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Giving a sampling of content: Interesting the key sports biz players who have had hard paywalls like Sports Business Journal who are now putting select content outside those walls. Much like The Athletic now allowing free shares, the need for more eyes than those with $$ is inevitable for most. Now they don’t giveaway all …
On Christmas Eve, 2007, Sports Illustrated…which was quite a big deal then… ran a back of the book story by Scott Price, who had the chance to play then-candidate Barack Obama in a game of basketball. The story showed casual sports fans, who many times are also politics averse, a side of the candidate that they did not …
They both returned to the playoffs…one NHL and one NBA…on the same night both with their own organic spin to presentation. The San Antonio Spurs pulled off the well orchestrated Fiesta Night, a rainbow of coordinated color for Victor Wembanyama’s first playoff home game, while the Buffalo Sabres drought ending win over the Boston Bruins …
‘He’s going to call you at home.” Those words in mid March of 1996 from the late “Superstat,” the legendary Harvey Pollack came true, because the next night at our New Jersey townhouse while I was feeding our newborn daughter Christine, the phone (in the time before cell phones) did ring, and on the other …
This time of year as we move quickly closer to March Madness I like to look around the celebrations on TV or in person and notice those young people around the bench getting to experience the thrill of victory or the agony of defat for the first time. While the larger schools, and usually the …
In an attention starved, get it done yesterday world it’s sometimes nice to find consistency. Your friends you have known, the right slice of pizza or cup of coffee, a musical artist who knows just the right notes to play, Opening Day in Baseball etc. etc. Things can adjust, but the core thoughts…the core sounds, …
I have always felt that the wandering the halls and listening to topics away from the main stages at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference unveils an interesting look ahead to both the fun and the unusual. It’s where young people are talking, smaller conversations take place, and the fun and sometimes unusual reside. …
Last week within 24 hours I got to visit two venues in greater Los Angeles decades…actually over a century…apart in construction but with a common storytelling theme; to capture and excite those who entered their walls regardless of the result on the court or the field. That attention to detail now recaptured at The Rose …
The Northeast may be covered in snow and the end of February looks a bit bleak, so here’s to a few positive best practices from the past week. The Pope Speaks: Mark Pope has not had the easiest of runs leading the University of Kentucky men’s basketball program. Having known Mark from his playing days …
Sarah McLachlan and Brandy, John Tesh and Barack Obama, Ludacris, Shaboozey, and Two Friends, cause marketing events, Hall of Fame selection announcements, a new media partner in NBC (which provided a Super Bowl promo a week in advance as part of the deal), camera angles and content galore, and all the tech innovations that a …
