There’s a moment in any technology cycle when the expensive thing becomes the everyday thing. When the mainframe becomes the PC. When the PC becomes the phone. When the phone becomes the agent that does your work while you sleep. That moment happened again this week. Quietly. The way the important ones usually do. Anthropic … Read more
Sports Marketing used to be a clean loop: buy rights, build a campaign, measure impressions, renew. That loop is breaking. In 2026, the winning sports marketers are treating sports less like a media buy and more like infrastructure—a system where content, distribution, identity, and commerce run together. The shift isn’t subtle. It’s structural. Here are … Read more
When government regulators are pressured to punish culture, we should all pause. The Federal Communications Commission recently closed its review of complaints surrounding the Super Bowl halftime performance and determined there were no violations of indecency rules. You can read the coverage here:https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/fcc-reaches-final-decision-bad-142903347.html Predictably, some lawmakers and commentators are unhappy. They wanted fines. They wanted … Read more
What We’re Looking At The Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic ice hockey rink features dasher boards in a light blue/cyan tone, roughly in the neighborhood of #5CC8D4 to #7ED4DB, with a bright yellow/gold kickplate running along the bottom. The top rail and surrounding structural elements also carry this aqua-to-teal palette, consistent with the Milano Cortina 2026 … Read more
I’ve been thinking a lot about the invisible dance happening in sports these days—the one between tradition and innovation, between the purity of athletic competition and our insatiable appetite for enhanced experiences. Have you noticed how technology keeps creeping closer to the action? It’s fascinating, really. VAR (Video Assistant Referee) has transformed football from a … Read more
Sports sponsorships used to be a simple swap: cash for visibility. But the modern sponsorship market is being reshaped by two forces that now sit side by side in every serious deal: measurable commercial performance and societal legitimacy. Together, they are turning sponsorship from a relationship business into a governed system. And, at its core … Read more
Ever since I was a young boy, I’ve been into numbers. Now, I wasn’t a stats nerd. I just kept the stats for the Philadelphia Wings, not to the level of Harvey Pollack, affectionately known as “Superstat,” but I kept the game stats. Who scored the goals? Who got the assist? Who was in the … Read more
In January of 2023, I wrote that ChatGPT was this era’s Netscape. At the time, that was not a throwaway analogy or an attempt to ride the hype cycle. It was pattern recognition. We had seen this movie before. When Netscape arrived in the mid-1990s, it did not invent the internet. The protocols were already … Read more
This push for an 18-game season is fundamentally a revenue maximization strategy, not a competitive or fan-first initiative. Robert Kraft frames it as supporting labor and reflecting fan demand, but the underlying driver is simple: each additional regular-season game is a new, premium monetization event layered onto an already saturated sports media market. The NFL’s … Read more
None of this should feel unfamiliar if you lived through telecom, mobile, or cloud. In the early 2000s, U.S. carriers convinced themselves that owning the network meant owning the future. They optimized for ARPU, control, and contractual lock-in. Meanwhile, VoIP app companies, OTT operators, and Skype all focused on deployment speed, adoption depth, and scale … Read more
