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Insights from CES 2025: Walking ‘The Floor’
Artificial intelligence was the undisputed star of this year’s CES, the world’s most powerful tech event. It was the thread connecting thousands of innovative products on display with the insights shared during the five-day speaker sessions. From sport and fitness gadgets that adapt to your body to ...
Madkour: Moments that stood out in 2024
FEBRUARY: The highlight was welcoming Josh Barnett as SBJ’s managing director of editorial. He joined us from The Buffalo News, and has spent his entire career in newsrooms. Barnett has been a fantastic teammate in making the SBJ newsroom stronger, smarter and more efficient than ever. … During Supe...
Commissioner David Stern: A five-year memoir
When I had the idea for this column, I reached out to some of my former NBA colleagues to solicit their thoughts and remembrances. Their essays were outstanding, heartfelt and very moving, but far too lengthy to quote each of them in this space. Therefore, I would like to acknowledge and thank Rick ...
The NFL’s goal for expansion and broadcasting: The U.K. example
The NFL kicked off broadcasting in the U.K. during the cultural expansion of the 1980s and slowly gained traction among British audiences. What had started in the U.S. in 1920 as one of several football leagues had grown by the 1950s to dominate the British market.
Colleges can solve the revenue gap between men’s and women’s sports
While women’s professional sports are soaring with new viewers and sponsors, women’s college sports are often seen as charity cases. The dichotomy is striking and the belief that women’s college sports can’t generate revenue may have dire consequences. Sports that don’t have a history of generating ...
Madkour: More thoughts about SBJ’s Most Influential list
WHO COULD HAVE BEEN MOST INFLUENTIAL: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is more confident and comfortable than ever after 18 years in the top spot at the NFL, and that’s also evident in how the industry views his leadership. Every year the league grows in strength and scale, and Goodell has stature and...
The rise of girls’ flag football and its path to the NCAA
Having played professional football for seven years, saying “football has changed my life” is a vast understatement. As an Alabama native and walk-on at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, I could never have imagined how far this sport would take me.
Two years after crossing the Rubicon, tectonic changes still rule sports media
In 2022, when Amazon’s exclusive NFL “Thursday Night Football” game drew 15 million streaming viewers, we wrote that sports media had “crossed the Rubicon,” a point of no return from the “old days” of sports TV (SBJ Dec. 5, 2022). In 2023 (SBJ May 22, Dec. 11), we observed whipsawing developments, r...
Madkour: Kevin White personifies ‘A Good Sport’
K evin White has spent the past two years writing on his iPhone about his four-decade journey in sports business. Much of the writing was done at airports and on planes, as the 74-year-old Irish kid from New York pieced the threads of his life together. In “A Good Sport: Reflections On A Full Life I...
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The old adage, ‘Can we still be friends?’ There ain't no friends. … That was not happening. So I look over at Joe [Castiglione] and this thing all broke and said, ‘Bro, we got no friends now.’ And we had to go to those meetings ... We had to go to meetings for a whole year.-- Texas AD Chris Del Conte, on the relationships that were being torn with Texas and Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 for SEC.
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