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The pushback on DEI

Unpacks Newsletter - 03/12/2024 | Journal - 03/11/2024

On the day that the U.S. Supreme Court banned the consideration of race in college admissions, the attorney who heads the nonprofit created to address racial imbalance in sports found herself on the phone, fielding questions from clients who feared its impact on their diversity,...

Sue Rodin: WISE Guidance

Journal - 03/11/2024 | Unpacks Newsletter - 03/11/2024 | Journal - 03/11/2024

It was in the early 1990s, while Sue Rodin was working for a series of marketing agencies, when she discovered that a male colleague with the same amount of experience and education was making “considerably more” money. Disconcerting, obviously, but even more perplexing...

SBJ ALL IN: The McLendon Foundation

Journal - 03/11/2024

The McLendon Foundation was founded in 1999 by Mike Cleary shortly after the death of John McLendon, the Basketball Hall of Fame coach who became the first African American head coach in pro sports. Cleary was the general manager of the Cleveland Pipers of the...

As a young contractor, Steve Hill took a chance on moving to Las Vegas. Now he is one of the key architects who brought the Super Bowl to town.

Journal - 02/05/2024

The story of how Steve Hill became a Las Vegas power broker boils down to the essential elements of the city he moved to nearly four decades ago: a bit of a gamble and a healthy dose of luck. In 1987, Hill was the general manager of...

CBS executive Patty Power’s four-week road trip ends at the Super Bowl, a production years in the making

Journal - 02/05/2024

The Super Bowl matchup was set two weeks before the big game, but construction on the multitude of CBS sets in Las Vegas began a month prior and the first site visit was two years ago. Four CBS departments will broadcast live from the city — sports,...

Super Bowl LVIII: Arriving In Las Vegas

Journal - 02/05/2024 | Unpacks Newsletter - 02/05/2024 | Journal - 02/05/2024

In the fall of 2016, Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis and Nevada politicians were driving hard toward a financial plan for what would become Allegiant Stadium and a final relocation proposal for the NFL. Meanwhile, then-NFL Executive Vice President Eric Grubman,...

How brands will cut through the noise of another big Vegas event

Journal - 02/05/2024 | Unpacks Newsletter - 02/05/2024

At any Super Bowl, the question of how to be heard over the endemic commercial cacophony is one that’s paramount for marketers. Las Vegas perfected defining, dissecting and reselling marketing rights back in the days of the Rat Pack. Breaking through that clutter...

Sixty Years of Raising the Stakes

Journal - 02/05/2024

Aug. 24, 1964: The Oakland Raiders defeat the Houston Oilers in an American Football League preseason game at old Cashman Field. 1983-84: Utah Jazz play 11 home games at UNLV’s new Thomas & Mack Center. 1991: The Professional and Amateur Sports...

Superdome renovation removes concrete ramps, allowing space for soaring atriums, natural light and new club spaces

Journal - 01/29/2024

New Orleans is a city that reveres its public spaces, what locals call the neutral ground. New Orleanians celebrate weddings and funerals in the streets, not to mention Mardi Gras. One of the city’s most famous public spaces, the Caesars Superdome, turns 50...

Facilities: Finance, Design and Construction

Unpacks Newsletter - 01/30/2024 | Journal - 01/29/2024 | Journal - 01/29/2024

On May 3, 2023, the Federal Reserve voted unanimously to raise interest rates, the ninth rate hike in 12 months. During that yearlong period, the target federal funds rate rose more than fivefold, topping 5% as the Fed contended with historic levels of...

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The pushback on DEI

Sue Rodin: WISE Guidance

SBJ ALL IN: The McLendon Foundation

As a young contractor, Steve Hill took a chance on moving to Las Vegas. Now he is one of the key architects who brought the Super Bowl to town.

CBS executive Patty Power’s four-week road trip ends at the Super Bowl, a production years in the making

Super Bowl LVIII: Arriving In Las Vegas

How brands will cut through the noise of another big Vegas event

Sixty Years of Raising the Stakes

Superdome renovation removes concrete ramps, allowing space for soaring atriums, natural light and new club spaces

Facilities: Finance, Design and Construction

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