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As we head into Super Bowl week, Noah Zaret keeps hammering out our podcast notes, this week featuring to recent and very timely ones; one of the growing value of entrepreneurship in the sports space, the other on the expanding world of sustainability. You can hear all our podcasts here as well. Ryan Berman on …
It is a tradition that has been quietly happening for years, but thanks to some opportunistic marketing folks is steadily turning into a hot stove event that could actually transcend baseball and into other sports. It is “Truck Day,” the day when MLB clubs in cold weather cities literally load up their 18 wheelers with team …
Tossing Teddy’s are back across North America, and that’s a good thing. From The Maritimes to California, a hockey holiday rite of charity has returned in full force this year, extending into leagues like the PHF and even into lacrosse (NLL). Now it used to be only in Detroit could you throw an object on …
Netflix, which added 7.7 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022 on $7.85 billion in quarterly revenue, is getting a lot of attention for its sports documentaries. The streamer, which has renewed the enormously popular “Drive to Survive” with Formula 1 for the 2023 season, recently released five bingeworthy episodes of “Break Point,” a …
There was a time a long time ago when I was looking at colleges and my father wanted me to consider at least one school in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. He thought it would make sense in case I didn’t want to go away and would serve as a fallback if …
Some thoughts on a cold January day. I was listening to the TED Radio Hour when host Manoush Zomorodi and her guest Esther Perel talked about the ever-evolving business of relationships, and how personal capital and the “Unwritten resume” has become more and more valuable in any decision-making process, personal or professional. What did she mean? “The unwritten resume” …
This past weekend we had a strange sense of “Déjà vu” as LIV Golf announced their broadcast deal with the CW. On the one hand was a network with no sports to speak of saying the right things about finding a way into the valuable area of live programming. On the other hand you have …
I honestly have never seen a broadcast ad for Waffle House. Now I have counted the number of Waffle Houses between New Jersey and Athens, Georgia (35), have seen the Christmas ornament, and believe there is a Lego set in the works, but traditional ads? Waffle House sells itself. However there they were this week, …
While so much discussion and speculation is being brought towards the introduction of advanced Artificial Intelligence into the business of sports, especially on the performance side (good piece but our friend Leonard Armato on how the balance of predictive performance will have to be hopefully tied to good old fashioned personnel staff), it is really …
So there amidst Pickleball, eboat racing, CBD speculation, content creation ventures was another eyebrow raiser for “athlete investment”… farming. It was a piece by Front Office Sports about a group of athletes from multiple sports who were buying and renting an Iowa farm as the latest in “unconventional opportunities” for athletes, according to some reports. …