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Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal is the industry’s leading weekly trade publication, providing breaking news and comprehensive reporting and analysis on sports business. With 80 reporters, editors and guest columnists, SBJ keeps its readers up to date on the latest developments in sports marketing, sponsorships, media, facilities, agents and labor, finance and more. For more information, visit www.SportsBusinessJournal.com.

Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Daily is the leading daily provider of real-time news and information for sports business executives, tracking more than 500 news sources worldwide, including newspapers, television and radio. SBD keeps its readers on top of the day’s events and ahead of the news cycle. For more information, visit www.sportsbusinessdaily.com

Both publications are part of the Street & Smith’s Sports Group, which consists of the Street & Smith’s Conference Group, the Sports Business Resource Guide & Fact Book, NASCAR Scene, NASCAR Illustrated and SceneDaily.com. Street & Smith’s is a division of American City Business Journals (ACBJ), which comprises weekly business journals across the country, BizJournals.com, Hemmings Motor News, Sporting News Magazine, Sporting News Yearbooks, Sporting News Radio Network and SportingNews.com. ACBJ is part of the Advance Publications family.

PLATINUM SPONSOR:

IMG is the world's premier sports, entertainment and media enterprise.

Operating in 30 countries, IMG's diverse businesses include: consulting services; event ownership and management; fashion events and models representation; licensing; golf course design; and client representation in golf, tennis, broadcasting, speakers, European football, rugby, cricket, motor sports, coaching, Olympic sports and action sports. IMG Academies are the world's largest and most advanced multi-sport training and educational facilities, delivering world-class sports training experiences to more than 12,000 junior, collegiate, adult and professional athletes each year.

IMG's media and entertainment operations include content production subsidiaries Darlow Smithson Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions. Globally, IMG produces and distributes more than 11,000 hours of sports, documentary, drama, comedy, entertainment, popular factual and children's content annually. IMG also represents the broadcast rights to many of the world's premier sporting events and has the world's largest sports archive with more than 250,000 hours of footage.

Forstmann Little & Co. purchased IMG in 2004. More information about IMG is available at www.imgworld.com.

GOLD SPONSORS:

ARAMARK is a leader in professional services, providing award-winning food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to health care institutions, universities and school districts, stadiums and arenas, and businesses around the world. The Sports and Entertainment Group provides a wide range of food and beverage, facilities, retail merchandise and other support services to more than 130 premier sports stadiums, arenas and concert venues across the country, resulting in exception experiences and outcomes for clients and their fans. In FORTUNE magazine's 2008 list of "America's Most Admired Companies," ARAMARK was ranked number one in its industry.

The Washington Nationals Baseball Club is a Major League Baseball team that plays in the Nation's Capital. The Nationals, formerly the Montreal Expos, came to Washington in 2004. The team plays in the highly competitive National League East. The Lerner family and their partners, led by Bethesda-based real estate developer Theodore N. Lerner, took ownership of the team in 2006. Off the field, the Nationals are committed to improving the lives of Washington area children and families through charitable endeavors. The Nationals will move into the state-of-the-art Nationals Park on South Capitol Street along the Capitol Riverfront in April 2008. For more information, please visit www.nationals.com.

SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS:

Proskauer Rose LLP, founded in 1875, is one of the largest law firms in the United States and has one of the most prestigious sports law practices in the country. For nearly 40 years, the firm has represented leagues and teams in all aspects of sports business. On a daily basis, Proskauer's Sports Law Group applies the broad interdisciplinary skills needed to resolve the business issues and disputes that affect sports clients in the highly competitive media and entertainment marketplace. More information about Proskauer Rose is available at www.proskauer.com.

IMS is a venue integration specialist that develops solutions for teams & owners that provide comprehensive overviews of their fans' tastes based on their spending patterns at the events. IMS' approach utilizes an Operational Data Store (ODS) - STADIS - that interfaces with ticketing and POS systems (food & beverage, retail, restaurants, parking, etc.) that facilitates the use of cashless transactions. This approach immediately delivers new revenue streams in the form of sales lift, breakage and additional float from season ticket sales.

Stout Risius Ross, Inc. provides financial advisory services to clients in a variety of industries, including professional sports. SRR professionals have provided sports-related services on behalf of teams, leagues, financial institutions and other entities. SRR’s sports-related services include franchise and business valuations, sell-side and buy-side advisory and general consulting services. For more information on SRR, visit www.srr.com.

Sony Electronics continues to be at the forefront of developing broadcast and production technologies for the sports marketplace. Sony offers high-definition products from acquisition and recording, editing, data storage, professional display, switchers and routers to customized solutions for applications in stadiums, sports broadcast facilities and for use by athletic directors, architects, system integrators, professional and collegiate sports personnel. For more information go to: www.sony.com/sonysports.

