As video technology gets cheaper and better, simple solutions now exist for teams and performers at all technology levels at very low costs. Read more from Editor Jon Cudo on the uses for the inexpensive Flip Camcorders.

Prize Wheel and Plinko are fun concourse activities, but for teams they can be an opportunity to generate profit. Here is a quick look at how a wheel can spin a profit for you from Gameops.com.

We recently received this essay from the Seattle Seahawks mascot, which was a very interesting way to use your mascot to project a positive message to kids. The message can be read to kids at a school assembly or used in the game program.

At the 2002 NBA Mascot Conference we asked several top NBA mascots for their advice to aspiring mascots on how to advance their mascot career and get prepared for mascoting opportunities. We share that advice here.

A very special night is planned for the citizens of New York when the Mets return to Shea Stadium to host the Atlanta Braves. This event was the first game played back in New York following the 9-11 Terrorist Attack.

A special video piece was created this season for the Portland Fire (WNBA). The piece features the Fire's mascot, Spot, in a spoof of the popular Nike Rhythm ads. The video aired on the Fire's opening night broadcast and was also played in-arena for the fans. Shot and edited by local production house Lost Highway Pictures, located in Portland Oregon.

In the world of sports, it's kind of like wondering how the Pyramids were built, or who created Stonehenge. It's just one of those elusive mysteries.

It has now been 45 years since I went onto the football field as Carnegie's first Scottish Terrier, and the tradition still lives on. I'm proud to have started a school tradition at my alma mater. Read Bob Beatty's story.

Before mascots were dancing on fields and good-naturedly heckling sports officials and players, they were donned upon numerous cave walls and carved on the tops of totem poles. Although they were not called by their current name, they still served the same purpose as the modern day mascot.

In any game presentation there are things you control, and things you don't. The unexpected can pleasantly surprise you and create that water cooler moment in the game or it can bite you. The goal is to control as much as you can and allow the unforgettable moments to happen, but happen within your plans, not at the expense of them.