The result was delete. Lankiveil ( speak to me) 00:52, 25 April 2009 (UTC) reply
The short version: spam. The slightly longer version: serious conflict of interest issues have left us with an article that, while containing a number of sources, is but a hollow shell that crumbles upon close examination. Sports Marketing Group's biggest claims to fame appear to be a couple surveys & a prediction (details in article). Regarding the surveys, several sources did write about the results, but in the way that the results of polls are typically written: focusing on the results themselves, not so much the collectors of the results. The mentions of SMG could probably be considered trivial mentions, and the articles themselves perhaps WP:NOTNEWS. If anything, I could perhaps see a stretch of an argument for merging this with the founder, Nye Lavalle. However, Mr. Lavalle's article has some strong COI & NPOV problems too.
See the talk pages of both mentioned articles above, plus WP:COIN for info on the COI probs.
Probably borderline speedy-able with {{ db-spam}}... -- AbsolutDan (talk) 23:29, 17 April 2009 (UTC) reply