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It’s spring so let’s think green, and focus on a promotion that gets us outside and envisioning the best practices of the stuff we like to watch and play on. Grass. This past week TruGreen expanded their brand portfolio through a partnership with Minor League Baseball™ (MiLB™) that includes activations across all 120 clubs, a …
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 Sunday by Star Wars Day . Star Wars promotions in sports have become a staple in and around the 4th of May…but Free …
It was another great week of listening and learning on the road, and we will do a little summary of the best takeaways in the coming days. But first, one observation to consider. While the World Congress of Sport was going on in Nashville this week, there were several other events in New York and …
We say at the beginning of our podcast that the show is about disruption, innovation and big thinking, and three recent episodes, two of which are under a half hour and a third which we could have gone on for hours with, touch on all three. We go from what the Mets are doing to …
There are many experiences that are throwback at The Masters each year, and because of the prestige of the event, there is a perception that few things change. Cheese and Pimento, no cell phones etc etc. However, there is lots to listen and learn about how the event is also moving forward in areas like …
The opportunity to honor the legacy of Roberto Clemente in baseball seems to always be ongoing. His stature amongst the ever-growing number of Latinos in baseball on and off the field remains legendary, but for those not on the long side of history there are sometimes questions into what made Clemente special. One of the …
This week an old and reliable friend finally got to the end of its useful life. It was a pen that I had and kept working from the 2002 NBA Technology Summit, the invite-only event the league has with disruptors, big thinkers, and leadership every year during All-Star Weekend. I had never realized until the …
Several years ago, I asked an official at the Premier League what it would take to play games, or even expand and add franchises in the United States. “A first mover with a huge amount of money and motivation,” he said at the time. There were other challenges over 15 years ago, ones which are …
It’s been a week since we were roaming the halls of The Hynes Convention Center, where we again came away with more from the MIT Sloan Sports Business Conference than what we gave. Some key takeaways from the rooms and the halls not just from the weekend, but for what to watch going forward. You …
We love talking entrepreneurship and disruption on our podcasts and here are three recent ones that fit the bill. Have you ever looked at Super 70’s Sports on X? Learn all about how it came to be and what’s next. How is Madden changing the NFL teams engage? We have that. Then a slightly longer …
