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March 14th is Pi Day, the day that celebrates the mathematical constant ? (3.14). Pi Day was founded by Physicist Larry Shaw in 1988 and has grown in every area of science, especially as areas like gaming and analytics continue to be even more interesting to a younger demo. Maybe it wasn’t what Dr. Shaw had …
There is a scene in the TV show “The Odd Couple” where Felix and Oscar are trying to fly to Houston together to help eliminate Felix’s fear of flying. It was optimal as Oscar was going to cover a Houston vs. San Diego NFL game and they could travel together. The problem was the plane was …
One of the top priorities for any property is finding ways to lure the fans of tomorrow, regardless of age, Fishermen go where the fish are. And for sports marketers fishing for kids? Well, that audience is glued to their phones…peering at screens increasingly showing content from TikTok and Snapchat. This weekend’s New York Times …
OK this project is a bear…but it’s a loveable one, like Winnie The Pooh or Yogi…so I decided again to take it on. The response last January was so strong…here again is last’s years which has had over 2 million views…that I thought about doing it quarterly or biannually, but time never allowed. Best to …
Safe to say it is almost back to normal, the craziness of Super Bowl Radio Row and the ancillary activities in and around the Phoenix Convention Center. The most interesting thing this year was the continued shift to new platforms and areas that we would not have seen before COVID, and the continued diversity of …
As we head into Super Bowl week, Noah Zaret keeps hammering out our podcast notes, this week featuring to recent and very timely ones; one of the growing value of entrepreneurship in the sports space, the other on the expanding world of sustainability. You can hear all our podcasts here as well. Ryan Berman on …
While so much discussion and speculation is being brought towards the introduction of advanced Artificial Intelligence into the business of sports, especially on the performance side (good piece but our friend Leonard Armato on how the balance of predictive performance will have to be hopefully tied to good old fashioned personnel staff), it is really …
Daytona is still in the distance, Indy Car is still quiet as it looks to 2023, Formula E is finding its post pandemic niche, and Formula 1 has become the cause celebre in North America with new, young, engaged roots. Oh and in most of the US it’s cold. Still in basements across America, fathers and …
Sports is never very forgiving on the field, we like our wins to be decisive. However can a new concept tied to forgiving loans use sports as a potential pathway to success? ForgiveCo is a new public benefit corporation that aims to help brands do good by forgiving the debt of necessity for individuals in …
There was a time when people were all up in arms about sports moving off of free or broadcast TV on to “cable,” and how that move would dissipate interest in sports (those people also forgot that for decades not every game of a home team was even on TV, and things like blackout rules …