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I don’t know Michael Arcieri, heck I only know a few people still working in the front office of the Knicks since my time there over a decade ago, but in reading this Thanksgiving Day story by Chris Iseman I know enough of what Michael has done to make it relatable to what success can …
There have been scores of stories, texts and social media discord in the past 24 hours about the tweet Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey posted, and then detracted regarding his thoughts on the ongoing protests about Human Rights violations in Hong Kong. The debate over whether the NBA should have supported Morey’s stance or …
A lot of people comment that it seems like I am “everywhere,” when in reality I don’t travel as much as I used to, although being in the New York area has its advantages for quick meetings, coffees and catch ups. One skill that we are always working on, in addition to listening, is time …
An interesting question came up in our class at Columbia on Thursday, which has a great mix of students from around the globe in it. If you are working in the communications and marketing offices at the NBA in New York and China and you are following the FIBA World Cup and seeing the U.S. …
In the winter of 2003, the Toronto Maple Leafs took what was an unusual step in message control, breaking a trade news report on of all places, their own website. The move was met with scorn in a world where traditional, especially for such a traditional organization as an “Original Six” NHL franchise, was the …
There we were at the NBA Draft Thursday night, the next stop in a journey for a handful of elite athletes, many of whom had spent most of their lives in the “all on” era of today, where everyone with a cell phone is “the media,” capturing their every moment. On recent years the Draft …
I’m not a huge country music fan but like every genre, there are lyrics that play to a bigger audience and storytell to a really wide world, and one of those is Tim McGraw’s Humble and Kind. Several examples of that song played out in real life this past week, and served as a great …
About 100 years ago, well actually is was 2013, we were pulled into a very unique opportunity for engagement in and around college football. It was called “Coaches Cabana,” and was the brainchild of former Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys coach Barry Switzer and longtime sports executive Neal Pilson. It was really the birth of a …
One of the great things about teaching is frankly; you never stop learning or being exposed to different, often disruptive points of view, especially from people who are coming at things from a different perspective. Keep an open mind, listen, and you will always be growing. Case in point is a recent CUSP Show podcast …
We reach this weekend with The Masters here, the NBA and NHL Playoffs getting started, MLB now beginning to move along, March Madness completed, even the Frozen Four to take a peek at, but two other stories on the business side that could subtly, for now, have an impact on global sport and the development …