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I know a little bit about St. Joe’s. When we were with the Sixers it was our practice home every year, out on City Line Avenue, and the people who took care of us around the Hawks, starting with then Athletic Director Don DiJulia, were always first class, and always made the Sixers part of …
Events like the Sloan MIT Analytics Conference come at you from all angles. Lots of noise, predictions, conversations, side conversations, analysis and more listening as you try and find the nuggets in the forest That’s always been the challenge and the fun. Weeding through the same old or the self important to find the takeaways …
We were scrolling through our local news site this morning when we saw the story…the one that always makes me smile this time of year…our local Robotics team once again kicking butt. Take a read about this years Velociraptor, a combination of science, media, technology, deep storytelling, and high competition that is 20 years in …
It is getting to be March Madness time. As “The Big Dance” approaches, the hand wrenching for those who make the show will heat up, and it can be arduous for those on the outside looking in. So many factors have to fall in place to make things work. Ironically as we head toward COVID …
We touched on this a year ago, and sadly, the craze of NIL has made it no better. It amazes me still how college athletics, for all the big, disruptive, smart minds on campuses, still reverts back to tactics that were in play 25 years ago. While we know mow much college sports can be …
We use the word iconic sometimes like we do the word hello. At every turn it’s too easy a word to throw around, when in reality must things we refer to as Iconic are not really worthy of that high level of praise or individuality. Icons should be rare air for all of us. That …
So there I was talking to my colleague Keith Green’s class at Montclair State University and I look down and in the front row is a young student wearing Crocs…filled with what I thought were pins of various caricatures, sizes and shapes. There is my introduction to Jibbitz, the Crocs-specific charms which have been around …
In the very fluid job market we are in, we constantly hear from people looking to transition, or forced to transition, or just wondering if there can be something better for their career. I always take the calls, the emails, the text the notes because I have been there more than a few times, and …
“We will attend and support only if it does not distract from the work being done.” Pretty simple and self-evident statement, right? Why should it even be news when a leader says such things? In most instances it really shouldn’t be, it should be common sense. But we remain in a time when the news is …
Like everything else this past week, Radio Row…there is a rumor that name may change next year… in Las Vegas seemed to be bigger, busier and had more life than quite some time. The entourages for the obscure were bigger, the amount of outlets were bigger, the buzz was louder. Maybe it was because it …
