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PBR’s World Finals, which concluded in Fort Worth on Sunday by crowning 20-year-old phenom John Crimber the sport’s 33rd annual champion, felt less like a traditional championship event and more like a case study in where modern sports business is heading. Founded in 1993 when 20 bull riding cowboys broke away from the rodeo to …
It felt like Thanksgiving in Brooklyn. Other than the food and the company and stories of a part of my father’s family I had known of but never met on the Aeolian Island of Lipari, there was a TV…and football. Not the kind we watched on Turkey Day, but the global kind which I also …
It’s that time of year for sports fans in New York. No, not NFL Playoff time sadly, it’s the weekend when the PBR arrives at MSG. There are few sports promotions that find their way into what some may see as misfit as the PBR does when it comes to New York. If you watched …
The information gleaned from newsletters, if you can curate them correctly, is invaluable. One of my favorites is Offball, which brings me info on sports like pop culture I don’t find elsewhere. This week was a little ditty about “Marty Supreme” and the misframed message of it’s what…it’s a story framed around table tennis, not …
We have had quite a run of super smart guests on the podcast recently, so wanted to share three more solid, 45 minute and less listens on everything from how the NFL got to be the NFL to AI and fan engagement to a unique look at business strategy in areas like college sports and …
Our business doesn’t go an hour it seems without some “big news” off the field. The ESPN launch, NIL and college issues, FIFA World Cup planning, streaming wars, gambling suspensions, NBA Europe, Caitlin Clark and on and on. If Billy Joel wanted to write a sports version of “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” it wouldn’t …
“It is our (FIFA) top priority to make American men’s professional soccer one of the top leagues in the world & make sure the best American players can stay here and play.” Gianni Infantino As we reach the end of the FIFA Club World Cup and pivot towards next summers multi-country FIFA World Cup, that …
I have really been enjoying Doug Glanville’s posts on Substack. You can follow them here if you choose. This weekend he had one on the passing of some players he knew or knew of, and in the midst of that reflection was this… “But in baseball, to live up to that destiny, you have to …
This past week I was talking to a colleague, and he said something to me which both surfside and delighted me. “Did you see that Kenny Klein has been sitting next to the St. John’s bench? I thought he was retired, what a great thing they brought him in to help.” Most probably won’t know …
Before heading off this weekend I got to unpack…literally…from all the learnings at Super Bowl in New Orleans. We did 22 podcasts, helped facilitate close to 70 interviews, staged and helped coordinate a press event talking about the future of engagement with EA Sports, the NFL, NBC, the Rams and Genius Sports (nice summary here) …
