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Of all the “Halls of Fame” for sport, baseball is arguably the most well-known and perhaps the most remote. The village of Cooperstown, New York doesn’t have the benefit of a cosmopolitan city like Toronto (as does hockey. or Charlotte (as does NASCAR) or a major artery running through it (as does Basketball) or a …

The is no doube that baseball is a long season and in a challenged economy even the best teams at the professional level have some distrssed tickets to move. While minor league teams have less dates and less overhead, and much more leeway to be creative, those at the major league level have to continue …

In the day to day struggle of making ends meet and achieving ROI, companies can lose focus as to what their core message and mission is. The ability to grab little pieces of a financial or sales pie, or to satusfy a business partners immediate as opposed to ling term needs, can get a company …

Many casual sports fans may still think of the Green Bay Packers as quaint, a throwback organization with the biggest sport in the smallest market. However what is not quaint about the Packers, what is great business and smart brand building, is the way they continue, even in the best of times, to take care …

It may sound silly to some casual sports fans, but anyone who has been around a youth sports events, or even a high school or college event, can understand the pervasive presence of cheerleaders. The young girls man the sidelines at Pop Warner or CYO games, the dance teams are becoming an even larger presence …

It seems like there is no offseason for major sports, even on the collegiate level. In football, even without a 1-A playoff system, the Bowl Season is followed by the combine and workouts days followed b. spring footbal. followed by the draft followed by…maybe there is a bit of a lull as student-athletes take exams …

Sunday was Mothe.s Day, and around Major League baseball the pink bats rose across the diamonds as a symbol of awareness and a call to action in the fight against Breast Cancer. The pink ribbons, bats, jerseys and balls in support of Breast Cancer Awareness have symbolically gripped sports more effectively than perhaps any other …

It has happened consistently for the past three or four springs. There is a whirlwind of activity around lacrosse, especially at the college level. Lacrosse opened the new Meadowlands Stadium with over 25,000 fans…lacrosse at the collegiate level is making its way west, with a thriving program now at the University of Denver, a state …

Promoting Bubblewrap, the airfilled plastic that protects millions of items each year, is certainly not an easy task. It is kind of like finding a way for the media to do a positive story about brown paper bags or toilet paper…everyone uses them, they serve their function, but there is usually nothing newsworthy about them. …

Perhaps more than any other consistent platform, sports over the years has been a very effective voice for social change. Whether it was Jackie Robinson and integration, Billie Jean King and equality, sports has created a consistent call to action for hot button issues of the day. Sometimes the call to action comes and goes, …