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The following guest piece was offered up by longtime strategic communications professional, storyteller and longtime supporter of women’s athletics everywhere Dave Siroty, now head of Front Porch Athletics Wow! The build up to the Women’s World Cup was huge. The story lines were great, the focus on equal pay and support for women’s soccer …
Gambling, CBD, esports and gaming, hard liquor. All those branding opportunities that were once off-limits for the sports and entertainment media world are now OK. And of course let’s not forget about the millions spent on ED medications that appear during every football and basketball game, as well as golf and tennis, on every screen …
Saving lives through awareness and prevention one test at a time has been the dogged push for over twenty years for veteran MLB personality Ed Randall. A prostate cancer survivor, his “Fans 4 The Cure” Foundation has worked independently from an official designation for Major League Baseball for years raising funds and awareness for prostate …
Andy Ruiz Jr.’s stunning upset of Anthony Joshua set the sports world on its ear, and his victory lap has include the talkshow circuit and other must do’s befitting a new heavyweight champ, one who’s start to the belt began with something even “Rocky” never did, a Direct Message to a promoter to see about …
Here is the latest trio of Columbia University Sports Podcast (the CUSP Show) that we have had in the past few months. We love talking with some of the digital disruptors and first adopters changing the furniture in the room for sports business, media and tech, and these three are a great example. You can …
I am from Brooklyn and have never lost the love for the gritty side of my home city. However as we get older, some of us anyway, we try to see the bigger picture and the value of waste not, want not just a little more. I also have been softened a bit by the …
An interesting thing happened on Thursday morning at the New York Athletic Club during the annual Cynopsys Sports Media Awards breakfast. Amongst the usual parade of media accolades…various entities in the FOX SPORTS world took home 12 winners on their own…there were two excitable tables who seemed to also be trading winners every few minutes …
Last week we looked at the social imprint March Madness coaches had, and were surprised to see the lack of engagement. So we turned our attention to baseball as Opening Weekend is upon is to see if the social space was more vibrant amongst skippers and even GM’s. Well, not exactly. While baseball realizes the …
There is little doubt that one of the most buzzworthy stories of the winter in the City of Brotherly love has been Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers love em or hate em mascot who became quite the viral sensation. Not to take anything away from the Eagles, or the playoff bound Sixers or even the Flyers …
It’s never easy for new brands to find their niche on limited budgets, but Australia’s Four’N Twenty Beef Pies found a window and delivered in of all places, Philadelphia, with the 76ers last month. Haven’t yet heard of the brand? Here’s a little primer. The Four’N Twenty legend began in 1947, in a country town …