When you have been around sports, telecom, media rights, and more than a few boardrooms, you start to recognize something very quickly. Marketing wants velocity. Legal wants certainty. Nowhere does that tension show up more clearly than around NCAA tentpole events like March Madness and the Final Four. I have watched this movie before. Different … Read more
The business of sponsoring college sports used to be relatively straightforward. You wrote a check, aligned your brand with a program or championship, activated around game day, and measured success in eyeballs and affinity. Today, that model feels almost quaint. What’s replaced it is a fragmented, fast-moving, and increasingly risky landscape where marketers, lawyers, athletes, … Read more
A Complete Guide to the AOC’s Producers The Patriarch Domaine d’Aupilhac — Sylvain and Désirée Fadat Start here. Always start here. Three generations of Fadats have farmed the lieu-dit known as Aupilhac since the 19th century. It was Sylvain who registered the domaine as an independent producer in 1989. What he built since then is … Read more
I’ve been going to Montpeyroux for thirty years. Long before most wine writers knew how to spell it. Long before the natural wine crowd discovered it. Long before the scores caught up to what the glass was already telling you. In 2007 Helene Malabed and I were married there. 100 people gathered, some local, some … Read more
When Main Street Sports Group announced it was shuttering the FanDuel Sports Network RSNs, the immediate reaction was predictable: hand-wringing about the death of regional sports networks, some schadenfreude from cord-cutting advocates, and a lot of confusion from fans wondering where they will watch their teams next season. But if you take a step back, … Read more
The standalone AI meeting notetaker had a good run. But the runway just got a lot shorter. Zoom unveiled agentic AI capabilities in February 2026, including My Notes and Personal Workflows, shifting from reactive support to proactive intelligence. In March, Zoom expanded its enterprise agentic AI platform with workflow orchestration that turns meetings, calls, and … Read more
The FCC just did something that should make every sports league executive, streaming platform, and broadcast network sit up and pay attention. And yet, I’m not sure most people realize just how significant this moment actually is. Here’s what happened: the FCC’s Media Bureau opened a public comment period examining the migration of live sports … Read more
For more than two decades, I’ve been chronicling the arrival and slow decline of legacy in-flight internet, from GoGo’s early air-to-ground struggles to the painful reality of slow, overpriced connectivity that too many passengers endured. In coverage dating back to the rise of GoGo’s ATG and early satellite efforts at blocking VoIP, the pattern was … Read more
Over the past two decades of writing here, one thing I’ve tried to do is look past the headline and into the pattern. The press loves a good horse race. I prefer to watch the track conditions. Right now, everyone wants to frame AI as model vs. model. Faster. Bigger. Smarter. More parameters. More funding. … Read more
Baseball has always been about the moments we can’t quite see. I’m not talking about the home runs or the diving catches—though those matter too. I’m talking about the invisible architecture of the game. The pitcher is reading the hitter. The catcher is calling the pitch. The split-second decisions that happen in the space between … Read more
