Word: seliger
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...group that works on protecting kids from meeting potential sexual predators online. Next week could also be star-studded: As part of a hearing on steroids, the House Government Reform Committee has invited baseball players Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, as well as Commissioner Bud Selig. So far, only Canseco, who has a new book out fingering dozens of players as steroid users, has said he will come...
Companies like P&G can't afford to ignore the Hispanic market anymore. The U.S. Hispanic population has grown 85%, to 41.3 million, since 1990, compared with only 18% for the overall population, according to the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia. U.S. Hispanic buying power has more than tripled in the past 15 years, to $686 billion, whereas total U.S. buying power has grown at less than half that rate. The Selig Center projects that Hispanic buying power will grow an additional 45%, to $992 billion, by the end of the decade...
...SELIG, baseball commissioner, after players agreed to tougher rules on the use of steroids and other drugs...
...Suddenly the most open secret in the sport was out, and it implicated baseball's biggest star and the titanic records he had accumulated. "I will leave no stone unturned in accomplishing our goal of zero tolerance by the start of spring training," vowed Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig in New York City. But that won't be soon enough for Senator John McCain, who upped the outrage meter by vowing that if players and owners can't agree on a stricter testing standard, he will seek to impose one legislatively in January...
...problem in sports marketing, particularly in baseball, is you're always walking a very sensitive line. Nobody loves tradition and history as much as I do." BUD SELIG, baseball commissioner, on the uproar over the decision, revoked one day later, to advertise the movie Spider-Man 2 on base covers at major league games...