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Sunday morning, I went to an early mass at our parish, St. John the Baptist in Hillsdale, NJ, and I am always interested and intrigued to what our pastor, Monsignor Peter Smutelovic, has in store for his homily. This week he talked a great deal about the faith that the two College Football championship quarterbacks, …
A while ago an MSG executive named Bill Jemas wanted to test a theory he had. If you priced the second row at a Knicks game more than the first, what would people buy first? The answer when it was tested was clear…people gravitated to the highest price with the idea that the best cost …
We sometimes get caught up into the day to day, seasonal nature of the business of sport that we forget that we are here to have fun, and sometimes have to look to, and try a few “What If’s” to break through the clutter. Many times these opportunities are sitting there right in front of …
“He wasn’t there because his publicist told him to be there, and to be nice. He was there because he wanted to be.” As we head towards 2025 there are so many hoping for a retooling or a reset on where their path is going, and the world keeps brining us some new titles of …
“Are You Willing to Cross The Street?” That question came not from a leadership seminar but from our friend and colleague Ray Negron, who has worked for the Yankees for over 50 years and always brings a different point of view to our students at Columbia. The rhetorical question came not from him, but from his longtime …
One of the biggest challenges coming up amongst colleagues today is how to manage the external noise that is inbound…from social media, from conversations, from the uncertainty of third parties etc etc. It is a continued challenge as we try to keep people focused and decide what priorities are in a time challenged world. A …
Sunday night my son AJ and I cut away from watching the Mets season end the Jets unravelling to make sure we saw the last quarter…and overtime of the Liberty winning their first-ever WNBA title. It was gratifying to him to see the Liberty win…one of the first sporting events he ever saw live was …
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 …
