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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 …
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 …
For some time we have been told, and probably, convinced ourselves, that New York and winning did not have to be part of the formula for sports business success. Tom Brady and Steph Curry, Lionel Messi and Caitlin Clark, LeBron James and Shoei Ohtani etc. etc…all have done pretty well coming into New York but …
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 …
They both returned to the playoffs…one NHL and one NBA…on the same night both with their own organic spin to presentation. The San Antonio Spurs pulled off the well orchestrated Fiesta Night, a rainbow of coordinated color for Victor Wembanyama’s first playoff home game, while the Buffalo Sabres drought ending win over the Boston Bruins …
In an attention starved, get it done yesterday world it’s sometimes nice to find consistency. Your friends you have known, the right slice of pizza or cup of coffee, a musical artist who knows just the right notes to play, Opening Day in Baseball etc. etc. Things can adjust, but the core thoughts…the core sounds, …
I have been a fan of Saturday Night Live since it’s inception. On Monday morning’s in high school my classmates would sit around the breakfast table in the cafeteria talking about the previous week’s episode. We even used skits like “The Coneheads on Family Feud” and others in our Spanish class for skits. The show …
The Northeast may be covered in snow and the end of February looks a bit bleak, so here’s to a few positive best practices from the past week. The Pope Speaks: Mark Pope has not had the easiest of runs leading the University of Kentucky men’s basketball program. Having known Mark from his playing days …
Wayyy back in 1980 as the U.S. Men’s hockey team pulled off “Miracle on Ice” the buzz around the sport of hockey was palpable, and anecdotally it was measurable as you saw sales and interest in the sport…and in the NHL which was struggling to find its balance at the time in many markets and …
Tossing Teddy’s continue to be a fun, and somewhat underappreciated event. From The Maritimes to California, a hockey holiday rite of charity has continued to expand to record numbers for those who see the value. Now it used to be only in Detroit could you throw an object on the ice during a hockey game …
