Kat Hasenauer Cornetta

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On Viewing Parties and Riots

14 June, 2011 /

The crowd outside the TD Garden Monday evening before Game 6.Updated 6/15/2011 morning

Wednesday night will be only the second time that a Boston pro sports team could win a championship and I won’t be responsible for putting on a viewing party involving it. And even though I haven’t been in the viewing party business since 2008, it is still odd not to be at this point in a championship series and not be all consumed with putting on an event that would do justice to the championship possibility and keep students from gathering in Kenmore Square. Continue reading

What Are Your Sports Superstitions?

13 June, 2011 /
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The TD Garden lit up with Bruins spirit. (Photo by me and my iPhone.)

The Boston Bruins are going to lose tonight because I am wearing pants.

Preposterous, you say. What does making a choice between a black skirt and black pants have to do with if the Bruins will tie up their Stanley Cup Finals series against the Vancouver Canucks this evening? Continue reading

To Reply, or Not To Reply: How Should the NHL Respond to Discipline Via Twitter?

7 June, 2011 /

I attended Monday’s Realtime conference in New York City, at which the NHL’s Director of Social Media Marketing and Strategy Michael DiLorenzo gave a case study on how the NHL approaches social media. Of course, it was easily the most entertaining moment of the day for mega sports fan me, but that aside, it was also an amazing presentation with a ton of information.

I’ll write up more about the NHL’s presentation and overall conference later (I am in charge of technical support for a new student orientation this week, so time is tight), but there was one ironic and timely point in it that I must share. DiLorenzo mentioned that one of the things they have struggled with is responding via their NHL Twitter account in the wake of disciplinary news: “No matter what the discipline department decides, we’re going to get tons of tweets that say ‘You’re wrong.”

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Win A Private VIP Tour Of Fenway Park!

14 May, 2011 /

The great team at Tickets for Charity has another giveaway for Boston Red Sox fans and baseball history buffs. By entering this contest, you could win a VIP tour of Fenway Park on May 25th. This tour involves features of the park not usually explored during routine tours of the historic venue. After your unique tour of America’s oldest ballpark, the Tickets for Charity crew will treat you to lunch.

To enter the giveaway, please click on this link. This contest runs until Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 6pm. A winner will be selected at random by Tickets For Charity.

Best of luck!

To learn more about my partnership with Tickets For Charity, read this earlier post. The organization sells popular sports and entertainment tickets and uses the profit to support a variety of charitable groups.

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