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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
One of the most underappreciated qualities in an attention starved, shout over everyone to get noticed world is the ability to listen, digest what you hear and learn from those around you. With so much white noise out there, channeling the good from the useless or mundane can be difficult, bit learning to be a …
Much has been hyped and speculated about what role the opening of Cuba will have in American, and global business in the coming months and years. While most experts see this as a gradual turn, not something that can happen just overnight, with many cultural, financial and political mountains to climb still, one of the …
It is the rarest of rare events for a sport that is cult-like across the country but forgotten in Gotham. The first full week of December every year, college football takes center stage in New York. No, it is not because of a big game…Rutgers is slowly rebuilding, Bowl-bound Army is prepping for their Navy …
On Wednesday the sports world learned that former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca passed away at the age of 90. While Branca was known more for his infamous pitch to the New York Giants Bobby Thomson that game NY the National League pennant in 1951 , the Mount Vernon, New York native should really be …
One of the good things about not sleeping much is you get ample time to think…and usually that’s a good thing. The other night I was watching one of the “Save The Children” ads on TV and remembered when we had donated to a charity a few years ago and got in the mail a …
For this week’s “Teaching Thursday” q and a we go to the University of Arkansas, and Assistant Department Chair Steve Dittmore. Steve is another industry veteran who has worked with students at schools small (East Stroudsburg) and big, and has also spent a good amount of time in the Olympic world. We wanted to ask …
There was a time not too long ago when many thought that audio as a medium was almost dead. We live in a video world, we need to see things, no one has time to sit by a radio… Then along came podcasting, and itunes and digital audio and Sirius/XM and I Heart Radio and …
As baseball winds down in North America, it is just getting going in Australia. The Australian Baseball League now heads into its seventh season, and the league, and the sport in general, have been buoyed by the coming World Baseball Classic, the inclusion of the sport in the 2020 Olympics, and the continued grassroots support …
I have no stake in this game, other than the ongoing support for my friend and colleague Dan Lauria, who I have worked with on three projects, “Lombardi,” “Dinner with the Boys,” and “A Christmas Story,” and my ongoing strong interest in the crossover space that exists between Hollywood and sport. So when I tuned …
They have never been the quickest to adjust to new thinking the NCAA. At the NACDA/CoSIDA Convention in Dallas in June, school PR heads were still fitting and hawing over “internet media” and who and how they should credential for games bug and small. Instead of aggressively embracing, there was still a wide gap as …