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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 …
We raise the question as a thought starter in class quite often. Who is the media? The initial responses are the ones one would expect…newspapers, CNN, Bleacher Report, NPR etc. etc.… Then we talk about the ability to self-story tell, the rise of social media and citizen journalism, the ability to create and enhance a narrative …
It is still there. And today it is more relevant than ever before…especially since World Suicide Prevention Day is this month. There it was on the side of a phone kiosk in midtown Manhattan two years ago, a large picture of Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps. Another ad for Speedo or Subway or Under Armour, as …
The quest to be a curious learner took us last weekend to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, a treasure trove of tidbits about the great game which made a visit even for the casual fan so worthwhile. We of course were more than the casual fan, as well as lovers of history, so …
A few years ago I wrote this piece on the passing of another New York sports character, Robert Elkin, which to this day still gets responses from people who wander across it. I was thinking about Robert, and all those others who are part of that unique fabric of sports, both this past week when …
In the news cycle we are in today, with the ability to self-generate coverage and control a narrative while speaking directly to the audience we want to reach, the choice of when to break news seems to have become less of a “must do.” If you have a window in time, a good story and the …
There was a time wayyy back in the 1990’s when the New York Knicks would be yearly contenders for the NBA Eastern Conference Championship and when the team played on the road in places like Indianapolis or Philadelphia or Houston, you would tune in and on the new sideline rotating signage you would see ads …