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Did you know where the term “Touchpoints” came from? Bet you didn’t know it came from fencing. It was just one of the great reminders, and insights we picked up this week as I fulfilled another “thing” I had on my list to do when I turned 60 a few years ago…take a fencing lesson …
As we head into Labor Day weekend and college athletics really kicks in, we offer up our three most recent podcasts with different views, opinions and perspectives on where we are, where we have been, and maybe where college at athletics is going. As always you can catch all our pods by subscribing here as …
With week zero now here largely for college football, it is another sport that if I were a Mid-Major school I would be paying more attention and committing more dollars to, along with Flag Football. For those who haven’t noticed, and its less who haven’t than ever, women’s volleyball is more than just a “thing” …
Hard to believe that SBJ’s Thought Leaders retreat was over a week ago already, but some of the themes my friend and colleague Abe Madkour pointed out in his weekly column from the event continue to expand and be amplified in meetings, conversations and observations in the week and a half since the event in …
Hard to believe that SBJ’s Thought Leaders retreat was over a week ago already, but some of the themes my friend and colleague Abe Madkour pointed out in his weekly column from the event continue to expand and be amplified in meetings, conversations and observations in the week and a half since the event in …
It has been the joyful summer of drinking from the sports business firehouse, and the real fun of this all is very little was predictable. The Knicks run, the World Cup (I still have my notes to formulate), The MLB and WNBA All-Star Games have all given us pause to smile and appreciate above the …
On Friday, Sports Business Journal ran the piece below which I cut and pasted for clarity. I found many of the answers a little surprising…only one of the group really showed a path forward…and it seems to point to either a lack of understanding internally, a sign of the changing climate of ownership, and more …
Monday night there he was, a career athlete on the fringe of sports sitting front and center on a stage in Manhattan talking to an audience that included the CEO of Lenovo amongst other dignitaries and business leaders…a soccer player whose relevance to most of the world just 60 days ago was negligible, but who …
They are the sports that have been viewed by a colleague as the “permanent emergent” in America; those that we keep hearing are buzzworthy, played by kids and destined to overtake baseball, even NASCAR in the eyes of the public and in the pockets of consumers. Lacrosse, soccer always end up on that just around …
“If we do it for you we have to do it for everyone.” I remember getting that justification from a senior team official a few years ago when we had some Olympic wrestlers in town and asked to bring them out to a game. The organization had always been very supportive of Olympians, so it …
