Press Box
Welcome to the Press Box for
the Sports Museum of America (SmA)
We're here to help you file your stories and tell ours, so we hope you'll find the information and images you need in downloadable form here. The material is for your free and unrestricted use in conjunction with stories about SmA, but please limit the use of our images to stories about us. If there's something special you need, or would like to discuss, please don't hesitate to contact us directly at:
Amanita Duga-Carroll, Rubenstein Communications - PR
aduga@rubenstein.com or 212-843-8066
or
Barbara Pflughaupt, Dir. of Communications
barbara@sportsmuseum.com or 646-826-2846
Thanks for your interest! We look forward to working with you.
Barbara & Amanita
PRESS MATERIALS
- SmA Press Kit
- The SmA Game Program – General Press Release
- SmA Stats – SmA Fact Sheet
- SmA Warm Up – History Feature
- The SmA Playing Field – Location
- The SmA Lineup – Our Sports Partners
- The SmA Captains – The Board of Directors
- SmA’s Captains – Board of Trustees
- SmA Professional Partners
- Cisco Technology Powers the New Sports Museum of America
The SmA Front Office - Executive Bios
- Philip Schwalb - Founder & CEO
- Sameer Ahuja - Co-Founder & COO/CFO
- John Urban - President & General Manager
Press Releases 2008
- Sports Museum of America and the NY Mets team up for SmA Foam Finger Day at Shea
- Walt Frazier and Aimee Mullins announce ticket on sale
- An Open Love Letter To Sports Fans of America
- Cisco Technology Powers the New Sports Museum of America
- SmA Appoints Donna Arduini Vice President of Finance
- Soccer Superstar Cluadio Reyna Gives The Shirt Off His Back To SmA
- SmA Welcomes Baseball Author And Noted Collector Stephen Wong As Senior Curatorial Advisor
- SmA Appoints Melissa Brody Garden Director Of Special Events
Press Releases 2007
- SmA Appoints Barbara McHugh Director Of Marketing
- Basile, Arnemann, Davis, And Purcell To Lead Team To Spring 2008 Opening
- First National Museum Celebrating All Sports Announces New Name
Press Releases 2006
IMAGES
- SmA Artifacts
- SmA Artifact Captions and Credits
- SmA Photography
- SmA Photo Captions and Credits
- Front Office Headshots
- Inside the Museum
- Floor Plan and Building
- Individual Sport Galleries – Auto Racing, Baseball, Basketball
- Individual Sport Galleries – Football, Hockey
- Themed Galleries I – Breaking Barriers, Dreaming Big
- Themed Galleries II – Games People Play, More Than A Game
SmA IN THE NEWS
May 2008
- NASCAR.com, 5/07/08, “NASCAR on display at Sports Museum of America”
- Daily News, 5/07/08, “City scores big with new sports museum”
- Brandweek, 5/05/08, “The Game: New Sports Museum Has Balls; Gillette Sharpens MLB Focus”
- Downtown Express, 5/02/08, “Sports Museum looking for hit on Broadway”
- Family Circle, 5/01/08, “Family Time”
- Time Out New York, 5/01/08, “The Sports Museum brings the pros downtown”
- Metromix New York, 5/07/08, Insider the Sports Museum of America”
- MSG.com, 5/07/08, “Sports Museum of America Open…”
- New York Times, 5/07/08, “An Afternoon at the (New Sports) Museum”
- NY Stock Exhange Closing Bell (May 6, 2007)
- USA Today, 5/02/08, “Hey there, sports fans: Museum opens in New York”
- The New York Times, 5/01/08, “The Heisman Trophy Moves to Its New Home”
April 2008
- The Economic Times, 4/29/08, “American sports museum has desi touch”
- "In Focus- Bloomberg News (4/23/08)"
- Sports Collectors Digest, 4/18/08, “SmA has NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA, NASCAR, and more”
