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So there amidst Pickleball, eboat racing, CBD speculation, content creation ventures was another eyebrow raiser for “athlete investment”… farming. It was a piece by Front Office Sports about a group of athletes from multiple sports who were buying and renting an Iowa farm as the latest in “unconventional opportunities” for athletes, according to some reports. …
Sports is never very forgiving on the field, we like our wins to be decisive. However can a new concept tied to forgiving loans use sports as a potential pathway to success? ForgiveCo is a new public benefit corporation that aims to help brands do good by forgiving the debt of necessity for individuals in …
Everyone it seemed had a Pele’ story. Mine was quite random, and since it was just before great cell cameras I don’t have a picture of it, but I have a great mental image, and it’s a story I tell all the time. It was early December of 2007, and the New Jersey Ironmen, playing …
There was a time when people were all up in arms about sports moving off of free or broadcast TV on to “cable,” and how that move would dissipate interest in sports (those people also forgot that for decades not every game of a home team was even on TV, and things like blackout rules …
The last few weeks we have continued to see the axe fall as teams and leagues and media properties struggle to figure out how to bridge the next few months as we try to return to some sense of business normalcy in mid 2021. No matter where you work today, especially if you hit a …
I can always tell when the holiday season arrives…we get the first Christmas cards, always from my wife’s hair stylist and my longtime friend and colleague Paul Schneider. They arrive either right before Thanksgiving, or on Black Friday…and with that the season begins. Those cards…pieces of paper…are both tangible and symbolic and its why I …
Hard to think if the sponsorship world ever sets on the Manning family. Case in point, this week Bush’s Beans announced Peyton Manning as the newest bean ambassador for the brand. He joins the ranks of Duke Bush, Bush’s one and only spokesdog, and Jay Bush, Duke’s pal and the great-grandson of Bush’s founder, as …
Perhaps for a good part of the casual fans for sports, Army-Navy is a part-time tune in vs. must see engagement. However if you are a member, even an extended member of a military family, a fan of traditional rivalries, a football fan looking for a game to watch in early December on a Saturday …
Going into last baseball season the great Will Leitch wrote a piece on the complaints by traditional fans about the designated hitter in the National League. The point of the piece was simple…important to talk about? Sure? Earthshattering worthy of massive complaints and hand wringing and protest? Not really. It’s sport. Enjoy it. Its not …
It started as a simple way for players to tell their story two seasons ago, one which drew the ire of the NFL as a uniform violation, but one which has grown to be much more of a platform as players continue to find more of a social voice and express themselves in a positive …