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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Quite a while ago when we were at the WTA Tour, our leader at the name, a self-proclaimed “reformed lawyer” named Bart McGuire, was asked whey women’s tennis grabbed so many headlines and had such a strong business story. He always said: “Our athletes are not just great tennis players, they are good copy.” Now …
With baseball, golf and tennis now in the rear view mirror for 2015, hockey and hoops just starting and MLS entering its deeper drive into the playoffs; football, and college sports (with college basketball starting this coming week) really take center stage, and this past week Nissan made what is perhaps the most expansive push …
For many casual fans, sport today, like most of our world, is about the buzz, the bright lights, the big cities…action, action, action. Yet if you look at brands engaging in NFL activation as the season kicked off this week, you would be hard pressed not to see that the team in the smallest market, …
Tuesday night the sport of baseball gets what is perhaps the rarest of rare opportunities in a cluttered 24/7 sports and entertainment world…a night virtually free of competition to show off its best and its brightest. Maybe there is a little World TeamTennis, a dab of NBA Summer League and free agent movement, some minor …
