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To me and many others, Radio Row at Super Bowl is what it will always be called. Like the name change at the former Tappan Zee Bridge…now the Mario Cuomo…or the switch of a stadium name…old habits are hard to break. But alas, as USAA has done with the second biggest live media gathering each …
There is a story I heard this year during the US Open. A media colleague of mine looked at the expanses of empty seats in the massive Bud Collins Media Center and harkened back to when it was opened way back at the end of the last century…aka before 2OOO…and sighed. ‘This was state of …
This week our podcast is with Sarah Unger and Linda Ong, the cofounders of the firm Cultique, which has made an amazing business out of helping brands understand and activate in and around cultural relevance on every level. One of the things that came up was the idea of the “Permanent Emergent.” Those are the …
Pickleball is a great activity growing in popularity as a consumer product, especially for a demo of 50 and older. Padel is similar in many ways but with maybe a little more athleticism and different rules. Squash is now picking up steam after an investment by billionaire Mark Walter. Tennis…is tennis; a great sport for …
Everyone it seemed had a Pele’ story. Mine was quite random, and since it was just before great cell cameras I don’t have a picture of it, but I have a great mental image, and it’s a story I tell all the time. It was early December of 2007, and the New Jersey Ironmen, playing …
A great year for storytelling. We wanted to list out some of our best reads…books we actually read, form the past year. Looking forward to early 2022 which will bring us Mike Sielski’s Kobe book, Ian O’Connor’s book on Coach K and many more, wayyy outside of sports as well. And as you will see, …
For most of its recent history World TeamTennis was a fun and innovative idea caught with a home too small. The tennis schedule is simply too packed to find ways to give it it’s proper due. Other than places like Washington, where serial entrepreneur Mark Ein has built the Kastles into a year-round staple of …
It remains the best value in sports, and is still one of larger secrets, even in the shadow of New York. It is the US Open qualifying tournament, the week-long celebration of tennis and sneak peek at those both in the main draw (and on site practicing each day) and those players battling point by …
This past week the world lost one of its great storytellers in Frank Deford. I had come to know Frank several times over the years, most notably when he, I, Bud Collins and a few others sat in the lunchroom at Wimbledon when both were there for HBO, and we listened to them talk about …
Say what you want about the Olympics, The Super Bowl, even NASCAR, perhaps the largest multi-day annual experiential sports branding event kicks off Monday when the US Open starts play at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. From champagne bars to celebrities playing in sponsored events with fans to social media …
