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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 …
“This is the business we have chosen.” I was thinking about that line from The Godfather from Hyman Roth (The legendary actor Lee Strasburg) LIV Golf reaches its third year anniversary and while their issues with the PGA TOUR have not fully been resoved, some of the original issues about foreign investment in sport seems …
We love to say…because its true, lol…that personal and professional growth is tied to building relationships, curious learning and sometimes just showing up. Here are three recent podcasts that are examples of all three. If you listen, boy will you learn a great deal from our guests. Great Scott. The first one is our conversation …
We enter the summer movie season this weekend, one in which the back to the theater with limited streaming at launch plan seems to be growing. Case in point is “Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning” which will hopefully lead the return to the coffers of massive dollars into the studios who have struggled to find their way …
As our friends at the PBR reach a championship weekend, a good reminder to look at how things have evolved this winter and spring. “This is the greatest weekend in Western sports.” So declared Stephen Jones, Chief Operating Officer of the Dallas Cowboys, at the opening press conference to PBR’s championship weekend (May 17-18) to …
Ever since a court awarded the original USFL $1 in damages in their Donald Trump-led challenges to the NFL, which brought the upstart league to its ultimate demise as it tried to move seasons, the specter of spring football has existed. There is an insatiable need for football, the player pool is crazy deep, the …
