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Don Nelson used to say when your team was bad your sold your fans on two things: hype and hope. Until you were able to get the product on the court or the field back to where it would be competitive, you banked on those two areas to keep the paying customer, and the casual …
In 2000, only five NFL teams stayed in their own practice facility for the rigors of preseason training camp, this year 21 teams are again staying home for camp, with the latest being the 49ers getting full use of their new facility in Santa Clara. In recent years both the New York Giants, returning to …
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 …
The following was primarily written by colleague Jesse Ghiorzi director, brand strategy for CHARGE Big brands, big money, young fans and professional teams from traditional sports are all heading to eSports, but it still seems like the Wild West out there. There’s no clear top league or major event(s) that crosses over to the mainstream …
Brands and fans love records, official or not. If you can tie to a “first,” a “biggest,” a “largest,” it always helps in the sell. So with that in mind, even golf can find a way to aggregate and generate some great buzz and fun, tied to cause. Every year, American veterans return home from around …
We are continuing to live more and more in the world of cord cutting, cord shaving, niche marketing and storytelling and brand control. With each passing day the power to aggregate an audience, control or amplify a message or tell a story shifts from massive platforms to those which have a direct purpose. Some of …
I work with a lot of people and try to help out even more. However I can safely say for all the fun things I do, the people I work with, the places I go, there is nothing I enjoy more than teaching. I don’t mean just the graduate program at Columbia or getting to …
We received a great deal of Feedback from the two posts we have done on March madness coaches, one on their Twitter activity or lack thereof, and the same on the lack of Instagram activity. We wanted to ask someone who works even closer with coaches, some athletes and others like politicians on the issues …
They are some of the most visible and enduring faces around college sports; the head coaches, especially in the highly visible worlds of football and basketball. At the biggest levels they are well compensated, driven and passionate about their craft, which largely revolves around the lives of very young and talented student athletes. Most are …
There are so many great examples of hustle the lead to brand building, exposure and buzz: here are three for the week worth noting. Fatima And The Caps’: The value of just showing up always has its advantages. In December, executives from Monumental Sports had former NHL star Peter Bondra along on the trip for …