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Giving a sampling of content: Interesting the key sports biz players who have had hard paywalls like Sports Business Journal who are now putting select content outside those walls. Much like The Athletic now allowing free shares, the need for more eyes than those with $$ is inevitable for most. Now they don’t giveaway all …
On Christmas Eve, 2007, Sports Illustrated…which was quite a big deal then… ran a back of the book story by Scott Price, who had the chance to play then-candidate Barack Obama in a game of basketball. The story showed casual sports fans, who many times are also politics averse, a side of the candidate that they did not …
They both returned to the playoffs…one NHL and one NBA…on the same night both with their own organic spin to presentation. The San Antonio Spurs pulled off the well orchestrated Fiesta Night, a rainbow of coordinated color for Victor Wembanyama’s first playoff home game, while the Buffalo Sabres drought ending win over the Boston Bruins …
‘He’s going to call you at home.” Those words in mid March of 1996 from the late “Superstat,” the legendary Harvey Pollack came true, because the next night at our New Jersey townhouse while I was feeding our newborn daughter Christine, the phone (in the time before cell phones) did ring, and on the other …
What do the reigning NBA Championship Coach and one of women’s sports most successful commissioners have in common Michigan’s Dusty May (good piece here by Yahoo’s Jeff Eisenberg) with people you may not know like Jack Richason, Will Conley, John and Joe Owen, as well as Lawrence Frank, the fictional character Ollie McLellan, and countless …
We have a lot of issues on this big blue marble we call home, whether they are global or personal in scope. However as we turn to spring today we have gotten constant reminders of the joy sports and live, communal shared experiences can bring and why, in challenging times thy are more important than …
This time of year as we move quickly closer to March Madness I like to look around the celebrations on TV or in person and notice those young people around the bench getting to experience the thrill of victory or the agony of defat for the first time. While the larger schools, and usually the …
In an attention starved, get it done yesterday world it’s sometimes nice to find consistency. Your friends you have known, the right slice of pizza or cup of coffee, a musical artist who knows just the right notes to play, Opening Day in Baseball etc. etc. Things can adjust, but the core thoughts…the core sounds, …
I have always felt that the wandering the halls and listening to topics away from the main stages at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference unveils an interesting look ahead to both the fun and the unusual. It’s where young people are talking, smaller conversations take place, and the fun and sometimes unusual reside. …
Last week within 24 hours I got to visit two venues in greater Los Angeles decades…actually over a century…apart in construction but with a common storytelling theme; to capture and excite those who entered their walls regardless of the result on the court or the field. That attention to detail now recaptured at The Rose …
