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Fear The Deer. Given the Milwaukee Bucks on court success this year, led by “The Greek Freak” Giannis Antetokounmpo, it’s not hard to understand how the team has become the toast of the NBA. Young. Athletic, play at a fast pace, accessible players in a new arena in a sports hungry town with a new …
The following originally ran on Portada… The idea of “honoring Latino culture” in professional sports has come a long way from slapping Los on a jersey and bringing in a Mariachi band. While many teams still struggle to figure out exactly how to engage and bring in brands, or as one executive said, identify what exactly …
One of the biggest paths Barstool Sports Founder Dave Portnoy mentions on their road to disruptive sports and lifestyle business success has been merchandise. “We would wear or design a tee-shirt or a sticker or a hat and our fans would ask for them,” he said at last year’s Hashtag Sports event done with NYVC …
We are in a time where women holding elite positions of leadership should not be a surprise any more, but of course it is. Every time a ceiling is shattered or a step is taken towards a new frontier by someone crossing a boundary built by gender, race, sex or creed, the world rightfully takes …
There is no doubt the soccer (football) and hoops go one and two in terms of global popularity. From the professional level to the grassroots, from India and China to South America and the U.S., it is hard to not have a conversation about massive engagement in sport without touching on the ball you use …
The insatiable appetite for authentic, quality content from athletes and celebrities keeps rolling on, and in the basketball space, a new platform has emerged. CloseUp360 is a lifestyle media platform and production company focused exclusively on the growing world of NBA players off the court. It features weekly content (profiles, podcasts and series) and daily …
There we were Wednesday, in what was once the Bowling Alley at Madison Square Garden, the original home of “Bowling For Dollars,” also in the space where the WNBA had one of its great initial sendoffs, with the NBA’s newest venture ready to engage new fans with its first-ever draft. With the announcement of the …
We love following disruptive innovative businesses in sport, especially ones that rise from a passion or an idea into a movement. One of those is Hoops Nation, a Gen Z geared platform that was created about basketball for the digital first fan. Buster Scher is the founder of Hoops Nation, which has over 550,000 followers …
We have come a long way from where “Ethnic Nights” started in professional sports in the U.S. It used to be slapping a “Los” on jerseys, handing out Fortune Cookies and assuming every player whose name ended in “Burg” was Jewish all qualified for “Special Heritage Nights.’ Tons of mistakes, a misunderstanding of culture and …
USFL, the AAFL, the NPFL. The PPFL, the ASPFL, the IFL, the UFL, the SFL. Know any of these? (the first one is not the viable spring league that eventually never made it to the fall after a growing spring option, it was another iteration that never saw its first field). Then you have the …