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Putting your sports on the web
In Gear
Sports social search engines rev up your enjoyment of sports on the web. MLN takes you for a test drive of the better SSEs with an eye towards the ones that give minor league sports fans their props.
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Shooting Stars
Rob Truck's Cup of Coffee tracks the fleetingly brilliant caeers of 18 momentary major leaguers who pitched their way into the dream, only to wake up back in the minors. [Article] |
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Higher Office
While other former governors and mayors jockey to become president, former Indiana governor Joe Kernan has already landed the plumb presidential positon, at the top perch of the South Bend SilverHawks. [Article]
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Raves for Rantz
The Minnesota Twins inducted farm director Jim Rantz into their Hall of Fame this spring. Many fans don't know him well, yet every player for more than 21 years has had to get his personal seal of approval before they even set foot on a farm field. [Article] |
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The Big Save
Boston Red Sox rookie hurler Jon Lester has been responsible for many a save over his baseball career, but an automobile accident last August may have saved his. [Article] |
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Tides Tradition Ebbs with Humdrum Help on Orioles Farm
The deal may make sense on paper, but as freelancer Jon Elliot opines, the drop in the quality of talent is a hard pill to swallow for Tides fans who have watched Mets superstars since the sixties. [MAJOR BLOGS]
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The Minors: Business Opportunity or Expensive Hobby?
arenafootball2 (af2) Quad City Steamwheelers owner Mike Bawden "waxes on" about the trials and tribulations of owning a minor league football club. Is it worth it? [MAJOR BLOGS ]
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ESPN Waives Its Magic Wand
Is this the deal that will transform the Arena Football League into a "real" major league in the eyes of the public and the media? [Article]
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One Football. Two Games.
What's the difference between an NFL quarterback and an AFL quarterback? [MAJOR BLOGS] |
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What the AFL Got for Christmas
ESPN delivers the Arena Football League a television package worth opening. [Article] |
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The Masters of Minor League Media
The 2006 MLN Ralphie Awards™
The movies have Oscar®. Television has Emmy®. Broadway has its Tony®. For media relations people in sports, there is only one coveted honor: The Ralphie™. MLN presents to you the top five out of more than 800 minor and major league media relations people in baseball, hockey, basketball and football who make their corners of sports shine. [Feature]
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The 11th Commandment of Hockey
NHL refugee Donald Brashear gets kicked out of the fledgling LNAH. Mon dieu! [Opinion]
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MLN 2004 Minor League Business of the Year
The Ryan Express
The Next Generation
The Ryan Family, Nolan, Reid, and Reese bring the fundamentals back to the business of the game. Nolan's Hall of Fame name opens doors, but it's Reid and Reese's hard work, vision, and ability to execute that make them one of the best and most savvy organizations in professional sports. Today the AAA. Tomorrow? Don't count Austin out as a major league burg someday. [Article] |
The 2004 Ralphie™ Awards
MLN salutes the best of the best in media relations in the minor leagues, and two broadcasting greats. [Article]
Pride of Pawtucket
Pawtucket Red Sox owner Ben Mondor retires (again) after more than twenty years in which he turned the Pawsox from salvage job into sensation. [Article]
From Major to Minor
Commissioner Bud Selig and the owners of baseball continue to operate the business as if the minor leagues and the expanding cities of the sun belt states didn't exist. Why Washington is another boneheaded Bud play, and why Montreal should go minor. [Opinion]
Can't We All Just Get Along?
The hockey wars between the ACHL remnants, the SEHL and the WHA-2/EHL/SHL, may be in need of the UN, or at least a good preschool teacher. [Opinion]
The Crow and The Eagle: A True Fable
Book Review: Is this the soaring tale of Yankee great Bob Turley, or a bird-brained fable? You decide. [Article]
Rumors of My Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
Media wags and tony upper-crust metropolitan publications have branded hockey dead. In an exclusive interview, Hockey has a few choice words to share about his future. [Article]
John Henry Williams: Elegy for a Lightweight
Leukemia takes a man who spent his final years in search of a connection with a distant, famous father, who stood up to the might of the American sports media in his quest. [Opinion]
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Fault Lies Not Within The Stars, but Within Themselves
The UHL had a responsibility to the fans of
Columbus, where the Stars operated for less than half of a season. [Opinion]
