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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 …
The week started with such profound and beautiful tributes to Anthony Causi, a talented and magnanimous person, let alone photographer, who I knew casually but not as well as many others in our New York sports community, whose life was captured by Mike Vaccaro in one of so many tributes this week. On Friday we …
We are all resigned to when we do come out of the current situation, the business of sports will not be what it was before March 12 for some time. We have seen the images that foreshadow what we will see in North America being played on the diamonds of South Korea and Taiwan, and …
It’s the weekend and its raining. Where the normally would have been March Madness, Little League, lacrosse, MLS, MLB even this year the first season of XFL, there are replays, simulations and esports. So as the pause continues with COVID-19, where can we find a repository of all that is being shown, best practices learned …
Every day I talk to people a little younger in various places: Atlanta, Minneapolis, Manhattan. And although none are as bold and clueless as the knuckleheads on the beach in Florida last week for spring break, many say the same thing; this Coronavirus thing is a little overblown, the numbers are being overplayed and even …
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 …
There was a time when we were starting to wind down the International Fight League 12 years ago that the late Jay Larkin, who was heading the business at the time, suggested we do fights in a warehouse with all the lights and pageantry and maybe a few fans in a few rows. After all, …
As March Madness gets going, kudos again to one of the most unique, niche sponsorships in sports: Werner Ladders. The NCAA still has its official net cutting scissors (Fiskars) and traction wipes (Slipp-Nott), but Werner remains one of the few brands that seems to always find its way to the camera, and the most important …
Storytelling takes on all forms, but none is better than in print still. The ability to express written word in any form is becoming a lost art, so it was nice to see one of our Columbia SPS alumni, Tanner Simkins, trying his creating best with a self published kids book this winter. Nico The …
There we were Saturday in a prime theater spot just west of Broadway as the NBA fourth league began the run for it ’s third season; the NBA 2K League Draft. With the announcement of the first pick by Commissioner Brendan Donahue (and the subsequent annual hijacking of the name by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski five …