Articles

01.16.15

Sports Precedents Die Hard In 9th Circ.

Major League Baseball struck out San Jose, California, in a case decided by the Ninth Circuit on Jan. 15, 2015. San Jose's challenge of MLB's rule that three-quarters of the teams must vote for a franchise relocation failed in connection with the attempt of San Jose to be the new home of the ...


01.12.15

This Year Holds Promise for Post-Acute Care

Hospitals traditionally have viewed a patient's discharge as the endpoint of their care responsibilities. Little attention was paid to the next steps in treatment once the patient left the building. Movie scenes showing miraculously cured patients waving cheerful good-byes to their hospital ...


01.06.15

Court Stops New Jersey's Effort to Legalize Sports Betting

A New Jersey federal judge last month rejected New Jersey's latest attempt to legalize sports betting, ruling that a state statute that repealed New Jersey's long-standing prohibition on sports betting at casinos and racetracks violates the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act ...


01.05.15

The Future Of Digital Media In 2015

2014 proved to be a transformational year for content-driven digital media and investment (a new "golden age" of content I predicted for TechCrunch at the beginning of this year). For the first time, that investment (much of it SoCal-based) finally took its rightful place in the sun -even in the ...


01.04.15

5 Predictions for Digital Video in 2015

2014 proved to be a transformational year for digital-first video and the YouTube economy. The short-form video world essentially "grew up" and traditional media, major brands, and even previously cynical Northern California investors took notice.