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As our friends at the PBR reach a championship weekend, a good reminder to look at how things have evolved this winter and spring. “This is the greatest weekend in Western sports.” So declared Stephen Jones, Chief Operating Officer of the Dallas Cowboys, at the opening press conference to PBR’s championship weekend (May 17-18) to …
Before heading off this weekend I got to unpack…literally…from all the learnings at Super Bowl in New Orleans. We did 22 podcasts, helped facilitate close to 70 interviews, staged and helped coordinate a press event talking about the future of engagement with EA Sports, the NFL, NBC, the Rams and Genius Sports (nice summary here) …
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 …
A while ago an MSG executive named Bill Jemas wanted to test a theory he had. If you priced the second row at a Knicks game more than the first, what would people buy first? The answer when it was tested was clear…people gravitated to the highest price with the idea that the best cost …
Baseball gets dinged a lot…too slow, too quaint, caters to an older generation etc. etc. The truth is baseball is doing just fine, and while there are always going to be issues in a game without a clock that tells you when things end, the human drama of the sport is why millions turn out. …
The Football Game That Changed America: How the NFL Created a National Holiday We enter the final weekend of 2024 without the NFL, which kicks off next Thursday. During this last lull, while everyone is working on their fantasy teams, it’s good to look at the hope ahead, but also the road to how the …
The most proficient storytellers in sports tend to do their best work when the stakes are highest and the lights shining the brightest. From time to time, George Pyne, former COO of NASCAR who now runs Bruin Capital, still talks about a Friday in February more than 15 years ago when the front page of …
This past weekend we had a strange sense of “Déjà vu” as LIV Golf announced their broadcast deal with the CW. On the one hand was a network with no sports to speak of saying the right things about finding a way into the valuable area of live programming. On the other hand you have …
I honestly have never seen a broadcast ad for Waffle House. Now I have counted the number of Waffle Houses between New Jersey and Athens, Georgia (35), have seen the Christmas ornament, and believe there is a Lego set in the works, but traditional ads? Waffle House sells itself. However there they were this week, …
So there was, J.T. Realmuto, one of the key pieces of a Philadelphia Phillies fall to remember, crashing a Home Run (a conventional one, not the unconventional inside the park version earlier in the playoffs) to help his team cap a comeback victory on Saturday night at Citizens Bank Park, putting them on the verge …
