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A great guest post from our colleague Dr. Lindsay Krasnoff, from Paris: Last week the annual Global Sports Week Paris teamed up with Viva Tech for a four-day Future of Sport extravaganza at the Paris Expo Center at Porte de Versailles. The space may be familiar, given the acrimony and scathing critique of the Paris …
They have always been the iconic role models that have shaped thousands of lives, from little league to the highest level of competition. They are dedicated and driven, mercurial and emotional, volunteers and mercenaries, teachers and mentors. They are coaches. Yet for all the time, effort and value they put in, these men and women usually never …
Thanks to our summer intern Drew Antin, we are able to pull together some summaries from our podcast recently that touch on diversity of thought, action, business and disruption. Here are three short and effective listens for the weekend and the early summer. You can listen to all of our episodes here. Christian Ponder on …
There have been so many worthy tributes written about our friend Jim Hague, take the time to read a few of them here and here. While I made my way to St. Paul’s The Apostle Church in Jersey City Thursday for his last sendoff I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect. The high school coaches …
One of the great honors I have had in my career is learning from those on the way up. Maybe it is labeled “teaching” since I have been in the front of the class in programs like Columbia, Fordham, and as a guest at schools like George Washington, Montclair State, Drexel. American, NYU and elsewhere, …
“This is the business we have chosen.” I was thinking about that line from The Godfather from Hyman Roth (The legendary actor Lee Strasburg) as all the PGA Tour LIV Golf news played out, and continues to play out over the coming days, weeks and months. It is the latest, and not the last, time …
My friend and colleague Will Leitch does an amazing free newsletter every week (sign up for it here). However even more than the ramblings of a dad and citizen of the world, he makes an offer…send me a letter or a note, in the mail, handwritten, stamp and everything. He has been doing it on …
Pickleball is a great activity growing in popularity as a consumer product, especially for a demo of 50 and older. Padel is similar in many ways but with maybe a little more athleticism and different rules. Squash is now picking up steam after an investment by billionaire Mark Walter. Tennis…is tennis; a great sport for …
Our colleague Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a historian, speaker, and consultant whose book Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA comes out September 7. Given her deep ties to French culture, sport and basketball, she offers up a unique POV around what’s coming for Victor Wembanyama…Readers can use code BASKET23US …
We are always on the quest for best practices, and sometimes we find them in the most unlikely of places. Case in point, the social media storytelling tied to Fleet Week NYC. I met Marycate Walsh, a U.S. Naval Academy grad now working on the communications side of the Navy, through a mutual friend a …