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The NFL, like most of the major leagues, are no stranger to the glitz, the glamor and the buzz of popular culture. We have power couples from the NBA to MLB to NWSL to the WNBA to the NHL to NASCAR. Musicians want to be athletes, athletes want to be rock stars, and they like …
Don’t blink. Thirty years ago this week I received a call from a gentleman named Gerry Ryan, head of business at the Philadelphia 76ers, and offered me a job that would change my life. I was making a rare jump at the time…from the college sports communications role to a top job at the NBA …
We keep losing people…good people we have known for a few days, a few years, or a lifetime. This year there have been close friends and distant colleagues we enjoyed staying in touch with; family members and grammar school classmates, as well as people we “knew of” along the trails. This past weekend as we …
Sports is a cyclical business. Seasons come and go and for those at the team level sometimes years can pass without breaking a cycle of repetition. It is a safe way to move a career along, and for those who care to innovate and change things up, the results can be very rewarding. For those …
This morning I was scrolling through my Facebook memories when I came upon the pictures of our Hawaiian family trip in 2015. There amongst the beautiful sunsets and black sand beaches was a picture of CJ’s Deli in Lahaina, which for years was the official caterer of the Maui Classic. I remember when we were …
The last full week of July, 2023 but more Ying and Yang observations to the work and life place, especially as I now hit 15 years working on my own. First there was the surprising joy of gratitude which came in threes, like good things often do. A dinner with three former School of the …
I have been around this business to remember when NBA Summer League was a few weeks on hot gyms little fanfare and checking watches to see when vacation could start for many. Westchester County, Boston, Orlando, and Salt Lake City, Summer League always started with great fanfare, especially for teams with high draft picks, and …
Before she headed back to the States, our colleague Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff dropped in some additional thoughts on sports and diplomacy from here recnt time in France. Her book Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA comes out September 7. Readers can use code BASKET23US or BASKET23UK (UK, European Union) …
Saturday I was in the Verizon store begrudgingly getting a new phone and I was talking to a mom and her daughter next to me. The mom. About my age, was bemoaning all this “technology” and how the ‘80’s and the ‘70’s was better. I laughed and looked at the daughter, who was 22 and …
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 …