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This past summer, when we had nothing better to do, we dispatched our intern Wynne Kenna on a project we had wondered about. How many teams, in the four men’s major leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB) still print materials? It came about after the time we spent in and around FIFA for both the Club …
A few years ago at the Sloan MIT Sports Conference I was walking the outer hallway and listening to the pitches of those starting businesses and culling ideas in search of an “aha” moment. One that jumped out was actually part of a business storyline that we covered on our podcast a few weeks ago, …
Hard to believe that SBJ’s Thought Leaders retreat was over a week ago already, but some of the themes my friend and colleague Abe Madkour pointed out in his weekly column from the event continue to expand and be amplified in meetings, conversations and observations in the week and a half since the event in …
Hard to believe that SBJ’s Thought Leaders retreat was over a week ago already, but some of the themes my friend and colleague Abe Madkour pointed out in his weekly column from the event continue to expand and be amplified in meetings, conversations and observations in the week and a half since the event in …
It has been the joyful summer of drinking from the sports business firehouse, and the real fun of this all is very little was predictable. The Knicks run, the World Cup (I still have my notes to formulate), The MLB and WNBA All-Star Games have all given us pause to smile and appreciate above the …
Monday night there he was, a career athlete on the fringe of sports sitting front and center on a stage in Manhattan talking to an audience that included the CEO of Lenovo amongst other dignitaries and business leaders…a soccer player whose relevance to most of the world just 60 days ago was negligible, but who …
We get a look at Fanatics Fest from the Perspective from our summer intern Gen Z Intern – Harrison Rosner Fanatics Fest was one of the most hyped up events of the summer. In the heat of the World Cup Final, NBA Free Agency, the dog days of July baseball, and many other things, the …
So much of what we look at as successful storytelling comes in how we frame the message. A nuance, a look at different angle, a slight shift of a phrase, and suddenly we look at things in a much different light. I remember when my college roomie Joe Giblin, who was in ROTC, brought back …
We are in the midst of a run of mega events…World Cup, MLB, MLS and WNBA All-Star Games, even Fanatics Fest this weekend. Yet while we chase the glitz and glam and hype, watching a few kids playing whiffle ball in our neighborhood, and watching some others play catch with a football at the beach, …
Maybe we think its July 4th, when Joey Chestnut and all the newer faces again dominated the airwaves at the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and beyond, but in reality, National Hot Dog Day is actually the third Wednesday in July, and this year falls just after MLB All-Star Game and as we head towards the …
