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“This is the business we have chosen.” I was thinking about that line from The Godfather from Hyman Roth (The legendary actor Lee Strasburg) LIV Golf reaches its third year anniversary and while their issues with the PGA TOUR have not fully been resoved, some of the original issues about foreign investment in sport seems …
We enter the summer movie season this weekend, one in which the back to the theater with limited streaming at launch plan seems to be growing. Case in point is “Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning” which will hopefully lead the return to the coffers of massive dollars into the studios who have struggled to find their way …
Several years ago, I asked an official at the Premier League what it would take to play games, or even expand and add franchises in the United States. “A first mover with a huge amount of money and motivation,” he said at the time. There were other challenges over 15 years ago, ones which are …
It’s been a week since we were roaming the halls of The Hynes Convention Center, where we again came away with more from the MIT Sloan Sports Business Conference than what we gave. Some key takeaways from the rooms and the halls not just from the weekend, but for what to watch going forward. You …
Every year when we venture to Boston for the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference there is a wonder if it is worth the time and the trip. Could we spend time elsewhere, there are already way too many conferences…here is the random stat I came up with by the way… Because I had nothing better to …
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 …
The concept of “Sportfashion”…what athletes and coaches wear coming off the bus, going home, in warmups etc and how it ties to popular culture has never been stronger, and that includes footwear. The styling kicks, boots, shoes have always had their place, but when empowered by the big lens of media, traditional and social, and …
“It’s not your fault, Santa Claus has more publicity.” And “Well, let’s face it; Santa Claus has had more publicity, but being number two, perhaps you try harder.” Linus in letter to The Great Pumpkin and his conversation with Sally Brown. I love hearing Linus’ struggles to get attention this time of year as he …
“Walk the balance between humility and confidence.” There were so many tidbits of wisdom that applied to every one of the over five hundred attendees at the Columbia University Sports Management Conference in Lerner Hall on October tenth, but that quote from Unrivaled Basketball Commissioner Micky Lawler in the opening panel on emerging sports helped …
If you are well engaged with your audience, you know where, how and when they are engaged. In the esports world that may be on a Saturday, in global soccer it may be a Sunday morning. It is not as clear a path as it used to be. Now for wide ranging content, holiday weekends …
