How Do the World’s Best Teams Tackle Innovation?

In July, the U.S. Women’s Soccer team confirmed their status as the best female football team on the planet. Their win in the FIFA World Cup saw them show great fighting qualities not only for the ball, but for equal pay, gender equality and LGBT rights. That prompted Billie Jean King to say that “these…

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Blinder and US college sport

There’s extra responsibility to respect both the time and privacy of student-athletes. As the name suggests, they’re juggling two very significant roles – and those competing elements can put them under plenty of pressure. The same applies to the communications staff that represent them.

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Andy Seeley: The unbeaten UCF Knights, Shaquem Griffin and CoSIDA

The last 12 months have kept Andy Seeley on his toes. He’s run athletics communications for the University of Central Florida (UCF), as they’ve experienced unprecedented interest in their unbeaten Knights football team. The Division 1 college went on to proclaim themselves as ‘National Champions’, which did little to settle things down.

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Matthew Syed and ‘You Are Awesome’

When he was eight, Matthew Syed’s parents bought him and his big brother a full-size table tennis table. Fortunately, the family had a garage which was big enough to fit both the Super Deluxe 1000 and the increasingly competitive boys. Having a table and a big brother were just a couple of the advantages that Matthew enjoyed on his path to becoming a British table tennis champion.

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21 reasons sports teams choose Blinder

PR managers in pro sport have faced a tough choice until recently.
When arranging media phone interviews, they’ve either had to share the personal numbers of their athletes and coaches – without being too sure where those numbers are ending up – or they’ve had to put a whole lot of extra resource into providing access without distributing numbers.
They now have a third option – and it’s changed the game. Let’s take a look at how:

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New Blinder website launched

The thoughts of a number of our clients – who represent Olympic champions to Grammy winners – take centre stage on the all-new Blinder website. The site is heavily sporting in flavour, with a healthy rock ‘n’ roll swagger, too.

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