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I enjoy learning from the deeper dive sports shows we get to see on platforms like Netflix and HBO. Having always been a fan of “Hard Knocks” I was interested to see what this season would bring us, chronicling the defending champion Seattle Seahawks, while also watching Netflix’s new season of “Quarterback.” Both have delivered. …
There is nothing like Spring Training in baseball. Fans flock to two central locales, Florida and Arizona, to escape the winter blues, look ahead to warmer weather and watch baseball games that don’t count in the standings. If you time things right, you can see a dozen teams in just a few days, all part of …
Just back from our time in Utah and Idaho gave me a bit of time to go back and listen to some of our more recent pods, three of which are very timely (especially since one is about a book coming out this week). Thanks to our summer intern Wynne Kenna for doing some of …
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 …
We get a look at Fanatics Fest from the Perspective from our summer intern Gen Z Intern – Harrison Rosner Fanatics Fest was one of the most hyped up events of the summer. In the heat of the World Cup Final, NBA Free Agency, the dog days of July baseball, and many other things, the …
It felt like Thanksgiving in Brooklyn. Other than the food and the company and stories of a part of my father’s family I had known of but never met on the Aeolian Island of Lipari, there was a TV…and football. Not the kind we watched on Turkey Day, but the global kind which I also …
Very few of us get a seat at the table of history, and few in our industry have been at the table…a diverse set of them of many shapes and sizes…than Dr. Harvey Schiller. When talking about someone who was in the room, at the table and in the meetings at the cusp of some …
On Christmas Eve, 2007, Sports Illustrated…which was quite a big deal then… ran a back of the book story by Scott Price, who had the chance to play then-candidate Barack Obama in a game of basketball. The story showed casual sports fans, who many times are also politics averse, a side of the candidate that they did not …
Forget the fact that Saturday is the Kentucky Derby, and the NBA and Stanley Cup playoffs are moving along. What’s more important for crossover in sports business? It is Free Comic Book day, followed Monday by Star Wars Day . Star Wars promotions in sports have become a staple in and around the 4th of May…but Free …
