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“What do you think of the transfer portal?” It wasn’t the first question I was expecting from almost 105-year-old Sister Jean Delores Schmidt as I sat in her office at Loyola University on a warm Tuesday morning in Chicago, but then again sometimes when you just show up, you have to expect what isn’t on …
It is a tradition that has been quietly happening for years, but thanks to some opportunistic marketing folks is steadily turning into a hot stove event that could actually transcend baseball and into other sports. It is “Truck Day,” the day when MLB clubs in cold weather cities literally load up their 18 wheelers with team …
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 …
It is a tradition that has been quietly happening for years, but thanks to some opportunistic marketing folks is steadily turning into a hot stove event that could actually transcend baseball and into other sports. It is “Truck Day,” the day when MLB clubs in cold weather cities literally load up their 18 wheelers with team …
In a continuingly unique year like no other, this week we seem to be getting a forward-looking sense of maybe a bit more normalcy ahead. First MLB announced their rules for the season, adapting some of the changes made from last year’s Pandemic shortened season, and since we now know when Spring Training, and hopefully …
It is a tradition that has been quietly happening for years, but thanks to some opportunistic marketing folks is steadily turning into a hot stove event that could actually transcend baseball and into other sports. It is “Truck Day,” the day when MLB clubs in cold weather cities literally load up their 18 wheelers with team …
This past week Ben Cherington was named the General Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, a great move for a franchise which was on the rise and suddenly lost its way again. Cherington has been a patient builder of organizations and culture wherever he has been, and if the past is a harbinger of the future, …
The interest and engagement around the start of baseball spring training remains so strong, and there is really no sport whose rituals of the preseason bring together so many time and again. As most pro sports look to shrink the preseason, nary a complaint goes on about baseball. Yet another event tied to the diamond …
It is a tradition that has been quietly happening for years, but thanks to some opportunistic marketing folks is steadily turning into a hot stove event that could actually transcend baseball and into other sports. It is “Truck Day,” the day when MLB clubs in cold weather cities literally load up their 18 wheelers with …
The morning news source for millennials for some time now has been The Skimm. Quick, cheeky, fast hitting soundbites with links to the four or five news topics of the day, delivered five days a week in a very brief, no-nonsense email designed to set those of a certain age out the door with all …
