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The powers that be had to find dates and locations for the upcoming Presidential debates, ones that will draw the curious and the dedicated to see what to octogenarian candidates will fire back and forth across the stage. The date for the first one? June 27. The conflict that could draw eyeball away? The recently …
Forget the fact that Saturday is the Kentucky Derby, Formula 1 in Miami, 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, and Star Wars Day . Star Wars promotions in sports have become a staple in and around the …
The calls and emails are welcomed and come in droves…this time of year, and I gladly answer as many calls, emails, texts and video messages form people changing careers or starting new ones, the same advice keeps ringing true, whether you have been at this for two weeks or gasp, almost 40 years. Expanding your …
The quest for success for spring football continues on, and personally I hope the models that the UFL is now going through works, and find great audiences, sell tickets, and give athletes, coaches and industry professionals at every level an opportunity at career success. Make the pie bigger. But will it work? Still hard to …
Some great listens on three leaders literally carving paths never taken. From the first…and only…college coach who went through Name Image and Likeness as an athlete on the way to multiple championships, to a world class chess player who also likes to mix it up in the gym…to an entrepreneurial gamer and world champion football …
Quite a while ago when we were at the WTA Tour, our leader at the name, a self-proclaimed “reformed lawyer” named Bart McGuire, was asked whey women’s tennis grabbed so many headlines and had such a strong business story. He always said: “Our athletes are not just great tennis players, they are good copy.” Now …
Events like the Sloan MIT Analytics Conference come at you from all angles. Lots of noise, predictions, conversations, side conversations, analysis and more listening as you try and find the nuggets in the forest That’s always been the challenge and the fun. Weeding through the same old or the self important to find the takeaways …
We were scrolling through our local news site this morning when we saw the story…the one that always makes me smile this time of year…our local Robotics team once again kicking butt. Take a read about this years Velociraptor, a combination of science, media, technology, deep storytelling, and high competition that is 20 years in …
Like everything else this past week, Radio Row…there is a rumor that name may change next year… in Las Vegas seemed to be bigger, busier and had more life than quite some time. The entourages for the obscure were bigger, the amount of outlets were bigger, the buzz was louder. Maybe it was because it …
In a time when cause marketing is even more on the minds of young consumers, and as Super Bowl approaches, time to give a best practice shootout to a very simple idea that ties both together, and can help, with a simple act, move mountains. It is the Souper Bowl of Caring, which was once a one …
