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I have watched every game simulation thus far; FIFA, NBA, some NHL but until I watched iRacing I didn’t think any were the actual event. All were filler, but the virtual race NASCAR and their partners did Sunday on FOX Sports 1 was different and really deserves credit for getting as close to live as …
Friday night I randomly flipped through ESPN’s On demand menu and found “Requiem For The Big East,” which I hadn’t seen in quite a while, so I decided to watch for a few minutes; and then an hour and a half. I watched as a reminder of those original days of basketball but also to …
I never really chose the path to working for myself; it was kind of forced upon me when our MMA venture, the IFL, folded 12 years ago, and really three colleagues, Meredith Geisler, John Genzale and Jon Pessah, made me jump in the pool. With that came 12 years of learning, including how to best …
For the past 12 years at the top of our weekly newsletter we have listed a little “spanning the globe” list of events going on. This week, sadly, that list is virtually nonexistent due to the ongoing issues with coronavirus cancellations. That’s the bad news we now know. The good news is that we live …
From every challenge comes opportunity, and that’s the way we need to view the new normal for now around Coronavirus. While people search for things to fill their time when they would have been watching and attending sporting events, and channel surfing consists of old dog shows, poker shows and game replays, and lots of …
There was a time when we were starting to wind down the International Fight League 12 years ago that the late Jay Larkin, who was heading the business at the time, suggested we do fights in a warehouse with all the lights and pageantry and maybe a few fans in a few rows. After all, …
The goal was to stop at the Basketball Hall of Fame on the way to the 2020 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston last week. It was a great fit and not that far out of the way for myself and my colleague Scott Rosner; what could be a better way to kick off …
There used to be the great divide; those who loved sports and those who loved science, and rarely the two crossed paths. However today, with the advent of advanced analytics in sport, VR and AR, gaming and esports, even robotics, the worlds of what we thought were “sport” and how the two intersect today have …
As March Madness gets going, kudos again to one of the most unique, niche sponsorships in sports: Werner Ladders. The NCAA still has its official net cutting scissors (Fiskars) and traction wipes (Slipp-Nott), but Werner remains one of the few brands that seems to always find its way to the camera, and the most important …
The continued value of Historically Black Colleges in the lexicon of college athletics continues its renaissance this weekend when the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA Basketball Tournament) takes place for the 75th time in Charlotte, NC. The tournament annually draws more than 100,000 people to its games and surrounding activities and more than 130,000 are …