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Joe Favorito I have somewhere packed away a frosted glass with The University of Louisville logo on it and their schedule from the 1985-86 season. On that glass it shows that Iona College played at the #15 Cardinals on December 10 (Louisville won the game 88-75). That’s it. Nothing of significance for anyone else but …
For some time we have been told, and probably, convinced ourselves, that New York and winning did not have to be part of the formula for sports business success. Tom Brady and Steph Curry, Lionel Messi and Caitlin Clark, LeBron James and Shoei Ohtani etc. etc…all have done pretty well coming into New York but …
One of the great honors I have had in my career is learning from those on the way up. Maybe it is labeled “teaching” since I have been in the front of the class in programs like Columbia, Fordham, and as a guest at schools like George Washington, Montclair State, Drexel. American, NYU and elsewhere, but …
One more Knicks postscript for me. The why. While there are thousands of young people and new arrivals on the massive bandwagon there are the personal stories of strangers and of those in my recent and distant past that made this special for a watch party of one. A few examples. Early Sunday morning I …
Yesterday in the middle of an oppressively hot and humid Orlando Wednesday I drove from the airport not to my hotel for a quick cold brew but to Inter&Co Stadium to watch a World Cup tune up between England and Costa Rica. Before I left the airport and was waiting for my car at Enterprise, …
It’s not over yet, but it’s getting close, this first title in New York for one of the four major men’s sports teams since the Giants beat the Patriots in 2012, the longest drought in the history of The Apple. No disrespect to the Liberty and Gotham FC and NYCFC, who have won titles in …
I have always believed that the fan experience to teams or leagues is about listening and adapting and learning about the individual, or the group, and what draws them to loyalty. Sometimes it’s literally hereditary, sometimes, its location based, sometimes its star power, sometimes its hard luck, sometimes it can be something as simple as …
We are heading to Italy, and one of the gifts for a young cousin who wants something “quintessentially American,” is the baseball cap. Now while many suggested Yankees…Italians even with the World Baseball Classic success still don’t know the nuances of the diamond that much (and more on the Yankees) below the real cultural relevance …
Very few of us get a seat at the table of history, and few in our industry have been at the table…a diverse set of them of many shapes and sizes…than Dr. Harvey Schiller. When talking about someone who was in the room, at the table and in the meetings at the cusp of some …
There they were in the first commercial break of the Knicks-Sixers Game 2 on Wednesday night…three commercials with three key brands in a row featuring WNBA personalities… Paige Bueckers and CarMax, A’ja Wilson and Nike, and Caitlin Clark and State Farm. Watching the game with a few casual basketball fans, I asked them what they …
