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Maybe one of the more selfless acts in sport is the assist. Recognized in basketball and hockey and soccer, the assist is the perhaps the ultimate team accomplishment, forgoing the glory of the goal or the point so that another can succeed. Ever valuable, often overlooked. So it is the value of the assist that …
What price, big data? That’s becoming more and more of a question as the need for real time in depth statistics for sports around the world become more valuable to the end user, be they brands looking to add value to consumer offerings, broadcasters trying to get an edge in providing added value to viewers, …
We are hiring! That was the common thread that seemed to continue to pop out during one of the best days on the sports business calendar, the annual Ivy Sports Symposium. From the eclectic panel assembled to discuss sports in Brazil, to Yahoo’s Eric Winter and Talent League’s Tom Richardson to Gillette’s Greg Via the …
For people of a certain age, seeing Marlboro or Virginia Slims or Winston associated with the biggest brands in American sport was commonplace. Big tobacco fueled bug sponsorships, especially when the Federal Government began curtailing cigarettes from their first large-scale media investment…television…in the late 1960’s. Along with smokes, spirits also fueled the athletic coffers, turning …
One of the best conferences all year is the Covington & Burling Sports Media and Technology Conference that The Sports Business Journal puts on every November. The SMT always seems to find more forward-thinking, more fresh thought, and more unique topics than most large scale events the rest of the year, and Wednesday’s full day …
Peter Casey is a smart, young hustler who seems to find himself ahead of the curve, sometimes too far ahead, when thinking about the intersection of digital and sport. After working at Columbia on the University’s social strategy, he saw an opportunity to effectively use twitter in its early stages to help Universities tell real-time …
If you have a tablet around an NBA team, it better be a Samsung. TV’s, Galaxies, flat screen monitors, get out of the way Apple and Microsoft, one of the world’s biggest investors in sports marketing just got deeper in the pool last week. Samsung Electronics will be wall to wall on NBA broadcasts and …
You see the billboards everywhere from the Upper West Side to Secaucus, the hoops battle for Gotham…the Nets brand against the Knicks. One takes over subway cars with sleek images of its multi-million dollar renovation, the other takes out newspaper ads challenging companies to become their latest corporate partners. One lauds cheerleaders and dancers on …
Not too long ago if you went up to an NBA media member, or even most knowledgeable fans, and said your lineup of writers included veterans like Ric Bucher, Ethan Skolnick, Kevin Ding, and Howard Beck, one would guess maybe USA Today, a revamped ESPN, maybe even Beck’s former home at The New York Times. …
Analytics continues to become more pervasive in sport, whether it is through improved wireless service in arena being able to adequately service thousands of handheld devices equally to improve a fan experience, crowdsourcing ability which enables teams to know the trends and tendencies instantaneously of who is sitting in a certain section, video game insertion …
