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Plunkett?s Sports Industry Almanac 2011: Sports Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

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PLUNKETT?S SPORTS INDUSTRY ALMANAC 2011

Key Features:-Industry trends analysis, market data and competitive intelligence
-Market forecasts and Industry Statistics
-Industry Associations and Professional Societies List
-In-Depth Profiles of hundreds of leading companies
-Industry Glossary
-Buyer may register for access to search and export data at Plunkett Research Online

Pages: 495
Statistical Tables Provided: 9
Companies Profiled: 357
Geographic Focus: Global

A complete market research report, including forecasts and market estimates, technologies analysis and developments at innovative firms.
You will gain vital insights that can help you shape your own strategy for business development, product development and investments.
-How is the industry evolving?
-How is the industry being shaped by new technologies?
-How is demand growing in emerging markets and mature economies?
-What is the size of the market now and in the future?
-What are the financial results of the leading companies?
-What are the names and titles of top executives?

Contents, Statistics, Forecasts and Analysis Include:

Major Trends Affecting the Sports Industry

1) NFL: The Biggest Money in U.S. Sports
2) Revenue Sharing Boosts Major League Baseball
3) NBA Team Values Fall/NBA China Progresses
4) NHL Ticket Sales Slow
5) NASCAR Revenues Face Challenges/Best Teams Require Massive Investment
6) Lucrative Television Rights Bring in Big Bucks
7) World Soccer Faces Trouble Due to Lack of Parity/MLS Holds Its Own
NCAA Sports Are Big Business
9) Golf Tournaments Face Sponsorship Challenge
10) Fantasy Sports Post Growth, Creating $800 Million in Revenue Online
11) Equipment Manufacturers Scramble to Offer the Latest High-Tech Advantages
12) Lacrosse May Be the Fastest-Growing Team Sport in America
13) Sports Agents Become Indispensable/Sports Marketing Booms in China
14) New Platforms Revolutionize Electronic Games/Microsoft?s New Kinect Raises the Standard
15) Bowling Looms Large/The Least Expensive Sports and Recreation Activities Draw the Most Participants
16) Aging Baby Boomers Will Cause Significant Changes in the Leisure Sector, Including Sports and Activity-Based Travel
17) Athletic Footwear Draws Big Names from Athletes to Designers
18) The Vast Majority of Shoes Sold in the U.S. Are Now Made in China
19) Exercise Apparel Sales Fall Slightly
20) Nanotechnology Has a Growing Role in Sports Equipment
21) High-Tech, Nanotech and Smart Fabrics Proliferate

Sports Industry Statistics
1) Sports Industry Overview
2) Selected U.S. Sports Industry Revenues: 2001-2008
3) Sports Industry Expenses & Sources of Revenue, U.S.: 2005-2008
4) U.S. Spectator Sports, Performing Arts & Related Industries, Breakdown of Expenses: 2005-2008
5) Estimated Annual Sporting Goods Stores Retail Sales, Inventories & Purchases: 2000-2008
6) Exports of Sporting & Athletic Equipment, U.S.: 2004-Q1 2010
7) Imports of Sporting & Athletic Equipment, U.S.: 2004-Q1 2010
Overview of the Media Contracts of the Four Big Sports
9) Sports Industry Employment by Business Type, U.S.: 2005-2009

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NEW YORK (AP) ? Ratings for the "American Idol" finale plunged to a record low for the 12-year-old show.

According to Nielsen Co. figures Friday, Candice Glover's victory over Kree Harrison was watched by 14.3 million viewers. That's a 33 percent drop from the year before, when 21.5 million viewers saw Phillip Phillips claim the "Idol" crown. That represented the show's previous record low finale audience.

"American Idol" saw an even steeper 44 percent drop among advertiser-coveted young adults for Thursday's finale.

The lack of interest in the winner of this year's contest parallels the show's declining ratings for the season. Fox is scrambling to revive the singing contest that once dominated TV, revamping the judges' panel and making yet-to-be detailed format changes.

Original judge Randy Jackson has already announced his exit.

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One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space. Today, not one but two, Tableau Software and Marketo, are debuting on New York stock exchanges. Business intelligence provider Tableau Software, trading as "DATA", is one of the more highly anticipated tech IPOs of the year, and so far it has not disappointed. It priced its IPO at $31 per share, and it has popped 58%?and is at nearly $49/share in early trading on the NYSE.

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Review: Star Trek Into Darkness (video) - Montreal Gazette

Star Trek Into Darkness

Rating: 3 out of 5

Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Pegg, Zoe Saldana, Alice Eve, Anton Yelchin, Karl Urban, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Weller.

Directed by: J.J. Abrams

Duration: 133 min.

Parental guidance: violence.

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MONTREAL - Less than a week after Chris Hadfield and company ended their five- month sojourn in space by touching down safely on their home planet, the members of the Starship Enterprise are setting out on another tour of duty.

Picking up where the rebooted franchise left off in 2009, Star Trek Into Darkness is an action and quip-fuelled 3D barrage that has more to do with modern blockbuster entertainment norms than the cerebral dilemmas of Capt. James T. Kirk and his crew in the original TV series.

That's clear from the spectacular, albeit ? like much of this film ? overly digitized chase sequence that opens the proceedings. Think Indiana Jones and spear-throwing natives and you're beginning to get the picture. It's not the first and won't be the last time in his career that director J.J. Abrams pays homage to hero Steven Spielberg.

