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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 …
On October 15, 2018 I was in Seattle at a conference standing on a Pier looking at beautiful Mount Rainer when I looked at my phone and saw a notice that Paul Allen had passed away. How I ironic and unique was it to be standing there looking at the city he loved (and I …
Forget the fact that Saturday is the Kentucky Derby, Formula 1 in Miami, the opening fo the WNBA Season and the NBA and Stanley Cup playoffs are moving along. Whats more important for crossover in sports business? It is Free Comic Book day, right on the heels of Star Wars Day on Wednesday . Star Wars …
Occasionally we check in with our friends at the PBR to see how their disruptive models are working. This year it is the team concept for bull riding. So far, so good. Every day more than 100 people relocate to Austin, Texas. Last week in Republic Square, a downtown park where in 1839 the booming …
I’m a fan of the disruptive underdog, so my hope is that every spring football league coming and already here finds its financial foothold and its audience. I’m less concerned about the field talent, although the stories are vast, I’m more interested in those making the sausage for Fan Controlled Football, the USFL, the future …
We throw around words like authenticity as a core value to connect with the world in general…especially for those in the limelight…we often forget what is actually authentic and what resonates as an example. Well here are two from the last few days, both of which show sincerity, vulnerability, emotion and most importantly the ability …
I was watching Ken Burns’ great two-part documentary on Benjamin Franklin this week when I noticed one of so many thoughts of relevance…Franklin was asked about why at his advanced age does he still care about goings on that should be taken up by younger people, and how he knows if something he is doing …