- amNewYork, 04/15/08, “Museum for all sports”
- Staten Island Advance, 04/14/08, “ Dream of Sports Museum is Now Reality”
- Daily News, 04/14/08, “Students get real-world biz experience”
- The Detroit News, 4/13/08, “NYC is getting all-sports museum”
- Only a Game (NPR and 90.9wbur), 4/11/08, “Sports Museum of America”
- Yahoo Finance, 4/07/08, “Walt 'Clyde' Frazier & Aimee Mullins announce ticket sales”
- Dallas Morning News, 4/07/08, “Walt 'Clyde' Frazier & Aimee Mullins announce ticket sales”
- LaBusiness.com, 4/07/08, “Walt 'Clyde' Frazier & Aimee Mullins announce ticket sales”
- Ventura County Sunday Star, 4/6/08, “New all-sports museum opening in New York”
- USA Weekend, 4/04/08, “Interview with Billie Jean King”
- Title IX Blog, 04/04/08, “Checking in with Billie Jean”
March 2008
- World Golf Hall of Fame, 3/1/08, “Exhibits”
- SportsBusiness Journal, 03/30/08, “USA Basketball partnering on museum”
- East Bay Business Times, 3/25/08, “Slugger Museum to support new sports museum”
- Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal, 03/23/08, “People”
- Fox Central Oregon, 3/20/08, "The 1st All-Sports Museum. USA Basketball presents its history"
- Jerseys for Fans, 3/19/08, "Sports Museum of American to Open May 2008 in New York City"
- US Olympic Team.com, 3/17/08, “USA Basketball Teams Up with SmA”
- IEG Sponsorship Report, 3/17/08, “Museum To Include Host of Emerging Cisco Technologies”
- Daily Star, 3/15/08, “Soccer Hall Partners with Museum”
- The Bergen Record, 3/14/08, “Sports Ticker”
- The Dallas Morning News, 3/13/08, “SmA Partners with National Soccer Hall of Fame”
- CNBC, 3/13/08, “SmA Partners with National Soccer Hall of Fame”
- Sports Business Daily, 3/12/08, “SmA Eyeing One Million Visitors in First Year”
- New York Times, 03/12/08, “Luring Sports Fans of All Seasons to Lower Manhattan”
- Sports Business Journal, 3/10/08, “Inside Out”
- Sports Business Journal, 3/09/08, “Facilities”
- AmericanRugbyNews.com, 3/07/08, “Rugby partners with Sports Museum of America”
- Sports Business Journal, 3/05/08, “Executive Transactions”
- The New York Times, 3/04/08, “Hall Will Give to Museum”
- Yahoo Sports, 3/03/08, “Monday Chalktalk – NCAAF News & Notes”
- Funworld, 3/01/08, “In Brief”
- Robb Report, 3/01/08, “One Last Thing”
- NIRSA, 3/01/08, “Billie Jean King to attend 2008 USTA National Campus Championship”
February 2008
- Time Out New York, 2/27/08, “Museums are set to open (and reopen) all over town…”
- Brandweek, 2/25/08, “People”
- Crain’s New York Business.com, 2/20/08, “Sports museum adds office space”
- Meetings/focus, 2/20/08, “WOW! NYC - A Manhattan Minute”
- Sports Collectors Daily, 2/15/08, “Loan Your Stuff to a Big Time Museum”
- Yahoo Finance, 2/14/08, “Cisco Technology Powers the New Sports Museum of America”
- Forbes.com, 2/14/08, “Celebrating America’s Love Affair with Sports”
- The Huffington Post, 2/14/08, “Calling All Sports Fans”
- AOL Sports, 2/13/08, “Names in the Game”
- Bowl.com, 2/13/08, “Bowing museum partners with Sports Museum of America”
- USA Volleyball, 2/08/08, “USA Volleyball Partners with the Sports Museum of America”
- New York Post, 2/01/08, “True Blue”
January 2008
- The Tampa Tribune, 1/20/08, “Sunday Compass”
- Crain’s New York Business, 1/09/08, “Museum director steps up to bat”
Legends Speak
- Tiki Barber (Video)
- Bille Jean King (Video)
- Bob Cousy (Video)
- Jim Craig (Video)
- Aimee Mullins (Video)
- Keith Hernandez (Video)