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Tonight’s guest post is from our summer intern from Elon University Wynne Kenna, who spent time this week at the Hashtag Sports Conference at The Paley Center in New York. Throughout the different panels presented at the Hashtag Sports conference this past week, I noticed a common theme. The sports industry is starting to expand …
While in Sicily I got a message from my brother Chris, who is in the process of cleaning out his home office and has, shall we say, a lot of stuff, most of which is very special but there are also a lot of cards that may not have value…how many Denny Walling’s does one …
Forget the fact that Saturday is the Kentucky Derby, and the NBA and Stanley Cup playoffs are moving along. What’s more important for crossover in sports business? It is Free Comic Book day, followed Monday by Star Wars Day . Star Wars promotions in sports have become a staple in and around the 4th of May…but Free …
The digital world can be a tough place to navigate and can also be a place where people react without context. So April Fools jokes seem to be running more risk than reward where fake news seems to sadly rule the day. Now for decades creative and entrepreneurial folks have taken advantage to out one …
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 …
