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It’s that time of year where the requests for help with jobs, internships, college choices come from parents and recent grads in droves. There aren’t more or less than previous years, but they seem to be a little different. Often requests came from people looking to enter the sports or media field, now they are …
While in Sicily I got a message from my brother Chris, who is in the process of cleaning out his home office and has, shall we say, a lot of stuff, most of which is very special but there are also a lot of cards that may not have value…how many Denny Walling’s does one …
My friend and colleague Will Leitch does an amazing free newsletter every week (sign up for it here). However even more than the ramblings of a dad and citizen of the world, he makes an offer…send me a letter or a note, in the mail, handwritten, stamp and everything. He has been doing it on and …
There they were in the first commercial break of the Knicks-Sixers Game 2 on Wednesday night…three commercials with three key brands in a row featuring WNBA personalities… Paige Bueckers and CarMax, A’ja Wilson and Nike, and Caitlin Clark and State Farm. Watching the game with a few casual basketball fans, I asked them what they …
Giving a sampling of content: Interesting the key sports biz players who have had hard paywalls like Sports Business Journal who are now putting select content outside those walls. Much like The Athletic now allowing free shares, the need for more eyes than those with $$ is inevitable for most. Now they don’t giveaway all …
Forget the fact that Saturday is the Kentucky Derby, and the NBA and Stanley Cup playoffs are moving along. What’s more important for crossover in sports business? It is Free Comic Book day, followed Monday by Star Wars Day . Star Wars promotions in sports have become a staple in and around the 4th of May…but Free …
They both returned to the playoffs…one NHL and one NBA…on the same night both with their own organic spin to presentation. The San Antonio Spurs pulled off the well orchestrated Fiesta Night, a rainbow of coordinated color for Victor Wembanyama’s first playoff home game, while the Buffalo Sabres drought ending win over the Boston Bruins …
‘He’s going to call you at home.” Those words in mid March of 1996 from the late “Superstat,” the legendary Harvey Pollack came true, because the next night at our New Jersey townhouse while I was feeding our newborn daughter Christine, the phone (in the time before cell phones) did ring, and on the other …
One of the great joys of showing up remains the randomness of not just meeting new people and hearing their experiences, but in reconnecting with older ones. Case in point, at the MIT Sloan Sports Conference Columbia hosted our annual cocktail event for students, alums and friends in the industry. Across the bar I saw …
We have always heard the phrase that “hope springs eternal,” as the air gets warmer, the grass gets greener, in most places the future beckons brightly, we tend to get more excited and hopefully interested in what lies around the corner. Maybe that’s why the spring transfer window in college athletics opened this week. (Well …
