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Last Friday, when PBR stormed into Madison Square Garden for the 15th time and held its annual VIP Garden party at the Hulu Theater leading into the annual bull-riding event (back after a one-year hiatus due to Coronavirus), it was a celebration and news event like none other. Billionaires were in the house signing the …
The NFL rode the added 17th week into what plans to be a great offseason with markets and storylines galore. While we all look forward to playoff action, kudos to some of the best business initiatives that shouldn’t be missed from this past fall, all of which again are noteworthy and remind us how the …
“To you it’s a show; to me, it’s life.” I read that line from a conversation Michael Silver had in his story today on John Madden. The back and forth was between to icons of the day in media, Howard Cosell and Madden, on the occasion of the former coach being elevated in the broadcast …
“He wasn’t there because his publicist told him to be there, and to be nice. He was there because he wanted to be.” There were so many amazing tributes wrote about the late Stephen Sondheim in the past few weeks, but Laura Collins-Hughes’ piece in the New York Times told yet another story that showed …
We are a forgiving lot with short memories and if you come clean we tend to move on. That’s what we will see as the Aaron Rodgers “crisis” takes its next, and last turn in what was a tumultuous 10 days of rants, mistruths, positioning, outcry, opinion and crisis management. On Sunday Rodgers will return …
There are many times when activists around PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals) go too far…splashing people wearing fur coats with animal blood and the like. However, one thing that the organization is great at is finding its way into a narrative to drive conversations that they would not normally be involved in. …
We have written a few times about the continued evolution of the Megacast and what media properties, especially Turner and ESPN, but Nickelodeon as well have done with let’s call it “alternative engagement” of consumers who are not really a core audience sometimes, as we pivot in and away from the traditional, now archaic, systems …
Baseball, like every mature brand, will always have its issues and detractors. Games are too long, season is too long, its players aren’t socially active enough, the uniforms suck, they have managers not coaches, not enough diversity and on and on. OK. However what baseball, Major League Baseball has, and does well, probably better than …
Friday night as we left Citifield my brother Chris turned to me and said, “it’s amazing that Pete Alonso isn’t more of the face of baseball.” At first I didn’t think it was an issue…it takes time and effort and you have to literally hit it right, and “The Polar Bear” has been an amazing …
The issue of access, activation and engagement for brands tied to sports properties certainly has not gotten any easier during The Pandemic, and even as we start to move back to some sense of normalcy, the ability to find unique ways to have athletes, even fans, engage continues to be both challenging and creative. Some …
