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It’s November, which in the fundraising world again means “Movember.” For those who don’t know… Originally launched in Australia, the theme for “Movember” was to get primarily men (although women helped out with a fake one) to grow a mustache or not shave for the 30 days of the month of November, and then gain …
It was 27 years ago this week that I drove from our newly purchased home in Nanuet, NY, where I had spent the last five years as Sports Info Director and then Asst AD For Communications at my alma mater, Fordham University, and made the big jump to being the Director of Public Relations for …
So who do you believe? A few weeks ago, an ESPN related independent poll showed that 71 percent of fans were in favor of athletes taking a stand on social justice issues. This week a poll by Gallup conducted over the last year claims that sports in general, largely driven by athlete activism, has plummeted. …
How much of a boost do fans in the stands give the home team? Or to the athletes on the field in general? Are the risks of having these fans back during a stubborn health crisis too great to even worry about these questions? When the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium announced that up …
As we move into August of this summer like no other, those in the know continue to look at the disruptive change that keeps evolving in the sports business landscape. Where will streaming be going; what jobs are being created, how will the workforce shift; how is fan engagement changing, where do media dollars go …
So much of the continued escalation of COVID is focused, and it seems rightfully so, on the issue of wearing a mask or not. As someone who has lost one friend to this disease, and came damn near close to losing another one, the simple issue of putting on a mask seems pretty simple. I …
Late last week I read about the death of Charles Lippincott, the man who both George Lucas and Mark Hamill called one of the most valuable, if not the most valuable, members of the launch of the Star Wars series. Actor? Producer? Sponsor? Nope. He was the communications guy. I did not know much about …
For most of its recent history World TeamTennis was a fun and innovative idea caught with a home too small. The tennis schedule is simply too packed to find ways to give it it’s proper due. Other than places like Washington, where serial entrepreneur Mark Ein has built the Kastles into a year-round staple of …
With the rest of the sports world on pause, sidelined by a dangerous global pandemic, one sport has returned to competition, and with the steps they took may have provided a pretty thorough best practice of what we may see on courses, courts and fields in the coming weeks. PBR (Professional Bull Riders) was back …
From every challenge comes opportunity, and that’s the way we need to view the new normal for now around Coronavirus. While people search for things to fill their time when they would have been watching and attending sporting events, and channel surfing consists of old dog shows, poker shows and game replays, and lots of …