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Sports is never very forgiving on the field, we like our wins to be decisive. However can a new concept tied to forgiving loans use sports as a potential pathway to success? ForgiveCo is a new public benefit corporation that aims to help brands do good by forgiving the debt of necessity for individuals in …
Hard to think if the sponsorship world ever sets on the Manning family. Case in point, this week Bush’s Beans announced Peyton Manning as the newest bean ambassador for the brand. He joins the ranks of Duke Bush, Bush’s one and only spokesdog, and Jay Bush, Duke’s pal and the great-grandson of Bush’s founder, as …
Perhaps for a good part of the casual fans for sports, Army-Navy is a part-time tune in vs. must see engagement. However if you are a member, even an extended member of a military family, a fan of traditional rivalries, a football fan looking for a game to watch in early December on a Saturday …
It started as a simple way for players to tell their story two seasons ago, one which drew the ire of the NFL as a uniform violation, but one which has grown to be much more of a platform as players continue to find more of a social voice and express themselves in a positive …
We take a look at some of our recent content on the podcast Tom Richardson and I do at Columbia each week, and Noah Zaret is good enough to highlight for us. Two recent listens concern the college space, with two super smart entrepreneurs talking everything from netal health to NIL and building a business. …
How to cut through the clutter…if you are seen as a mainstream staple with not a great deal of buzz? Look for some blue ocean to swim in…even if it can be well, a bit murky. Case in point…Bush’s Beans, which announced this week it will seek one Chili-Loving fan to be the first- ever …
There is so much talk about streaming and the value of personalized channels can bring to hand casual and diehards a point of view as to how they want to engage in the live coverage of their favorite sporting events. We keep seeing the expansion of Twitch and its competitors into sports deals with teams, leagues …
It is still there. And today it is more relevant than ever before…especially since World Suicide Prevention Day is this month. There it was on the side of a phone kiosk in midtown Manhattan two years ago, a large picture of Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps. Another ad for Speedo or Subway or Under Armour, as …
A few years ago I wrote this piece on the passing of another New York sports character, Robert Elkin, which to this day still gets responses from people who wander across it. I was thinking about Robert, and all those others who are part of that unique fabric of sports, both this past week when …
The worries we have about our children may ebb and flow, but they never really disappear, always below the surface. It’s part of parenting. When we hear of unspeakable tragedy we often wonder what good can come out of senselessness, how can someone find light in a rainstorm. We have a friend who found such …