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Did anyone lose the NBA vs. NFL numbers scramble on Christmas Day? Unless you count the people who do not have the financial wherewithal to subscribe to Neflix (remember that all the NBA games were not on what used to be known as a “cable” network…ESPN…they were on a good old fashioned broadcast channel, ABC) …
There was a time now pretty long ago when athletes…well almost everyone… had to seek out others to tell their story or show off their expressionism. When fashion came up around the games we love, Walt Frazier, Chris Evert, Muhmmad Ali, even Bill Walton in a different way, were the exceptions to the nod to …
The best observations are literally sitting there right in front of you, but you get too caught up in all the what if’s to realize them. I was catching up with some UK colleagues this past week in New York, and we were talking about MLB’s decision to continue to expand its footprint into the …
Last year maybe we have had enough of fake news, because April Fools Day, at least on the sports side, was certainly toned down compared to recent years. This year though some athletes…Tom Brady again…a little LeBron James, The Buffalo Bills with alternate uniforms, and the most viral was now retired womens soccer star Carli Lloyd …
Quite the week of listening and learning on screen, and yes, in person (twice) this past week. Thursday night in New York we had a chance to be up close (literally front table) to listen to a POV and best practices from several key dealmakers we don’t often here speak so candidly, including Redbird’s Gerry …
The issue and opportunity for Name Image and Likeness is still in the fits and starts stage, with a rush for Buzz and sizzle but not a whole lot of execution unless you are in the social space, just yet. However one of the areas that NIL can clear up is for student-athletes who have …
Anyone remember POG’s? They were, for a very short time, the early 90’s version of hot collectable. Cardboard tokens that stood for “Passion fruit, Orange and Guava” they popped up everywhere, including in sports, as the next must have, in the line of Beanie Babies Pokémon cards and the like. They were literally at one …
We are in a time where words are being drummed out by action. Beautiful phrases and empty promises all things related to cause marketing and social responsibility are getting outed with regularity as WHAT you do and HOW you do it rightfully becomes more important than WHAT you say. A great example surfaced in the …
We have seen so much activity from teams and leagues and athletes regarding getting out the vote for the coming election, and the messages continue to grow as we head toward November. On October 1, the Brooklyn Nets even took to the streets, literally, with a double decker bus encouraging people to both register for …
From every challenge comes opportunity, and that’s the way we need to view the new normal for now around Coronavirus. While people search for things to fill their time when they would have been watching and attending sporting events, and channel surfing consists of old dog shows, poker shows and game replays, and lots of …
