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As we wade through the unchartered waters of business life on hiatus it’s always good to draw from best practices past, especially ones that can help lead you forward. An example as in my basement file cabinet, here I keep the notebooks and legal pads that have spanned the better part of 30 years …
It’s the weekend and its raining. Where the normally would have been March Madness, Little League, lacrosse, MLS, MLB even this year the first season of XFL, there are replays, simulations and esports. So as the pause continues with COVID-19, where can we find a repository of all that is being shown, best practices learned …
Every day I talk to people a little younger in various places: Atlanta, Minneapolis, Manhattan. And although none are as bold and clueless as the knuckleheads on the beach in Florida last week for spring break, many say the same thing; this Coronavirus thing is a little overblown, the numbers are being overplayed and even …
I have watched every game simulation thus far; FIFA, NBA, some NHL but until I watched iRacing I didn’t think any were the actual event. All were filler, but the virtual race NASCAR and their partners did Sunday on FOX Sports 1 was different and really deserves credit for getting as close to live as …
From every challenge comes opportunity, and that’s the way we need to view the new normal for now around Coronavirus. While people search for things to fill their time when they would have been watching and attending sporting events, and channel surfing consists of old dog shows, poker shows and game replays, and lots of …
There we were on Radio Row in Miami, one of almost 300 outlets all doing the same thing pretty much; storytelling with audio for almost a full week at the Miami Beach Convention Center. There were the traditional radio outlets, podcasters like The Tony Bruno Show, six college outlets, video setups, streaming posts, even setups …
You could not watch more than five minutes of Sunday nights Academy Awards without hearing the value of “storytelling” coming up as the essential tool for changing opinion, influencing decision and making the world a better place. Storytelling. Again and again. More valued today than ever. The ability to tell one’s story, be it individual, …
Thursday marked the 27th anniversary of the passing of Arthur Ashe from complications from AIDS. One of the sad ironies is that he was offered &and was going to accept head women’s tennis coaching job at Fordham when he found out and informed then athletic director Frank McLaughlin that he had to pass on the …
“Beer in one hand, bag in another.” That’s the way American Cornhole League founder Stacey Moore describes his growing business. However Moore us underselling what he has built, and we saw firsthand last week on Radio Row at Super Bowl in Miami how the ACL resonates with almost everyone, and how Cornhole really expanded their …
It has been quite a roller coaster first month of the year. Bookending the 1st month of January 2020 are the sudden tragic losses of David Stern and Kobe Bryant (as well as the others who perished tragically Sunday) ; two at different stages of vibrant lives whose impact went and will go on, way …