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The concept of “Sportfashion”…what athletes and coaches wear coming off the bus, going home, in warmups etc and how it ties to popular culture has never been stronger, and that includes footwear. The styling kicks, boots, shoes have always had their place, but when empowered by the big lens of media, traditional and social, and …
A Shootout Lost To History: The Great Alaska Shootout was once the premier preseason college basketball tournament. Alas it was lost to history, warm weather and lots of empty ballrooms with 50 people in them disguised as college basketball facilities. I was reminded of the beauty of the Shootout by my Fordham classmate Jim Johnson …
I always learn something from Peter King’s FMIA column. So much so that it usually takes me three or four times to read and digest the pieces, it’s a big meal for a little brain like me. One of the thought starters this week was his feature on Andrew Luck’s college center at Stanford, Sam …
Netflix, which added 7.7 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022 on $7.85 billion in quarterly revenue, is getting a lot of attention for its sports documentaries. The streamer, which has renewed the enormously popular “Drive to Survive” with Formula 1 for the 2023 season, recently released five bingeworthy episodes of “Break Point,” a …
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 …
The NBA gets a lot of credit for looking for new ways to engage fans, but when we look back on the fanless fall, the NFL may, and should have emerged from the top of the forward-thinking pack, and Sunday was the best example, across the board, of a glimpse into the future of sports …
The NFL was the first amongst the major North American sports leagues to cut a deal with Amazon, three seasons ago giving Amazon Prime the rights to stream Thursday Night Football. The league has used the partnership to try a few things here and there, including having Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm become the first …
With CES now in the rearview mirror (a summary coming this week on seen and experienced), we looked at another trip of podcast recaps done by colleague Jesse Leads Grant. This week, three diverse storytellers, two tied to tech, one to careers and the growth of women in sport. Here is the latest trio of …
Daytona is still in the distance, Indy car is re-jigging, Formula E is looking for its niche, and under Chase Carey Formula 1 is pushing to find its new, young, engaged roots. Oh and in most of the US it’s cold. Still in basements across America, fathers and mothers and sons are honing a block …
It has been another interesting few weeks of attending events learning and listening between all the day to day activity. Through all that there were some great tidbits to share from the bigger successful minds that wandered in and out of meetings, media events and get togethers…Here’s some of the best to ponder on the …
