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Sports books written by league executives can be interesting and illuminating but also risk being safe, watered down, and predictable. The exec who oversees PR for PBR (Professional Bull Riders) from an Endeavor office in New York, Andrew Giangola, has just released a new book that bucks the inherent challenges of sanitized prose, offering a …
Sports Business Journal Publisher and Executive Editor Abe Madkour led his SBJ publisher’s letter this week with a prediction that the eight team franchises in the newly announced PBR Team Series will fast increase in value. As you know, we’ve been a fan in this column of PBR’s storytelling, commitment to its on-the-dirt product, and …
Rodeo, which by all accounts is America’s first sport, tracing its roots back to the 19th century American Southwest, has never truly realized its full potential. Marketed as bringing rugged yet wholesome entertainment and admirable western values to the masses, rodeo rapidly expanded in the 1920s, and would soon stage popular events in major east …
It’s a mixed February sports weekend, between NBA All-Star, The Olympics, pitchers and catcher reporting and Daytona getting NASCAR going, but the PBR, which I got to witness in January, is still finding ways to cut through the clutter with its own narrative in its 25th anniversary season. The Professional Bull Riders began 25 years …