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It took a while and we still haven’t seen the hard copy (or the ebook), but we are proud and happy that the third edition of “Sports Publicity” is now out and available. The updates from the the second edition which came out in 2012 are pretty vast, and we have brought a list of …
So much of the continued escalation of COVID is focused, and it seems rightfully so, on the issue of wearing a mask or not. As someone who has lost one friend to this disease, and came damn near close to losing another one, the simple issue of putting on a mask seems pretty simple. I …
When you get to spend some time speaking…and as he pointed out…listening to a future Hall of Fame manager in Joe Maddon your expectations are probably a little high. In this case, the learnings, and the expectations, exceeded even our grasp. You can hear the whole 40-minute conversation as part of the latest edition of …
This past Thursday my co-host of the CUSP Show (The Columbia University Sports Podcast) Tom Richardson got to spend a good 45 minutes talking about everything but actually baseball with Los Angeles Angels Manager Joe Maddon. The podcast will be out next week and touched on well…podcasting (he has launched and then was stopped after …
It used to be that sports business conferences would schedule out so as not to split audiences and step on the space of both participants, attendees, and even social presence. You knew when MIT Sloan was, when Cynopsys sports did their awards, when the Ivy Sports Symposium was (November), SEAT took place (July), and hashtag …
We hit the middle week of the middle month of 2020, and so many have said recently they can’t wait for the year to be over. While there is no doubt that the last few months have been so difficult for the myriad of reasons we continue to see, this past weekend watching some people …
For anyone who thinks that NASCAR’s announcement to ban the Confederate Flag was a knee jerk reaction to all the recent protesting, think again. It was the latest, and boldest, step by the circuit over a series of years to address and promote inclusivity not just in the sport, but to a wider audience that …
Late last week I read about the death of Charles Lippincott, the man who both George Lucas and Mark Hamill called one of the most valuable, if not the most valuable, members of the launch of the Star Wars series. Actor? Producer? Sponsor? Nope. He was the communications guy. I did not know much about …
I remember exactly where I was when I met M. Quentin Williams for the first time. It was in the bowels of what was then called the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, and I’m going to guess that it was the fall of 1998. I was getting a tour of the facility from my longtime …
They have always been the iconic role models that have shaped thousands of lives, from little league to the highest level of competition. They are dedicated and driven, mercurial and emotional, volunteers and mercenaries, teachers and mentors. They are coaches. Yet for all the time, effort and value they put in, these men and women …