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1. Opening Day: Baseball season is here
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... The Fred Wilpon-Saul Katz owned New York Mets may be suffering from some serious financial problems. Wilpon and Katz are caught up in the Bernard Madoff financial ponzi scheme and have been trading barbs ...

2. Are sports fans resilient or suckers?
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... has not been good for a good while as the Wilpon family has been battling with the trustee involved in the Bernard Madoff case. Irving Picard is looking to get victims money and is going after the Wilpons ...

3. Mets begin 2011 with a little bit of spin
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... the damage its reputation has suffered from losing seasons and embarrassing off-the-field incidents. Not only has principal owner Fred Wilpon been visible each day at Digital Domain Park in Port St. ...

4. President Donald Trump buying New York Mets?
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... out to the Wilpon family to see if he could buy the Mets from the group that is entangled in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. Trump is the ultimate publicity hustler and has lived off the New York ...

5. Sports territorial rights put Newark, Brooklyn and the N.Y. Islanders at a disadvantage
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... Jersey will never get a Major League Baseball team. In northern New Jersey, the Steinbrenner Yankees and the Wilpon-Katz Mets have veto power and can nix a third team in the New York City area and Philadelphia ...

6. Gov. Christie should seek a disgruntled NBA owner instead of lobbying David Stern for Nets replacement
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... New Jersey or Brooklyn because Major League Baseball is exempt from certain portions of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Steinbrenner Yankees or the Wilpon Mets or both could say no to the idea and that ...

7. Changing economics of radio and sports
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... the Mets did about 277,000 just slightly less than the big market Chicago Cubs. The Steinbrenner-family Yankees was seventh on the list; Wilpon's Flushing squad was 12th. Oakland was 25th with a 1.7 share ...

8. Should Chris Christie be considered one of the most powerful people in sports?
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... TV laws which allowed owners like the Yankees George Steinbrenner, the Mets Fred Wilpon and the Dolan-family owned New York Knicks, New York Rangers and New York Liberty to make enormous sums of money ...

9. Why no company has signed a naming-rights deal with the Giants and Jets
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BY EVAN WEINER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM THE POLITICS OF SPORTS BUSINESS Fred Wilpon is clearly one lucky owner although New York Mets fans will clearly disagree with that statement based on the ...

10. Being lucky made all the difference for George Steinbrenner
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... Mets Fred Wilpon in Queens. New stadiums mean fresh revenue streams. Teams use new ballparks as an excuse to raise ticket prices and create high-priced club seats along with more luxury boxes. Wider ...

11. Nets Basketball: First Newark, then Brooklyn ... and then the world
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... Coliseum out in Uniondale on the Island. Chris Botta on his Islanders Point Blank website reported that the New York Mets ownership group, the Wilpon family (who are New York City real estate people), ...

12. Major League Baseball's cable TV problem


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... Expos failed. The Steinbrenners, the Wilpon Mets and Arte Moreno's Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are raking in cable TV cash. Philadelphia, Boston and Seattle are doing quite well and neither of the ...

13. Could New Jersey end up with another NBA team after the Nets leave?
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... of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Steinbrenner Yankees or the Wilpon Mets or both could say no to the idea and that would be it. Major League Baseball is struggling to find a solution to the San Francisco ...

14. When things fall apart: A look at the New York Mets
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... shrewd moves from Minaya that are needed to circumvent the actions of Bernie Madoff and its effects on the Wilpon fortune. After last season's second straight September collapse a strong argument could've ...

15. Your view ... is clearly from the press box
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... but who builds a stadium where fans can only see one of three outfielders? And yes, Jackie Robinson was special, but there aren't many Mets fans alive who saw Ebbets Field. Wilpon's nostalgia gave ...