Volume 4, Number 1
(Spring/Summer 2003)
FITCHRATINGS REPORTS
In 2002-2003, international ratings agency Fitch Ratings produced two reports on the sports industry, (1) U.S. Sports Facility Finance - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and (2) Economics of Professional Sports: Rating Sports Transactions. Both reports are available on their website by following these simple steps:
(1) Register for a free password to the site.
(2) Once logged in with that password search for "sports facility" for the first report, and "professional sports" for the second.
FACILITY UPDATE CHARTS
{New Feature: Starting with the Facility Update Charts below, each chart will now include information relating to naming rights deals for each team and facility covered}
Major League Baseball
National Basketball Association
National Football League
National Hockey League
Sports Facility Reports is a newsletter published twice a year (spring & fall) by the National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School, PO Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201-1881. For further information contact the NSLI by phone at (414) 288-5815, by fax at (414) 288-5818, or by email. Upon request, this publication is distributed via email to individuals in the sports field.
Editorial Staff:
Matthew J. Mitten, Professor of Law & NSLI Director
Paul M. Anderson, Editor & Designer, NSLI Associate Director
Contributors to Volume 4, Number 1: William Appleton, Jr. & Michael Baird