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It was a well intentioned but underpublicized and marketed event, National Gaming day, 2011. Chances are if you are reading this it may be the first you have heard of the idea, which took place on Saturday, November 12. The concept is simple and effective…pick a day as a way to united family and community …
The past weekend during NFL broadcasts, fans were treated to the latest preview edition of the mega-popular video game Call of Duty. However instead of seeing more shots of shoot em up action, we saw Jonah Hill, Sam Worthington, and even a little Dwight Howard mixed into the live action in the game? Many were …
Twenty years ago this Monday we were returning from a Patriot League meeting in Bethlehem, Pa. and were about to cross the George Washington Bridge when a report came on the radio that NBA Superstar Earvin “Magic” Johnson had HIV. This was in the days when HIV was thought to be a death sentence, and …
This coming Sunday, thousands of runners will take to the streets of New York for the ING New York City Marathon. It is a spectacle like no other, one that celebrates the triumph of the human mind and spirit as much as it sends a message to all watching that health and fitness is a …
For experience, there are few niche events that beat the PBR and the ING New York City Marathon. However both have always had trouble growing their platform outside the event and into a global experience in a crowded fall landscape. As the PBR conducts its Championship at a sold out Thomas and Mack Center this …
We are just over a week from what would have been the start of the NBA season…a terrific encore to a great finish of last season, with the Olympics in the offing for 2012. Instead we have the lockout, and the start of the D-League and college hoops on the horizon. While many hold out …
It is the third most popular sport in the world according to some numbers…its World Cup Final this week will bring in the largest audience and the most sponsorship of any event in 2011, short of the Super Bowl…it has amended its rules, added fan and sponsor friendly events and carved out a faster version …
In professional sport in North America you usually don’t think of the facility driving awareness programs, it is usually more the teams or the athletes. The stadiums and facilities do promote programs specific to the event, “Don’t Drank and Drive” etc., but it is really not incumbent on the building for wide reaching programs for …
On Tuesday at Yankee Stadium several hundred professionals, many in community relations from teams from around the world, gathered for the Beyond Sport United “Sports Teams For Social Change” conference. While cynical may say that the event was a chance to have professional sport gather to network and then go back about their business of …
The last two years, Inspireum, a Bend, Oregon based social enterprise, has built the High School “Rudy” Awards, which honors state by state the most inspiring story of a young student-athlete who plays football. He has never been the biggest or the best, but many times he has overcome the most or used the values …
