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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Sunday morning, I went to an early mass at our parish, St. John the Baptist in Hillsdale, NJ, and I am always interested and intrigued to what our pastor, Monsignor Peter Smutelovic, has in store for his homily. This week he talked a great deal about the faith that the two College Football championship quarterbacks, …
“You’re the guy, but you got to give a lot. You can’t go in there pounding your fist. You’ll never make it.” This line from Michael Rosenberg’s recent SI.com story about Penny Hardaway coaching at his alma mater, The University of Memphis gave some great insight into adaptive leadership, and how much brand value coaches …
It’s almost summer time, so we pulled together some good reads; inspirational, business, storytelling, brand building, which we have read and enjoyed, in no particular order. There are several coming that are not out yet or we haven’t yet read, so these pass a good sniff test for young grads, beach or mountain hoers or …
Monday night marked the end of the College Bowl season, one of the longest, and probably last few, extended series of Bowl games as college football moves toward a national playoff and a trimming down of the games that lead to what is now the BCS Championship, which title sponsor Discover has paid a hefty …
The last two years, Inspireum, a Bend, Oregon based social enterprise, has built the High School “Rudy” Awards, which honors state by state the most inspiring story of a young student-athlete who plays football. He has never been the biggest or the best, but many times he has overcome the most or used the values …
There was a time in the 1970’s when the Oakland A’s and the Pittsburgh Pirates sent that conservative baseball world spinning with a series out outlandish uniforms. The A’s would wear white Sunday and then switch between green and gold on various days, while the Pirates went back and forth between yellow, black and white. …
Mark McCormack founded a company in the 1960’s on the marketing rights of Arnold Palmer and a host of other athletes, and that business, IMG, grew into the most powerful brand in the sports marketplace. From the marketing of the Pope to the creation of television to the representing of athletes, the world of IMG …
