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A lot has happened in the sports and social engagement business since the Yankees launched HOPE Week in 2009; one thing that hasn’t is the need for teams, leagues and brands to find an authentic connection to community and grow their cause based initiatives. It is especially important to connect with a younger audience of …
The following summary was compiled by Syracuse University student Sam Birdsall from our recent podcast with facilities expert and Columbia faculty member Bill Squires… One of the most important facets of the industry of sports, that often goes unnoticed is that of facilities and stadium operations. From field control to concessions to parking lot usage, …
The Yankees, kings of tradition, rolled out their annual Old Timers Day event Sunday. Why aren’t there more? Old Timers Day is more fun nostalgia as an appetizer for a day of baseball in The Bronx. However it serves a common, often overlooked niche; connecting stars of the past to the audience of today, which …
First it was the Diamondbacks announcing in spring training, and now the Tigers have gone retro; the bullpen car, or cart, is making a comeback in Major League Baseball (and probably MiLB) in some spots as well. The DBacks sponsored, 20th anniversary cart should be a fixture soon, while the Tigers rolled out their sponsored …
When the initial talk of VR and sports first arose a few years ago, the real buzz was what could be done around games for fans thousands of miles away who could never get to a game. Putting fans in China or India courtside to see LeBron James, or ringside for a Triple G fight, …
The Following originally appeared in Portada oThere are few better comeback stories in sports and entertainment than the one of Alex Rodriguez. From banned baseball superstar to mega-businessman, entrepreneur, analyst, and now Yankees advisor, Rodriguez has risen from the ashes of what most thought would be a career lost and a brand squandered to be one …
There is no sports organization in the country that doesn’t find the need or create the opportunity, to give back to the communities in which they play. Some obviously make it a bigger priority than others, and the best organizations find ways to connect not just with random player programs, but with the effort of …
Thirty years ago, July 1, 1987, I was in my office at SportsChannel in Woodbury, N.Y. (where I was Assistant Director for Marketing and Public Relations) with a group of people listening to a new venture in sport, all-sports radio. Just after 3:00, the signal at 1050 AM changed from WHN, a country station which …
On the first weekend of summer in New York you come across two events honoring players of the far and recent past; Yankees Old Timers Day and the Launch of Big Three, the new three on three basketball touring that is the brainchild of Ice Cube and features not current or rising but former NBA …
When DKMS, one of the world’s largest bone marrow donor centers, wanted to raise the profile of its lifesaving mission during the week in which they recognize World Blood Cancer Day (May 28), they turned to sports and New York City. DKMS locked in a partnership with the Mets for pregame festivities on May 23. …