After saving a faraway planet and breaking all the rules in the process, the Enterprise is grounded, young Kirk (Chris Pine) demoted, and he and Spock (Zachary Quinto) separated. This can't last, obviously ? we have a movie to watch.

A terrorist attack throws the world into chaos, and before long, Kirk and Spock are reunited in interplanetary pursuit of dastardly bad guy Commander John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch, a.k.a. Sherlock Holmes for BBC viewers).

He's holed up on the abandoned Klingon home world of Kronos. Things get tense when Harrison is taken prisoner aboard the Enterprise. And that's about all we'll say about plot. Not that plot has much to do with anything here. There is one, but it's all over the place, much like the near-constant barrage of activity interspersed with in-jokes about characters we know all too well.

The mischievous fun of Abrams's 2009 Star Trek hinged on gently mocking the self-seriousness of a stale franchise. That jocular tone has become the default setting in this hyperactive followup. Wisecracks regarding Spock's extreme logic are a dime a dozen, while Kirk's hot head, McCoy's (Karl Urban) earnestness, Chekhov's (Anton Yelchin) franticness and Scotty's (Simon Pegg) colourful Scottish vernacular are thrown in free of charge.

Pegg earns himself increased screen time with a characteristically enthusiastic performance. But the women get short shrift: Zoe Saldana returns as communications officer, and Spock's frustrated love interest, Uhura; and Alice Eve is newcomer Dr. Carol Marcus (whom in Star Trek lore bears a child with Kirk); and that's about it ? this is a guy's movie.

The real revelation is Cumberbatch, who steals the show as the film's alluring yet evil antagonist. His true identity, revealed in the homestretch, will be a treat (and provide fodder for spirited debate) to hardcore Trekkies.

Abrams wraps things up in open-ended fashion, leaving the door (and galaxy) wide open for further adventures of the Enterprise. Hopefully, the next instalment will see this new "next generation" match the director's ever-reliable entertainment value with a bit more substance.

tdunlevy@montrealgazette.com

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Muddah, faddah! Not everyone loved summer sleepaway camp

For some, summer camp played out much like Allan Sherman's 1963 hit, "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh." It was awful. With nearly 9 million kids set to take off for their own summer sleepaway camp, what do those who loathed every minute have to say??

By Staff,?Associated Press / May 17, 2013

This May 15, 2013 photo shows Lauren Russ in Chicago, posing with letters that she wrote home as a child from sleepaway camp begging her parents to come and get her. While many children enjoy attending overnight camp, Russ is one of a number of adults who look back on the experience with less-than-fond memories of feeling homesick and lonely.

(AP Photo/Michael S. Green)

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When the school year ends a few weeks from now, millions of kids will head off to sleepaway camp for a summer filled with color wars, kayaking and bunk life. Most will have a great time, some will make friends for life, and many will look back on the experience fondly.

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But amid these happy campers is another group of veterans who recall sleepaway camp quite differently. These were the kids who cried every day and sent letters home begging to be picked up. They were lonesome, miserable, bullied; hated the bugs, hated the pool. Many refused to ever go back, and decades later, they can recall their suffering in visceral detail ? from poison ivy to wretched food.

"Oh did I hate overnight camp," recalled Lauren Russ, 43, who lives in Chicago. "I cried every day and wrote two letters home a day asking my parents to come get me."

Russ' mom and dad saved those notes and even read some of them aloud at her wedding shower 10 years ago. "I got another letter from you," reads one of the heart-wrenching lines in Russ' schoolgirl's script. "Every time I get a letter I cry and become very homesick."

What was so bad about camp? Let Russ count the ways: "I'll never forget the first night I had to sleep in a tent. I hated the public showers, I hated sharing a room with several other girls, I hated the anxiety of packing and saying goodbye."

For Kelsey Tomascheski, 48, of Santa Clara, Calif., camp memories center on bad food. "I will admit that I was a picky eater, but the problem was more on quality," said Tomascheski. "I could only handle so many bland spaghetti feeds, too-salty chicken strips, and soggy fries. Usually halfway through the week I gave up and only ate PB&J at all three meals."

Some unhappy campers hated bunk life. "It was dirty," recalled Gerry Cotten, 25, a website developer in Toronto. "I was always into computers, and some sort of computer camp probably would have been fun, but sleeping in an ancient old wooden cabin, with disgusting washrooms a five-minute walk away, wasn't really appealing."

The great outdoors didn't hold much charm either: "Taking a dip in the lake each morning instead of having a shower wasn't really for me. They called it the Polar Dip."

According to the American Camp Association, nearly 9 million kids under the age of 18 attend one of the country's 7,000 overnight camps each summer, with stays ranging from a week to two months. Research on the association's website suggests that going to camp can build confidence, self-esteem, social skills, independence and a sense of adventure.

But for some campers, the experience was more like the funny 1963 hit song performed by Allan Sherman: "Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh, here I am at Camp Granada. Camp is very entertaining. And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining."

Kim Cooper, 46, hated the structured activities. "They said 'You need to go make lanyards now,'" she recalled. "Why do I need a lanyard?" She preferred "hiking solo in the woods looking for interesting wildlife." But other campers thought that was weird, and Cooper soon found herself "surrounded by a group of scary big kids who were shoving me around and calling me Moses" ? because of a stick she carried on her treks.

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