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One thing we like to remind students or job seekers is that sometimes the path chooses us, and we have to be open minded enough to take a risk and go down the road. Sometimes it leads to a dead end, sometimes to an off ramp, sometimes to the yellow brick road. We don’t always …
First off, I will say that I still love the printed word, just like I love ticket stubs and programs. As the late Jimmy Breslin said, “The beauty of the newspaper is that you never know what you will find when you turn the next page,” and I still believe that. The images and the …
Saturday I was in the Verizon store begrudgingly getting a new phone and I was talking to a mom and her daughter next to me. The mom. About my age, was bemoaning all this “technology” and how the ‘80’s and the ‘70’s was better. I laughed and looked at the daughter, who was 22 and …
A great guest post from our colleague Dr. Lindsay Krasnoff, from Paris: Last week the annual Global Sports Week Paris teamed up with Viva Tech for a four-day Future of Sport extravaganza at the Paris Expo Center at Porte de Versailles. The space may be familiar, given the acrimony and scathing critique of the Paris …
“This is the business we have chosen.” I was thinking about that line from The Godfather from Hyman Roth (The legendary actor Lee Strasburg) as all the PGA Tour LIV Golf news played out, and continues to play out over the coming days, weeks and months. It is the latest, and not the last, time …
Our colleague Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a historian, speaker, and consultant whose book Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA comes out September 7. Given her deep ties to French culture, sport and basketball, she offers up a unique POV around what’s coming for Victor Wembanyama…Readers can use code BASKET23US …
It is a really crowded time of year in our business, what with MLS and NWSL a month into their seasons, The Stanley Cup and NBA Playoffs in high gear, MLB coming into the end of month one, the NFL Draft and all its prep, heck even the USFL and the XFL are head to …
Earlier this year a report on the decline of populations in China sent the marketing and brand world into a bit of a spin. For years, even coming out of The Pandemic, the eyes on the possibility of doing business in China were still sitting out there as the fourth piece of a BRIC strategy …
“Curiosity is more important than intelligence.” It was that quote from MIT Sloan that has stuck with me as I looked back on a grand few weeks up and down the Northeast Corridor from Washington to Philly to New York to Boston and back. It was a wonderful few weeks of our own form of …
OK this project is a bear…but it’s a loveable one, like Winnie The Pooh or Yogi…so I decided again to take it on. The response last January was so strong…here again is last’s years which has had over 2 million views…that I thought about doing it quarterly or biannually, but time never allowed. Best to …