Year End Awards

Year In Review — Awards: Best Innovation

Journal - 12/18/2023 | Unpacks Lite Newsletter - 12/18/2023 | Unpacks Newsletter - 12/18/2023 | Journal - 12/18/2023

For more than 150 years, professional baseball was marked by a series of truths that held firm across generations and marked the national pastime as different among the team sports that followed. The most notable, perhaps, was this: There was no clock. That changed in 2023...

Year In Review — Awards: Best Sports Documentary

Unpacks Newsletter - 12/21/2023 | Journal - 12/18/2023

While the filmmakers behind “Bill Russell: Legend” dove deep into what made the former Celtics star an icon on the hardwood in Boston, Netflix’s two-part documentary on the 11-time NBA champion is also a chronicle of his efforts as a civil rights...

Year In Review — Awards: Best Sports Business Athlete

Unpacks Lite Newsletter - 12/19/2023 | Unpacks Newsletter - 12/19/2023 | Journal - 12/18/2023

The creators of an Apple TV billboard in downtown Miami last July needed just a single emoji to promote the arrival of the streaming platform’s new star attraction: a pink goat. MLS also used a goat emoji when changing the bios on all its social media accounts...

Year In Review — Awards: Best Fashion Statement

Journal - 12/18/2023

For more than a decade, the Philadelphia Eagles were working toward donning the Kelly green uniforms worn by the likes of Randall Cunningham and Reggie White in the 1990s, and last worn in the 2010 season to commemorate the team’s 1960 NFL title....

Year In Review — Awards: Best Hire

Journal - 12/18/2023

The University of Colorado was the epitome of college football irrelevance before Deion Sanders arrived on Dec. 4, 2022, to pump life into the Buffaloes’ program. In his first year on the job, Sanders did just that, judging by just about every...

Year In Review — Awards: Best Sports Movie/TV Show

Journal - 12/18/2023

Major theatrical releases about sports are few and far between. Those about sports business are even rarer. And yet “Air,” the March release about Nike’s efforts in 1984 to sign incoming NBA rookie Michael Jordan, combined a superstar cast (Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Viola...

Year In Review — Awards: Best Commercial

Journal - 12/18/2023

A few universal truths about NFL fans combined to produce one of the more amusing and memorable TV ads of recent vintage, and one SBJ adjudged as the year’s Best Commercial. Truth No. 1: There’s an ageless and ongoing debate among sports fans...

Year In Review — Awards: Best NIL Athlete

Journal - 12/18/2023

As laws and NCAA rule changes made it possible for college athletes to capitalize on their name, image and likeness, gymnast Livvy Dunne was preparing. In a 2021 session with Altius Sports Partners, which works with LSU, the sophomore sat in the first row...

Year In Review — Awards: Best New Event

Unpacks Newsletter - 12/20/2023 | Journal - 12/18/2023

It was one of the most expensive gambles in recent NASCAR history, but leadership believes their bet on the inaugural NASCAR Chicago street race paid off and will have an impact that will be felt for years. Coming during NASCAR’s 75th...

Year In Review — Awards: Best Sustainability Initiative

Unpacks Lite Newsletter - 12/22/2023 | Unpacks Newsletter - 12/22/2023 | Journal - 12/18/2023

Municipalities are increasingly requiring teams and venue owners to meet environmental sustainability stipulations to receive funding or approval for venue projects. That happened in Seattle with Climate Pledge Arena, but the venue’s tenant, the Seattle Kraken, created an integration between the four local...

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Year End Awards

Year In Review — Awards: Best Innovation

Year In Review — Awards: Best Sports Documentary

Year In Review — Awards: Best Sports Business Athlete

Year In Review — Awards: Best Fashion Statement

Year In Review — Awards: Best Hire

Year In Review — Awards: Best Sports Movie/TV Show

Year In Review — Awards: Best Commercial

Year In Review — Awards: Best NIL Athlete

Year In Review — Awards: Best New Event

Year In Review — Awards: Best Sustainability Initiative

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