Rivals Founders Raise $6 Million

Shannon Terry

Rivals.com founders, Shannon Terry and Bobby Burton, are returning to digital sports media with the creation of 247Sports.com, an independent entity that will seek to blend local and team-based affinity sites with social media and mobile technology. There are some key similarities between Rivals.com, now a Yahoo!-owned market leader in college sports and recruiting content, [...]

Golden State Warriors Owner

Joe Lacob

I know that this is not new in terms of news, but I wanted to congratulate Joe Lacob on the purchase of the Golden State Warriors.  Joe is a partner at one of the best Venture Capital firms in Silicon Valley, Kleiner Perkins. Joe is an avid basketball player and fan that understands the game [...]

Bounce Magazine Issue 23

Bounce Magazine Issue 23

Legendary Rucker Coach Antonio “Mousey” Carela rocks the cover and talks about his interaction with Fat Joe, Puffy and the NBA stars he recruited to play uptown…”Street Dogma” explores the American National Dunking Ban caused by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and my pops Jim Couch, back in ‘67…our “How We Do “column features one of Philly’s finest [...]

Jamie Dimon Answers to David Stern

David Stern

Bloomberg had it completely wrong. David Stern and the NBA Owners met privately with Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan to get some answers. The NBA is rock solid, but they do have big time investors from China worrying about their money in the financial services sector, enter the need for Jamie Dimon. You [...]

CBS Launches College Sports Media Online Ad Network

CBS Corp on Wednesday announced the launch of an online ad network focused on college sports, in a move to entice media buyers to spend more money with the television broadcaster by offering them a way to more effectively target young, male fans. The creation of CBS College Sports Media will offer media buyers the [...]

Nike Hires New Jordan Brand CEO

Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand, a division of Nike, announced that they hired a new CEO to lead Jordan brand in a new era. Keith Houlemard has been named President of the Jordan Brand. Houlemard will be responsible for driving continued market leadership and growth for all aspects of the Jordan Brand. Houlemard replaces Garry [...]

Yahoo Sports Executive Editor Dave Morgan

Dave Morgan, Executive Editor, Yahoo Sports While Yahoo! seeks to emerge from some public and painful turnover among its executive leadership ranks, the portal’s sports division quietly is making a legitimate name for itself. Morgan, former sports editor for the Los Angeles Times, is a primary reason why, as he brought to Yahoo! serious journalistic [...]

Online Sports Executive Shannon Terry

Shannon Terry CEO Rivals.com Shannon Terry serves as CEO and President of Rivals.com, overseeing the corporate strategy, new product development and day-to-day management of the leading internet site in college sports, high school sports and college recruiting. Through his influence and vision, Terry has led the rapid growth of Rivals.com to more than 180,000 active [...]