Sports Business Update
Sports Business Update with George McNeilly takes you behind the curtain for a deeper understanding when sports and business intersect. George is managing partner of McNeilly Communications, a trusted advisor devoted to the unique public relations and alliance development needs of each brand we represent. We provide innovative solutions that generate the media coverage, awareness and partnerships that businesses need to differentiate themselves in today’s crowded marketplace.McNeilly's career includes more than a decade as a award-winning national sportscaster covering four Olympics and eleven Super Bowls and another ten years as a senior executive with ESPN/The Walt Disney Company. Since 2012 he has served as a Professor of Sports Business to the next generation of leaders in both the Sports Marketing and Media and Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting Bachelor’s Degree Programs.
Sports Business Update
It's the 25th Anniversary of Cal Ripken, Jr's Claim to Baseball Immortality
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George McNeilly
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Season 1
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Episode 10
September 5th, 1995 (Baltimore, MD.) Cal Rikpen Jr. played in his 2,130th consecutive Major League Baseball game and helped the Baltimore Orioles defeat the California Angels, 8-0, in front of 46,804 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Sports Business Update Host George McNeilly was there for NBC and shares some of the atmosphere from the night the ironman record of Yankees Legend Lou Gerhig was matched, and then broken the following night.