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The following was co-authored by Columbia student Maurice Eisenmann… We are now heading towards “March Madness,” and on college campuses, a growing number of schools big and small, another type of madness is breaking out; collegiate eSports madness. Collegiate eSports, that is eSports that will involve competition amongst American colleges, is moving to a …
The sport of squash is fast, ultra-athletic and pretty much refined to clubs and select colleges and high schools in the United States. It has never been “mainstream.” The International Squash Federation, with a large amount of support in India and Pakistan, has tried in vain to get the sport on the Olympic programme. Women’s …
First I will start this by saying I am not today walking in the shoes of media members in Dallas or Oklahoma City or Philadelphia or Buffalo or Boston or Waco, and I am not in the shoes of the communications people in any of those places either, nor am I in a position on …
One of the most underappreciated qualities in an attention starved, shout over everyone to get noticed world is the ability to listen, digest what you hear and learn from those around you. With so much white noise out there, channeling the good from the useless or mundane can be difficult, bit learning to be a …
Much has been hyped and speculated about what role the opening of Cuba will have in American, and global business in the coming months and years. While most experts see this as a gradual turn, not something that can happen just overnight, with many cultural, financial and political mountains to climb still, one of the …
For this edition of “Teaching Thursdays” we ask some of our colleagues at Columbia what they will be keeping their eye on for 2017. The Masters in Sports Management Program at Columbia, now just over 10 years old, is the only program in the Ivy League and is recognized as the number two program globally …
It is the rarest of rare events for a sport that is cult-like across the country but forgotten in Gotham. The first full week of December every year, college football takes center stage in New York. No, it is not because of a big game…Rutgers is slowly rebuilding, Bowl-bound Army is prepping for their Navy …
Last week the Sports Business Journal printed their annual directory of sports management programs in the United States alone, and listed a staggering 356 schools that are offering some kind of program. What the quality of the programs, who is teaching at these schools, and how are they helping students get jobs is up for …
A VR recruiting experience? That’s what FusionSports, a digital marketing agency that creates virtual reality experiences for sports brands, and the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers football program are going to try and use to lure recruits to Minneapolis. FusionSports worked with the Minnesota coaching staff to capture behind-the-scenes VR footage of practices, workouts, game …
One of the good things about not sleeping much is you get ample time to think…and usually that’s a good thing. The other night I was watching one of the “Save The Children” ads on TV and remembered when we had donated to a charity a few years ago and got in the mail a …