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What the sport of lacrosse doesn’t need is yet another professional league to dilute and confuse. What the sport does need is continued innovation and a differentiator to drive buzz and awareness with the casual sport fan. It appears in Charlotte they are getting both. The owners of the fledgling North American Lacrosse League’s (NALL) …
We have all seen the stories of the mass defections of stars to Europe, China, Turkey, Mars…wherever the hoops rumors and dollars real and imagined may lead the NBA cognoscenti should the lockout take hold. Visions of Dwight Howard in Italy sampling pasta, Deron Williams chasing opponents around the minarets of Istanbul and Kobe Bryant …
The old fashioned college campaigns for awards are few and far between. Cutbacks in budgets, a move toward easier and more flashy digital campaigns, and sometimes a lack of time to effectively execute a campaign promoting a player or a series of players has left many writers mailboxes empty, leaving them to cull over stats …
We are all aware of the explosion, good and bad, of youth sports in America. Every family is scheduled, and too many families it seems are tied to this manic obsession with athletic success. One of, if not the biggest, youth sports event is just on the horizon, the Little League World Series. Little League …
The history of auto racing in various forms in New Jersey is a long one. From road races that cross-crossed the state to Atlantic City to raceway park and the Marlboro Grand Prix at the Meadowlands, the Garden State has found its way, even without the power of NASCAR, to come up when organizers look …
We have now entered the official countdown for London 2012, less than a year to go. So with NBC now locked back in for the long term, the USOC righting their corporate ship, and interest starting to move toward next summer, a few thoughts on what could make a dent in interest leading up to …
Beach Volleyball is a great lifestyle sport that has had trouble resonating on a national level away from the Olympics in a troubled economy. In short, it costs a lot of money to support a tour which needs to build its own venues and then needs a live TV draw at a time (weekend afternoons) …
Full disclosure, the headline of this post was stolen from Mike Greenberg this morning on ESPN’s Mike and Mike, but it is very true. Thursday into Friday we have again seen the power and buzz, and the silliness generated by the immediacy of social media. We again see that maybe social media isn’t for everyone, …
They are on every talk show…one player adorns the rarefied air of the cover of Sports Illustrated. They are the new darlings of sport, despite their loss on Sunday. They are the women of American soccer, and their media tour this week has again helped to lift the profile of a sport…soccer…as much as if …
All involved with professional sports continue to wear rose colored glasses as hopefully the NFL lockout comes to an end in the coming days, with two a days and exhibition football not that far off. We earlier talked about the collateral damage of lockouts, and who has already been effected, but here are some other …