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The sport of squash is fast, ultra-athletic and pretty much refined to clubs and select colleges and high schools in the United States. It has never been “mainstream.” The International Squash Federation, with a large amount of support in India and Pakistan, has tried in vain to get the sport on the Olympic programme. Women’s …
The broad and lasting implications of the recent Presidential election will ultimately be measured in the history books. What can be immediately affirmed are the folly of polls and the upending of conventional wisdom. For example, uncertainty from a Trump victory was supposed to crater the stock market. Instead, our 401Ks have been treated to …
The following was co-authored by Columbia student Maurice Eisenmann When the news broke that Argentinian National team star and Boca Juniors veteran Carlos Tevez would move to Shanghai and would become the highest paid soccer player in history, many people were surprised. After all, why would a Chinese team be willing to pay this record …
One of the great risks in Mixed Martial Arts fighting is that fact that because there are so many disciplines, even the best of fighters can get caught against a specialist and lose in surprising seconds. Often times with the loss comes a huge amount of human capital that has been built into the building …
One of the most underappreciated qualities in an attention starved, shout over everyone to get noticed world is the ability to listen, digest what you hear and learn from those around you. With so much white noise out there, channeling the good from the useless or mundane can be difficult, bit learning to be a …
The following was co-authored by Columbia student Maurice Eisenmann. You can also listen to our eSports podcast here. Also there are many links worthwhile, as part of this little eSports education… If the last couple of months have made one thing clear to us, it’s that eSports are here to stay in some growing way …
For all the heat that has surrounded Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for years on his team-first stance with regard to certain sponsorship deals, it has always been interesting to see that the Cowboys have ceded some of their most valuable real estate…the end zone signage, to a cause, the Salvation Army, for years. No other …
The following was largely authored by Columbia student Maurice Eisenmann This week, Wesley Edens, co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, joined many of his colleagues and bought his way into an eSports team for $2.5 million. Over the past couple of months, the trend of traditional sports teams and their owners investing in eSports has reached …
For this edition of “Teaching Thursdays” we ask some of our colleagues at Columbia what they will be keeping their eye on for 2017. The Masters in Sports Management Program at Columbia, now just over 10 years old, is the only program in the Ivy League and is recognized as the number two program globally …
It started as a simple way for players to tell their story, one which drew the ire of the NFL as a uniform violation, but one which has grown to be much more of a platform as players continue to find more of a social voice. So this week, the NFL allowed hundreds of players …