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Netflix, which added 7.7 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022 on $7.85 billion in quarterly revenue, is getting a lot of attention for its sports documentaries. The streamer, which has renewed the enormously popular “Drive to Survive” with Formula 1 for the 2023 season, recently released five bingeworthy episodes of “Break Point,” a …
Just after nine last Monday I got a text from my brother Chris, asking if I was watching what was going on on Monday Night Football. I was not, but turned the game on to see…no game. Only stunned silence, and the potential worst nightmare of any live event, let alone a live sporting event, …
It started as a simple way for players to tell their story two seasons ago, one which drew the ire of the NFL as a uniform violation, but one which has grown to be much more of a platform as players continue to find more of a social voice and express themselves in a positive …
It’s been great getting back to face to face events this year, the opportunities to randomly catch up with old colleagues, meet new ones and yikes, even listen and learn a bit. Case in point was Wednesday when we dropped in for a day at Sports Business Journal’s first day of their Media Innovators conference, …
This week, from just before Halloween into the run up to Thanksgiving, always seems to be quite the tumultuous one. We usually have some Election drama, have had a massive snowstorm, Super Storm Sandy, The Pandemic, the tragic plane crash in Jamaica, Queens in 2001, and sometimes, sometimes, even things like the 2015 World Series …
So there was, J.T. Realmuto, one of the key pieces of a Philadelphia Phillies fall to remember, crashing a Home Run (a conventional one, not the unconventional inside the park version earlier in the playoffs) to help his team cap a comeback victory on Saturday night at Citizens Bank Park, putting them on the verge …
How to cut through the clutter…if you are seen as a mainstream staple with not a great deal of buzz? Look for some blue ocean to swim in…even if it can be well, a bit murky. Case in point…Bush’s Beans, which announced this week it will seek one Chili-Loving fan to be the first- ever …
A few years ago I wrote this piece on the passing of another New York sports character, Robert Elkin, which to this day still gets responses from people who wander across it. I was thinking about Robert, and all those others who are part of that unique fabric of sports, both this past week when …
There was a time wayyy back in the 1990’s when the New York Knicks would be yearly contenders for the NBA Eastern Conference Championship and when the team played on the road in places like Indianapolis or Philadelphia or Houston, you would tune in and on the new sideline rotating signage you would see ads …
It is back this year, and remains the best value in sports, and is still one of larger secrets, even in the shadow of New York. It is the US Open qualifying tournament, the week-long celebration of tennis and sneak peek at those both in the main draw (and on site practicing each day) and …