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We reach what is a pretty quiet week in sports very year, albeit this year we do have the NBA Finals and the WNBA All-Star Game to add on to the MLB All-Star Break. That being said, busy is good, given the relative quiet we had in our industry last summer, even with bubbles and …
How do you buzz up a rather mundane equipment announcement? Give it some color. Literally. That’s what the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB) did last week when they took a multi-year equipment partnership announcement with Rawlings Sporting Goods and turned it into bigger news by covering catchers’ protective equipment with original team specific …
Yoshi Okamoto is sports entrepreneur who has vast experience in both the United States and Japan. Born and raised in Japan, Yoshi is the first Japanese businessperson to work full-time in the US professional sports, namely the MLB (A, AAA minor teams and Minnesota Twins), NHL (Anaheim Mighty Ducks), and the NBA (Brooklyn Nets, then …
It was a seed that may have taken 100 years to germinate, but last week Major League Baseball made its bigger mark in cricket, Australian Rules Football and rugby crazed Australia. The two game series between the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks drew solid crowds and lots of buzz at the Sydney Cricket Grounds, and helped …
One of the interesting questions around the endless numbers crunching that takes place this time of year around baseball is what exactly, other than team player evaluation, fantasy play, and sports talk, is the real value for all of the statistical analysis. Teams need ways to properly analyze talent for sure, and the minutia that …
