Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s likely that you’ve heard about Jeremy Lin (aka #Linsanity, #Lincredible #Linsational #Linderella #Linspiration #SuperLintendo #Linvincible #TheLinstigator ……or my personal favorite #LinkedLin 
If you happen to be one of those people that haven’t heard of Jeremy Lin, here’s a “Linfographic” that explains how he is helping take the NY Knicks to “Linfinity and beyond”. Thanks to Sean Callanan from Sports Geek for the heads up on this killer infographic!
What’s your thoughts? Is the Jeremy Lin show short lived or do you think we are witnessing the rise of the new face of the NBA? Let us know in the comments below and please feel free to share this article with your friends on Facebook & Twitter!
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This is a guest post by Nancy Zimmer. Nancy writes for TicketLiquidator.com, a site dedicated to helping sports fans find the best Fiesta Bowl tickets and seats to other sporting events that just might provide that opportunity for a perfect proposal.
Proposing to your significant other at a sporting event is something that should be very well thought out and planned in advance. If the move is done without taking certain things into account, it can be anywhere from awkward to completely disastrous. Follow these simple steps on how to plan a marriage proposal at a National sports game to ensure that popping the big question in front of a big crowd goes down swimmingly.
Contact the Public Relations Department
The people who control the scoreboards and public announcements should be privy to your situation in order for it to transpire as smoothly as possible. Get in touch with the public relations department at the stadium in the week leading up to the big day. Having the stadium operations people on your side will give you valuable confidence and can help to make the experience seamless. For a few hundred dollars, the stadium will post your message on the scoreboard, so folks who are worried that they might not be able to go through with the task will have an unflappable wingman.
Get Your Timing Right
Since proposing to your significant other should be done in a positive and upbeat environment, you should pop the question sometime in the first half of the game. To ask a person to be your life partner late into a 30-point shellacking would be awkward and perhaps even a bad omen. The best time to get down on one knee is late in the second quarter, when the crowd will still be full of life and you can use the halftime break to bask in the afterglow of your achievement, provided the answer is yes.
Buy an Aisle Seat
This is essential, as kneeling down and asking what might be the single most important question in your life is very difficult to do in the middle of a crowded row of boisterous fans. Securing an aisle seat should be done even before the ring is purchased. Allow your spouse to sit in the aisle seat, and stand up and walk out onto the stairs when you are ready for action. This allows for plenty of space by creating a small buffer zone between you two and the masses, and creates a clean angle for any stadium cameramen who want to capture the moment to show it on the scoreboard.
Be Confident
This advice extends far beyond asking a person to marry you, but you should be especially sure to harness your swagger when you are going to be proposing to someone in front of as many as 100,000 fans. Go into the experience with a little moxie and confidence, and a new chapter in your life is likely to begin.
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Being a British Basketball fan, Luol Deng is one of my favourite athletes. Recently I had the chance to interview him and it’s safe to say his journey to the NBA has been a remarkable one.
Deng’s journey to the NBA couldn’t have started further from the league. The Great Britain and Chicago Bulls forward was born in Sudan and is the eighth of nine children. At the age of 5 his family moved to Egypt and that’s where he started to play basketball with his brothers. Deng explained, “My older brothers played so they got me involved by teaching me the rules and how to dribble and shoot. We all really picked the sport up quite quickly.”
Luol Deng’s Road To The NBA
His family moved to London in 1994 where he really started to develop as a basketball player under the tutelage of the legendary British coach Jimmy Rogers. As he continued to improve as a basketball player, Deng was offered a scholarship to the Blair Academy in New Jersey and later went on to receive offers from over 100 colleges, choosing to attend Duke.
His coaches have had a big influence on him throughout his career; “I have had some amazing coaches with Jimmy Rogers at Brixton to Coach K at Duke and Coach Montagna from my High School, who have all played a huge part in my playing career. I would say all of these guys have made a huge influence in their own way in different stages of my life.”
However, Deng sees his Dad as his biggest inspiration in life; “My Dad is a huge inspiration to me as he had to make so many sacrifices for us in order to keep us safe. He made a great decision which really paid off for the whole family.”
Deng spent just one year at Duke, entering the NBA draft in 2004, aged just 19. He was drafted 7th overall and this remains the proudest moment of his career. “It was a dream of mine from a young age and was unreal to be there with my family on draft night,” he recalled.
