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Professional Women’s Soccer needs every break it can get in its third go-round. Two well-funded previous attempts to create a pro league have come and gone, and now a third version funded in large part by USA Soccer and some others with a stake in the game is going to give it another try. This …
It’s still a pristine sponsor environment for the most part, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, There is no on court signage, you have to look hard to even find a call directly to the tournament site NCAA.com (it’s on top of the backboard and sometimes on directional signage), and even with the huge social media …
Success is sometimes how you define it. If you look at the World Baseball Classic as a vehicle about American baseball and fandom, then you walk away from this year’s event scratching your head. Team USA, without the requisite stars, once again failed to reach the final round. So chalk up an L for the …
There are wide ranging numbers attributed to the number of dollars spent and people who play fantasy sports in the United States, but rest assured it is in the millions. Football is king, baseball second and then it goes down from there. The major media companies have found a jackpot in monetizing and aggregating fantasy …
Anyone who has ever been around minor league hockey knows that the challenge to fill seats can be even more daunting than for the toughest minor league baseball teams. Baseball is all about sun and fun and a family experience in the outdoors..an inexpensive rite of summer. Hockey is indoors, in the winter many times …
If you are a baseball fan living in the United States and watching or attending the World Baseball Classic, you may see an ad with former Red Sox Manager Bobby Valentine and others urging you to travel and explore the United States. Why would a company take out ads and preach to the converted you …
If you have been to New York’s Times Square in the last five or six years toy would have seen it, the billboard towering over the Marriott Marquis. Amidst the glowing brand ads throughout the square and the endless video displays is the huge promotion board for the UFC, always telling the tale of their …
The casual fan knows all about March Madness and the craziness that ensues when the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament tips off. Heroes made, eventually a champion crowned and Cinderella usually dances again and again, at least for a few weeks. The heavily margined, tightly controlled advertising dollars that go against March Madness are leveraged by …
One of the interesting questions around the endless numbers crunching that takes place this time of year around baseball is what exactly, other than team player evaluation, fantasy play, and sports talk, is the real value for all of the statistical analysis. Teams need ways to properly analyze talent for sure, and the minutia that …
It’s never easy to create a global initiative in anything for one day, let alone anything to do with sport…on a weekday at a time of year when most of the sporting world is thinking soccer, pitchers and catchers, basketball, ice hockey, lacrosse or any myriad of ideas. Tennis? The hard courts of Melbourne are …
