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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 …
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 is a senior executive I know who constantly reminds his communications person that he needs deals, not more friends. As we start a new year and I think back on all the new people I met this year, I find that very sad. I was having lunch and then some calls with colleagues who …
Did anyone lose the NBA vs. NFL numbers scramble on Christmas Day? Unless you count the people who do not have the financial wherewithal to subscribe to Neflix (remember that all the NBA games were not on what used to be known as a “cable” network…ESPN…they were on a good old fashioned broadcast channel, ABC) …
“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 …
There was a time not too long ago when an “invasion” of non-American talent, especially young talent, meant a cause of great concern for sports which sought relevant in North America. Tennis and women’s gold were two that were always worried that stars with accents would not appeal to mainstream eyeballs and brands, and even …
The powers that be had to find dates and locations for the upcoming Presidential debates, ones that will draw the curious and the dedicated to see what to octogenarian candidates will fire back and forth across the stage. The date for the first one? June 27. The conflict that could draw eyeball away? The recently …
Sports, at its core, is often viewed as a transactional business, a zero-sum game. After all, if you leave it for what it is, the score is there when the game ends. Somebody wins, somebody loses. However, the business that surrounds that score, that result, by those who actually play, is much more fluid. The …
We are always looking for the biggest bang, the most impactful, the largest voice, but many times we forget that the very targeted success is the way we are judged. Let’s call it the audience of one. I was reminded of the value of one to one a few times in the past few weeks. …
Quite a while ago when we were at the WTA Tour, our leader at the name, a self-proclaimed “reformed lawyer” named Bart McGuire, was asked whey women’s tennis grabbed so many headlines and had such a strong business story. He always said: “Our athletes are not just great tennis players, they are good copy.” Now …
