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Roaring In Unusual Places and Times It hasn’t been the typical quiet fall for athletics at Columbia. Football under legendary former Penn coach Al Bagnoli moved back up a few notches on the field, broke their long losing streak from a previous regime and became more competitive than in years as the program looks to …
It is not an easy thing, building brand affinity for a soccer club, or any team or league, that plays games thousands of miles away and whose stars rarely show up in market. Broadcast media, and the digital and social world have made it a bit easier to connect and follow, but with all the …
Last week ended with the UFC being put into a tizzy with Ronda Rousey’s surprising loss to boxer Holly Holm in Melbourne, Australia, and this past week ended with boxing gaining even more traditional steam with a growing Latino ambassador, Canelo Alvarez taking control of the always desirable middleweight division with a win over Miguel …
In a world where we are constantly besieged by information, how can you keep a secret, especially a serious one from a select person or group when literally the whole world knows? That situation has come up not once, but twice, in recent weeks involving elite athletes and some tragic news going on around them, …
Make no mistake that the UFC is still a dominant and evolving global brand in sport, especially in key younger male demos that crave action and engagement. The biggest crowd ever to see the promotion, over 54,000, filled Etihad Stadium in Melbourne Saturday night to see the sport’s biggest crossover star Ronda Rousey, meet American …
As the calendar turns from the mega-awareness month for Breast Cancer and the amazing viral phenomenon of the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS in the past, we can applaud the work the ever-growing (no pun intended) groups for Movember are doing specially tied to Prostate and Testicular Cancer Awareness. Since 2003, the Movember Foundation has …
With all the continued talk of cord cutters and big dollars looking for unique content, traditional broadcasters are always looking to amend and reinvent. For the newer players in the marketplace, it is more about TV everywhere and finding and building an audience that needs to make you the destination for all things in a …
We love the stories of the underdog, the Vince Papale’s, who beat the odds to become at least for a short time, part of the largest sports stages in the world, are what millions of fans aspire to. Just to walk on that field or that court or that ice one time…what would it be …
Two weeks ago while at the US Open we got the news that Bloomberg had let go of many of its US-based sports business reporters. The continual change of the marketplace combined with a refocusing of the company on the media side meant that the content being created did not match the vision of senior …
Even with some ups and downs in casual fan interest, NASCAR remains a monster of an activation platform. While IndyCar has never found its spot in the landscape, the high impact, high profile personalities who drive almost every week from February through November remain the brightest sports business lights in racing, and are still the …