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    We’re Back… But Are We?

    POSTED: June 9, 2021

    A week ago, I attended my seventh Major League Baseball game of the season, but it was markedly different from the previous games I’d attended.  For the first time this year, there was someone not among my group sitting next to me.  He informed me that he had received a COVID-19 vaccine, and graciously asked […]

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    Research-Driven Perspective: It’s Time To Fully Open Up Sporting Events

    POSTED: May 11, 2021

    While fans supported the notion that it was proper to shut down live sports at the onset of the pandemic, we are now in a different place. 

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    In Star-Obsessed Sports Culture, Does Emperor Have No Clothes?

    POSTED: April 14, 2021

    In the lead item in the April 13th Marketing Insider, SLRG’s Jon Last takes a research driven look at the questionable over-emphasis on “star worship and hype in today’s sports coverage.

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    Play ball: Sports fans eager to get into stadiums

    POSTED: April 4, 2021

    A Back to Normal Barometer informed look at how pent up demand for live sports is creating a supply/demand imbalance as COVID attendance restrictions continue to inhibit properties from optimizing revenue.

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    Nearly 8 out of 10 vaccinated Americans back vaccine passport

    POSTED: March 23, 2021

    America has a new divide — those vaccinated versus those not. And according to a new survey shared with Secrets, the growing number of Americans vaccinated are ready to shun those who haven’t been from traveling or events. The latest update to the Back-to-Normal Barometer that surveys Americans and businesses about the coronavirus crisis found that 75% […]

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With over 25 years of management experience, Jon Last is founder and President of Sports and Leisure Research Group, a White Plains, NY based full service marketing research consultancy that supports leading brands in sports marketing, travel, media and leisure categories as well as a host of golf, travel and consumer product company clients. Jon’s […]

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