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When Fairleigh Dickinson University won their game in Dayton this week, my thoughts were not of coach Tobin Anderson and his athletes, it was of the support staff who would be going on a ride of their lives, and hopefully were able to enjoy and learn from it. After all, FDU, not far from home, …
As March Madness approaches, kudos again to one of the most unique, niche sponsorships in sports: Werner Ladders. The NCAA still has its official net cutting scissors (Fiskars) and traction wipes (Slipp-Nott), and its mop but Werner remains one of the few brands that seems to always find its way to the camera, and the most important celebratory …
As we head into Super Bowl week, Noah Zaret keeps hammering out our podcast notes, this week featuring to recent and very timely ones; one of the growing value of entrepreneurship in the sports space, the other on the expanding world of sustainability. You can hear all our podcasts here as well. Ryan Berman on …
Netflix, which added 7.7 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022 on $7.85 billion in quarterly revenue, is getting a lot of attention for its sports documentaries. The streamer, which has renewed the enormously popular “Drive to Survive” with Formula 1 for the 2023 season, recently released five bingeworthy episodes of “Break Point,” a …
Last Friday morning, getting ready to ring the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell, the cowboys of PBR walked onto the trading floor to hoots and hollers of “Yellowstone! Yellowstone!” That’s all right with PBR Commissioner and CEO Sean Gleason, though when comparisons of his sport’s increasing popularity are made with cable’s No. 1 drama, …
Perhaps for a good part of the casual fans for sports, Army-Navy is a part-time tune in vs. must see engagement. However if you are a member, even an extended member of a military family, a fan of traditional rivalries, a football fan looking for a game to watch in early December on a Saturday …
Going into last baseball season the great Will Leitch wrote a piece on the complaints by traditional fans about the designated hitter in the National League. The point of the piece was simple…important to talk about? Sure? Earthshattering worthy of massive complaints and hand wringing and protest? Not really. It’s sport. Enjoy it. Its not …
Riding the success of a popular Netflix reality show, Formula 1 has won new fans and sponsors, and is a darling of the moment with sports media. Helped in part by the hit show “Drive to Survive,” now confirmed for at least a sixth season, the Mexico Grand Prix did well last Sunday, averaging 1 million …
How to cut through the clutter…if you are seen as a mainstream staple with not a great deal of buzz? Look for some blue ocean to swim in…even if it can be well, a bit murky. Case in point…Bush’s Beans, which announced this week it will seek one Chili-Loving fan to be the first- ever …
There is so much talk about streaming and the value of personalized channels can bring to hand casual and diehards a point of view as to how they want to engage in the live coverage of their favorite sporting events. We keep seeing the expansion of Twitch and its competitors into sports deals with teams, leagues …