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It was quite a ten days…from Normandy to London then back here for the Cricket World Cup on Wednesday. While there were many cultural, emotional, familial, and business learnings, here are four visuals of note in best practices to share. Sports unifies on the darkest days. Amidst the emotions going through the exhibits and beaches …
Monday marks the 30th anniversary of the passing of Arthur Ashe from complications from AIDS. One of the sad ironies is that he was offered and was going to accept head women’s tennis coaching job at Fordham when he found out and informed then athletic director Frank McLaughlin that he had to pass on the role. I was …
This Guest Post is offered up by Melvin Wong. Founder of Qoach, offering online sports courses for free with the mission to discover the next world champion from online sports training. Melvin has global sports business experience in 17 countries covering U.S, Europe, Asia and South America. The quote saying “age is just a …
Fifteen years ago today my alma mater, Fordham University, lost 36 innocent souls, my high school, Xaverian in Brooklyn lost 23 and every day for 36 days I picked up the Daily News and saw another name who I knew or a relative or friend knew well…. So I’m thinking today of Carl Flickinger, who …
It happens every year and this year we got a double dose. The two days (used to be one) after the MLB All-Star Game are the days with almost no professional game in North America…Wednesday has become ESPY Day…. Thursday ,golf also starts to grab its headlines with the Open Championships starting. MLS and WNBA …
A little over 10 years ago, during a Davis Cup trip to Zimbabwe, the U.S. team passed a street in front of Robert Mugabe’s palace. In big letters there was a warning; “If you take a photo on this street you will be shot.” No one took pictures. Yes that is extreme, but it is …
There are few team sports competitions with such a long history and tradition as Davis Cup in men’s tennis. Similar to Ryder Cup in golf, Davis Cup takes usually the best of the best in an individual men’s sports and brings those players together in the rarest of rare, as a team, to play for …
A blizzard blanketed the Northeastern United States (kudos to The Weather Channel folks by the way, who took a lot of heat from The National Weather Service when they started naming winter storms like hurricanes but struck gold with Nemo!) this weekend, leaving millions with nothing to do but dig out and turn on the …
Once in a while we stray from topic…below is a recollection and some thoughts of the fall of 2001, when I was at the USTA and then the Knicks… Many people have said that the events of Sept. 11, 2001 are to those less than 55 today what Pearl Harbor was to “The Greatest Generation.” …
This past week the Sports Business Journal had an extensive report of the financial failure of the World Boxing League, which limped home following its first season. The WBL launched last year with city by city team boxing, hoping to pit young stars trained in cities like Los Angeles and Miami against other global cities …
