By Kate Fagan Jrue Holiday is wearing the first team’s colors. It’s just that he’s a substitute on that team, which puts him behind the second-team guys, too – behind Lou Williams, Andre Iguodala, Willie Green, Royal Ivey, and Rodney Carney. Although Holiday, a 6-foot-4 point guard, is the 76ers’ reigning first-round draft pick, he [...]
Young hockey players across Canada this fall will be vying for the opportunity to have NHL star Alex Ovechkin lead their hockey practice, courtesy of Energizer Canada. The company on Thursday announced its “Power of 8” campaign, which will let consumers across Canada enter a contest that will see Ovechkin, the two-time Hart Trophy winner [...]
By JOHN LOMBARDO SportsBusiness Journal Published August 03, 2009 The recent NBA Summer League in Las Vegas set an attendance record while becoming the latest content provider for the league’s digital operations. Since partnering with founder Warren LeGarie in 2007, the NBA has added marketing muscle to the rookie summer league, which featured 22 teams [...]
Phoenix Suns head coach Alvin Gentry teamed up with Phoenix area executives from IBM to talk strategy, team building, and management insights. HallPass arranged the speaking engagement as coach Gentry was the featured speaker during a recent management luncheon. This was the first installment in what hopes to be a long term relationship with IBM [...]
Commissioner David Stern visited NBA Summer League Presented by EA Sports and shared his pleasure with the annual event. Embedded video from <a href="https://www.nba.com/video" mce_href="https://www.nba.com/video">NBA Video</a>
This week the world’s top 18 and under basketball players from Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the United States will congregate for adidas Nations. Athletes from six regions of the world will get together in intense international training and competition at the Integrated Development Center in Dallas, Texas. HallPass Media will handle all [...]
Ovechkin, Kesler take 2K10 to the Strip Young guns perform in first ever outdoor motion capture session for upcoming hockey game By Ryan Greene, Las Vegas Sun Ryan Kesler wonders if his pals back in Livonia, Mich., will even believe him. This fall, when playing NHL 2K10 on his Nintendo Wii, The Vancouver Canucks center [...]
NHL.com LAS VEGAS — It seems that Alex Ovechkin just can’t lose here in this desert oasis. After reporting Thursday afternoon that he was up by $500 at the blackjack tables, Ovechkin came to the NHL Awards Show and hauled in both the League’s MVP awards — the Hart Trophy, awarded by the writers, and [...]
–10 PLAYOFF TEAMS INCLUDING NBA CHAMPION LAKERS SET TO COMPETE– NEW YORK, June 22, 2009 – Twenty-one NBA teams, including the 2009 NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers, will compete in this year’s NBA Summer League presented by EA SPORTS in a 55-game schedule that was announced today. A team of NBA Development League Select players [...]
