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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
“Put your money where your mouth is.” Who knows where that saying, used way too much, came from, but, here’s another overused phrase, “I knew a guy,” who did just that, and everyone he touched was better for it. For those who know a little about me, or follow me, or have come across me …
When you spend five days in Las Vegas, you never know what you will find. My five days were probably not what most people would consider a typical “What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas” experience. On the contrary what I found was the exporting of the Vegas experience to all forms of sports business …
Sometimes even for a World record, the simplest is the best. Glitzy, shiny, tricky, unique, yes they get the buzz, but a way to aggregate for a cause can be even better. That’s what will happen Saturday at Soldier Field, when over 60,000 people will gather, and millions more will watch around the globe as …
Inspired by our q and a with Paul Swangard last week, we are going to try and make Thursday’s “Teaching Thursdays,” doing a q and a with some of the brightest educators in sports business. This week we got some time with Rick Burton, the David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management in Syracuse …
It is one thing to talk about wearables and their potential, it’s another to actually see the technology implemented in a game or a match and follow, albeit from a distance, in actual game play. On Saturday at Red Bull Arena, while so many colleagues were hearing from experts about the future at the trio …
Two weeks ago I was invited to PPL Park in Chester, Pa. to take a look at a test event for a sport that has a big grassroots following in the US, has been played in some form on the college and high school level for ages, and is a massive sport in its more …
Last weekend I was invited to PPL Park in Chester, Pa. to take a look at a test event for a sport that has a big grassroots following in the US, has been played in some form on the college and high school level for ages, and is a massive sport in its more traditional …
Wednesday, just three days removed those fans of the gridiron reach what is an unofficial official end to all things football for a while…the media frenzy of National Signing Day. From coast to coast on every sports network and radio show, young men who are the best at their sport tell the world in choreographed …
It is the third most popular sport in the world according to some numbers…its World Cup Final brings the largest audience and the most sponsorship of any event short of the Super Bowl…it has amended its rules, added fan and sponsor friendly events and carved out a faster version of the sport so popular that …
Where have we heard the story…decorated female athlete, African-American, looks for a second athletic life as an Olympian in the bobsled. Lolo Jones, maybe, move over, here is Phaidra Knight. Knight’s success hasn’t come in the brightest of lights with the biggest of brands like Jones had. She is also not a lightning rod for …
