Rachel Bachman
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Senior sports reporter, @WSJ. @SJI_Update alum.
New York via MSP, A2 and PDX
Joined July 2009
Alan Page is 1 of 1. Every year, the Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice plays his middle-school sousaphone to cheer on runners in the Twin Cities Marathon and honor his wife, who died of cancer in 2018.
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RT @RachelAxon: "Pay us what you owe us." . WNBA players making a statement at All-Star Game with t-shirts they had under their warm-ups.….
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The SEC Confronts a New College Football Opponent: Panic. “You don’t play in the championship for two years and it feels like the end of the world." -- @finebaum . by @WillDehmel: .
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After back-to-back seasons without a national championship, the swaggering Southeastern Conference is feeling unusually uneasy about its place atop the sport.
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RT @Bachscore: NEW: The NCAA wants to expand the men’s basketball tournament. Whether it can do that could come down to one thing: booze.….
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The broadcast deal for the men’s basketball tournament doesn’t require CBS/Turner to pay more money for more teams. So the NCAA is offering beer, wine and other new sponsorships as sweeteners.
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NEW: The NCAA wants to expand the men’s basketball tournament. Whether it can do that could come down to one thing: booze.
www.wsj.com
The broadcast deal for the men’s basketball tournament doesn’t require CBS/Turner to pay more money for more teams. So the NCAA is offering beer, wine and other new sponsorships as sweeteners.
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Portland's largest office building, valued at $373M a decade ago, just sold for about $45 million to a University of Oregon graduate who runs a regional auto group. He paid cash.
www.oregonlive.com
The buyer of the tower, formally known as the U.S. Bancorp Tower, is an executive with Oregon ties.
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"Croissants are pressed in a waffle iron and served with whipped cream, a drizzle of fruit purée and a cloud of cotton candy.". The Minnesota State Fair's 33 new foods are out:.
www.startribune.com
Tastes of Wrecktangle, Saturday Dumpling Co. and Hoyo sambusas are part of this year’s lineup, which includes 8 new vendors joining the ranks at the Great Minnesota Get-Together.
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RT @alfcorriette: If there wasn’t film, you would NOT believe what just happened. Izzy Harrison, Kennedy Burke, Marine Johannès, AND Sabr….
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NYC fireworks loading…. (Those are FDNY boats spraying in celebration)
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LSU guard/ rap artist @Flaujae did a similar deal with Puma a few years ago:
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Flau’jae Johnson’s personal endorsement with a company other than the one that sponsors her school marks a new phase in college-athlete deals.
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Ohio State WR Jeremiah Smith isn't the first athlete to sign a shoe deal with a company (Adidas) that's different from the one that sponsors his school (Nike). But he might be the highest-profile. via @skrajisnik3:.
www.cleveland.com
Ohio State football works with Nike, but one of its best athletes has inked an NIL deal with another company.
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I can’t think of anyone in sports who unites people like the halftime performer Red Panda. She fell during her act at the Lynx-Fever game last night. Hoping for a fast recovery.
www.nytimes.com
The iconic halftime performer takes spill less than a minute into her halftime show, is seen leaving arena in ambulance.
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Five years ago, the pandemic was threatening the WNBA's entire existence. Today, the W announced it's adding teams in Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia by 2030. Each will pay a $250M expansion fee--5X what the fee was in 2023.
www.wsj.com
New franchises in Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia are due to join by 2030, increasing the league’s size to an all-time high of 18 teams.
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RT @Bachscore: NEW: Top football squads like Ohio State will be paid up to $35 million next season. But the amounts that star athletes ar….
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Top football squads like Ohio State will be paid up to $35 million next season. But the amounts top athletes are pulling in could soon crash back to earth.
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Top vote-getters for the WNBA All-Star game are Caitlin Clark and Napheesa Collier. They’ll be team captains for the July 19 game in Indianapolis. Vote totals are Clark, 1,293,526, Collier 1,176,020.
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NEW: Top football squads like Ohio State will be paid up to $35 million next season. But the amounts that star athletes are pulling in could soon crash back to earth. Here’s why:.
www.wsj.com
Top football squads like Ohio State will be paid up to $35 million next season. But the amounts top athletes are pulling in could soon crash back to earth.
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RT @DarrenHeitner: As I said to @Bachscore, some boosters paid as much as $2 million for a single basketball star player last season. Recen….
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It turns out, former Michigan DB Mike Sainristil had a $6 million haircut. The Lester family today donated $6M toward the cost of a Michigan football locker room, notably a player lounge and barber shop named "Mike's.". From the donor:
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