Sports Business Carnival Number 7

After a nice break for the holidays the Sports Business Carnival is back. Check out the links below to see what's been going on.

Emmett Jones presents "The NFL Shoots, Scores with Winter Classic" at Sports Business Digest.

At Sports Agent Blog, James Alexander Taylor presents, "Sponsorship - A Necessary Evil?"

Adam Swift presents "UFC 79 Review: The Iceman Cometh Again" at Payout: The Business of MMA.

At Sports Marketing and PR Roundup, Joe Favorito presents "Playing Politics...SI Scores with Obama"

Marc Isenberg presents "Money Players Top 10 Biggest Sports Losers in 2007."

Mark presents "College Basketball's Most Valuable School - It's a Tobacco Thing" at SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated. My Tarheels are #1 (worth $26 million last year) according to Forbes list.

CNBC's Darren Rovell says, "Let Tebow and Other Collegians Profit from Jersey Sales."

Pat Coyle presents "Sports Marketing 2.0 - A Digital Ecosystem." Pat also recently started the Sports Marketing 2.0 community, a digital think-tank and for sports marketers in the Web 2.0 world." Check it out, and if you do, make sure to add me as your friend.

Lastly, I took a look at Super Bowl ticket prices on some secondary ticketing websites. Individual tickets range from $2,680 to over $16,000 ($31k for a spot in a sideline suite). Ridonculous!That's all for this edition.

If you'd like to submit an article for our next edition (January 21) shoot me an email at jolpid (at) gmail dot com.

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