Topic: The Sports Issue
Specs Age 66 Accomplishments Veteran sports announcer for ESPN, CBS and NBC; will lead CBS Sports Network's nightly coverage the week of Super Bowl XLVII Base Fort Lauderdale, Fla. What’s the first information you…
Specs Who (clockwise, from left) Founder Kelsey Falter, product engineer Andrew Bonventre and engineers Joy Tao and Steve Kaliski What Social polling startup Where New York offices Poptip’s six-month-old Twitter polling service, which already…
Medical authorities tell us that somewhere around 1 billion Americans will catch a cold this year—no small part of why marketing authorities tell us that advertising over-the-counter cough remedies is…
While football fans stock up on chicken wings and big-screen TVs in preparation for Super Bowl XLVII, marketers have their eye on the commercials that will play out on advertising's…
As any literary-minded technophile will tell you, the Internet has become a haven for lengthy, high-quality prose, with sites from the Awl to BuzzFeed regularly churning out 4,000-word stories. But…
Polaroid may be passé (save for its embrace by hipsters), and thanks to high-res smartphones, Flip and Kodak are either RIP or on life support. But with its novel approach…
With 2:05 left in the third quarter of a recent game at Staples Center between the Los Angeles Lakers and the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder, public address announcer Lawrence Tanter…
Much like Twitter, the sports world can be extremely crowded and a complex space to comprehend. But Twitter can also be the ultimate tool for these sports figures, in terms…
Tim Tebow was a godsend in 2010, an unbelievable stroke of luck for the Denver Broncos. After getting the starting nod, the mechanically unsound quarterback led his team to its…
There’s not a lot of common ground between digital media and television, but huge live events—especially the Super Bowl—are just as important for both media because they guarantee vast numbers…
