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When the initial talk of VR and sports first arose a few years ago, the real buzz was what could be done around games for fans thousands of miles away who could never get to a game. Putting fans in China or India courtside to see LeBron James, or ringside for a Triple G fight, …
By now the praise not just the University of Maryland Baltimore County men’s hoops team but their social media work has been well documented, and has certainly cemented the Retrievers as one of the feel good stories of March Madness both on and off the court. Some great takeaways from how UMBC engaged should be …
The following originally ran on Portada Last weekend’s Society of American Baseball Research (@sabr) conference in Phoenix was largely about baseball by every way, shape, and form of numbers, but it also touched on a key point of growing the Latino fan base and the brand value of athletes in a way that had less …
When you spend five days in Las Vegas, you never know what you will find. My five days were probably not what most people would consider a typical “What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas” experience. On the contrary what I found was the exporting of the Vegas experience to all forms of sports business …
We will be recapping some of our Columbia Sports Podcasts as we reach episode 100 with our student Dhwani Kitchlue. Today she looks back at episode 95 with Jeff Eisenband With media disruption on the rise, we invited Jeff Eisenband to the Columbia University Sports Podcast show to give his perspective on the matter, as …
USFL, the AAFL, the NPFL. The PPFL, the ASPFL, the IFL, the UFL, the SFL. Know any of these? (the first one is not the viable spring league that eventually never made it to the fall after a growing spring option, it was another iteration that never saw its first field). Then you have the …
Even as we head deeper into the NFL Playoffs and Alabama’s college football championship is in the rear view mirror, the talk about Central Florida’s National Championship claim continues on, as pundits, especially those on audio platforms where calls now turn from final game to spring practice and coaching changes. The bottom line is, no …
There was a time not too long ago when you could not go more than a few minutes without seeing a commercial spot for the two warring daily fantasy companies; DraftKings and FanDuel. In an 18 month stretch the two combined to fill the coffers of ad sales folk at networks more than any brand …
There was a time not too long ago when you said athletes were juicing and scandal broke out, suspensions issued and careers were cast away. Now juicing has a while different take, with a growing number of athletes, teams and medical staffs looking to create the right mixes to do everything from rehydrate to bulk …
They may not be going to the playoffs, but the Dallas Cowboys unusual partnership with the Salvation Army still scored big cause marketing points this holiday season. Last season, Ezekiel Elliott caused a social media stir when he jumped into the Salvation Army kettles which adorn the back of the end zone at AT and …