Sports &amp; Marketing

Paul Merca’s in the House, Special Edition: GEORGETOWN’S PARKER STOKES JOINS THE BROOKS BEASTS, WHILE UW’S CHLOE FOERSTER AND TEXAS A&M’S SAM WHITMARSH SIGN NIL DEALS…

by runblogrunstg

July 4, 2024

Six Observations on Michael Johnson’s Announcement on Funding for a Professional Track & Field League

August 17, 2024

Interviews

RBR Interviews Brett Schumacher, Chief of Operations at Global Athletics & Marketing (from the Archives of RunBlogRun)

January 27, 2024

Editorial

Nike sends mixed messages on supporting global track & field, or, are they? Six deep thoughts on appreciating Nike Sports Marketing

February 26, 2023

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Has the World Athlete of the Year award become a meaningless accolade?

World Athletics has not done enough to milk the brand of Usain Bolt

by Deji Ogeyingbo

February 23, 2023

Deji Ogeyingbo shook up some of our readers a few weeks ago with his column on Sha'Carri Richardson. This column...

Fred Kerley Signs with ASICS!

February 20, 2023

In an embargoed press release, until 3 PM Eastern time today, ASICS announced that Fred Kerley, 2022 World Champion at...

Defending Champions Albert Korir and Marcel Hug and U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Stars Galen Rupp and Daniel Romanchuk to Headline Men’s Field at 2022 TCS New York City Marathon on November 6

Road Racing

Boston Athletic Association and SPORTFIVE Partner in Pursuit of Boston Marathon’s Next Primary Sponsor

December 13, 2022

The primary sponsor for the BAA Boston Marathon, since 1985, has been John Hancock Financial Services; John Hancock, under the...

News

Coffee with Larry, Sunday, October 30, 2022, SPECIAL EDITION, Parts 1 & 2, adidas cancels relationship with Kanye West…

October 31, 2022

This is Coffee With Larry, Part 1 and 2 on adidas canceling their contract with Kanye West. This is a...

Karsten Warholm not sure if he will be 100 percent in Eugene

British Athletics

Why athletics is in danger of going down the “road to irrelevance”, from Athletics Weekly

October 16, 2022

This is a fascinating article from our friends at Athletics Weekly. British Athletics has suffered from mismanagement of one of...

Atlanta Track Club Announces Long-Term Partnership with adidas! adidas to be Club’s Footwear and Apparel Partner Starting in 2022

June 23, 2022

This press release surprised me and did not surprise me. The Atlanta Track Club continues to be one of the...

From Lane One: A Case For an Update to the World Athletics Ranking System, #4, By Matt Wisner

June 23, 2022

This is Matt Wisner's 4th column. He has some concerns with the new World Athletics rankings. Several people have addressed...

Does the Olympics Media Market the Wrong Stars? by Orrin Konheim

June 23, 2022

This is a thought-provoking piece. Orrin Konheim writes pieces for @runblogrun around Olympics on marketing and translating what the media...

Agents at Annual Meeting

by Alfonz Juck

June 13, 2022

Agents behaving prior to Lisbon gathering, photo by EME News Agents at Annual Meeting LISBON (POR): Athletes Representatives organisation AAM...

Chris Fox retires from college coaching to lead Reebok Boston Track Club, Justyn Knight is first athlete on club