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It is back this year, and remains the best value in sports, and is still one of larger secrets, even in the shadow of New York. It is the US Open qualifying tournament, the week-long celebration of tennis and sneak peek at those both in the main draw (and on site practicing each day) and …
The collectable industry continues to grow, while the digital collectible space, largely driven by NFT’s also continues to evolve. Is there a path to having the tangible and the digital work in harmony to give value to all? Here is one startup that combines the digital space with hard goods…in this case, sneakers. Last week …
In 2018, Bud Light came up with the fun promotion around the Cleveland Browns breaking their losing streak, unveiling coolers throughout the region that opened with the team posted a long awaited win. This year, Pepsi unveiled a new buzzworthy and fun consumer promotion, tied to the renewal of their almost 40 year old partnership …
Yes The Big Ten Conference has dominated the summer college news cycle with its moves to add UCLA and USC to their national mix, which has further churned the murky waters of college alignment during this hot summer. However not to get lost in the mix were at least three impactful, big picture legacy events …
Like so many others I awoke this morning to flick through social media channels for what came through the transom overnight, and there was a tweet from our friend Josh Rawitch at the Baseball Hall of Fame that Vin Scully had passed away. It hit me with such sadness on this beautiful August morning, but …
Established pro sports leagues don’t often give birth to a separate offshoot league. But that’s what PBR (Professional Bull Riders), a sport formed 29 years ago, is doing tonight in Cheyenne, Wyoming when the bucking chutes burst open to introduce the first regular season bull riding games in the new PBR Team Series. CBS Sports …
This past week I was watching CBS Sunday when a story on the band Toto came on. Here is another of those iconic rock bands of decades ago still singing those songs for an audience that loves their sound. However it was not the idea of the vintage rockers that caught me, it was their …
Sports books written by league executives can be interesting and illuminating but also risk being safe, watered down, and predictable. The exec who oversees PR for PBR (Professional Bull Riders) from an Endeavor office in New York, Andrew Giangola, has just released a new book that bucks the inherent challenges of sanitized prose, offering a …
Right after Donald Trump was elected to the presidency I asked a friend of mine, a deep Washington insider who had worked on numerous campaigns and had spent a good amount of time around the Kushner family (even though he was a hard line Democrat, that’s business) if all the things the newly elected POTUS …
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 “Top Gun: Maverick,” which will hopefully lead the return to the coffers of massive dollars into the studios who have struggled to find their way …