Tag: sports fans

Chances are, you’ve heard pickleball brought up in conversation more than once over the last couple of years. The quirky game, often described as a blend of tennis, Ping-Pong and badminton, is America’s fastest-growing sport.

Interest in golf has exploded in recent years, but for some, the luxury sport still carries an air of exclusivity. So ahead of its broadcast of THE PLAYERS Championship at Florida’s TPC Sawgrass, NBC Sports hosted a two-day event aimed at making golf more accessible and attractive to general sports fans. The network’s “PLAYERS Island” […]

What began for Courtyard by Marriott in 2016 as a one-off, mega-fan sleepover event at the Super Bowl has evolved into a “tentpole moment” that caps off a months-long, loyalty-driving brand campaign. As the Official Hotel of the NFL, Courtyard planted the seeds for its sixth annual Super Bowl Sleepover activation early this time around, […]

Super Bowl 57 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ, was an affair to remember, from the Kansas City Chiefs clinching a victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in the final minutes of the game, to Apple Music replacing Pepsi as the halftime show sponsor and unleashing Rihanna after a four-year hiatus, to Tubi pranking us […]

Embracing cold weather is a way of life for Canadians. So with a 360-degree “KFC Buckets Are Life” campaign to hype, and the knowledge that basketball is Canada’s fastest-growing sport, KFC spotted an opportunity. Enter: the KFCourt, the first-ever winterized basketball court, where shooting buckets and eating buckets of chicken align under one “roof”—Toronto’s Gardiner […]