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As we head toward pitchers and catchers reporting in less than a month, we are seeing the seeds of baseball pop up in the most remote locations, where spring seems lightyears away. In Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee…talk of baseball, and ticket selling and autographs are all on the minds of the die hard and the casual …
It may seem cold in most places, and most thoughts for sports consumers may be on the upcoming NFL Championship Games, but baseball’s Hot Stove, from the Hall of Fame announcements to team caravans to the upcoming Baseball Writers Dinner, keeps talk about the diamond moving along. Because baseball is such a varied property and …
One of the most underappreciated qualities in an attention starved, shout over everyone to get noticed world is the ability to listen, digest what you hear and learn from those around you. With so much white noise out there, channeling the good from the useless or mundane can be difficult, bit learning to be a …
For this week’s “Teaching Thursdays” we revisit our q and a with Dr. Josg Solonon, Principal of the Business of Sports (BOSS) School in New York… The question of how to motivate young people to be more engaged in education in the United States has been raised for decades. Standardized tests, core curriculum, better use …
Much has been hyped and speculated about what role the opening of Cuba will have in American, and global business in the coming months and years. While most experts see this as a gradual turn, not something that can happen just overnight, with many cultural, financial and political mountains to climb still, one of the …
For this edition of “Teaching Thursdays” we ask some of our colleagues at Columbia what they will be keeping their eye on for 2017. The Masters in Sports Management Program at Columbia, now just over 10 years old, is the only program in the Ivy League and is recognized as the number two program globally …
On Wednesday the sports world learned that former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca passed away at the age of 90. While Branca was known more for his infamous pitch to the New York Giants Bobby Thomson that game NY the National League pennant in 1951 , the Mount Vernon, New York native should really be …
We have all seen the good and the bad that the recent elections have brought to light in the area of social media influence impacting a sometimes quick to judge consumer base. President Barack Obama, who is one of the first leaders in any field to have harnessed the power of the digital and social …
The morning news source for millennials for some time now has been The Skimm. Quick, cheeky, fast hitting soundbites with links to the four or five news topics of the day, delivered five days a week in a very brief, no-nonsense email designed to set those of a certain age out the door with all …
We have often said that coaches are an underused marketing asset many teams, despite the fact that they are highly visible, more consistent and because of their prominent media roles, even more well-spoken or thoughtful than the younger men and women they coach. They also have a longer and more consistent shelf life than players, …