After being drafted by the Phoenix Suns, he was immediately traded to the Chicago Bulls and has gone on to become one of the franchise’s best and most consistent players.
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Watching sports on television is an inherently social experience. Typically, fans watch televised games together, and when they don’t, they tend to text or chat while watching. More and more, fans hang out on social media platforms during games, treating their team’s Facebook page, for example, as a chat room. Why then, is the encouragement of fan interaction, through social media or other outlets, not a bigger part of sports broadcasts?
There are many ways to incorporate social media into televised sports. For example:
- “Ask the Announcer” Segment. Invite fans & followers to take part in “Ask the Announcer” segments, which typically appear in both locally and nationally-televised sporting events. Take submissions through the network’s social accounts as well as from the accounts of the teams that are playing. [click to continue…]
Sam is a Creative Strategist for VaynerMedia, a social media agency based in New York City. Sam previously worked as an Account Executive for the New York Jets as well as the New Jersey Nets and spent time working with former NBA player Jalen Rose as well as NFL safety Kerry Rhodes. He now focuses on creative strategy across VaynerMedia's portfolio. You can follow Sam at http://twitter.com/gosam & visit VaynerMedia at http://www.vaynermedia.com.
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The greatest sports films ever to grace the big screen are not purely for entertainments sake. Whether based on true events or fiction, each movie imparts to us some valuable life lessons. Let’s look at six of my all-time favorites:
6. Rocky III (1982) The public loved this movie for its heroism and Rocky Balboa reeks of heroism. Basking in the limelight of fame, Rocky becomes complacent and depressed. He eventually regains the “eye of the tiger” and wins the big match with fervor and a ton of hard work. We are forced to root for Rocky as he boxes his way into our hearts forever.
Life lessons: Overcoming defeat and depression in favor of determination, hard work, and the “eye of the tiger” in whatever our life mission is.
5. The Pride of the Yankees (1942) It is possible to be humble and a sports icon, as Lou Gehrig exemplified in his life and death. At the peak of his baseball career, he was struck down by Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis, (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). He was valiant in life, considering himself ‘the luckiest man on the face of the earth.’
Life Lessons: Remain humble in our greatness, we can overcome physical tragedy to live a life of honor. Our attitude determines our altitude.
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Michelle Hill, the Strong Copy Quarterback for Winning Proof, is a sports and fitness copywriter. My mission is to help pro athletes, coaches, and sports agents increase their success score in their entrepreneurial endeavors with my writing expertise and creative turn of mind.I write website content, client letters, media pitch letters, sponsorship proposals, and brochures for sports-related companies. www.winningproof.com
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For the last few decades, ESPN has been the unquestioned “Worldwide Leader in Sports.” What started as a Connecticut based, Connecticut focused, 24-hour sports network has now become more than ten popular channels across the world (including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News, ESPN Classic, and ESPN Deportes) and a highly-trafficked website (ESPN.com) devoted to delivering the latest sports news all day, every day. ESPN also boasts a very popular, bi-weekly magazine.
In the short term (10-15 years), ESPN will continue to dominate for three simple reasons.
1. Distribution. ESPN’s reach is massive, on and offline. As mentioned, they have more than ten sports networks across the world, as well as ESPN.com (nearly 5 million unique visitors in the month of January), and a big-time magazine. ESPN has also delved into the world of social media, with more than a half million combined Facebook fans and Twitter followers. It’s hard to beat that kind of power.
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Sam is a Creative Strategist for VaynerMedia, a social media agency based in New York City. Sam previously worked as an Account Executive for the New York Jets as well as the New Jersey Nets and spent time working with former NBA player Jalen Rose as well as NFL safety Kerry Rhodes. He now focuses on creative strategy across VaynerMedia's portfolio. You can follow Sam at http://twitter.com/gosam & visit VaynerMedia at http://www.vaynermedia.com.
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Tonight’s New York Rangers vs New York Islanders matchup at Madison Square Garden will be unlike any other in the long-standing rivalry. While the “Potvin sucks” chants, a look back in time, will be prevalent for the Isles visit, the theater at Madison Square Garden will hold a special eye into the first ever 3D NHL hockey broadcast. The game will be shown live at the theater and broadcast on MSG Network.
