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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Monday night there he was, a career athlete on the fringe of sports sitting front and center on a stage in Manhattan talking to an audience that included the CEO of Lenovo amongst other dignitaries and business leaders…a soccer player whose relevance to most of the world just 60 days ago was negligible, but who …
Joe Favorito I have somewhere packed away a frosted glass with The University of Louisville logo on it and their schedule from the 1985-86 season. On that glass it shows that Iona College played at the #15 Cardinals on December 10 (Louisville won the game 88-75). That’s it. Nothing of significance for anyone else but …
‘He’s going to call you at home.” Those words in mid March of 1996 from the late “Superstat,” the legendary Harvey Pollack came true, because the next night at our New Jersey townhouse while I was feeding our newborn daughter Christine, the phone (in the time before cell phones) did ring, and on the other …
I went to an early mass at our parish, St. John the Baptist in Hillsdale, NJ, and I am always interested and intrigued to what our pastor, Monsignor Peter Smutelovic, has in store for his homily. This week he talked a great deal about the faith that athletes exhibit, particularly the infectious enthisiasm Indana quarterback Fernando …
Halloween has different meanings for many people, and they are often tied to memories of Trick or Treat or costumes, especially from childhood. One of mine is actually about a different kind of surprise…in 2001 Halloween marked Michael Jordan’s return to the NBA with the Washington Wizards and began my seven year journey as head …
This happens from time to time in cyclical worlds, be they sports, entertainment or even education. You get to a point of rinse and repeat, hopefully taking the best practices of years past and reframing so that the core messages or best practices stay consistent and true, while the anecdotes, even the best ones, get …
Sunday morning, I went to an early mass at our parish, St. John the Baptist in Hillsdale, NJ, and I am always interested and intrigued to what our pastor, Monsignor Peter Smutelovic, has in store for his homily. This week he talked a great deal about the faith that the two College Football championship quarterbacks, …
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 …
This happens from time to time in cyclical worlds, be they sports, entertainment or even education. You get to a point of rinse and repeat, hopefully taking the best practices of years past and reframing so that the core messages or best practices stay consistent and true, while the anecdotes, even the best ones, get …
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 …
