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There is a story I thought was a bit of an urban sports legend. Way back when Title IX came into being, the NCAA realized that each men’s sport had to have a companion women’s sport…baseball to softball etc. However football had no women’s football so volleyball was designated against it for any number of …
I always learn something when I talk to my friend Greg Moore. The former Commissioner of the SIAC, a baller from New Jersey, an attorney, an entrepreneur, a big thinker, Greg is always looking at the blue ocean and how the pieces fit together. Over a year ago he pointed to a spot that the …
Sports is a cyclical business. Seasons come and go and for those at the team level sometimes years can pass without breaking a cycle of repetition. It is a safe way to move a career along, and for those who care to innovate and change things up, the results can be very rewarding. For those …
We have written several times on storytelling and its continued value in all forms; knowing who you are, what you do and being able to communicate that fact simply and succinctly in a world of white noise is more valuable today than ever before. Lots of screaming going on, but when you listen, what are …
A few weeks ago, following the layoffs at the NBA and ESPN, I wrote this piece on the underappreciated value of institutional knowledge and it seemed to have resonated with a great deal of people. Yesterday while visiting our local library…talk about a place undervalued in the institutional knowledge space…I came across the checkout slip …
There is so much focus on NIL and what the return will or will not be outside of some social posts and quick cash of various levels that you sometimes forget about the long term sustainable career programs some brands have built out around college athletes of every shape and size. I was reminded of …
There was a time a few years ago when the Big 12 held a one-off basketball media day in New York City. The league wasn’t playing their postseason tournament there for men’s basketball, like the ACC and Big Ten were doing, nor did they add any schools who were in the area. They used it …
One of the great honors I have had in my career is learning from those on the way up. Maybe it is labeled “teaching” since I have been in the front of the class in programs like Columbia, Fordham, and as a guest at schools like George Washington, Montclair State, Drexel. American, NYU and elsewhere, …
A guest column from our colleague Dr. Lindsay Krasnoff… How we tell the story matters. Images and words have equal weight, even if they communicate in different ways, and can often have impact beyond our original intent. Moreover, the narrative framework and context is vital. For communicators working within a global sports industry, that means …
It is a really crowded time of year in our business, what with MLS and NWSL a month into their seasons, The Stanley Cup and NBA Playoffs in high gear, MLB coming into the end of month one, the NFL Draft and all its prep, heck even the USFL and the XFL are head to …