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Last Friday morning, getting ready to ring the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell, the cowboys of PBR walked onto the trading floor to hoots and hollers of “Yellowstone! Yellowstone!” That’s all right with PBR Commissioner and CEO Sean Gleason, though when comparisons of his sport’s increasing popularity are made with cable’s No. 1 drama, …
Just after nine last Monday I got a text from my brother Chris, asking if I was watching what was going on on Monday Night Football. I was not, but turned the game on to see…no game. Only stunned silence, and the potential worst nightmare of any live event, let alone a live sporting event, …
Daytona is still in the distance, Indy Car is still quiet as it looks to 2023, Formula E is finding its post pandemic niche, and Formula 1 has become the cause celebre in North America with new, young, engaged roots. Oh and in most of the US it’s cold. Still in basements across America, fathers and …
Sports is never very forgiving on the field, we like our wins to be decisive. However can a new concept tied to forgiving loans use sports as a potential pathway to success? ForgiveCo is a new public benefit corporation that aims to help brands do good by forgiving the debt of necessity for individuals in …
What a year…AGAIN!. Still we have time for reflection and nostalgia, and while I am a big believer of taking a pause, year round really, and figuring what got done and what could be done differently personally and professionally, I am not a big one on lists of the past or for that matter, predictions of …
Everyone it seemed had a Pele’ story. Mine was quite random, and since it was just before great cell cameras I don’t have a picture of it, but I have a great mental image, and it’s a story I tell all the time. It was early December of 2007, and the New Jersey Ironmen, playing …
There was a time when people were all up in arms about sports moving off of free or broadcast TV on to “cable,” and how that move would dissipate interest in sports (those people also forgot that for decades not every game of a home team was even on TV, and things like blackout rules …
This past summer I bought a new car, a Toyota Camry, after years of having Honda’s (which we still have). I love getting used to and discovering new things about a car after years of the same old, and one of the things that the car has, as do most cars, is a milage tracker …
The last few weeks we have continued to see the axe fall as teams and leagues and media properties struggle to figure out how to bridge the next few months as we try to return to some sense of business normalcy in mid 2021. No matter where you work today, especially if you hit a …
I can always tell when the holiday season arrives…we get the first Christmas cards, always from my wife’s hair stylist and my longtime friend and colleague Paul Schneider. They arrive either right before Thanksgiving, or on Black Friday…and with that the season begins. Those cards…pieces of paper…are both tangible and symbolic and its why I …