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For six years I taught a summer high school course at Columbia, and followed it up with three years at The School of the New York Times when they launched their summer learning series. It was a glorious grind that kept my summers at bay until the beginning of August each year, but it was …
Recently I was looking back in my card collection, binders and all, to find a card of a colleague I recently formally met, former Royals infielder Buddy Biancalana. I went to my binders, there are at least seven which we organized by year and team several years ago, and to my dismay did not have …
It’s the middle of the summer and the Olympics are here obviously…so three different listens worth your time…on a unique hoops pipeline…the change from a car to a mobility company…and what its like to be an athlete from Guam…You can hear all of our episodes here as well. The Road to The NBA Front Office …
It was a busy three days in and around Kansas and Missouri this past week, all without actually venturing into the heart of Kansas City, Missouri, which I am looking forward to on a later trip this fall. Still even with touching the fringes of KC, there were a ton of best practices and learnings, …
There is nothing like Spring Training in baseball. Fans flock to two central locales, Florida and Arizona, to escape the winter blues, look ahead to warmer weather and watch baseball games that don’t count in the standings. If you time things right, you can see a dozen teams in just a few days, all part …
This happens from time to time in cyclical worlds, be they sports, entertainment or even education. You get to a point of rinse and repeat, hopefully taking the best practices of years past and reframing so that the core messages or best practices stay consistent and true, while the anecdotes, even the best ones, get …
We are still in the infancy…no pun intended…of the growth of athletes who happen to be women being fully accepted, championed, and mainstreamed into the media and the brand activation side of sports. Data is growing, coverage is increasing, numbers are rising, crossover is expanding, but we still take steps forward in slow but important …
In just a weeks time the National Sports Collectors Convention, a massive treasure trove of memorabilia new, unique and traditional, will make its stop in Cleveland this year, followed by FantaicsFest in New York in August. Both will be a treasure trove of stuff feeding into the growing market of collectables, and both are worth a …
As we start the third quarter of 2024, some good listens for the beach, the lake or the drive. We hope you find them informative, fun and worthwhile and you can hear all our podcasts updated each week here. The biggest ‘Ally’ in Women’s Sports. We welcomed program alum Stephanie Marciano, Head of Sports and …
We love seeing and listening to young people looking to expand their reach and fill blue ocean through disruption and innovation…and new ways of looking at things. Case in point discovered this week from our colleague Adam Honig, a young company in the data analytics space…Project 94…who cut a partnership with Johns Hopkins Women’s Lacrosse …
