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The NFL continues to amp up its marketing agenda both domestically and abroad from mandating elite teams participate in “Hard Knocks” to expanding the number of games in London going forward, and making sure that elite teams like the Dallas Cowboys (next year) help augment the sometimes iffy matchups served up by longtime stakeholder the …
Late during the bye week officials from New York and New Jersey joined NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to give an update on the plans that will immediately surround the 2014 Super Bowl, to be held at Met Life Stadium in New Jersey, the first time the sports and entertainment spectacle will not be held in …
Sunday night as Super Bowl week began the NFL brought everyone the Pro Bowl, which for any number of reasons seems to have become the least interesting and most controversial of any professional all-star event. Instead of championing the great players of the season past, the Pro Bowl continues to become more of an afterthought, …
When your regular season ends in the United States and for the first time in your history all five of the top television markets in the country are not involved in the post-season, there may be cause for concern. Not if you are the National Football League. While other team-based properties will never say publicly …
The 24 hour period on Wednesday and Thursday of this week saw something that most people would have never predicted six, eight…well weeks ago. That March Madness and Linsanity could take a back seat in the beginning of spring to…Tim Tebow and the New York Jets. In less than 12 hours the NFL again rose …
On Tuesday at Yankee Stadium several hundred professionals, many in community relations from teams from around the world, gathered for the Beyond Sport United “Sports Teams For Social Change” conference. While cynical may say that the event was a chance to have professional sport gather to network and then go back about their business of …
This coming week, as NFL returns to business, marks the 25th anniversary of the USFL’s demise and their $1 settlement victory over the NFL. For those old enough to remember or have seen the ESPN special, the USFL thrived not because it competed head to head with the NFL, it thrived because it attracted a …
Full disclosure, the headline of this post was stolen from Mike Greenberg this morning on ESPN’s Mike and Mike, but it is very true. Thursday into Friday we have again seen the power and buzz, and the silliness generated by the immediacy of social media. We again see that maybe social media isn’t for everyone, …
All involved with professional sports continue to wear rose colored glasses as hopefully the NFL lockout comes to an end in the coming days, with two a days and exhibition football not that far off. We earlier talked about the collateral damage of lockouts, and who has already been effected, but here are some other …
Labor disputes in any business are never fun. We all want peace so that our cars are sold fairly, our pools stay open, our garbage is picked up and our teams play when they are supposed to. While fans grow frustrated with the current lockouts in the NBA and the NFL, the seasons are still …
