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One of the good things about not sleeping much is you get ample time to think…and usually that’s a good thing. The other night I was watching one of the “Save The Children” ads on TV and remembered when we had donated to a charity a few years ago and got in the mail a …
This week we go to Texas and talk to Michael Lysko about the Sports management program at Southern Methodist University. Mike joined the SMU faculty in 2009 as Director and Professor of Practice of the newly-formed Sport Management program. He serves as Advisory Board Chair and Director for the undergraduate and graduate program, providing leadership …
For this week’s “Teaching Thursday” q and a we go to the University of Arkansas, and Assistant Department Chair Steve Dittmore. Steve is another industry veteran who has worked with students at schools small (East Stroudsburg) and big, and has also spent a good amount of time in the Olympic world. We wanted to ask …
Here we are with yet another social phenomenon, being quickly grabbed as a challenge from sports teams big and small, and with it many of their engaged followers. The question is, can it become a philanthropic driver of good, or is it just a goofy viral experiment that will go the way of dabbing and …
Inspired by our q and a with Paul Swangard last week, we are going to try and make Thursday’s “Teaching Thursdays,” doing a q and a with some of the brightest educators in sports business. This week we got some time with Rick Burton, the David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management in Syracuse …
We all know the adage, albeit untrue, that any publicity is good publicity, and there are stories after story of promotions that seem outlandish going awry when the unthinkable happens and someone tries to cash in. Promos built around bad weather predictions, hole in one shots for millions that were unsponsored, mistakes in printed ads, …
There was a time not too long ago when many thought that audio as a medium was almost dead. We live in a video world, we need to see things, no one has time to sit by a radio… Then along came podcasting, and itunes and digital audio and Sirius/XM and I Heart Radio and …
Two men, opposite sides of the country, both woven into the fabric of America through legendary careers in media, both will call it a professional day for the most part this week. One is Vin Scully, the other is Charles Osgood. One greets you every Sunday morning on CBS and several times during the week …
We were visiting the University of Maryland, College Park and we noticed something unusual…a pretty clean slate of real estate that is readily available but never used. It is not the space above urinals or under the top half of bunk beds…it is literally the ground we walk on. Since then we have seen it …
It used to be a simple act of passage for families every fall. A local farm would carve a simple maze into its now depleted cornfield and charge a few bucks for kids to roam around for a few hours, then have some cider and donuts and go into a field and pick a pumpkin …