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Patches, who cares about patches? If you are a brand that is looking for a quick splash, sometimes without explanation, then finding your way through a patch is an interesting disruptive way in, although with the NBA, at least on the team side in the US, that is about to be amended more than a …
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 …
There has been much made of the sexiness and growth of eSports, and with the growth and buzz comes considerable debate. When you are working in the mainstream billion dollar business of sports globally, where exactly does eSports fit? Fad, phenomenon, surrogate business, parallel opportunity, engagement tool, nuisance; all of those listed, none of those …
Columbia student Matt Walker was on the ground for our program at the MIT Sloan Analytics Conference this past weekend in Boston, Mass. Here is a summary on what he and others learned… CEO Casey Wasserman (Wasserman Media Group) set the scene in the opening panel of the weekend, “Use data as an equalizer. …
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 really nice functions of Facebook is the “On This Day” page, which gives you the opportunity to look back on where you were on that day since you signed up. I make it one of the first things I do every morning. Today it reminded me that six years ago this week …
It happens every year and this year we got a double dose. The two days (used to be one) after the MLB All-Star Game are the days with almost no professional game in North America…Wednesday has become ESPY Day…. Thursday ,golf also starts to grab its headlines with the Open Championships starting. MLS and WNBA …
As we have been saying a lot recently this business, sports and entertainment, has to be more about the people and the places than the things for those who work in it. You can’t put in the hours, the travel, the sacrifices, unless you have the passion for it, and all along the way should …
My guess is anyone reading this as at least a passing interest in the multibillion dollar industry that is sports today. But how did we get here, and more importantly, who got us here in just a few decades. Many of those questions and more are looked at by Matthew Futterman in his new book, …
Sometimes with all the hoop and hype around athletics we forget that sport can actually help move the needle and bring action to key causes through the power of media and celebrity. This weekend, Viacom, Spike TV and two elite athletes will do just that for the people of Flint, Michigan. On Friday in Atlantic …