Centerplate is in business to create something special. For more than 40 years, Centerplate has provided catering, concessions, management and merchandise services for some of the most prominent convention, sports, and entertainment venues in North America. To create Something Special for our clients, we constantly search for ways to build on the uniqueness of each facility to provide guests with a one-of-a-kind experience. Centerplate provides services for more than 130 of North America's best-known venues.

ANC Sports and Mitsubishi jointly present the sports industry with the highest quality LED signage, operated by the most advanced software systems available. “Diamond Vision Driven by VisionSOFT” features uncompressed visuals from ANC’s patent-pending 3D interface across an unlimited amount of Mitsubishi world-renowned video screens and ribbon displays in real-time. Recent projects include Nationals Park, Camden Yards, Verizon Center, Rose Garden & Sommet Center.

Designing a multi-purpose stadium or arena to accomodate all the events and technology available in today's sports and entertainment industry is a challenging task. Ellerbe Becket's sport facility practice has designed some of the most successful buildings of this type in the world. We have learned to design these buildings to meet the business and operational goals of clients from both the private and public sector, setting exceptional design standards and creating destinations that provide memorable entertainment. For more information, visit our website at www.ellerbebecket.com.

Brailsford & Dunlavey is a facility planning and program management firm dedicated to serving educational institutions, municipalities, public agencies, and non-profit clients. B&D’s portfolio includes hundreds of sports facility projects, including NFL (Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns) and MLB (Washington Nationals, Cincinnati Reds) sports venues. For more information, please visit www.facilityplanners.com.

Fan Cans are new recycling and litter containers designed for sports fans, facility managers and corporate sponsors. They feature container lids shaped like baseball batter, football and motorsports helmets. The Fan Cans product line will enhance your fans’ experience and your bottomline. For more information, please visit www.fancans.com.

Civilian One Jets. When it comes to private jet travel, we’re changing the rules of the game.
As a sports professional, you know the right team is everything. That’s why your franchise player should be Civilian One Jets. Thanks to our breakthrough Fly Home FreeSM program, our Jet Cards offer the highest value in the aviation industry. They also come with world class customer service and a dedication to safety and security that is second to none. We know sports. We know aviation. And we know that you’ll accept nothing less than the best. Game on! Visit www.civilianonejets.com

Chapman and Cutler has advised clients on financing sports assets, including major league, minor league and municipal facilities, for over 25 years. Our law firm's finance focus brings the latest developments in public and private financing to your sports assets, whether you are seeking funding through bank loans, debt securities, lease arrangements, or municipal and tax-exempt financings.

Catadisc™ is the catalog of the future -- a totally interactive, shoppable, secure and measurable multimedia catalog on CD, DVD or Flash Drives. Make your catalog come alive -- with exclusive video and aufio content, links to purchase tickets, and sponsor information. We are the first digital catalog that will allow you to keep your merchandising dollars in your local revenue stream, while truly enhancing the fan experience!

Carolina Green Corp. is a full-service Athletic Field Construction Company specializing in turn-key design, construction and renovation of native soil, modified soil, sand-based and artificial turf sports fields. Carolina Green Corp. sets the standard for quality field construction with every project.

Amano McGann’s Wireless Event and Count Parking System sets the standard for managing Event Parking operations. The systems are designed for speed and ease of use – utilizing rugged wireless handheld unit with integrated touch-screen, credit card readers, and barcode scanner for prepaid tickets for fast transaction processing.

IntelliShop is recognized as a leader in the emerging field of Customer Experience Management (CEM). We help sports teams, leagues and venues to design, measure and deliver an exceptional fan experience across all key touch points. IntelliShop’s capabilities include customer experience measurement, experience standards development and consulting, mystery shopping, and fan and employee surveys.

By combining the industry’s most advanced, digital primary and secondary information technology and ticketing platform, Veritix™ has revolutionized Sports & Live Entertainment ticketing. The Company offers clients a unique opportunity to own and control their ticketing inventory – both in the primary and the secondary markets – while maximizing fan/customer lifetime value.

Dale and Thomas is the fastest growing snack food company in America having created America’s first line of chef crafted, gourmet, popcorn products. Dale and Thomas also produces, markets and sells Popcorn, Indiana,™ an all-natural and healthful KettleCorn brand – Popcorn, Indiana, sold at supermarkets, club stores, sporting venues and various other retail outlets.

For sponsorship and exhibit opportunities, please contact Paige Montgomery at 212-500-0710 or pmontgomery@sportsbusinessjournal.com.