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Don Nelson used to say when your team was bad your sold your fans on two things: hype and hope. Until you were able to get the product on the court or the field back to where it would be competitive, you banked on those two areas to keep the paying customer, and the casual …
One of the most important assets to growth, and one of the most underrated, is the ability or the want to never stop learning. It doesn’t matter from who or from what, but the quest to keep trying and finding new things is what makes every day interesting and leads you to places you never …
Two weeks ago I was lucky to host a panel on “The Future” at the National Sports Forum’s first-ever New York event, with NFL CMO Dawn Hudson, Jon Tuck from NASCAR and David Lehanski from the NHL. While most of the topics revolved around futurist ideas; gaming, VR/AR, fan experience, home experience, brand activation etc., …
Juan Mata has seen success in soccer at every level and has parlayed that success into millions of dollars in contracts and sponsorships throughout his career, which now has him starring for Manchester United, arguably the most impactful sporting brand on the planet. So how is Mata looking to seize that stage going forward, with …
In 2000, only five NFL teams stayed in their own practice facility for the rigors of preseason training camp, this year 21 teams are again staying home for camp, with the latest being the 49ers getting full use of their new facility in Santa Clara. In recent years both the New York Giants, returning to …
A few weeks ago I was listening to NPR as Kai Ryssdal talked to a gentleman named Aaron Foley, who had taken on a new position in the evolving city of Detroit. In days of yore, maybe Foley would have been the Motor City’s head flack, their Communications Exec or even their Public Relations Manager. …
Paying for news, or sports or financial information is not new. Cable TV, newspapers, magazines, it is the model that has always existed in a more traditional sense. However with the birth of online media and content came the notion that of it was free it had to be me. Drop in billboards and banners, …
The relative quiet of post-MLB All-Star will soon give way to NFL Training camp and one of the most active times of the year for baseball before the pennant races kick in…the MLB Trading Deadline. The Trading Deadline, now at the end of July, grabs a lion share of the media and public attention, even …
When UFC was sold to WME | IMG, Dana White, along with his partners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, drove away in the proverbial Brink’s truck. White’s take from the sale was reported to be $340 million. The extraordinary growth in valuation of a business once banned across most of the U.S. is the stuff of …
Every once in a while the venerable sport of Roller Derby makes a bit of a splash. Now it is coming back tied to a cause. Make ‘Em Bleed, is a partnership with The American Red Cross to use the fun off beat entertainment spectacle to draw consumers in to donate and raise awareness for …