THE WORLD CONGRESS OF SPORTS IS PRESENTED BY:

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.

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 Today, Sporting News Radio Network and SportingNews.com. ACBJ is part of the Advance Publications family.

Official Research Provider:

Turnkey Sports & Entertainment is the industry’s trusted name in executive search and also consumer research. Turnkey’s clients are smarter.

Turnkey Search is the industry’s leading executive search firm. Turnkey assists agencies, brands, properties and media in identifying and recruiting the very best talent to strengthen management teams.

Turnkey Intelligence is the industry’s leading custom insights company. Turnkey assists agencies, brands, properties and media to develop and execute smart strategies for monetizing consumer insights in the form of market research, lead generation, sponsor recaps, etc.

Turnkey owns and publishes the monthly Turnkey Sports Poll, the monthly Turnkey Event Pulse and the annual Turnkey Team Band Index (a measure of the in-market band strength of all 122 teams in the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB). For more information visit www.TurnkeySE.com.

Sponsors Include:

Bank of America: Committed sports professionals with comprehensive client solutions. Bank of America is a leading financial partner, adviser and sponsor across all major sports. As a world-class financial institution with a dedicated Sports Finance and Advisory team, we help owners, leagues and franchises address their full range of needs – from building stadiums to redesigning their capital structure to managing their mergers and acquisitions. We also are proud to be the Official Bank of Major League Baseball, the Official Bank of the National Football League, the Official Bank of NASCAR, the Official Bank Sponsor of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, and a premier sponsor and contributor throughout the sports community. www.bankofamerica.com.

Proskauer has been recognized by Chambers USA as having the "nation's leading sports practice," and is adept at applying the broad interdisciplinary skills needed to resolve business issues and disputes that affect sports clients in a highly competitive marketplace. For more than 45 years, the firm has advised purchasers and prospective purchasers of professional sports teams; handled sports-related financings with respect to teams, leagues and facilities; negotiated stadium and arena leases and development agreements; advised on joint ventures between sports entities and media and technology companies; negotiated collective bargaining agreements with players, referees, umpires and other game officials; and handled litigations on all matters relevant to the sports business. For further information, please visit www.proskauer.com.

Image Impact is a leading provider of brand measurement and valuing for mass media placement. Our web-based delivery platform provides clients with the most comprehensive data available today including the Monetary Value (MV®), Quality Impact (QISM) Score and source valuation for each individual detection. Clients include Major League Baseball, FOX Sports, ESPN, Sprint, MasterCard and more. Get the only complete brand placement evaluation and consulting that takes your brand integration analysis...Beyond the NumbersSM.

Covington & Burling LLP offers one of the world’s premier sports and media practices, representing the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, and USTA in the United States, and the FIA (the governing body of Formula 1 racing) and British Horseracing Authority in Europe. Covington lawyers have also advised a host of major league teams and owners in the U.S. and premier league clubs in England. Covington offers a broad range of counsel to sports clients, ranging from industry-shaping litigation to corporate, finance, media and technology transactions to intellectual property disputes and enforcement to government affairs, regulatory and taxation issues. For more information, please visit www.cov.com.

For sponsorship and exhibit opportunities, please contact Julie Tuttle at 212-500-0711 or jtuttle@sportsbusinessjournal.com.