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This year, Major League Baseball appears to be moving onto yet a third fantasy strategy rather than focusing exclusively on its own game, Major League Baseball is using its MLB.com website to sell advertising space to other fantasy sports games.
FORBES: MLB's New 'Fantasy Sports' Strategy: Selling Ad Space To Other Fantasy Host Sites
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The league's decades-old strategy for encouraging people to attend games, the blackout rule, has become counterproductive in some respects.
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This new strategy has the prospect of being lucrative for Major League Baseball.
FORBES: MLB's New 'Fantasy Sports' Strategy: Selling Ad Space To Other Fantasy Host Sites
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Whether or not they ever decide to sell for that ridiculous number, Grousbeck and Pagliuca have already left their footprints on the NBA. The Miami Heat copied their Big Three strategy and quickly shot to the top of the league.
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Red Sea nations in the Arab League also agreed Thursday to coordinate a common strategy against piracy.
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The strategy seems clear: Fox is moving in tandem with Major League Baseball, which has gone the direction of other sports to emphasize an expanded postseason tournament more than the climactic event.
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Integrating the league into the Majors' sophisticated television, radio and Web strategy would undoubtedly bring in more revenue from broadcast rights and merchandise, especially with the plethora of cable channels looking for programming.
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At the National Football League, the players union has been positioning to decertify, a strategy it successfully used after its failed strike in 1987.
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Brian Billick, the former Ravens coach, said some NFL defenses have become so overwhelmed by the league's new breed of explosive offenses that forcing fumbles has become something of a defensive strategy.
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