Recent Articles from Stewart Schley
Sports biz: Hoop dreams, deferred
To you, me and every other fan who looks forward to the start of a new National Basketball Association season, the NBA’s announcement that it would cancel the first two weeks of the 2011-2012 season was but a minor buzzkill in the full-court press of life. But to people who make a living in and […]
Sports biz: Get yer grill on
We did not know this and you did not know this, but apparently tailgating is now a sport. We know: It seems curious. An activity in which people festoon themselves with face paint and smear hot wing sauce over a good share of their jaws does not seem to meet the basic requirements of sport, […]
Sports biz: Brother, can you spare a luxury suite?
We’re staring down the teeth of a double-dip, the market’s in tatters, and nearly one in 10 adults doesn’t have a job. It’s a great time to be selling sports-venue luxury suites. At least that’s what we’re hearing from Todd Lindenbaum, the president of a 4-year-old LoDo company that’s building a growth business from a […]
Sports biz: Bronco-mania, CSU-style
The strategy adopted by the marketing team at Colorado State University for the upcoming football season is built around good old horse sense. Or in this case, Boise State Broncos sense. Within a realigned Mountain West Conference, an Oct. 15 game at last season’s No. 9-ranked Broncos is the marquee home game for the Rams, […]
Sports biz: The ROI on Invesco
So, Metropolitan Football Stadium District residents: How’s that whole Invesco Field thing working out for you? Next month marks the 10th anniversary of the stadium’s grand opening (an Eagles concert marred by horrible acoustics), so we’re dusting off the memory vaults to compare the promise then with the reality today. You may recall the public […]
Sports biz: Rock-Solid
With exuberant home crowds and playoff-caliber talent, your 2011 Colorado Rockies are the picture of baseball health: competitive, fun to watch and relatively young. The favorable diagnosis extends to the business side, too. In a season where two of baseball’s most storied franchises are in financial tatters, the Rockies appear to have a clean bill […]
Sports biz: Will coach for food
There are lots of reasons to root for the University of Colorado Buffaloes this coming football season. Home-state loyalty. An exciting new conference. That big freaking buffalo that makes every other mascot in the nation look like a simpering suit of fluff. But I’m down with the Buffs for another reason. I like CU’s style […]
Sports biz: Statistically speaking
Baseball season is upon us, so once again we are presented with fresh opportunities to parse on-field performance into about a million shards of statistical flotsam. No spectator sport offers more mathematical and computational possibility, or attracts more followers with a fearsome devotion to statistics. The mere fact that baseball statistics zealots have a lofty-minded […]
Sports biz: Playing with heart
In his quest to keep patients away from the operating room, Denver physician Jeffrey Boone brings the want-to of a determined linebacker. Why shouldn’t he? It’s the position he played in high school in Garden City, Kan., in the 1970s, and its requisites – shed blockers, knock down passes, flatten running backs – are all about […]
Sports biz: Reviving the horse
One of the more notable tales of corporate turnaround has just been authored by Starbucks, the coffee retailer whose fortunes took a severe tumble starting in 2008 as the economy reeled, the company over-expanded and the brand persona went from hip to humdrum. Last month Starbucks reported its net income for its first fiscal quarter […]
Sports biz: Mullet fever
Two all-star shortstops inked long-term contract extensions this off-season with the only Major League Baseball teams they’ve ever played for. With apologies to the great Derek Jeter, the guy the Colorado Rockies signed is the prize of the pair. At 26, coming off a stupendous season that earned him not just Gold Glove and Silver […]
Sports biz: A team for the times
Ah, I’d love to wear a rainbow every dayAnd tell the world that everything’s okayBut I’ll try to carry off a little darkness on my back’til things are brighter, I’m the man in black– Johnny Cash, “Man in Black” To paraphrase Pat Bowlen, the color of the current NFL season is predominately black. Black as […]