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In an attention starved, get it done yesterday world it’s sometimes nice to find consistency. Your friends you have known, the right slice of pizza or cup of coffee, a musical artist who knows just the right notes to play, Opening Day in Baseball etc. etc. Things can adjust, but the core thoughts…the core sounds, …
I have always felt that the wandering the halls and listening to topics away from the main stages at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference unveils an interesting look ahead to both the fun and the unusual. It’s where young people are talking, smaller conversations take place, and the fun and sometimes unusual reside. …
It still amazes me sometimes how the change of one word can not just reframe, but totally reset a vision. Sometimes it’s changing the reference from fighters to athletes, this week sadly we learned that a conflict might not actually be a war even when it looks like one, and there is the one I …
Sarah McLachlan and Brandy, John Tesh and Barack Obama, Ludacris, Shaboozey, and Two Friends, cause marketing events, Hall of Fame selection announcements, a new media partner in NBC (which provided a Super Bowl promo a week in advance as part of the deal), camera angles and content galore, and all the tech innovations that a …
There are some who say that the entity known as Media Row on Super Bowl week has become a messy mix. Well, if you go in unprepared, if you don’t pick your spots, if you aren;t open minded to absorb and listen and learn or if your expectations are now what they were ten years …
I will do a summary of our learnings and experiences from Media Row later this week, but first some thoughts on curious learning and the dangers of not doing so. There is so much back and forth about Bad Bunny and the halftime show and on and on. I got to chime in here before …
We use the word iconic sometimes like we do the word hello. At every turn it’s too easy a word to throw around, when in reality must things we refer to as Iconic are not really worthy of that high level of praise or individuality. Icons should be rare air for all of us. Walking around …
Just some quick notes on the week…actually 10 days…that was as we work through MLK Weekend. My buddy Dave Siroty and I squeezed a heck of a lot of learnings into what was essentially a three mile radius of Upper Manhattan on Saturday, but before that, I should mention that our idea for our Saturday …
We get close to the end of the ninth year of our sports business podcast conversations with some really wide-raning discussions. Here are three recent ones below. You can hear them all here as we come up on a decade talking with the leaders across the board. “AI Probably Saved My Marriage.” One of the …
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 …
