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When Bonner Bolton, a 29-year-old bull rider from Texas, hits the floor Monday night for the season premiere of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, he’ll be the latest swashbuckling cowboy helping to move Professional Bull Riders (PBR) into the mainstream. Drawing on new marketing resources from WME | IMG, which acquired the league in April, …
Columbia student Matt Walker was on the ground for our program at the MIT Sloan Analytics Conference this past weekend in Boston, Mass. Here is a summary on what he and others learned… CEO Casey Wasserman (Wasserman Media Group) set the scene in the opening panel of the weekend, “Use data as an equalizer. …
I admit it, I love reading AARP Magazine. It has the largest circulation of any publication in North America, yet people snicker. Not an edition goes by where I am not learning something from those older: Christopher Walken and Bruce Springsteen, Morgan Freeman and Christie Brinkley. On and on and on. Smart short, sensible points …
We are coming up fast on Daytona for NASCAR’s start. the IRL is looking to re-emerge, the IHRA is heading back to ESPN, Forumula One under new leadership is looking to find ia new place in the sports hierarchy. So as the economic times stay in flux and sponsor dollars are becoming a tad looser …
On Monday night ESPN again treated college football fans to the Megacast, the ability for everyone to watch the College Football Championship game from a host of angles and with a variety of both serious and casual commentary, all playing across the various cable and digital channels of “The Worldwide Leader.” As expected, you can …
The broad and lasting implications of the recent Presidential election will ultimately be measured in the history books. What can be immediately affirmed are the folly of polls and the upending of conventional wisdom. For example, uncertainty from a Trump victory was supposed to crater the stock market. Instead, our 401Ks have been treated to …
The following was co-authored by Columbia student Maurice Eisenmann. You can also listen to our eSports podcast here. Also there are many links worthwhile, as part of this little eSports education… If the last couple of months have made one thing clear to us, it’s that eSports are here to stay in some growing way …
This week we go to Texas and talk to Michael Lysko about the Sports management program at Southern Methodist University. Mike joined the SMU faculty in 2009 as Director and Professor of Practice of the newly-formed Sport Management program. He serves as Advisory Board Chair and Director for the undergraduate and graduate program, providing leadership …
This past week we had the NWHL starting season two (with a team moving from Brooklyn to New Jersey) and the NHL opening with the continued question of where the Islanders will eventually end up; Brooklyn, Queens, back to Long Island…as they begin another season at Barclays Center. All that talk of prompted this post …
As our national anthem continues to be a hot topic in sports circles and beyond, a new twist has emerged. Last Friday night, the head of a fast growing global sport nearly canceled an event during the season’s home stretch because of the way the arena was handling the presentation of our nation’s colors for …