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Last year we wrote about the great growth of OYO Sports, filling a need and then thriving on the unique-LEGO-like collectable market for sports. The company secured the licenses for a majority of the leagues to create player by player images with the popular building blocks and use the images through very creative video to …
It’s not the most compelling TV for those looking for fast action, and some media folks have criticized it for being too over the top with hype, but as a platform it is hard to argue that the NFL Draft as it stands today does not deliver for brand partners, fans, buzz and media content. …
It remains one of the biggest crapshoots in all of sport, the Major League Baseball Player Draft. Taking place over three days and including no international players, the Draft has always been somewhat of an afterthought for the casual baseball fan amidst all the goings-on in the MLB season. Like the NHL, the players selected …
Time for a little best practices roundup from the past few days…from Arizona to New Jersey… Stunts Gone Wrong Still Pay Off: There is the adage that any publicity is good publicity, so the Arizona Sundogs of the Central Hockey League should take note. The minor league team sent its captain and three members of …
On Thursday of NFL Draft week, NFL Players Association Executive Director deMaurice Smith addressed a group of media at Google headquarters in New York, and a few thousand other interested parties via a live stream, on the challenges of the organization. Behind him on a series of screens weren’t images of his players or even …
This past Thursday may have been one of the busiest sports days of the year in New York. The Mets hosted the Miami Marlins and their ex-star Jose Reyes, the Rangers and Devils played Game 7’s against the Ottawa Senators and Florida Panthers, respectively, the Knicks were closing out the regular season and looking to …
New York’s Times Square has always been known as “The Crossroads of the World.” Millions have gathered there to celebrate the end of wars, New Year’s Eve, election results etc etc…the events that mark the passage of time. Even at its seediest in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Time Square was always a place known the …
