Archive for March, 2009
Athletes and the continuing rise of the sports drink
Anyone that has a product knows the importance of advertising. Advertising gives you a chance to explain what your product is, what it does, and hopefully embeds it in the public’s conscience. Show a famous person using your product and discussing all of its wonderful benefits? Then you potentially have a very stable long-term revenue [...]
NFL Schedule Change = NASCAR schedule change?
Most of you have probably heard by now that the NFL is at least in preliminary discussions to extend their regular season from 16 to 18 games, eliminating two of those extremely exciting, pulse pounding preseason games. What you may not have known is that there is one sport that is watching the NFL’s moves [...]
The Future of Sports & Sports Business: Communication
The “twit read round the world” occurred last week and was “tweeted” by Milwaukee Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva. For those who didn’t catch the insider info, In da locker room, snuck to post my twitt. We’re playing the Celtics, tie ball game at da half. Coach wants more toughness. I gotta step up. And apparently, [...]
The Future of Sports & Sports Business: Introduction
In the coming weeks, I’ve decided to do a series of posts regarding the future of sports & sports business. Due to a myriad of reasons, be it economic, technological, health, ethical, etc., the landscape of sports and sports business is changing at a pace more rapid than ever before. What must those in the [...]
Detroit Lions new logo…complete with 2 more highlights than 2008 Lions
(See? Cause the logo has those two highlights? Nevermind.) Okay…I will be the first person to say that this blog tends to take a sarcastic, and also pessimistic overtone on most of my blog posts. Usually, its because the topic being covered usually involves someone that I feel is making a choice that is not [...]
If you think the world doesn’t have enough NBA themed cartoons, read on.
When I was little, when the NBA was trying to convince kids to do anything, they’d just trot out Bob Lanier and have him talk to kids on TV. Without Bob Lanier I probably would have never gone outside, or stayed in school, or created this blog. Those NBA Stay In School Jams that had [...]
