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I have always believed that the fan experience to teams or leagues is about listening and adapting and learning about the individual, or the group, and what draws them to loyalty. Sometimes it’s literally hereditary, sometimes, its location based, sometimes its star power, sometimes its hard luck, sometimes it can be something as simple as …
While in Sicily I got a message from my brother Chris, who is in the process of cleaning out his home office and has, shall we say, a lot of stuff, most of which is very special but there are also a lot of cards that may not have value…how many Denny Walling’s does one …
Very few of us get a seat at the table of history, and few in our industry have been at the table…a diverse set of them of many shapes and sizes…than Dr. Harvey Schiller. When talking about someone who was in the room, at the table and in the meetings at the cusp of some …
On Christmas Eve, 2007, Sports Illustrated…which was quite a big deal then… ran a back of the book story by Scott Price, who had the chance to play then-candidate Barack Obama in a game of basketball. The story showed casual sports fans, who many times are also politics averse, a side of the candidate that they did not …
On Thursday the New York Jets, with the second pick in the NFL Draft, selected edge rusher David Bailey. Well spoken, thoughtful and tremendously talented, fans of Gang Green are hoping he is the next piece in a puzzle to finally get New York to break their playoff drought. What interested me more though, were …
We have always heard the phrase that “hope springs eternal,” as the air gets warmer, the grass gets greener, in most places the future beckons brightly, we tend to get more excited and hopefully interested in what lies around the corner. Maybe that’s why the spring transfer window in college athletics opened this week. (Well …
Guest post by colleague Dave Siroty, who loves college sports but can’t understand why sometimes actions on storytelling are counter to what could work. And he is right. Read all his insights here. Joe Favorito just wrote a blog explaining why we are addicted to sports and why the TV ratings continue to rise. Sports are …
What do the reigning NBA Championship Coach and one of women’s sports most successful commissioners have in common Michigan’s Dusty May (good piece here by Yahoo’s Jeff Eisenberg) with people you may not know like Jack Richason, Will Conley, John and Joe Owen, as well as Lawrence Frank, the fictional character Ollie McLellan, and countless …
The digital world can be a tough place to navigate and can also be a place where people react without context. So April Fools jokes seem to be running more risk than reward where fake news seems to sadly rule the day. Now for decades creative and entrepreneurial folks have taken advantage to out one …
There is more uncertainty about what will become of the business known as college athletics today than there has ever been. Just on Thursday at the SportsPro New York conference talk of a promotion and relegation system, collective bargaining, a creation of just a “Super League,’ requirements for transfer, requirements to actually maintain a certain …
