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When UFC was sold to WME | IMG, Dana White, along with his partners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, drove away in the proverbial Brink’s truck. White’s take from the sale was reported to be $340 million. The extraordinary growth in valuation of a business once banned across most of the U.S. is the stuff of …
As we move into Championship Week and fully into March Madness, the sense of underdog success permeates the air. It is totally unlike the big-time sports business feel of college football, which generates millions for select schools competing at the highest levels, but has little of the mystery and mystique of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. The …
One of the great risks in Mixed Martial Arts fighting is that fact that because there are so many disciplines, even the best of fighters can get caught against a specialist and lose in surprising seconds. Often times with the loss comes a huge amount of human capital that has been built into the building …
This month, the entertainment, sports and fashion giant WME | IMG added another acronym to its alphabet soup of a name: UFC. (Read the story by Ben Fowlkes in USA Today for greater detail.) While the $4-billion dollar deal has raised a few eyebrows for its steep company valuation, most analysts agree the price is …
The following summary was compiled by Columbia student Kelly Carroll, timely given the end of Copa America and the growth of soccer into what promises to be another landmark summer for the sport in the United States… This post is another in a series from the Columbia University Sports Podcast, a 360-degree view of …
The college space in the sports marketplace remains one of the hottest, especially with the mega-ratings and brand engagement that the elite conferences bring. Couple that with March Madness, and smart marketing in the Mid-Major space, and college is at or near the top of many “like to haves” for brands. However what about below …
At some point the dust will settle, Kris Jenkins, Jay Wright and the Villanova Wildcats will do their much-deserved victory tour, TV spots and get their keys to the city and then the sports world will move on to the next great moment. While the shot and the effort Villanova put forth to win their …
Say what you want about the “growth” of Mixed Martial Arts, the real brand in the sport, the experiential one, is the UFC. Bellator has done well taking the playbook that the UFC and Spike TV co-created and running with it, but the only true global business that has been successful in the sport has …
It is not an easy thing, building brand affinity for a soccer club, or any team or league, that plays games thousands of miles away and whose stars rarely show up in market. Broadcast media, and the digital and social world have made it a bit easier to connect and follow, but with all the …
In a world where we are constantly besieged by information, how can you keep a secret, especially a serious one from a select person or group when literally the whole world knows? That situation has come up not once, but twice, in recent weeks involving elite athletes and some tragic news going on around them, …