Neil A. Carousso produces and co-hosts WCBS Newsradio 880’s Small Business Spotlight series with Joe Connolly. Click here to watch the weekly video segments featuring advice for business owners on survival, recovery and growth opportunities.

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  • Tracy McGrady Launches Ones Basketball League in Brooklyn

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    Executive Produced by Carousso Enterprises, LLC.

    Brooklyn, NY — NBA Hall of Famer Tracy McGrady debuted his Ones Basketball League (OBL) at Major R. Owens Community Center in Brooklyn where athletes ages 18 and over competed in a one-on-one hoops competition for $10,000.

    Aliyah Funschelle and Tyler Tierno cover for NY2C’s On The Call, executive produced by Carousso Enterprises.

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  • Former ABC President Launches MOJO Sports App to Return Fun to Youth Athletics

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    By Joe Connolly and Neil A. Carousso

    NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — MOJO Sports is on a mission to keep youth sports fun.

    The company was founded by Ben Sherwood, former Disney-ABC Television Group and ABC News president, who witnessed first-hand how youth sports can be stressful for both kids and parents. For 14 years, he was the soccer coach for his two sons. He often took calls on the practice field from then-Disney CEO Bob Iger while trying to organize drills.

    “I had a PDF from 1994 for a soccer team and a book called ‘Soccer for Dummies’ that I bought at Barnes & Noble – when there used to be these bookstores where you could buy a book – and I did the best I could. And Lord knows I probably messed up a bunch of soccer careers, because I really didn’t have any idea what I was doing,” said Sherwood on the WCBS Small Business Spotlight, sponsored by Dime Community Bank.

    He started MOJO Sports to put the fun back in youth sports, citing research that roughly 70 percent of kids dropout of organized athletics by the age of 13 because it wasn’t enjoyable anymore.

    “We set out with MOJO to make sports more fun for kids, easier for coaches and stress-free for parents,” said Sherwood. “And so if you can take the stress and the pressure of all that out of the equation, you have more chance(s) of families participating and kids considering the play.”

    He told WCBS 880 the app already has 100,000 monthly active users since its launch in February 2021. It provides training resources and short videos of practice drills.

    “Our machine generates a practice for you that fits the exact amount of time you’ve got, it tells you exactly the equipment you’re going to need, and then, gives you high-quality videos that are about a minute to a minute and a half long that show you the activities that you’re going to do in the order you’re going to do them with coaching tips and coaching points,” he said.

    “All of these activities are age appropriate, developmentally appropriate for your team, and they’ve been vetted and approved by the best organizations in sports.”

    MOJO Sports has partnered with Major League Baseball, NFL Flag Football and Jr. NBA to develop the curriculum. Sherwood told the WCBS Small Business Spotlight that the professional sports leagues recognize the connection between fandom and playing the sport growing up. It is also their talent pipeline.

    The MOJO Sports app, available on iOS and Android, is free for coaches and youth sports teams, but parents can buy additional resources with a subscription.

    “There’s additional content that families can purchase for a subscription fee of about five bucks a month or about 60 bucks a year,” said Sherwood, continuing, “With that additional subscription fee, you get access to additional content that you can work on at home with your kids if you want to give your kids additional benefits and additional video and additional content to help them get better at sports.”

    See how the MOJO Sports app works to keep kids engaged and take the pressure off parent coaches on the Small Business Spotlight video above.

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  • What to Expect at Smorgasburg’s Open-Air Food Market at World Trade Center

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    NEW YORK, NY — Make your Friday plans now!

    If you’re hungry and looking for something different on Friday, then head down to the World Trade Center and enjoy the sights, smells and tastes of Smorgasburg – New York’s largest weekly open air food market.

    NY2C’s What’s Up New York visited recently and tried all the good eats made by local chefs!

    NY2C’s flagship digital series “What’s Up New York” is produced and written by Carousso Enterprises, LLC.

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  • Rangers Dominate Lightning at MSG, Go Up 2-0 in Eastern Conference Finals

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    New York, NY — The New York Rangers outplayed the two-time defending Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning in both games at Madison Square Garden to open the Eastern Conference Finals before heading south.

    Derek Futterman captures the electricity of game 2 at the World’s Most Famous Arena for NY2C’s On The Call.

    NY2C’s On The Call is executive produced by Carousso Enterprises, LLC.

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  • LI Kosher Meat Business Tames Inflation with Made in USA Products

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    By Joe Connolly and Neil A. Carousso

    GREAT NECK, N.Y. (WCBS 880) — Food prices, including meat, have skyrocketed in recent months due to global supply chain disruptions and increased labor costs. A Great Neck-based kosher meat company has been able to keep food prices at bay with a unique direct-to-consumer business that sources its prime cuts in the United States.

    “In our clientele, the main thing they care about is having the supply at that consistent level,” said Elliot Moscowitz of Prairie Street Prime, which caters to the luxury kosher meat market.

    “We have a USDA Prime program, which is graded. We have lamb, we have veal, we have dry age and fish,” said Moscowitz on the WCBS Small Business Spotlight, sponsored by Dime Community Bank.

    When inflation started to spike earlier this year, Prairie Street Prime began to flash freeze their meats at 20 degrees below zero to ramp up supply. That decision in anticipation of rising food prices paid dividends for the Long Island company.

    “A kosher market is a very small market compared to the non-kosher and we’re working in only the highest-end of those kosher markets. So, one of the ways to accomplish that is to make sure that you have adequate inventory in all the product groups,” Moscowitz said.

    Prairie Street Prime has warehouses throughout the United States that enables them to offer next-day delivery.

    Moscowitz wasn’t always in the kosher meat business. He had a long and successful career on Wall Street as a commodities and foreign exchange trader.

    He started Prairie Street Prime first as a club in Brussels where he lived for a time while his wife was on assignment for the United Nations assisting with the Syrian refugee crisis. He imported kosher meats monthly from France and quickly realized there were few direct-to-consumer options for the top 5 percent of the market.

    “I didn’t want to be one of those people that spent their whole time thinking about something and never doing it and regretting it later,” said Moscowitz. “So, I’ve spent three years devoting my life to understanding this and building this platform.”

    Prairie Street Prime has invested heavily in video production. Their digital library of cooking videos introduces new customers to the brand.

    “We’re not only disrupting the kosher e-commerce platform space, but we’re also disrupting the kosher education space. And, I didn’t believe it would be a direct correlation to necessarily providing videos to sales, but we’re building a community, a global community.”

    The company uploads new educational videos on kosher lifestyle every Sunday. It is also exploring a B2B model by collaborating with private chefs to showcase their talents on video.

    Watch the Small Business Spotlight video above for more on this story.

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