Gail Sideman, publicist

@gsideman.bsky.social

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A no-BS publicist who wants to help tell your story & manage messages. Sports, author, small biz PR. Aunt w/ answers. gpublicity.com; newsletter: bit.ly/40AeJru • NILPublicity.com • What's YOUR story? #USF alum; #Wisconsin native. ☀️ plz.

Billboard near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) promotes the new Big Eye Network, launched by a team headed by former Major League Baseball all-star and baseball Hall of Famer Frank Thomas. @bigeyenetwork.com
German Shepherds can and will read your mind. And lick your face. 🐾
Broadcasters Kevin Harlan and Ian Eagle talk in Green Bay for a 2021 preseason NFL game. Lot of respect in that room.
As promised ... Whiskey's trading card. Whiskey was on Radio Row for Super Bowl LX.
Writer says that the headline was AI-generated because of the horrible misuse of the word "actually." The graphic says, "Smart plugs don't always make sense. Here's when you should actually use them."
Here's to you, Gary Danielson. Cheers to a special career. Glad to have spent a tiny part of it with you. 🏈🥂
Photo is of a cat looking from behind a TV screen. Post: "When the TV is watching you."
Old habits die hard. Saw Ernie, Kenny, Chuck and Shaq and thought, "I didn't realize this game was on TNT." Miss all of you @nbaontnt.bsky.social (photo of t-shirt breast with the NBA on TNT logo).
May the miracle and it's-about-time feel of Festivus shine upon you. (With a graphic of Jerry Stiller and a Happy Festivus greeting.)
Charles Barkley, Dick Vitale along with Dave O'Brien. A long-overdue sports broadcast union.
Photo is of a cup of coffee in the sunshine. Temp, 70 degrees.
SIDEbar, my weekly PR newsletter went out a little early today. Subscribe to have yours delivered to your inbox. Tell a friend 🗣️https://gsideman.beehiiv.com (scroll down to the end of the page to enter your email).
A picture of Cooper Hall Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
As I watch Vandy-Tennessee, I'm thinking of this $62 t-shirt that says SPORTS CLUB with all of the SEC school logos. It just means ... a lot more $$.
More helpings of this, please. (Graphic is of a turkey whose feathers are red and yellow footballs.)
Since it's going to be a topic at a bunch of holiday gatherings this week, let's chuckle at this one (a cartoon). It reads: "People respond to content that is 'authentic,' 'genuine,' and 'human.' So let's include those words in our AI prompts."
Ross Dellenger, who covers college sports for @yahoosports.bsky.social, posted a letter👇🏼 from NCAA's president, Charlie Baker, to Congress on another social site. Baker somehow missed that the (closed for business) U.S. government has bigger things to worry about than problems the NCAA inflicted upon itself?
@mc00.bsky.social is helping at least three organizations including Feeding America, Meals on Wheels and World Central Kitchen. "Food insecurity should not be weaponized."
But hey, who needs football on TV when you can make your space smell like football? (Translation -- who needs #YouTubeTV?) #PR At least YouTubeTV subscribers are cool today. But tomorrow -- light your candle! 🕯️
LOLOL #YouTubeTV sending out Sunday Ticket promo when it hasn't made nice with Disney and subscribers missed a big slate of Saturday college 🏈. YouTubeTV -- If you ever decide to respect customers, and come to Bluesky, you need a publicist. I'm here for ya. #PR #ShoppingStreamers
At American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - NLCS Game 1. #DodgersBrewers
Take 5 min during your sports day and read a book. If it's an explicably banned book, you get a bonus 🍺. 📚#LetFreedomReadDay
Heineken is testing Heineken 0.0 Ultimate which is described as having zero alcohol, calories or sugar. So, it's ... water?
.@nflonfox.bsky.social took a page out of @nflnetwork.bsky.social's GameDay Morning and it was fun
Longtime sports host Dan Patrick talked to 5-time Pro-Bowler Steve Smith Sr. over Zoom. Smith, a very good football analyst, looked like a blob -- a ghost over his blurred backdrop. It proved my point about the value of crisp backgrounds during video chats. More in SIDEbar: https://gsideman.beehiiv.com/p/there-s-pr-power-in-video-backgrounds
Ticketmaster and the Las Vegas HBCU Classic are the latest to break an all-too-frequent event promo law. Someone tell the powers at those organizations that "first annual" is wrong, wrong, wrong and will always get you called out.
I've never seen a frog with these markings. This guy's been hangin' out for the last couple of hours while I worked. I walked past him a bunch and he didn't budge. I'm claiming him as a dependent.
Halloween displays in July should be illegal.
My last "celebrity" photo shot to date.
When a bat flew into a basketball game at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.
Attorney Michael McCann suggests there are more innovative ways colleges could distribute money, "...than simply trying to catch up with all other football schools."
As I wrote in this week's SIDEbar newsletter, Independence doesn't exist because words are on a calendar. We have to earn and preserve it. IF you want it.
There was one good piece of non-sports news today ---> Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down 1849 abortion ban.
Celebrate National NIL Day, July 1. Share and honor the pivitol date when college athletes were permitted to profit from their name, image and likeness on and off the field. Use hashtags: #NationalNILDay, #NILImpact
MacBook Pro died after a bunch of service years -- and abuse by me. It was a good soldier.
Every athlete should know their value on and off the field and court. July 1 marks the day college athletes earned the right to profit from that value. #NationalNILDay