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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
It has been the joyful summer of drinking from the sports business firehouse, and the real fun of this all is very little was predictable. The Knicks run, the World Cup (I still have my notes to formulate), The MLB and WNBA All-Star Games have all given us pause to smile and appreciate above the …
On Friday, Sports Business Journal ran the piece below which I cut and pasted for clarity. I found many of the answers a little surprising…only one of the group really showed a path forward…and it seems to point to either a lack of understanding internally, a sign of the changing climate of ownership, and more …
Monday night there he was, a career athlete on the fringe of sports sitting front and center on a stage in Manhattan talking to an audience that included the CEO of Lenovo amongst other dignitaries and business leaders…a soccer player whose relevance to most of the world just 60 days ago was negligible, but who …
So much of what we look at as successful storytelling comes in how we frame the message. A nuance, a look at different angle, a slight shift of a phrase, and suddenly we look at things in a much different light. I remember when my college roomie Joe Giblin, who was in ROTC, brought back …
They are the sports that have been viewed by a colleague as the “permanent emergent” in America; those that we keep hearing are buzzworthy, played by kids and destined to overtake baseball, even NASCAR in the eyes of the public and in the pockets of consumers. Lacrosse, soccer always end up on that just around …
“If we do it for you we have to do it for everyone.” I remember getting that justification from a senior team official a few years ago when we had some Olympic wrestlers in town and asked to bring them out to a game. The organization had always been very supportive of Olympians, so it …
Joe Favorito I have somewhere packed away a frosted glass with The University of Louisville logo on it and their schedule from the 1985-86 season. On that glass it shows that Iona College played at the #15 Cardinals on December 10 (Louisville won the game 88-75). That’s it. Nothing of significance for anyone else but …
One more Knicks postscript for me. The why. While there are thousands of young people and new arrivals on the massive bandwagon there are the personal stories of strangers and of those in my recent and distant past that made this special for a watch party of one. A few examples. Early Sunday morning I …
It’s not over yet, but it’s getting close, this first title in New York for one of the four major men’s sports teams since the Giants beat the Patriots in 2012, the longest drought in the history of The Apple. No disrespect to the Liberty and Gotham FC and NYCFC, who have won titles in …
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 …
