Competitive Edge is a weekly sports and entertainment marketing news service that highlights unique and relevant news throughout the school year. The questions provided for student discussion will help to create a bridge between industry strategies/trends and the topics you are covering in class.
Major League Soccer today unveiled the “Our Soccer is Calling” brand campaign for the 2024 MLS season. This year’s campaign celebrates the stars, the fans and the communities that makes MLS unique and unlike any other sports league. Click here to read the story at mlssoccer.com. Discussion Questions:
For over 11,000 college football players, Thursday will be the first chance to opt in to EA Sports’ new college football game, EA Sports College Football 25, and get paid for it. Click here to read the story at espn.com. Discussion Questions:
It’s fitting that the 2024 Major League Soccer (MLS) season will kick off on February 21 with a game featuring Lionel Messi and Inter Miami. The (arguably) greatest player of all time and his pink-clad teammates face Real Salt Lake to start the second full season of MLS’ 10-year, $2.5 Read more…
In January, as Inter Miami arrived in El Salvador for its first preseason match of 2024, hundreds of cheering fans greeted the team’s convoy of pink buses, jostling past one another just to catch a glimpse of, arguably, the most famous athlete on the planet, Lionel Messi. Click here to Read more…
This is JPMorgan Chase’s first stadium naming rights deal in professional soccer. The firm’s wider sports sponsorship portfolio includes Madison Square Garden, tennis’ US Open, the Formula One Miami Grand Prix, the Golden State Warriors’ Chase Center, and the Atlanta Hawks. Click here to read the story at sportspromedia.com. Discussion Read more…
It’s a new year and new era for NASCAR, and the new Cup series starts with the opening points race, the Great American Race — the Daytona 500 — on February 18. In a move only slightly surprising, DJ Khaled, a Grammy-winning rap artist, will get to wave the green Read more…
* Teacher Note: Consider sharing the “Clarkonomics” infographic in class to help steer any class discussion around this news story. You can download the infographic from the “Bonus Content” section of the website, accessible from your “My Account” page. Cailtin “Clarkonomics” Caitlin Clark made history Thursday as women’s college basketball’s Read more…
If you think the NFL has plenty of power and influence, you haven’t paid much attention to FIFA. When FIFA says jump, the response isn’t, “How high?” The response is jump. Click here to read the story at nbcsports.com. Discussion Questions:
Sports fans greeted Tuesday’s news that Fox, ESPN and Warner Bros. Discovery will form a new, unified streaming entity with a mixture of hope and resignation. Click here to read the story at sports.yahoo.com. Discussion Questions:
The NBA today unveiled the state-of-the-art full video LED court, developed by ASB GlassFloor, that will be used for NBA All-Star 2024 events taking place at Lucas Oil Stadium. Click here to read the story at nba.com. Discussion Questions: