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Sports bars – even backed by leagues and networks – aren’t always a license to pour beer, serve wings, and print money. Just ask ESPN and NASCAR, following failed efforts. For those operating a sports bar during coronavirus, good luck. While single-snapshot national data is hard to come by, it is estimated up to one …
With the rest of the sports world on pause, sidelined by a dangerous global pandemic, one sport has returned to competition, and with the steps they took may have provided a pretty thorough best practice of what we may see on courses, courts and fields in the coming weeks. PBR (Professional Bull Riders) was back …
With the Pro Bull Riders invading New York this local football-less weekend, here is a good one to start the year… Sometimes, breakthrough PR opportunities come from a seat-of-the-pants reaction to breaking events. When “Charging Bull,” the iconic Wall Street bull known all over the world was attacked and damaged last September by a disturbed …
A nine year-old girl who had been born with a cleft lip and palate is bullied so badly, the stress causes her hair to fall out. She is invited into the locker room of a major professional sport where she gives the athletes a rousing pep talk (one of them, bald, after shaving his head …
The social space has never been more important for every aspect of sports business, especially if you are a team, a league or a brand and crave that efficient and authentic direct to consumer engagement. It can be fickle, elusive, sometimes frustrating and difficult to measure and quantify, but it is the way to stay …
#FakeNews is the bane of everyone all year long. Except on April 1. If you’re a naturally mischievous person, April Fool’s is actually one of the best days of the year. Communications people are often at the center of their brand’s pranks. Spending their days writing so many straight news stories and press releases, it’s …
We are almost at April Fool’s Day, always a chance still for the most creative to casually try their luck at putting one over…in an era of #Fakenews, we will be on the look for some good ones, but here are some best practices in and around sports of years past. NASCAR driver Aric Almirola …
We loved learning about how the Professional Bull Riders keep trying to grow and disrupt by, frankly being creative with their assets. Latest case in point… PBR is joining the Super Bowl Party with the first national brand commercial in the sport’s 26-year history, launching its new ad campaign, “Be Cowboy,” prior to kick off …
“Open Big.” PBR’s season-launch strategy is to bust from the gate like a raging bull. Considering parent company Endeavor’s deep roots in Hollywood, that objective makes sense. Like blockbuster films, sports is a momentum game. It’s hard to move forward if you begin by going backwards. For the past 13 years, PBR has launched a …
Most cowboys, stock contractors and fans of Professional Bull Riders (PBR) gathering in Las Vegas for the sport’s 25th World Finals beginning tonight had never heard the name Barry Frank. They did this week, however, when the television legend received one of the sport’s most prestigious honors, the Jim Shoulders Lifetime Achievement Award, at the …