Bad Economy

The New Jersey Nets have announced a promotion to help those affected by the downturn in the economy. The team is offering up to four free tickets for select games to unemployed fans who submit their resume to the Nets Job Bank. Plus, these fans are invited to a career fair this Saturday at the Nets arena, and the team will distribute the submitted resumes to its various corporate sponsors. (Newark Star Ledger) Source from Veritix Sports Marketing Newsletter.

Interesting promotion

Red Sox Fan Sues Over Playoff Promotion
Tom Rotunno of CNBC Sports has reported that Boston Red Sox fan Gisela Levin has filed a class action law suit against Taunton, MA based furniture company Jordan's Furniture. She claims their promotion, which offers free furniture to anyone who purchased furniture during a promotional period if the Red Sox sweep the World Series, is an illegal lottery and therefore against the law in Massachusetts. Jordan's Furniture ran a similar promotion in 2007 when the Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies, resulting in them issuing between $20-$30 million worth of furniture to 24,000 Red Sox fans for free. Jordan's has announced that they do not expect the judge to rule against them as precedents have already been established in their favor.

From:
http://ventaboutsports.blogspot.com/2008/11/red-sox-fan-sues-over-playoff-promotion.html

Olympics 2012

Should England pull out of hosting the 2012 Olympics? Cost have tripled to date and one of the leading advocates and Olympic executives in England recently indicated that if they would have seen the economic collapse coming, they would not have bid to host the Olympics. Maybe we should put some limits on how much countries can spend on the Olympics. It is really nice to have a great and expensive party. However, if people are not receiving the health care and food they need, maybe we should spend less on the Olympics and more on ordinary people.Gil-