John Chambers feels the New Meadowlands Stadium is the most advanced in the US with a total fiber and IP based network.  Cisco and Verizon put together most of the infrastructure and blanketed it with WiFi and 3G for stadium specific experiences.  C|Net put together a good article on it.

West Ham player Daniel Gabbidon was seen participating in a demo of Xbox Kinect.  I don’t think they briefed him too well as he kept referring to his computer and not XBOX (or console).

Congrats to Shelby Rogers who won the USTA 18′s and earned a Wild Card into the US Open.  Since turning pro, Shelby has worked hard and been travelling a lot on the circuit working on her game.  I know everyone is excited to see her make her major debut this fall.

Congratulations to Spain and adidas in being World Champions.  I love the quality marketing that goes on around the World Cup (and Euro).  adidas already had Spanish kits made with the Gold Star on them if they won and to make sure they are were celebrating in their adidas kits for the celebration!  Emirates did a great job with the [...]

While travelling on business in OH and meeting with Football Ventures’ Gary Blumberg we dropped in to see the Columbus Crew play DC United.  The Crew won 2-0 late in the match.

I have been out of pocket for a while, but in observation of pre World Cup hype, we should remember one of our own who represented our country well only to be politically murdered on his return to Haiti.

This weekend I learned of the unexpected passing of my youth club’s top coach (trainer), Dieter Beckmann.  Dieter made a monumental impact on not only soccer in the Charleston area and the state of South Carolina, but also most importantly on a generation of players at Charlestowne Soccer Club that went on the play at top colleges at a time [...]

With the World Cup comes marketing opportunities galore including co-marketing between brands.  However, like many big corporations, sometimes they aren’t the most synergistic.  Take for instance a recent co-brand with adidas and VW on the VW GTI adidas when adidas’ biggest partnership with the German National Team which is sponsored by Mercedes Benz!

Today was a day of doubles.  Both Chelsea and Bayern Munchen completed succesful doubles (League and Cup wins) by both winning their domestic cup competitions.  Chelsea ended their season at Wembley with a 1-0 over Portsmouth.  Bayern routed Werder Bremen 4-0 in Berlin to line up a potential treble when they face Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League final [...]

Where do you go when you when a championship? US teams would say Disneyland/Disney World. If your Leeds United after winning the League One Championship and getting promoted to the Championship League you go to the Atlantis at The Palm Hotel in Dubai!

I picked up on this from Alexander Kotler’s Football Partnerships.  Its a movie called After the Cup, The Sons of Sakhnin United about Jewish and Arabic players in the same team in Israel and what the future could look like as only sport can demonstrate. Here is the summary: There are over 1.4 million Arabs who are citizens of Israel, facing the challenge of living [...]