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As we tip off March Madness, the good young people at the Complete SET Agency took a look for the second year in a row at the social footprint of the head coaches at each school. The coaches, especially in the highly visible worlds of football and basketball. At the biggest levels they are well …
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 celebratory moments during …
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 …
The interest and engagement around the start of baseball spring training remains so strong, and there is really no sport whose rituals of the preseason bring together so many time and again. As most pro sports look to shrink the preseason, nary a complaint goes on about baseball. Yet another event tied to the diamond …
It’s never easy for new brands to find their niche on limited budgets, but Australia’s Four’N Twenty Beef Pies found a window and delivered in of all places, Philadelphia, with the 76ers last month. Haven’t yet heard of the brand? Here’s a little primer. The Four’N Twenty legend began in 1947, in a country town …
I admit it, I love reading AARP Magazine. It has the largest circulation of any publication in North America, yet people snicker. Not an edition goes by where I am not learning something from those older: Martin Short and Billy Joel, Tom Selleck and Robin Roberts. On and on and on. Smart short, sensible points …
All I was doing was cleaning out my bag. That’s it. There I had collected ticket stubs from the last six or eight months from everything from Off Broadway shows to Minor League Baseball to Army Navy football to soccer to college basketball. A nice pile that I keep in a small book. Each gives …
There they were on a beautiful Boston afternoon, Tom Brady and Julian Edelman, riding the Duck Boats in the Patriots Victory parade, adorned not in Patriots Championship merchandise but in tee-shirts of their own, owned design, readily available for sale. The tee shirts come just days after Miami Heat star Dwayne Wade announced his deal …
Spent four productive Pre Super Bowl days logging lots of Fitbit steps in and around downtown Atlanta produced some great experiences, meetings and observations. Here Ya Go… The Value of Radio Row: A few years ago the death of radio, or the spoken word, as a viable piece of storytelling to a wide audience …
We loved learning about how the Professional Bull Riders keep trying to grow and disrupt by, frankly being creative with their assets. Latest case in point… PBR is joining the Super Bowl Party with the first national brand commercial in the sport’s 26-year history, launching its new ad campaign, “Be Cowboy,” prior to kick off …