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A year ago my wife Laura and I talked about what I wanted to do for my 60th birthday. A trip? Well that’s coming next week, a combo of several milestones for us. A party? Nah, not my thing and you can never get to all the people you would want to see anyway. I …
There were lots of learnings pulled out of this year’s Dealmakers conference in Washington this past week, put on by Sports Business Journal and Monumental Sports and Entertainment. While we will touch on several topics in upcoming posts, one topic that is continuing to gain attention for so many reasons, not the least of which …
“It’s not your fault, Santa Claus has more publicity.” And “Well, let’s face it; Santa Claus has had more publicity, but being number two, perhaps you try harder.” Linus in letter to The Great Pumpkin and his conversation with Sally Brown. I love hearing Linus’ struggles to get attention this time of year as he …
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 …
If you like basketball, careers and storytelling, here are three recent podcasts of our to enjoy. As always you can catch all of our pods here. Hoops history: We caught up with Andrew Maraniss, best-selling author and Special Projects Coordinator at Vanderbilt University to talk about Vandy’s recent football success, how he chooses and …
So here is the way I consume whatever we think of “media” as…printed word. I get A LOT of newsletters I scroll through on various topics each day, in the morning and at night. I bookmark what I see as interesting or noteworthy…actually I cut and paste the links, hopefully not all paywalled…into a file …
“Walk the balance between humility and confidence.” There were so many tidbits of wisdom that applied to every one of the over five hundred attendees at the Columbia University Sports Management Conference in Lerner Hall on October tenth, but that quote from Unrivaled Basketball Commissioner Micky Lawler in the opening panel on emerging sports helped …
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, …
If you hear about something randomly (and listening again is so key) maybe it’s a random thought. If you hear about something three times maybe its becoming something buzzworthy…if you hear about something four or five times…and once is from the pulpit…maybe it is really a thing. Case in point is letterwriting, its value, and its …
