season Schedule, Which Includes Flex Scheduling

The Daily's Hot Reads....

SPORTS ON EARTH's Will Leitch writes of Baseball HOF voting, "That we allow writers to vote on this highest of baseball honors is, for all the attempts to reform it, an anachronism . It's a callback to a time when there were a limited number of men (and it was almost always men) who saw players more than anyone else did" ( SPORTSONEARTH.com ).

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The Starting Five....

The most-read stories today on SportsBusinessDaily.com:

1)  Dolphins Put Tannenbaum In Charge Of Football Ops, Hickey Loses Clout

2) Charlie Jacobs Named Delaware North's Boston Holdings CEO; Puts Bruins' Brass On Notice

3) Jeanie Buss: Brother To Be Held To Claim He Will Leave Lakers If Team Not Contending

4) NFL Game Audience Relatively Flat In '14; Fox Has Its Second-Best Season Yet

5) France Reiterates Tough Domestic Violence Stance, Says Mid-Week Races Not Feasible

Headliners....

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

“Late Show” Julianne Moore
“Tonight Show” Liam Neeson
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” Bill Maher
“Late Late Show” David Arquette
“Late Night”  Jane Lynch
“Conan” Elizabeth Banks

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

2003

"I proved that wasn't right in 2000" – Redskins Owner Daniel Snyder , responding to Maria Bartiromo saying, "Money can buy success in the field in professional sports ."

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