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Two weeks ago late on a Wednesday night for the MAAC Quarterfinals at the Atlantic City Convention Center, St. Peter’s University Men’s Basketball coach Shaheen Holloway entered a press conference room after the Peacocks dispatched Fairfield University on their way to the MAAC semi-finals and eventually the conference championship game. In the room was my …
On Friday March 11, two years to the day the world began the massive shutdown due to COVID and all the fear and chaos that we have experienced, I walked into a WAWA on Long Beach Island to get a cup of coffee. It was a beautiful very early morning, having come from spending a …
The risk/reward for independent minor league baseball can be very high. Absorb all the costs, but keep all the profits with a product that can be fun, innovative and even a little but more edgy than affiliated minor league teams in North America. Grab a player or two with some name value, find some coaches …
Toward the end of the series finale of Boardwalk Empire, Nucky Thompson, played so well be the actor Steve Buscemi for these past few years, turns to a young man in his employ and makes a reference about sweeping the sand off the front porch. Thompson knows from his work as a youth in the …
This past Sunday, three of the most read stories in the New York Times involved the growing and ever-changing world of gaming and gambling. From competitive, professional e-gaming to lotteries now being devised to teach people about healthy savings to the continued troubles two of the biggest online games companies, Rovio and Zynga, are having, …
There are wide ranging numbers attributed to the number of dollars spent and people who play fantasy sports in the United States, but rest assured it is in the millions. Football is king, baseball second and then it goes down from there. The major media companies have found a jackpot in monetizing and aggregating fantasy …
There is a battle going on in the State of New Jersey that, if played out in favor of the state, will open up and endless trough of marketing and spending dollars for professional sports going forward, one that could help keep costs down for tickets, ease burden on stadium improvements and in many ways …
Thursday night should have been a grand night at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The New Jersey Devils, fresh off their run to the finals, would have been ready to get started with their 2012-13 season with some new faces and the veteran leadership of Marty Brodeur between the pipes as an Eastern …
Someday sports fans and team owners may have New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to thank for games that are more engaging and for a revenue source that does not yet exist in the United States. Christie this past week continued his strong push to challenge the Federal Law that does not allow sports betting anywhere …
Lost on the national sports scene Tuesday night, amidst the rising scandal at Penn State and the NBA lockout non-news, was the vote by Garden Staters to legalize sports betting in the State if the Federal Ban on such activities can be overturned. Right now Nevada and its casinos remain king of legal sports books, …
