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On Monday night ESPN again treated college football fans to the Megacast, the ability for everyone to watch the College Football Championship game from a host of angles and with a variety of both serious and casual commentary, all playing across the various cable and digital channels of “The Worldwide Leader.” As expected, you can …
The interest and crossover between mainstream sports business and the world of eSports continues to heat up, with yet more teams, athletes and brands looking to the space as a source of fan development, content and potential business opportunities. With that in mind we looked north to Montreal, one of the central locations for innovation …
When you are a disruptor sport like Mixed Martial Arts, you should always be looking for unusual places to insert yourself into a positive national conversation. On Sunday night, Academy Award winner Meryl Streep helped open a door for engagement, an unlikely one, that MMA was able to step through by using the platform that …
The sport of squash is fast, ultra-athletic and pretty much refined to clubs and select colleges and high schools in the United States. It has never been “mainstream.” The International Squash Federation, with a large amount of support in India and Pakistan, has tried in vain to get the sport on the Olympic programme. Women’s …
The broad and lasting implications of the recent Presidential election will ultimately be measured in the history books. What can be immediately affirmed are the folly of polls and the upending of conventional wisdom. For example, uncertainty from a Trump victory was supposed to crater the stock market. Instead, our 401Ks have been treated to …
The following was co-authored by Columbia student Maurice Eisenmann When the news broke that Argentinian National team star and Boca Juniors veteran Carlos Tevez would move to Shanghai and would become the highest paid soccer player in history, many people were surprised. After all, why would a Chinese team be willing to pay this record …
One of the great risks in Mixed Martial Arts fighting is that fact that because there are so many disciplines, even the best of fighters can get caught against a specialist and lose in surprising seconds. Often times with the loss comes a huge amount of human capital that has been built into the building …
One of the most underappreciated qualities in an attention starved, shout over everyone to get noticed world is the ability to listen, digest what you hear and learn from those around you. With so much white noise out there, channeling the good from the useless or mundane can be difficult, bit learning to be a …
The following was co-authored by Columbia student Maurice Eisenmann. You can also listen to our eSports podcast here. Also there are many links worthwhile, as part of this little eSports education… If the last couple of months have made one thing clear to us, it’s that eSports are here to stay in some growing way …
For all the heat that has surrounded Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for years on his team-first stance with regard to certain sponsorship deals, it has always been interesting to see that the Cowboys have ceded some of their most valuable real estate…the end zone signage, to a cause, the Salvation Army, for years. No other …