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It always seems to happen more around this time of year for various reasons…fiscal calendars, graduations, changes in leadership and so on…but the spigot on people reaching out to find out what’s next in their careers seems to get much bigger. One theme that always seems to come up is the question of “why people …
Team Bull Riding a thing? The skeptical sports world may have looked quizzically on the idea as a gimmicky ploy. Go ahead and prove the concept PBR. So… The PBR Teams league finished its third season in Las Vegas last weekend with an instant playoff classic on the CBS Game of the Week. The fifth-seeded …
Sports is never very forgiving on the field, we like our wins to be decisive. However can a new concept tied to forgiving loans use sports as a potential pathway to success? ForgiveCo is a new public benefit corporation that aims to help brands do good by forgiving the debt of necessity for individuals in …
One of the top priorities for any sports property is finding ways to lure the fans of tomorrow. Fishermen go where the fish are. And for sports marketers fishing for kids? Well, that audience is glued to their phones…peering at screens increasingly showing content from TikTok and Snapchat. Last week, UFC announced a multiyear partnership …
“Open Big.” PBR’s season-launch strategy is to bust from the gate like a raging bull. Considering parent company Endeavor’s deep roots in Hollywood, that objective makes sense. Like blockbuster films, sports is a momentum game. It’s hard to move forward if you begin by going backwards. For the past 13 years, PBR has launched a …
Most cowboys, stock contractors and fans of Professional Bull Riders (PBR) gathering in Las Vegas for the sport’s 25th World Finals beginning tonight had never heard the name Barry Frank. They did this week, however, when the television legend received one of the sport’s most prestigious honors, the Jim Shoulders Lifetime Achievement Award, at the …
Sometimes working for an underachieving team, or someone in a smaller market, or a niche property gives you the freedom to push the edge that more mature and sometimes staid properties may not have the ability to do. And so again go our friends at the PBR, who this week unleashed a fun and disruptive …
The following originally appeared on Portada) He is an Olympic wrestling champion, the only Latino athlete to take home gold for the United States in the Beijing Olympics in any sport. The son of undocumented immigrants who worked hard to give him a better life, Henry Cejudo’s (@HenryCejudo) narrative got all that much better last Saturday …
It’s a mixed February sports weekend, between NBA All-Star, The Olympics, pitchers and catcher reporting and Daytona getting NASCAR going, but the PBR, which I got to witness in January, is still finding ways to cut through the clutter with its own narrative in its 25th anniversary season. The Professional Bull Riders began 25 years …
The “Salute To Service” initiative the NFL will stage this week, along with all the efforts that MLB put on in and around the World Series and the PBR NASCAR and others have done is beyond praise for the men and women who not only do so much to keep us safe, but who are …
