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The University of Akron is atop the Mid-American Conference as February approaches, and their on=court performance should draw more national attention as March madness approaches. However this past week Akron drew the attention of the NCAA, who stopped the men’s and women’s teams from putting the school’s hashtag on the back of their uniforms for …
We hit the midpoint of brand awareness madness as the worlds of sports, pop culture and marketing move toward the Super Bowl at the Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans. There will be the usual hype around the ad campaigns unveiled during the game, a cavalcade of promotion that in some circles has become as …
At first the announcement of T-Mobile as the new Telecommunications partner for Major League Baseball may seem like just a mega-sponsorship deal for MLB in a coveted category. However it signals a growing but very slow in the in-game adaptation of technology effectively into Major League sports in North America, especially in baseball, a sport …
Wednesday the Baseball Hall of Fame held their annual event to announce which former stars were selected by The Baseball Writers of America. The result was no one. A combination of the first “class” of retired stars from the steroid era mixed with a split voye over deserving players like Craig Biggio and Jack Morris …
Monday night marked the end of the College Bowl season, one of the longest, and probably last few, extended series of Bowl games as college football moves toward a national playoff and a trimming down of the games that lead to what is now the BCS Championship, which title sponsor Discover has paid a hefty …
When your regular season ends in the United States and for the first time in your history all five of the top television markets in the country are not involved in the post-season, there may be cause for concern. Not if you are the National Football League. While other team-based properties will never say publicly …
Two of the most enjoyable reads this past fall were Mark Beech’s book on the last undefeated team at West Point and Joe Drape’s work on some of the recent squads. Both pointed to the personalities, the hard work, the dedication and the sacrifice that goes into being a student-athlete at West Point and the …
Usually the New York athlete story ends ugly. Successful star comes to Gotham and ends his career in tatters, or leaves to find glory elsewhere. Rarely do you find someone like the New York Rangers Mark Messier, who came to Gotham to fulfill the dream of fans that had been harbored for over 50 years, …
The horrific incident in Newtown, Connecticut Friday night has had an effect on people that comes close to, if not surpasses, the feelings around the incidents of 9/11. Then the feeling was more toward revenge and nationalism as well as healing. This tragedy, because of its randomness and its targets being innocent children, seems to …
This past Friday amongst all the chaos around the tragedy in Connecticut came a story from Bloomberg’s Scott Soshnick that Manchester City could become the founding partner/owner of a new Major League Soccer franchise, the one that will be based in New York City. While those on the fringe may raise some eyebrows as to …
