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There they were in the first commercial break of the Knicks-Sixers Game 2 on Wednesday night…three commercials with three key brands in a row featuring WNBA personalities… Paige Bueckers and CarMax, A’ja Wilson and Nike, and Caitlin Clark and State Farm. Watching the game with a few casual basketball fans, I asked them what they …
The digital world can be a tough place to navigate and can also be a place where people react without context. So April Fools jokes seem to be running more risk than reward where fake news seems to sadly rule the day. Now for decades creative and entrepreneurial folks have taken advantage to out one …
In an attention starved, get it done yesterday world it’s sometimes nice to find consistency. Your friends you have known, the right slice of pizza or cup of coffee, a musical artist who knows just the right notes to play, Opening Day in Baseball etc. etc. Things can adjust, but the core thoughts…the core sounds, …
I have always felt that the wandering the halls and listening to topics away from the main stages at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference unveils an interesting look ahead to both the fun and the unusual. It’s where young people are talking, smaller conversations take place, and the fun and sometimes unusual reside. …
We recorded 20 podcasts during Super Bowl week, some tied to last week’s game, most timeless. As we roll them out the next few weeks (which will bring our total to over 500 in the 10+ years we have been doing this), here are three of note for a listen. Fighting To Join Bad Bunny …
There are some who say that the entity known as Media Row on Super Bowl week has become a messy mix. Well, if you go in unprepared, if you don’t pick your spots, if you aren;t open minded to absorb and listen and learn or if your expectations are now what they were ten years …
We get close to the end of the ninth year of our sports business podcast conversations with some really wide-raning discussions. Here are three recent ones below. You can hear them all here as we come up on a decade talking with the leaders across the board. “AI Probably Saved My Marriage.” One of the …
For those looking for some good reads to gift or read during travel and the holidays, see below. The list are books which were released first in 2025…I have had to actually have read them and felt like I walked away knowing more than when I opened them, and they are certainly not any kind …
This past week there was an interesting back and forth between and NFL team and some members of the media. The crux of it, without naming names because it is part of a bigger issue of sometimes building walls and less bridges, was that a team, led by a coach, felt like they did not …
Our list of brands on our student watch lists drew a lot of questions as to who else they were following and engaing with, so here is another ten. The link to the first set we published over the weekend is here. Glossier has positioned itself as a leader in breaking the stereotype that beauty …
