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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Every June and July for the past eight years I have had the great honor of teaching and learning from high school students with an interest in sports business. Between our summer program at Columbia, The School of the New York Times, and some other programs like the Manhattan Sports Business Academy, at least parts …
Make no mistake, changing the name and the brand identity of an organization; from Aunt Jemima to the Washington Redskins, is expensive and takes a great deal of time and effort to get it right. It also takes good businesses to be able to listen to the consumer over time and make decisions that can …
To use the cliché of a longtime coaching friend, the second quarter is usually one of adjustment before you regroup, reassess and take a breath at halftime. For most people the real life second quarter of 2020 was unlike no other, and as we hit halftime of the year and move into the third quarter, …
It took a while and we still haven’t seen the hard copy (or the ebook), but we are proud and happy that the third edition of “Sports Publicity” is now out and available. The updates from the the second edition which came out in 2012 are pretty vast, and we have brought a list of …
So much of the continued escalation of COVID is focused, and it seems rightfully so, on the issue of wearing a mask or not. As someone who has lost one friend to this disease, and came damn near close to losing another one, the simple issue of putting on a mask seems pretty simple. I …
When you get to spend some time speaking…and as he pointed out…listening to a future Hall of Fame manager in Joe Maddon your expectations are probably a little high. In this case, the learnings, and the expectations, exceeded even our grasp. You can hear the whole 40-minute conversation as part of the latest edition of …
This past Thursday my co-host of the CUSP Show (The Columbia University Sports Podcast) Tom Richardson got to spend a good 45 minutes talking about everything but actually baseball with Los Angeles Angels Manager Joe Maddon. The podcast will be out next week and touched on well…podcasting (he has launched and then was stopped after …
I remember exactly where I was when I met M. Quentin Williams for the first time. It was in the bowels of what was then called the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, and I’m going to guess that it was the fall of 1998. I was getting a tour of the facility from my longtime …
They have always been the iconic role models that have shaped thousands of lives, from little league to the highest level of competition. They are dedicated and driven, mercurial and emotional, volunteers and mercenaries, teachers and mentors. They are coaches. Yet for all the time, effort and value they put in, these men and women …
Growing up my first real adult, or semi-adult, “bar home” was Runyons on 52nd street just off of Second Avenue. At Fordham we were lucky enough to be the last class where the drinking age was 18, and somehow we found our way over the years into the storied saloon to listen to everyone from …