The telecast will be the first live live 3D sports event delivered to the home. While the 3D viewing experience is the NHL’s first foray into the extra-dimension, it hints what is to come as 3D sports is on course to be the hottest new trend in game viewing. This 3D game nips at the heels of ESPN ‘s January announcement about the launch of a new 3D channel to be released in June, which has a minimum of 85 3D events planned.
While definitely straight-up cool, especially for a sport like hockey filled with hits, flying pucks and dropping gloves, there are some new challenges that surface.
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Stephanie is an editor and project manager with Vaynermedia, working with the NHL to explore ways the league can use social media to engage fans and grow excitement around the game. She also hits the sports circuit as a freelance reporter for ESPN the Magazine, where she has been lucky enough to write since 2007. Her Flip cam is her favorite accessory. When not on Twitter and/or otherwise socially engaging, Stephanie enjoys snowboarding, cooking Italian food, the sport of hockey and taking years off her life watching her favorite teams, which include, but are not limited to, the New York Jets and the New York Mets.
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<VIA LOUDSPEAKER> International Olympic Committee, Vancouver Organizing Olympic Committee and Tiger Woods, please report to the first-floor classroom for PR 101…
I really wish I could say that people who work in my industry do it right because we had the best and the brightest teachers. Somewhere along the way, however, some didn’t learn basic public relations, didn’t listen or are allowing a misguided leader to dictate actions instead of what could be a better strategy for relating to the public.
Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, announced that the world’s most popular golfer will make his first public appearance since November when he makes a statement to a “small group of friends, colleagues and close associates” and three pool reporters on Friday at 11 a.m., EST from the PGA Tour headquarters in Ponte Vedra, Fla.
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Twenty years of public relations experience, including 10 in NCAA Division I sports information during which she received national awards for her work, have helped Gail Sideman emerge as a nationally-respected publicity professional in sports, social media and publishing. She is also a veteran support staffer of sports television crews for events that include the NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA regular and postseason and others. You may learn more information about Sideman's business at www.publiside.com or follow her at www.twitter.com/PUBLISIDE and www.facebook.com/gail.sideman.
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Will the Winter Olympics get more attention than people say and if not, is it a public relations issue?
It’s interesting that I hear and see people asking others if they are going to watch the Winter Olympics. A recent poll revealed that just 20 percent of Americans plan to make the Games a viewing priority. I found that number surprising since when it comes to the Summer Games, watching seems to be a foregone conclusion, especially with sports fans.
So, why the difference, or indifference, when it comes to the likes of competitive skiing, ice-skating and luge?
While I can’t answer this definitively, I can say that based on reports from Vancouver, site of this year’s Winter Olympics, challenges abound. There are cuts in NBC Sports’ staff (the network that owns the United States broadcast rights) from previous years, reports that the same company expects to lose money, the event’s covergirl, ski racer, Lindey Vonn is injured with a bruised shin and as of this writing, will try to compete, and from Michael Wilbon on “PTI”, maybe the Games have lost their luster.
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Twenty years of public relations experience, including 10 in NCAA Division I sports information during which she received national awards for her work, have helped Gail Sideman emerge as a nationally-respected publicity professional in sports, social media and publishing. She is also a veteran support staffer of sports television crews for events that include the NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA regular and postseason and others. You may learn more information about Sideman's business at www.publiside.com or follow her at www.twitter.com/PUBLISIDE and www.facebook.com/gail.sideman.
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Am I the only one who finds that the University of Alabama canceling classes January 6-8, thus postponing the start of its spring semester so its students and faculty can attend the BCS National Championship game in Pasadena, Calif., ironic?
I’m all for giving Crimson Tide fans calendar flexibility to travel to see their team take on the University of Texas for the right to call themselves title holders, but from a public relations standpoint, the decision flies right in the face of one of the reasons the Bowl Championship Series hierarchy says a college football playoff is not practical.
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Twenty years of public relations experience, including 10 in NCAA Division I sports information during which she received national awards for her work, have helped Gail Sideman emerge as a nationally-respected publicity professional in sports, social media and publishing. She is also a veteran support staffer of sports television crews for events that include the NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA regular and postseason and others. You may learn more information about Sideman's business at www.publiside.com or follow her at www.twitter.com/PUBLISIDE and www.facebook.com/gail.sideman.
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