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When you are a disruptor sport like Mixed Martial Arts, you should always be looking for unusual places to insert yourself into a positive national conversation. On Sunday night, Academy Award winner Meryl Streep helped open a door for engagement, an unlikely one, that MMA was able to step through by using the platform that …
As baseball winds down in North America, it is just getting going in Australia. The Australian Baseball League now heads into its seventh season, and the league, and the sport in general, have been buoyed by the coming World Baseball Classic, the inclusion of the sport in the 2020 Olympics, and the continued grassroots support …
This month, the entertainment, sports and fashion giant WME | IMG added another acronym to its alphabet soup of a name: UFC. (Read the story by Ben Fowlkes in USA Today for greater detail.) While the $4-billion dollar deal has raised a few eyebrows for its steep company valuation, most analysts agree the price is …
It was e-Sports before e-Sports and MMA before MMA, and now poker, although it is certainly not hurting as a game overall and still has a vibrant broadcast presence, is looking to pull from the latest and greatest sports business trends to try and do its own rebranding for a new, engaged digital audience. Welcome …
If you want to be remembered, the saying goes, it’s best to be first or last, few remember those in the middle. This weekend the NFL will take another step forward in a “first,” the most bold of their “firsts” in recent weeks, as they work with Yahoo to stream the Jaguars-Bills game from London. …
Ann Liguori is a nationally known sports radio and television personality, talk show host, journalist, author, and television producer in the world of sports media. She was the first woman to host a call-in sports show on WFAN-New York, where she hosted a sports talk show for over 20 years and continues as the …
College football, especially amongst the five power conferences, continues to be a media and broadcast ratings bonanza in the United States, and with the next round of college football playoffs on tap for January, there is no sign of the interest and the passion for the game slowing down. So is DFS ready to take …
One of the biggest challenges and opportunities new MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has talked about is how to keep millennials engaged and involved in the game of baseball. While it is no secret that the folks at MLB Advanced media continue to use the digital space to enhance the experience of all, there is still …
It’s not easy to cut through the clutter on Super Bowl Sunday without big bucks. However what about a brand, albeit not a consumer brand, that will have perhaps the biggest light shone on it, literally, during the game. They are not an NFL partner, not an ambush marketer, and you probably won’t hear much …
For the last several years the NFL Network and NFL Films have built “A Football Life” as their signature anthology series. From former players to coaches, owners and even teams, “A Football Life” tells the stories of some of the greatest, and most unique and sometimes tragic, personalities in the history of the NFL, all …