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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
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 …
It always seems to happen more around this time of year for various reasons…fiscal calendars, graduations, changes in leadership and so on…but the spigot on people reaching out to find out what’s next in their careers seems to get much bigger. One theme that always seems to come up is the question of “why people …
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 …
