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This coming March the Orleans Casino in Las Vegas will host two men’s basketball post-season conference tournaments. Other casinos, including Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, have hosted men’s basketball games a stone’s throw from the slot machines and craps tables. All of that activity is OK if you are the NCAA. But if you are the …
It came and went again without much fanfare this past week, the official start of college baseball season. While most media outlets are closely following every pitch and move prior to the official opening of spring training next week, and others are focused on the upcoming World Baseball Classic, the start of college play went …
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 …
This Wednesday those fans of the gridiron reach what is an unofficial official end to all things football for a while…the media frenzy of national signing day. From coast to coast on every sports network and radio show, young men who are the best at their sport tell the world in choreographed press conferences, streaming …
We reach Super Bowl weekend, a spectacle that has advanced well beyond the vision that Commissioner Pete Rozelle and the others in charge of the AFL/NFL merger had probably even envisioned. So little is about the wins and losses of the teams on the field, the Ravens and the 49ers, and so much more is …
The University of Akron is atop the Mid-American Conference as February approaches, and their on=court performance should draw more national attention as March madness approaches. However this past week Akron drew the attention of the NCAA, who stopped the men’s and women’s teams from putting the school’s hashtag on the back of their uniforms for …
There is a battle going on in the State of New Jersey that, if played out in favor of the state, will open up and endless trough of marketing and spending dollars for professional sports going forward, one that could help keep costs down for tickets, ease burden on stadium improvements and in many ways …
Two of the most enjoyable reads this past fall were Mark Beech’s book on the last undefeated team at West Point and Joe Drape’s work on some of the recent squads. Both pointed to the personalities, the hard work, the dedication and the sacrifice that goes into being a student-athlete at West Point and the …
This past week college sports was again thrown into disarray as schools bolted from Big East to ACC to Big 10 to Conference USA to WAC to Sun Belt and back and forth. The jockeying and rumors continued, with those left as not moving felt hurt and disappointed while those moving looked to greener fields …
Atlantis The New Maui? The fall has brought college basketball to foreign military bases, to campus streets and to some degree of success back to aircraft carriers. However one of the better branding and business opportunities is in a hotel ballroom in the Bahamas, where the Atlantis Hotel and Casino is trying to make their …
