I saw a great story the other day about a failed promotion by the NBADL Utah Flash. Back in September, team owner Brandt Anderson had talked about hosting a game of 1-on-1 between Michael Jordan and Byron Russell at halftime of a Utah Flash game. The match would be flashback to their famous confrontation at [...]

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To continue with the trend of some of my recent posts, there is a great dialogue going on via Twitter from today’s NYC Sports Networker Summit. There are several panels discussing various topics in social media and sports, everything from the convergence of traditional and social media to ticket sales, retention and marketing. The panels [...]

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Yesterday I was able to attend part of the 4th annual Princeton Sports Symposium. Social media was definitely one of the most popular topics of the day, with multiple session dedicated to the topic along with regular mentions of the subject on various other panels. In fact, several attendees were sending tweets throughout the day [...]

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By now, we’ve all heard the updates on the Tiger Woods saga… possibly ad-nauseum. For me, this was the moment I realized I no longer want to hear about the private lives of athletes. Don’t get me wrong, I check People.com occasionally, but I also spend half my day on ESPN.com. Also, I understand the [...]

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The 4th annual Princeton Sports Symposium takes place this Friday, December 4 at Princeton University. I attended this event last year, and really enjoyed all of the panels as well as the opportunity to network with the presenters and other attendees.  You can click here to read some of my recaps from last year’s symposium. [...]

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The New Jersey Nets are currently suffering through a historically bad start to their season. Seventeen games, seventeen losses and a fired head coach is a tough stretch to say the least. While the goal of the business side of the franchise is to generate a profit regardless of the product on the court, there [...]

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