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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
When you get to spend some time speaking…and as he pointed out…listening to a future Hall of Fame manager in Joe Maddon your expectations are probably a little high. In this case, the learnings, and the expectations, exceeded even our grasp. You can hear the whole 40-minute conversation as part of the latest edition of …
This past Thursday my co-host of the CUSP Show (The Columbia University Sports Podcast) Tom Richardson got to spend a good 45 minutes talking about everything but actually baseball with Los Angeles Angels Manager Joe Maddon. The podcast will be out next week and touched on well…podcasting (he has launched and then was stopped after …
Growing up my first real adult, or semi-adult, “bar home” was Runyons on 52nd street just off of Second Avenue. At Fordham we were lucky enough to be the last class where the drinking age was 18, and somehow we found our way over the years into the storied saloon to listen to everyone from …
I have been to hundreds of conferences and heard the biggest and best of speakers try to lead and inspire. Still it surprises me that the one topic we need to hear more about, and one that the biggest minds and those with the biggest visions have, is the ability to rebound from loss. Anyone …
While it is great the sports, especially team sports, is making the slow turn back to relevance in the Pandemic stricken world, it is still important to note and realize that the world that emerges in sports business on the other side of this for some time will be different. “We are going to be …
In almost any other year, next week would be virtually the end of the “sports business conference” season. Leaders Week, the Sports PR Summit and then the Sports Business Awards would bring to an end an almost non stop run of events each week that usually included stops in Miami, Boston, New York, LA, sometimes …
We recently wrote about some of the opportunities that will arise out of this challenging time, from new lines of sales to reimagined jobs, but it was a piece on ESPN.com, along with several other social posts to remind us of things we have had a chance to revisit, to (figuratively) embrace, and to help …
As we look ahead to what the world, especially the business of sports, is going to look like, it is interesting to talk, or Zoom, with so many colleagues and listen to what opportunity lies ahead that did not exist even on March 12. One is a new position that has arisen for job seekers, …
A short note to take note of on a Sunday. We get lots of newsletters and digests daily from virtually every industry. We also do our own collection as a newsletter of topics on a wide number of reads every Sunday, so the world doesn’t really need any more newsletters right now. Now notes columns, …
I decided to reach out to a wide swath of communications folks over the weekend and asked them questions on best practices, lessons learned and challenges. Will post them as they come this week…starting off with three wise men… Kirk Reynolds, Ray Ridder of the Warriors and Josh Rawitch of the Diamondbacks. Interested form having …