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We love talking entrepreneurship and disruption on our podcasts and here are three recent ones that fit the bill. Have you ever looked at Super 70’s Sports on X? Learn all about how it came to be and what’s next. How is Madden changing the NFL teams engage? We have that. Then a slightly longer …
I am a big believer in reframing older messages. You twist a phrase, move a comma, look at something from a different angle and suddenly there is a new message. I have talked about this numerous times with my college colleagues and have written about the difference between investing and donating, and how that little …
We use the word iconic sometimes like we do the word hello. At every turn it’s too easy a word to throw around, when in reality must things we refer to as Iconic are not really worthy of that high level of praise or individuality. Icons should be rare air for all of us. That being …
This week, as the NWSL broke another mark for expansion franchise prices in the league with the announcement of NWSL Denver, the bids for the next WNBA franchise were submitted, with the adjacent story lines tied to them. And while the realists and the cynical will push away the pageantry and the buzz and look …
There is always a feeling the competition stirs the competitive juices in the bets of businesses…adjust, or fail, or even worse, be swallowed up by the disruptor. We have seen this constantly in sports when expansion comes along, or a challenger league steps up to fill what they see as a need to force the …
This past week I spent time in Milwaukee, Green Bay and back here in New York, even going to the Rangers-Devils game at MSG Thursday night. All of those teams are reflections of their community and have spent years weaving themselves into the fabric of their cities and towns. It is such a key part …
In 2007, when my colleague John Genzale asked me to come up with a class on communications for a fledgling program that had just launched at Columbia in the School of Professional Studies AND did I want to write a book about the topic, I laughed. I had taken a stab at teaching at NYU…a …
There were lots of learnings pulled out of this year’s Dealmakers conference in Washington this past week, put on by Sports Business Journal and Monumental Sports and Entertainment. While we will touch on several topics in upcoming posts, one topic that is continuing to gain attention for so many reasons, not the least of which …
Sunday night my son AJ and I cut away from watching the Mets season end the Jets unravelling to make sure we saw the last quarter…and overtime of the Liberty winning their first-ever WNBA title. It was gratifying to him to see the Liberty win…one of the first sporting events he ever saw live was …
“Walk the balance between humility and confidence.” There were so many tidbits of wisdom that applied to every one of the over five hundred attendees at the Columbia University Sports Management Conference in Lerner Hall on October tenth, but that quote from Unrivaled Basketball Commissioner Micky Lawler in the opening panel on emerging sports helped …
