The Wheeling Nailers, taking advantage of the rancor felt by the state’s residents toward a certain former West Virginia football coach, is holding a “Shred Rich Rodriguez” night on Saturday.

The ECHL hockey team’s promotion is playing off reports that Rodriguez was seen shredding team-related documents in his office about the same time he left the [...]

Last season Minor League Baseball’s 160 affiliated clubs sponsored more than 5,530* events, promotions, giveaways, and appearances to attract more than 42 million guests.

The following data ranks those promotions that were most effective in increasing attendance over the participating teams’ average season attendance.

Promotion

Average Attendance Increase

% Increase Over Average

An interesting article about the use of mascots in sports marketing from Forbes magazine.

Rare nowadays is the vicious-looking tiger, or the fierce, non-politically-correct “Indian” wielding a tomahawk. Mean and scary is out, warm and fuzzy is in–all the better to warm youngsters’ hearts. Bring a second-grader to a football or baseball game, and [...]

This from Glen Gower’s blog….to funny not to post:

The Scoreboard Laws
Eight rules for video scoreboard operators, from scoreboard guru Paul Shubin:

When your team is losing, everything on the scoreboard is unacceptable.
A commercial of 15 seconds duration takes longer than 15 seconds to produce.
Agencies only deliver their material on the day of the game.
The [...]

While I like to blog about book reviews, to be honest I read a lot of books out of the political and historical sections of the bookstore….which have zero interest to most readers of the “Gameops” blog.  So I was stopped dead in my tracks while reading a book about the Supreme Court [...]

Over the holidays I had the chance to visit the Minnesota Wild again in Saint Paul. You might recall our Interview with the Wild’s Jon Maher from December 2000. At the time the Wild we new and building their game entertainment in a somewhat retro-style. Their show [...]