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Baker hit the road to tap NFL team owners with deep pockets and experience. First on board was New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson, who paid $3 million for an expansion AFL team that will start playing next season. Three years ago, Baker met Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in...
This growth, along with the new economics of sports TV, brought the AFL and NBC together. After losing $300 million on the last two years of its NBA contract, the network exited the major-sports business last summer. To fill the weekend space, NBC offered the AFL a slot in...
More companies are offering such perks as on-site massages and hair salons, take-home meals and pet health insurance, according to surveys by employee-benefits consultants. But there's a catch. Most of the new benefits are paid for by workers, the people being asked to do more work...
Magic Johnson had his talk show. MICHAEL JORDAN had the Wizards. After 3 1/2 seasons at the helm of Washington's aggressively mediocre NBA team (and two seasons as the team's oldest and best player), Jordan got his walking papers last week in a rage-filled, 18min. meeting with...
Liz Naughton, of Kodiak, Alaska, opened her franchise five months ago after being taken to a Curves by her daughter in Palmer, Alaska. When Naughton, 47, cracked her nest egg for the initial $19,900 investment, her husband thought she was nuts, she says. She has already made half the...