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The following originally ran on Portada Last weekend’s Society of American Baseball Research (@sabr) conference in Phoenix was largely about baseball by every way, shape, and form of numbers, but it also touched on a key point of growing the Latino fan base and the brand value of athletes in a way that had less …
As we tip off March Madness, the good young people at the Complete SET Agency took a look for the second year in a row at the social footprint of the head coaches at each school. The coaches, especially in the highly visible worlds of football and basketball. At the biggest levels they are well …
As March Madness gets going, kudos again to one of the most unique, niche sponsorships in sports: Werner Ladders. the NCAA still has its official net cutting scissors (Fiskars) and traction wipes (Slipp-Nott), but Werner remains one of the few brands that seems to always find its way to the camera, and the most important celebratory moments during …
In about two weeks, while much of America is fixated on March Madness, a large crowd will cram its way into Bridgewater-Raritan High School in Bridgewater, New Jersey. There will be painted faces and cheerleaders, cowbells and mascots, rival fans chanting at each other, ear splitting techno music, a roaring emcee, referees in the requisite …
When you spend five days in Las Vegas, you never know what you will find. My five days were probably not what most people would consider a typical “What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas” experience. On the contrary what I found was the exporting of the Vegas experience to all forms of sports business …
The Following originally appeared in Portada oThere are few better comeback stories in sports and entertainment than the one of Alex Rodriguez. From banned baseball superstar to mega-businessman, entrepreneur, analyst, and now Yankees advisor, Rodriguez has risen from the ashes of what most thought would be a career lost and a brand squandered to be one …
As we approach the start of baseball, the beginning of March Madness and the run up toward the NBA Playoffs it is good to catch up with some of the people who are on the front lines of disruption and digital innovation, especially around hoops. One of those is Peter Robert Casey. A serial digital …
As we move into Championship Week and fully into March Madness, the sense of underdog success permeates the air. It is totally unlike the big-time sports business feel of college football, which generates millions for select schools competing at the highest levels, but has little of the mystery and mystique of the NCAA Men’s Basketball …
This past weekend we had the glitz of NBA All Star Weekend, Daytona getting NASCAR started, the middle of the Olympics, even indoor tennis in New York. Baseball had its steady reporting of players but no games just yet right? Well. Not quite. There was baseball, a lot of baseball played this past weekend, as …
It’s a mixed February sports weekend, between NBA All-Star, The Olympics, pitchers and catcher reporting and Daytona getting NASCAR going, but the PBR, which I got to witness in January, is still finding ways to cut through the clutter with its own narrative in its 25th anniversary season. The Professional Bull Riders began 25 years …