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Our student from Elon University, Noah Zaret, continues to go back and break down some of the best episodes of the CUSP Show, the Columbia University Sports Podcast. This time we talk Olympics, women’s sports and India with Neha Aggarwal, the business of the WNBA, MLS and more with Amy Scheer, and the Savannah Bananas …
So I had no idea NFL players could not do individual deals for one of the most lucrative categories in the business…alcohol. So kudos to Coors Light for finding a way…kinda…to get an all star endorsement without the actual endorsement, and using ingenuity and humor to cut through the clutter. The digital campaign has Patrick …
So there we were driving to The Shore Thursday night as the signal from WCBS 880 kind of drifted in and out as we listened to Howie Rose and Wayne Randazzo call the first of the Mets-Marlins series from CitiField. As always the guys were brining all kinds of stories into the broadcast, when Randazzo …
A little pause on July 4. Happy is as happy does Grab a six -tring, find a rope swing Hang a palm tree in your truck Drink a beer just because Steal a slow dance in a rain storm And a kiss from who you love Laugh and live with a half-full cup Yeah, happy …
This past week I was watching CBS Sunday when a story on the band Toto came on. Here is another of those iconic rock bands of decades ago still singing those songs for an audience that loves their sound. However it was not the idea of the vintage rockers that caught me, it was their …
There is no doubt that the Cannabis/CBD business is slowly, steadily finding its way into the mainstream, and that of course includes the billion dollar business of sports. The latest and loudest salvo was fired early last week, when Major League Baseball and its teams opened up the door to do business with CBD brands, …
Sports books written by league executives can be interesting and illuminating but also risk being safe, watered down, and predictable. The exec who oversees PR for PBR (Professional Bull Riders) from an Endeavor office in New York, Andrew Giangola, has just released a new book that bucks the inherent challenges of sanitized prose, offering a …
We are lucky to have a student from Elon University, Noah Zaret, working with us this summer. We have asked Noah to go back and break down some of the best episodes of the CUSP Show, the Columbia University Sports Podcast. Starting off with the 50th anniversary of Title IX this week, are ones we …
It was a few weeks ago, the story about Republican operatives giving branded gas cards to those in line waiting for fuel. Some cried foul, as an unethical, and possibly illegal incentive to sway votes with fuel. While it was somewhat ambiguous what the outcome would be, it got us thinking, what about team promos …
Right after Donald Trump was elected to the presidency I asked a friend of mine, a deep Washington insider who had worked on numerous campaigns and had spent a good amount of time around the Kushner family (even though he was a hard line Democrat, that’s business) if all the things the newly elected POTUS …