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If baseball was very, very good to Chico Escuela (young folks, Google that), the Western culture explosion continues to be very, very good to PBR. Capitalizing on the so-called “Yellowstone Effect,” PBR is riding a Western resurgence not seen since the Urban Cowboy craze, as the toughest cowboys and most powerful bucking bulls stormed into …
Team Bull Riding a thing? The skeptical sports world may have looked quizzically on the idea as a gimmicky ploy. Go ahead and prove the concept PBR. So… The PBR Teams league finished its third season in Las Vegas last weekend with an instant playoff classic on the CBS Game of the Week. The fifth-seeded …
The media world is all abuzz with the NBA deals that now appear imminent…but let’s look elsewhere again for those looking to find an audience on platforms where they were not before. Case in point, Dr. Phil’s 300+ Hour Commitment to PBR Starts that starts this Weekend When PBR announced a landmark media rights agreement …
At PBR events around the country, fans in the stands are wont to stand up, pour a cold one into their boot, and drink up. Last Saturday night at sold-out Madison Square Garden, the brew went into one fan’s adidas, and the crowd went nuts just the same. PBR threw a party this past …
Startups, even for sports or brands with a solid core audience, are tough. Just getting through Proof of Concept while managing cash flow and expectations can be a bear, or in this case a bull, so its’ nice to see PBR teams not just coming back but moving ahead for season two. After generating incremental …
The most proficient storytellers in sports tend to do their best work when the stakes are highest and the lights shining the brightest. From time to time, George Pyne, former COO of NASCAR who now runs Bruin Capital, still talks about a Friday in February more than 15 years ago when the front page of …
Riding the success of a popular Netflix reality show, Formula 1 has won new fans and sponsors, and is a darling of the moment with sports media. Helped in part by the hit show “Drive to Survive,” now confirmed for at least a sixth season, the Mexico Grand Prix did well last Sunday, averaging 1 million …
Established pro sports leagues don’t often give birth to a separate offshoot league. But that’s what PBR (Professional Bull Riders), a sport formed 29 years ago, is doing tonight in Cheyenne, Wyoming when the bucking chutes burst open to introduce the first regular season bull riding games in the new PBR Team Series. CBS Sports …
Occasionally we check in with our friends at the PBR to see how their disruptive models are working. This year it is the team concept for bull riding. So far, so good. Every day more than 100 people relocate to Austin, Texas. Last week in Republic Square, a downtown park where in 1839 the booming …
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 …
