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As we head into Thanksgiving week, some quick hits form the week behind while we still are missing our time in Italy. If you missed the recap, you can still find it here. Paul-Tyson Did What it was supposed to do: So much hand wringing over what the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight was or wasn’t. …
We have talked about the idea of “permanent emergent” before. Those brands, genres, even sports, that always seem to be on the cusp of, but not yet ready to, break through. Buzzworthy always, substance filled, not yet. CBD in sports is one of those topics. Like sports gambling crypto, gaming, hard liquor and others, branding …
Some thoughts from a busy week to start a new week. Remembering a Summer Tour. In the summer of 1988, I was working at SportsChannel, which for those who may not know, was a pioneer in so many ways beyond just showing local teams. Under the SportsChannel America banner, the platform brought the first national …
“I’m not in this for the art … I want to make money.” I thought of this quote from Triller’s Ryan Kavanaugh this weekend (Note: I have no stake in the Triller Fight Club strategy, but did help out with their first event of the year at Mercedes Benz Stadium) which was in a story …
If you have spent any time around a locker room in New York in the past 40 years you knew who Robert Elkin was. Robert was a Zelig-like character, covering everything from boxing, where he once had a very unintentional and almost comical exchange with Mike Tyson during the boxer’s heyday, to high school track …
Maybe its because there is such great longform writing being done online this year, but it seemed like the book business was more about facts and figures this year than it was about good storytelling. There were some great book reads this year we came across, and these were from the books we read, not …
