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I am from Brooklyn and have never lost the love for the gritty side of my home city. However as we get older, some of us anyway, we try to see the bigger picture and the value of waste not, want not just a little more. I also have been softened a bit by the …
While the talk about the next great revenue streams for teams and leagues continues to be focused on sports gambling, or how to make more noise with gaming and esports, the NBA announced the unlocking of a new cabinet this week which will have ancillary and immediate benefits for teams looking to expand dollars and …
An interesting thing happened on Thursday morning at the New York Athletic Club during the annual Cynopsys Sports Media Awards breakfast. Amongst the usual parade of media accolades…various entities in the FOX SPORTS world took home 12 winners on their own…there were two excitable tables who seemed to also be trading winners every few minutes …
A few weeks ago at the CAA World Congress of Sport in Dana Point, California, a host of speakers were asked what they had their eye on for topics, and what will we be talking about a year from now. The answers for the most part were guarded and much of the same that is …
The simple things are usually the best activated, and National High Five Day is steadily falling into that category. There are many origin stories of the high five, but the two most documented candidates are Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team on October 2, 1977, and Wiley Brown …
The menswear category around athletes and coaches has always been a hidden gem, and more and more brands are looking to find their way in, especially with fun and disruption. One of the more creative in the past year has been Mizzen+Main, and as they approach the one year anniversary of their viral win dressing …
If you have spent any time around a locker room in New York in the past 40 years you knew who Robert Elkin was. Robert was a Zelig-like character, covering everything from boxing, where he once had a very unintentional and almost comical exchange with Mike Tyson during the boxer’s heyday, to high school track …
#FakeNews is the bane of everyone all year long. Except on April 1. If you’re a naturally mischievous person, April Fool’s is actually one of the best days of the year. Communications people are often at the center of their brand’s pranks. Spending their days writing so many straight news stories and press releases, it’s …
We are almost at April Fool’s Day, always a chance still for the most creative to casually try their luck at putting one over…in an era of #Fakenews, we will be on the look for some good ones, but here are some best practices in and around sports of years past. NASCAR driver Aric Almirola …
We live in a time of hiding behind emails or text messages, having “Facebook friends,” or “Twitter relationships,” yet the experience of sitting and talking with someone; or even randomly crossing paths with an old, or new, friend or colleague by getting out and about is invaluable. This past week, stops at the Big …