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Let’s think forward and back for a second, to March Madness past, and the one if not next year, but in two years. Think back to Christian Laettner’s buzzed beater to oust Kentucky, or Kris Jenkins’ championship shot for Villanova against North Carolina, or read this great story from Philly.com about the shot that rocked …
In a continuingly unique year like no other, this week we seem to be getting a forward-looking sense of maybe a bit more normalcy ahead. First MLB announced their rules for the season, adapting some of the changes made from last year’s Pandemic shortened season, and since we now know when Spring Training, and hopefully …
A few weeks before Christmas, Jordan Teicher had a New York Times story with several former athletes, including ex New York Jet and Columbia grad Josh Martin, talking about the great value LinkedIn had brought to them in terms of connecting and storytelling as they figured out what is next in the post playing careers. …
As we head toward the re-start of the restarts of the NBA and the NHL, deeper into the chasm of college basketball and look ahead to MLB and MLS and so many other sports keep on keeping on in the first half of 2021, the question of dollar flow, especially with few or limited fans …
Our lives are made of complex puzzles, and sometimes the pieces that fit together best are often forgotten, probably because they fit together the best. I consider the five years I returned to work at Fordham University that easy fit into my complex puzzle, and I was reminded of how much fun, and formative that …
It was 27 years ago this week that I drove from our newly purchased home in Nanuet, NY, where I had spent the last five years as Sports Info Director and then Asst AD For Communications at my alma mater, Fordham University, and made the big jump to being the Director of Public Relations for …
Vin Scully, social influencer. The longtime, now retired voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers, conscience of all good in baseball and Fordham University grad recently joined Twitter, and has been posting his thoughts, pictures and anecdotes to a growing number of fans, some of whom certainly know of him but don’t know a lot about …
Amidst all the announcements of cuts and downgrades from varsity status on colleges across the country…as of July 10 there were now 51 schools cutting over 182 sports that could impact thousands of student-athletes, coaches and staff…was a bit of a shining light of opportunity. Several schools had announced that sports…from soccer to squash to …
So much of the continued escalation of COVID is focused, and it seems rightfully so, on the issue of wearing a mask or not. As someone who has lost one friend to this disease, and came damn near close to losing another one, the simple issue of putting on a mask seems pretty simple. I …
When you get to spend some time speaking…and as he pointed out…listening to a future Hall of Fame manager in Joe Maddon your expectations are probably a little high. In this case, the learnings, and the expectations, exceeded even our grasp. You can hear the whole 40-minute conversation as part of the latest edition of …