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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Twenty years ago this Monday we were returning from a Patriot League meeting in Bethlehem, Pa. and were about to cross the George Washington Bridge when a report came on the radio that NBA Superstar Earvin “Magic” Johnson had HIV. This was in the days when HIV was thought to be a death sentence, and …
Last Friday night the Cards and Rangers completed one of the best post-seasons in baseball history with their historic seven game series, St. Louis’ 11th title. In years past, that would have sent baseball off into a lull before Hot Stove talk helped roust fans who have gone on to other topics for a month …
The great thing about the digital world we live in today is the immediacy we can share unfiltered information. The downside of course is the amount of useless crap that gets thrown against a wall hoping that useless facts or ideas can be shared and internet sensations started. Still, through all that sharing, there are …
We are just over a week from what would have been the start of the NBA season…a terrific encore to a great finish of last season, with the Olympics in the offing for 2012. Instead we have the lockout, and the start of the D-League and college hoops on the horizon. While many hold out …
The IZOD Indy Car Series was making slow, steady strides back to relevance in a sport that had left the circuit almost for dead a few years ago. The infusion of Phillips Van Heusen as title sponsor brought millions of dollars in promotions, other new sponsors had come aboard and brands were working together on …
It is the third most popular sport in the world according to some numbers…its World Cup Final this week will bring in the largest audience and the most sponsorship of any event in 2011, short of the Super Bowl…it has amended its rules, added fan and sponsor friendly events and carved out a faster version …
It’s not what they certainly planned to be doing in the middle of October, but New York Knicks teammates Amare Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony certainly kept themselves busy and in the headlines this past week, without much controversy and without ever stepping on a basketball court. The duo spent the last five days visiting Duane …
The date is hanging out there for UFC fans…November 12 at the Honda Center in Anaheim. The date that the UFC finally finds its way to broadcast television. The date where UFC fans think the sport will go mainstream and thousands of families will flock to Target to buy branded apparel and Brock Lesnar toys …
This weekend the Disney movie “Real Steel” will open with a futuristic look at fight sports, a world where robots enter the ring, controlled by gamers and former fighters, as a way to deliver action and excitement without the mano a mano violence that occurs when humans mix it up. Starring Hugh Jackman, the movie …
Most ugly Americans associate Australian Rules Football with the early days of ESPN, the kind of bizarre, out of the way rugged sport that was a throwback to the old days of the NFL tinged with the head banging of rugby. All ruffian, bizarre rules, broken bones, bloodthirsty screams. However like ESPN, AFL has come …
