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All professional sports seasons are long, and the endless promotions that go on fill large storage rooms before, during, and sometimes after with lots and lots of stuff. Sometimes in a sport like baseball you get a rainout, and all that merch sits waiting for something to happen. Sometimes a sponsor over delivers on items, …
For those who don’t know, pro basketball has actually been back on Long Island since the Nets moved to the Barclays Center. Brooklyn does reside on the western end of one of the most populous and engaged bodies of land not part of the mainland US. However last year, a team with its sights a …
As we wrote last week, one of the great gifts we continue to have and share is the ability to learn through teaching; and I am blessed to again be coming back to Columbia this fall for what will be my 11th straight year on campus. That is augmented by our summer high school program, …
Paying for news, or sports or financial information is not new. Cable TV, newspapers, magazines, it is the model that has always existed in a more traditional sense. However with the birth of online media and content came the notion that of it was free it had to be me. Drop in billboards and banners, …
The relative quiet of post-MLB All-Star will soon give way to NFL Training camp and one of the most active times of the year for baseball before the pennant races kick in…the MLB Trading Deadline. The Trading Deadline, now at the end of July, grabs a lion share of the media and public attention, even …
In 1957, the US Chamber of Commerce officially announced the National Day of the Hot Dog. Some years later, in 1994, they also decided to organize the National Council of Hot Dogs and Sausages with the National Hot Dog Day and Sausage Council deciding it to fall on the same day as the annual Capitol …
There is certainly continued angst amongst those making a living in media these days. ESPN and Sports Illustrated layoffs, sites rolling up, newspapers well…that we know. Then there are new offerings like Oath and Stadium and the continued watching of platforms like Facebook and Twitter. We still have Bleacher Report and others humming along and …
As one goes through the sports calendar it is always interesting to note what the opportunities are that can still be “owned” or created by brands or teams. While the biggest days to still grab are those around the MLB All-Star Game next week, it is noteworthy that no one really has grabbed the opportunity …
The following was offereed up by colleague Jesse Ghiorzi On Memorial Day, Washington Nationals rightfielder Bryce Harper charged the mound and took a swing at Hunter Strickland after the San Francisco Giants pitcher nailed him with a pitch. It got sports radio and Twitter talking, but was this good or bad for Harper’s personal brand? …
Saving lives through awareness and prevention one test at a time has been the dogged push for over twenty years for veteran MLB personality Ed Randall. A prostate cancer survivor, his “Fans For The Cure” Foundation has worked independently from an official designation for Major League Baseball for years raising funds and awareness for prostate …