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When I was with the Knicks and the Sixers you travelled to “Detroit” for road games, but you never went to Detroit. You went to Auburn Hills, where the team played. Motown? Miles away never to be seen. The city has undergone quite a renaissance since my NBA road days, and I have always wanted …
Maybe it’s because I’m older and in the range where your have friends and colleagues whose partners, and parents are just reaching the end of that circle of life more often. Maybe it’s because we close in on the most profound day of loss for so many of us…September 11…that we notice these things more. …
I had never been asked to write a forward for a book, and then in the course of thirty days two dear friends and colleagues asked me to do so. I guess everyone else was on vacation, lol. Seriously it was very humbling and quite an honor to be asked by both Shripal Shah and …
Our business doesn’t go an hour it seems without some “big news” off the field. The ESPN launch, NIL and college issues, FIFA World Cup planning, streaming wars, gambling suspensions, NBA Europe, Caitlin Clark and on and on. If Billy Joel wanted to write a sports version of “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” it wouldn’t …
I have taken the time to watch Hard Knocks with the Buffalo Bills as well as the Netflix series on the SEC, and am always amazed ato try to learn from the nuances of preparation, especially with elements of the game like punts and the returners and their meticulous attention to catching a ball while …
There is nothing like Spring Training in baseball. Fans flock to two central locales, Florida and Arizona, to escape the winter blues, look ahead to warmer weather and watch baseball games that don’t count in the standings. If you time things right, you can see a dozen teams in just a few days, all part …
The focus toward audio, be it spoken word, custom devices that allow fans to hear more and more of game interaction, simulcasts which bring different perspectives of an event, even long form audio content, has continued to grow. Still, the ability to custom target sound, and for that matter another underappreciated sense in a game …
The power of influence that athletes, perhaps more than anyone else because they have an almost daily audience, has, can be so vastly valuable. While we think of brands, TikTok videos and athletic exploits in short bursts as maybe the quickest examples of the power of influence, there are others than can perhaps be more …
We love giving our interns the ability to be out and about listening and learning. Great observations here from Elon’s Luke Silpe, who got to spend a few days in the Javits Center craziness. Fanatics Fest was an epic event for someone like me who spent his childhood around baseball. We’re talking about stepping into …
We love listening and learning from those just starting the journey, and this summer one of our interns, James Gumina, a student at Yale who has launched the school’s sports business club, has volunteered to give us his thoughts on what he is watching, following and engaging with. Take it away James. As a young …
