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The Oakland A’s are not the first, but they are the latest, and the first in the very traditional world of baseball, to go the audio streaming route vs having a local radio partner for the 2020 season. Oakland’s Dave Kaval explained the reasoning (they will have terrestrial radio in certain parts of the market …
Thursday marked the 27th anniversary of the passing of Arthur Ashe from complications from AIDS. One of the sad ironies is that he was offered &and was going to accept head women’s tennis coaching job at Fordham when he found out and informed then athletic director Frank McLaughlin that he had to pass on the …
It has been quite a roller coaster first month of the year. Bookending the 1st month of January 2020 are the sudden tragic losses of David Stern and Kobe Bryant (as well as the others who perished tragically Sunday) ; two at different stages of vibrant lives whose impact went and will go on, way …
Team Handball is a thing. No it’s not the old school hitting the ball against a concrete wall many grew up with in the inner cities of the U.S. It is one of the most engaged training sports in the world. Ask many basketball players or soccer players about Team Handball and they will know …
Sometimes you never know where the most unique ideas are going to come from. Case in point was my brother’s shelf on a Thursday night in December. There was a gift from a colleague, a set of slate coasters with the scoreboard from some of the greatest moments in Mets history. Nothing elaborate, just memorable. …
Anyone who knows the history of Lou Lamoriello will know that this was not a carefully planned social play by the Islanders this past week, but even the legendary NHL President of Hockey Operations and GM, who always pushes to keep distractions down…way down…with the teams he runs, can’t be all that upset with the …
“The NBA will have franchises in Europe within 10 years.” That was David Stern at the NBA All-Star Game in Philadelphia in 2002, when talk of European expansion was the hot topic. Now of course we have leaders floating ideas like that pretty regularly (including Real Madrid leadership looking to create a club Super League …
I don’t know Michael Arcieri, heck I only know a few people still working in the front office of the Knicks since my time there over a decade ago, but in reading this Thanksgiving Day story by Chris Iseman I know enough of what Michael has done to make it relatable to what success can …
There has been so much debate over the use of athlete likeness for commercial purposes in the past few months, and the debate, along with the state declarations of support with laws that will support, are going to go on for some time. Much of the focus still remains with big time, big exposure schools …
Sometimes it’s the littlest twist that gets you the biggest bang, and if it involves free food and college students, the ROI goes up even more. Whether it is a team giving away Free Chili for a milestone like 120 points in an NBA game, or free Dunkin Donuts for a home run barrage, or …