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I have always been a fan of second tier Bowl games. From the Garden State Bowl to the Astro Blue Bonnet Bowl, those games used to bring future stars into our homes, as well as schools we didn’t often see on football Saturdays. The relevance of many to the general public, and in some cases …
There is a scene in the movie “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” where a young Jake Moore (played by Shia LaBeouf) is walking in Central Park with his mentor and his firm’s managing Lewis Zabel (Frank Langella). Zabel has become disillusioned with the industry and doesn’t understand how he can be told a loss is …
As we head into Thanksgiving week, some quick hits form the week behind while we still are missing our time in Italy. If you missed the recap, you can still find it here. Paul-Tyson Did What it was supposed to do: So much hand wringing over what the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight was or wasn’t. …
For all the talk about NIL and the money flowing into pockets, the reality is for most athletes the dollar is smaller, and sometimes goes towards causes they support. Case in point is MOVEMBER, and the global charity’s recent partnership with Opendorse to help athletes raise dollars for mental health awareness and causes like prostate …
Team Bull Riding a thing? The skeptical sports world may have looked quizzically on the idea as a gimmicky ploy. Go ahead and prove the concept PBR. So… The PBR Teams league finished its third season in Las Vegas last weekend with an instant playoff classic on the CBS Game of the Week. The fifth-seeded …
A year later, and some concepts continue to grow. The NFL, like most of the major leagues, are no stranger to the glitz, the glamor and the buzz of popular culture. We have power couples from the NBA to MLB to NWSL to the WNBA to the NHL to NASCAR. Musicians want to be athletes, athletes …
There was a time now pretty long ago when athletes…well almost everyone… had to seek out others to tell their story or show off their expressionism. When fashion came up around the games we love, Walt Frazier, Chris Evert, Muhmmad Ali, even Bill Walton in a different way, were the exceptions to the nod to …
We are always looking for tangible ways to convey curiosity and anecdotal learning, especially given how time challenged we are. Maybe it’s a little easier for older people…let’s say 40 and older…but for those we encounter in classrooms from seventh grade through grad school, the challenge of cutting through distractions, bombardment of messages, visual stimuli, …
I get asked all the time how I manage…well…time, and I use this quite from William Penn that i have on hand. “Time is what we want the most and use the worst.” -William Penn It’s hard, especially without routine or with so many things flashing in and out of what is “important” in the …
On Christmas Eve, 2007, Sports Illustrated…which was quite a big deal then… ran a back of the book story by Scott Price, who had the chance to play then-candidate Barack Obama in a game of basketball. The story showed casual sports fans, who many times are also politics averse, a side of the candidate that …
