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March Madness: Breaking Records, New Frontiers, and Union Moves in College Sports

If it’s March, that means I’m ever-confused about what type of outerwear I am supposed to wear outside, my allium bulbs (or as I like to call them: “Bloomgarden’s garden blooms”) are awakening and making their journey up from...more

Chart-Topping Reinventions and Sheer Surprises: This Week's Sports & Entertainment Spotlight

Welcome back to the Spotlight! In case all eight of you missed me last week while I was out, I will do my best to show that I am coming back a better version of myself. What does that mean in my situation? Well, we’ve...more

Reflecting on a National Crisis Amidst Super Bowl Celebrations – Sports & Entertainment Spotlight

Welcome back to the Spotlight! I really wanted to open this week talking about the football game. I wanted to talk about Usher’s performance at the halftime show. I wanted to talk about the commercials. I even wanted to be...more

Super Bowl Spectacles and Swift Endorsements: A High-Stakes Weekend in Las Vegas

Welcome back to the Spotlight! While many bask in the afterglow of last weekend’s history making Grammy Awards, the lights along the Las Vegas Strip and heat lamps along the Las Vegas buffets begin to burn brighter, as the...more

Echoes of Super Bowls Past and the TikTok Music Tussle: This Week in Sports & Entertainment

Welcome back to the Spotlight! Proudly artificial intelligence and brain chip-free since 2021SM. Would ChatGPT or a Neuralink brain-computer interface make my weekly task here easier? Perhaps. But ChatGPT wouldn’t be...more

Spotlight Shines on Storytelling: From Wrexham's Triumph to Turbulent Sports Tales

If there’s one thing that the docuseries and (as of Monday night) winner of four Emmy Awards “Welcome to Wrexham” highlights, it is never to underestimate the power of storytelling through sports. In the case of “Welcome to...more

New Year, New Twists: From Golden Globes to Sports Legends Turning Pages

Welcome back to the Spotlight! We’re barely into the New Year and it has been an eventful one already. First, (and you would be forgiven for not knowing this, but…) the Golden Globes took place this past Sunday. The theme...more

Signing Off 2023: Big Stories, Dad Jokes, and Sports Spectacles

For the very last time in 2023, welcome back to the Spotlight! I know there’s still 2 weeks left in the year but I figure my readers are either going to be checked-out or buried in work to complete before end of the year. If...more

Holiday Gifting Is Here: NASCAR and Premier League Seeing Green, Tay Tay Tops Yet Another Chart, and NCAA Proposes Novel...

Welcome back to the Spotlight! This past Tuesday, I was fortunate to attend sports business publication Sportico’s Influence live event in New York City. Besides having the pleasure of meeting a number of interesting (dare I...more

Game-Changing Moves: Mark Cuban Announces Exit from 'Shark Tank' and Mavs' Majority Ownership, Hall & Oates Face Off, and a $264...

Welcome back to the Spotlight! If you’re reading this week, it means that you managed to pull yourself away from your Spotify Wrapped year-end summary. As for your Spotlight Wrapped, I would like to think that your laughs...more

Pre-Thanksgiving Feast: From Spielberg's New WWII Series to Innovative Snacks and MLB's Vegas Move

Welcome back to the Spotlight! With the Thanksgiving holiday coming up next week, the Spotlight will be on a one-week hiatus. But lest you worry, it’s all gravy. I will do my best to load up your plate with all the fixings,...more

From SAG-AFTRA's Breakthrough to Seasonal Tunes and Casino Bets – This Week in Sports & Entertainment

Welcome back to the Spotlight! It seems the spotlights on film and television sets across the country are primed to be turned back on, as actors’ union SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers...more

Swift Success and Spotlight Recollections: From Billion-Dollar Beats to Bottled Banters

While many of you come down from your Halloween sugar high, Taylor Swift remains in another stratosphere. Not because of sweets (although I hear Donna Kelce’s pre-game chocolate chip cookies are not to be missed), but rather...more

Haunted Hues of Halloween: Spotlighting Sports, Scares, and Soundtracks

We’re just a few days away from Halloween, but I don’t feel the same excitement about the holiday as I once did. Maybe it is because I am older and eat less candy (I have the before and after pictures to prove it). Maybe it...more

Spotlighting the Power and Peril of Speedy Narratives

Welcome back to the Spotlight! As Winston Churchill once said, “a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Of course, Churchill predated the proliferation of social media that has...more

A Moment for Reflection: Humanity Above the Fray

Welcome back to the Spotlight. I would have loved nothing more than to write about sports and entertainment with levity and dad jokes as per usual. But, in light of the unspeakable, antisemitic terrorist acts committed in...more

Alerts, Acquisitions, and Athletic Alliances: Spotlight on Sports & Entertainment

First things first, I owe you an apology for having startled you all the other day. You see, I was piloting a new distribution method for taking the Spotlight to the masses, and (oops!) I ended up setting off alerts on...more

Touchdowns, Tunes, and Taylor: A Week of Surprises in Sports & Entertainment

This past week a Sports & Entertainment Spotlight unto itself shone bright at Arrowhead Stadium as Taylor Swift cheered on her rumored love connection Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. In the wake of that game (Kelce...more

Autumn Equinox Antics: From Football Fervor to Musical Megadeals and Mayonnaise

For those of you that were already feeling overwhelmed by the early onset of pumpkin spice at the end of summer, with autumn now being upon us, it is now socially acceptable for those flavors and aromas to pervade daily life....more

NFL Surprises, Pickleball Peaks, and Aoki's Whopper: This Week in Sports & Entertainment

Week one of the NFL season is in the books, leaving many teams, players and fans (whether it be New York Giants fans such as myself bemoaning a Sunday night beat down at the hands of the Dallas Cowboys, or Los Angeles...more

From Hand Surgery to Handoffs: Tackling This Week's Sports & Entertainment Highlights

Welcome back to the Spotlight! I am just a few days removed from hand surgery, so on the one hand, I’d ask you to excuse my brevity. But on the other hand I’d sheepishly ask, hat in hand, for you to clap your hands for my...more

Labor Day Reflections and Entertainment Insights – From Historical Strikes to Strike Force Five

Welcome back to the Spotlight! As we approach Labor Day Weekend here in the US, I became curious as to the origins of the federal holiday. Gather round, class – Mr. Bloomgarden has a history lesson to share. (Clears throat…)...more

Blindsided by Truth: Navigating the Murky Waters of Oher's Legal Drama & A Week's Worth of Dad Jokes

We here at the Spotlight are a family-oriented program committed to giving you sports and entertainment industry business and legal news and insights interspersed with dad jokes (though sometimes I wonder whether it is the...more

Spotlight on Sports & Entertainment: College Conferences Shift, ESPN's B-E-T Move, and Lawsuits Galore

Welcome back to the Spotlight! While the tumbleweed continues to blow across studio lots in Hollywood as a result of the impasse with SAG-AFTRA and WGA, the sports world continues to experience kinetic, disruptive activity....more

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: Slime-ulcast for Super Bowl LVIII, Cardi B's Concert Drama, College Sports Revamp, and ASU...

Welcome back to the Spotlight! The time that you invest in reading my weekly streams of consciousness newsletter/post is very much appreciated, and I hope that the little time investment yields a sizable return in one way or...more

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