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At first people seemed to be scratching their head. The ACC or the Big Ten trying to put roots down in New York, the home of the Big East? Who would care other than some alumni? New York us not a college town, it’s a pro town. However as seen this week, the ACC and …
It is probably less true of an individual athlete than ever before, and maybe truer of an event than ever…if you want success you have to find your way to New York at some point. While mega-stars like LeBron James and Sydney Crosby and Payton Manning and thrive in other markets with endorsements and media …
The passing of actor James Gandolfini on Wednesday was as widely covered as any recent news event, which brought surprise to many people, but for those in the sports business the resonance of “The Sopranos” and its lead actor from Westwood, New Jersey was felt way beyond the end of the HBO series. The ironic …
Time for a little best practices roundup from the past few days…from Arizona to New Jersey… Stunts Gone Wrong Still Pay Off: There is the adage that any publicity is good publicity, so the Arizona Sundogs of the Central Hockey League should take note. The minor league team sent its captain and three members of …
Back in the day when they were the Braves, then Quinnipiac College decided to raise the profile of the school there were two paths to take…political consulting polls and athletics, neither of which would be easy but both, if done well, could raise enrollment, pride and donations for the Connecticut school. Today, the Quinnipiac University …
I was lucky enough to spend a day and a half this week at the IMG World Congress of Sport in Naples, Fla. listening to senior sports and entertainment folks talk about many topics, including leadership. It was also fortuitous to be in the Fort Myers area and read about how the folks at Florida …
It’s still a pristine sponsor environment for the most part, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, There is no on court signage, you have to look hard to even find a call directly to the tournament site NCAA.com (it’s on top of the backboard and sometimes on directional signage), and even with the huge social media …
The casual fan knows all about March Madness and the craziness that ensues when the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament tips off. Heroes made, eventually a champion crowned and Cinderella usually dances again and again, at least for a few weeks. The heavily margined, tightly controlled advertising dollars that go against March Madness are leveraged by …
One of the interesting questions around the endless numbers crunching that takes place this time of year around baseball is what exactly, other than team player evaluation, fantasy play, and sports talk, is the real value for all of the statistical analysis. Teams need ways to properly analyze talent for sure, and the minutia that …
It’s never easy to create a global initiative in anything for one day, let alone anything to do with sport…on a weekday at a time of year when most of the sporting world is thinking soccer, pitchers and catchers, basketball, ice hockey, lacrosse or any myriad of ideas. Tennis? The hard courts of Melbourne are …
