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It’s great to have convergence at a time of year when we are all looking ahead to brighter, longer days as we shake off the cold and the gloom. It’s also nice when two of those events crossover. Today is Groundhog Day, and yes the critter in Pennsylvania saw his shadow…so six more weeks of …
This week, as the NWSL broke another mark for expansion franchise prices in the league with the announcement of NWSL Denver, the bids for the next WNBA franchise were submitted, with the adjacent story lines tied to them. And while the realists and the cynical will push away the pageantry and the buzz and look …
Sunday morning, I went to an early mass at our parish, St. John the Baptist in Hillsdale, NJ, and I am always interested and intrigued to what our pastor, Monsignor Peter Smutelovic, has in store for his homily. This week he talked a great deal about the faith that the two College Football championship quarterbacks, …
This past week I was catching up with my colleague Terry Lyons on ideas big and small, and we turned to the ideas of what needs to be brought to the table when trying to take a spark of an idea and make it bloom in a time challenged world. Like the book I was …
A while ago an MSG executive named Bill Jemas wanted to test a theory he had. If you priced the second row at a Knicks game more than the first, what would people buy first? The answer when it was tested was clear…people gravitated to the highest price with the idea that the best cost …
We started our tenth year for our podcast at Columbia with a pair of business leaders who bring big thinking, varied knowledge, deep entrepreneurial roots, and a great understanding pf people to everything they do. One…Howard Handler, is one of the most respected individuals in sports, music and entertainment, having worked across a myriad of …
This past Monday as I started the undergraduate spring class I do at Fordham I took literally ten minutes to whiteboard “stuff.” Just list out the things that are on the top of peoples minds, and what lies ahead and what that alphabet soup looks like. WOW. Lots of initials like PIF, TGL, GFL, USL, …
When talking with several executives this week about the launch of new leagues this month in volleyball, basketball, and golf, as well as all the niche sports vying for coverage and the mainstays we keep defaulting back to, one question kept coming up…who is the audience, and more importantly what’s the reason you are giving …
In 2007, when my colleague John Genzale asked me to come up with a class on communications for a fledgling program that had just launched at Columbia in the School of Professional Studies AND did I want to write a book about the topic, I laughed. I had taken a stab at teaching at NYU…a …
If baseball was very, very good to Chico Escuela (young folks, Google that), the Western culture explosion continues to be very, very good to PBR. Capitalizing on the so-called “Yellowstone Effect,” PBR is riding a Western resurgence not seen since the Urban Cowboy craze, as the toughest cowboys and most powerful bucking bulls stormed into …
