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It’s been a week since we were roaming the halls of The Hynes Convention Center, where we again came away with more from the MIT Sloan Sports Business Conference than what we gave. Some key takeaways from the rooms and the halls not just from the weekend, but for what to watch going forward. You …
We love talking entrepreneurship and disruption on our podcasts and here are three recent ones that fit the bill. Have you ever looked at Super 70’s Sports on X? Learn all about how it came to be and what’s next. How is Madden changing the NFL teams engage? We have that. Then a slightly longer …
As we start August there are Olympic sized best practices in and out of Paris that we wanted to highlight four. Bucks Stop Obesity Here. The Milwaukee Bucks, always looking for a way to cut through the clutter with unique partnership activations, even in the offseason, found one with a long runway leading to success …
A lot of catching up, moving about, listening and learning at the end of this past week, roaming from the Fordham Athletics Hall of Fame dinner on Thursday to our sold out Columbia Sports Symposium on Friday. Some quick highlights and best of learnings along the way. 500 billion That was one of the little …
“This is the business we have chosen.” I was thinking about that line from The Godfather from Hyman Roth (The legendary actor Lee Strasburg) as all the PGA Tour LIV Golf news played out, and continues to play out over the coming days, weeks and months. It is the latest, and not the last, time …
The most proficient storytellers in sports tend to do their best work when the stakes are highest and the lights shining the brightest. From time to time, George Pyne, former COO of NASCAR who now runs Bruin Capital, still talks about a Friday in February more than 15 years ago when the front page of …
It was with great sadness that I read Maureen Dowd’s column in the New York Times this weekend on the steady and slow death of the newsroom…the physical newsroom…as a place of collaboration, inspiration, and career growth. We all know the reality of the world we are in today…technology has made remote working easier and …
This past weekend we had a strange sense of “Déjà vu” as LIV Golf announced their broadcast deal with the CW. On the one hand was a network with no sports to speak of saying the right things about finding a way into the valuable area of live programming. On the other hand you have …
The last few weeks we have continued to see the axe fall as teams and leagues and media properties struggle to figure out how to bridge the next few months as we try to return to some sense of business normalcy in mid 2021. No matter where you work today, especially if you hit a …
Like so many others I awoke this morning to flick through social media channels for what came through the transom overnight, and there was a tweet from our friend Josh Rawitch at the Baseball Hall of Fame that Vin Scully had passed away. It hit me with such sadness on this beautiful August morning, but …
