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When the initial talk of VR and sports first arose a few years ago, the real buzz was what could be done around games for fans thousands of miles away who could never get to a game. Putting fans in China or India courtside to see LeBron James, or ringside for a Triple G fight, …
Every year around this time MLB and MiLB roll out their season long promotion schedules; chock full of bobbleheads, gnomes, beach towels, caps and hundreds of others (Maury Brown had a good summary of MLB promos here). The overwhelming number are always geared towards families and kids, with the idea of getting the unit to …
It didn’t get a great amount of fanfare this week, but the NBA, as pointed out by my colleague Tom Richardson, took a bold first step on the content side this past week, starting to offer a micropayment plan of $.99 for fans who sign up for an account where they can opt in to …
By now the praise not just the University of Maryland Baltimore County men’s hoops team but their social media work has been well documented, and has certainly cemented the Retrievers as one of the feel good stories of March Madness both on and off the court. Some great takeaways from how UMBC engaged should be …
The following originally ran on Portada Last weekend’s Society of American Baseball Research (@sabr) conference in Phoenix was largely about baseball by every way, shape, and form of numbers, but it also touched on a key point of growing the Latino fan base and the brand value of athletes in a way that had less …
When you spend five days in Las Vegas, you never know what you will find. My five days were probably not what most people would consider a typical “What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas” experience. On the contrary what I found was the exporting of the Vegas experience to all forms of sports business …
The Following originally appeared in Portada oThere are few better comeback stories in sports and entertainment than the one of Alex Rodriguez. From banned baseball superstar to mega-businessman, entrepreneur, analyst, and now Yankees advisor, Rodriguez has risen from the ashes of what most thought would be a career lost and a brand squandered to be one …
We will be recapping some of our Columbia Sports Podcasts as we reach episode 100 with our student Dhwani Kitchlue. Today she looks back at episode 95 with Jeff Eisenband With media disruption on the rise, we invited Jeff Eisenband to the Columbia University Sports Podcast show to give his perspective on the matter, as …
Spending four productive Pre Super Bowl days logging lots of Fitbit steps from the Mall of America to Nicolette Mall and all spots in between produced some great experiences, meetings and observations. Here ya go… The Value of Radio Row: A few years ago the death of radio, or the spoken word, as a viable …
This past week the New York Times ran an extensive piece on the use of bots to build large twitter followings, and the amount of money paid by politicians, celebrities and athletes to become influencers in a space where brands look to size over substance. In the last few days big names such as Mark …