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“This is the business we have chosen.” I was thinking about that line from The Godfather from Hyman Roth (The legendary actor Lee Strasburg) as all the PGA Tour LIV Golf news played out, and continues to play out over the coming days, weeks and months. It is the latest, and not the last, time …
It was with great sadness that I read Maureen Dowd’s column in the New York Times this weekend on the steady and slow death of the newsroom…the physical newsroom…as a place of collaboration, inspiration, and career growth. We all know the reality of the world we are in today…technology has made remote working easier and …
It is a really crowded time of year in our business, what with MLS and NWSL a month into their seasons, The Stanley Cup and NBA Playoffs in high gear, MLB coming into the end of month one, the NFL Draft and all its prep, heck even the USFL and the XFL are head to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Just after nine last Monday I got a text from my brother Chris, asking if I was watching what was going on on Monday Night Football. I was not, but turned the game on to see…no game. Only stunned silence, and the potential worst nightmare of any live event, let alone a live sporting event, …
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 …
Everyone it seemed had a Pele’ story. Mine was quite random, and since it was just before great cell cameras I don’t have a picture of it, but I have a great mental image, and it’s a story I tell all the time. It was early December of 2007, and the New Jersey Ironmen, playing …