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It is 2020 and we all know how traditions have been reinvented or thrown out the window, only to be restarted in the future, and that’s OK. As we have heard from health officials so many times, the Virus does not have our timeline. However, I did realize this morning, here in the gap between …
As we head toward the re-start of the restarts of the NBA and the NHL, deeper into the chasm of college basketball and look ahead to MLB and MLS and so many other sports keep on keeping on in the first half of 2021, the question of dollar flow, especially with few or limited fans …
One of the topics that we started the year looking at so closely was the rise and impact women’s sports would be having. While that was somewhat slowed by the Pandemic, the impact continues to grow again, and now, going into a year hopefully with the Olympics and other tentpole storytelling opportunities, we will see …
“In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success if you are willing to learn from it.” the late Paul Allen In a year of profound loss on so many levels like this one, I always think we can learn so much for where our journey will take us next, and that’s …
The NFL was the first amongst the major North American sports leagues to cut a deal with Amazon, three seasons ago giving Amazon Prime the rights to stream Thursday Night Football. The league has used the partnership to try a few things here and there, including having Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm become the first …
I first met Seth Rubinroit when he was helping the AVP with all their NBC Volleyball data while also continuing to run a site all about USC basketball. Right then I should have known his passions should run to the eclectic, and he saw opportunity in things other may not have. Fast forward and young …
Sports bars – even backed by leagues and networks – aren’t always a license to pour beer, serve wings, and print money. Just ask ESPN and NASCAR, following failed efforts. For those operating a sports bar during coronavirus, good luck. While single-snapshot national data is hard to come by, it is estimated up to one …
“You write your first draft with your heart, you rewrite with your head.” -William Forrester While many think “Bond” when speaking of Sir Sean Connery who passed away at age 90 on Friday, to me he was Marko Raimius, Jimmy Malone, Henry Jones Sr., and my favorite, William Forrester in one of the more underrated …
“We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.” EO Wilson (h/t Kevin Carroll) We often talk about how our business is one of relationships, both those carefully forged and those which are quite random. Sitting back and trying to imagine or craft a plan as to how one gets from one place to another …
Last week we had the great privilege to talk to Nick Nurse, head coach of the Toronto Raptors, not about the NBA Finals or the upcoming NBA Draft or the date for starting the next season, but about his life lessons, his journey and those who included him along the way, all of which is …