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For many casual fans, sport today, like most of our world, is about the buzz, the bright lights, the big cities…action, action, action. Yet if you look at brands engaging in NFL activation as the season kicked off this week, you would be hard pressed not to see that the team in the smallest market, …
There has been a tremendous amount of hype and attention payed to high level college athletics in the last year. From conference reshuffling, to the National Championship playoff to expanded March Madness coverage and the innovation in the TV and digital space with added elements like the Pac 12 Network and the Longhorn Network, the …
As we head into the homestretch for baseball, and the kickoff of college football, another three good ideas that popped up as the week came to an end… Certain-Lee The Best Promo of the MLB Season: The San Francisco Giants keep finding ways to do it right and first with fan engagement, and now they …
Say what you want about the Olympics, The Super Bowl, even NASCAR, perhaps the largest multi-day annual experiential sports branding event kicks off Monday when the US Open starts play at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. From champagne bars to celebrities playing in sponsored events with fans to social media …
North American soccer fans are still abuzz over the amount of friendlies that took place during the summer of 2012, showing the world that the interest in high level soccer continues to rise. So the question now becomes, can American football still find its legs abroad? It is a question that has been addressed in …
It is nestled between the major markets of New York and Philadelphia. It is the largest, and in many ways the only, self-sustainable green sporting facility in North America, if not the world. It is an independent venture run by a family dedicated to finding ways to reinvest in its community. Yet for all it …
Yes we are in the middle of the Olympics, the MLB trading deadline is passed and training camps for NFL are going strong. So with all the going on, a simple and fun way to start the fall college sports season kicked off this week…show your colors. The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), a division of …
As we hit the opening weekend of the Olympics, some thoughts on good moves away from London… Manchester United Thinks Globally, Acts Locally: There is perhaps no more better positioned global sports brand than Manchester United. The club will play to packed stadia anywhere in the world and their web traffic, kit sales and TV …
It is a week before the London Olympics begin, and for the next 10 days soccer, more than any other sport, will be front and center in the United States. It is not World Cup, which will still have to share time with other American sports in 2014, it is a series of friendlies and …
There is no team that pushes its brand…shamelessly, unabashedly, to those interested and disinterested…as the former New Jersey now Brooklyn Nets. Nary a day goes by where some player, staffer, partner is not out doing something in the community, or the team is touting its latest innovations. New players in town? Go to the Yankees …