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Our student from Elon University, Noah Zaret, continues to go back and break down some of the best episodes of the CUSP Show, the Columbia University Sports Podcast. This time we talk Olympics, women’s sports and India with Neha Aggarwal, the business of the WNBA, MLS and more with Amy Scheer, and the Savannah Bananas …
So there we were driving to The Shore Thursday night as the signal from WCBS 880 kind of drifted in and out as we listened to Howie Rose and Wayne Randazzo call the first of the Mets-Marlins series from CitiField. As always the guys were brining all kinds of stories into the broadcast, when Randazzo …
Maybe we think its July 4th, when Joey Chestnut and company dominate the ESPN airwaves at the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, but in reality, National Hot Dog Day is actually the third Wednesday in July. For all its innovation and brand creativity baseball has yet to have an official hot dog (or an official mustard for …
There is no doubt that the Cannabis/CBD business is slowly, steadily finding its way into the mainstream, and that of course includes the billion dollar business of sports. The latest and loudest salvo was fired early last week, when Major League Baseball and its teams opened up the door to do business with CBD brands, …
We are lucky to have a student from Elon University, Noah Zaret, working with us this summer. We have asked Noah to go back and break down some of the best episodes of the CUSP Show, the Columbia University Sports Podcast. Starting off with the 50th anniversary of Title IX this week, are ones we …
It’s the time of year when grads or career changers come flooding in to try and figure out what’s next. Some are diving headlong into the pool, others are dipping a toe and hoping for remote work, or for those students who have been through the challenging times of the Pandemic, they may be taking …
It was a few weeks ago, the story about Republican operatives giving branded gas cards to those in line waiting for fuel. Some cried foul, as an unethical, and possibly illegal incentive to sway votes with fuel. While it was somewhat ambiguous what the outcome would be, it got us thinking, what about team promos …
Saving lives through awareness and prevention one test at a time has been the dogged push for over twenty years for veteran MLB personality Ed Randall. A prostate cancer survivor, his “Fans 4 The Cure” Foundation has worked independently from an official designation for Major League Baseball for years raising funds and awareness for prostate cancer …
Sometimes the nontraditional thought sparks a “Why Not” idea. Case in point orth revisiting as we get more intimate back on the field… A few years ago, colleague Jim DeLorenzo had actor Thomas Ian Nicholas, star of the cult film Rookie of the Year and The American Pie Movies, coming into Philadelphia for an event. The Phillies were ready …
We enter the summer movie season this weekend, one in which the back to the theater with limited streaming at launch plan seems to be growing. Case in point is “Top Gun: Maverick,” which will hopefully lead the return to the coffers of massive dollars into the studios who have struggled to find their way …