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Focusing on the Professional Female Athlete, someone has to do it!!!

NATIONWIDE -- A new business, Heraea Marketing, has opened and focuses primarily on the marketing needs of professional female athletes.

Gigi Rock, owner, said that there is a fundamental need to create an affordable marketing service geared towards professional female athletes. 

"Professional Female Athletes are not exempt from the need to market themselves or their sport, they have different structural and budget concerns than some of the bigger name athletes in the media right now," said Rock.

Black Businessmen To Auction Rare Honus Wagner Baseball Card

CINCINNATI -- Manage My Auction, LLC, is a professional auction listing services company and is managing the launch of the Cobb / Edwards T206 Honus Wagner baseball card.

The card will be listed online April 18th for a 10 day auction.

The Honus Wagner card will be on display and open to the public (free) in Glendale, Ohio at Heirloom Framing Company on 9 West Sharon Road from 11:00am - 7:00pm on April 18th to kickoff the online auction.

The card has never been displayed publicly until now.

Chris Felix, a Cincinnati sports artist who was commissioned by the Topps Trading Card Company 2 years ago, will be featuring an original painting that illustrates the cousins' 10 year journey.

The Batchelor Pad show Receives 2011 Best of Durham Award

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Batchelor Pad show has been selected for the 2011 Best of Durham Award in the Family & Business Entertainers category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).

The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country.

Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category.

Cuban: Cable Has More Opportunity Than The Internet For Video

CALIFORNIA -- Dallas Mavericks and HDNet chief Mark Cuban said Tuesday that despite making a dollar or two off of the Internet himself from Broadcast.com, he is more bullish on cable right now from a video delivery standpoint.

"I'd rather advertise in a cable programming guide than (on) the Internet," he told an admittedly home court crowd of cable execs at The Independent Show in San Francisco, noting people are buying more TV's than PC's. "The digital side of cable offers more opportunity than the Internet does.

Google’s YouTube in Talks to Stream NBA, NHL Games Live

(Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.’s YouTube is in talks with the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League to show live games, building on the popularity of cricket’s Indian Premier League last year, a Google executive said.

YouTube aims to show more live sports in the second half of the year, said Gautam Anand, Google’s director of content partnerships for Asia Pacific, in an interview in Seoul Tuesday. 

Google is in talks with “most pro sports leagues” including the NBA and NHL, as well as soccer leagues in Europe, Brian Suh, head of YouTube Partnership at Google’s Korean unit, said separately.

Baseball needs to strike out owners’ debt issues

DETROIT -- Speculation swirls almost daily about the fate of the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers even as Major League Baseball boasts record revenue, leading some analysts and bankers to question whether the league is minding the store.

Over the past two years, baseball has seen two teams pushed into bankruptcy—the Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers—and one sports banker wonders whether the Mets may eventually join them due to a $1 billion legal battle with the trustee for victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
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