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A few weeks ago at the CAA World Congress of Sport in Dana Point, California, a host of speakers were asked what they had their eye on for topics, and what will we be talking about a year from now. The answers for the most part were guarded and much of the same that is …
Years ago when I was with the Knicks, star forward Kurt Thomas came to the community relations team with an idea; he had been screwed out of a large amount of money by a former agent and wanted to find a way to help inner-city kids understand how to manage their money so they were …
There are so few iconic toys left from years gone by, but one that keeps reinventing itself, even in the tech laden world of today, is LEGO. The plastic bricks, and all their various offshoots, continue to amaze, engage and enthrall kids of all ages like they did three quarters of a century ago. How …
Daytona is still in the distance, Indy car is re-jigging, Formula E is looking for its niche, and under Chase Carey Formula 1 is pushing to find its new, young, engaged roots. Oh and in most of the US it’s cold. Still in basements across America, fathers and mothers and sons are honing a block …
Almost to a fault, every entrepreneur will talk about “following one’s passion.” Well sometimes passion can be misguided or simply not something that can be made into a return on all the time you take to build. However we aren’t much without that passion in whatever we do, and sometimes that passion can lead us …
Many times I tell people looking to do the next big thing or to “be bold” that the title of my next book will be “It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time,” as we have seen so many smart entrepreneurial ideas come and go because they were too early in the process, or …
We reach mid-July and the lull comes up again; the quietest two days in terms of games in North America. 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 …
Next month while much of America is fixated on March Madness, a large crowd will cram its way into Bridgewater-Raritan High School in Bridgewater, New Jersey. There will be painted faces and cheerleaders, cowbells and mascots, rival fans chanting at each other, ear splitting techno music, a roaring emcee, referees in the requisite striped shirts …
The question of how to motivate young people to be more engaged in education in the United States has been raised for decades. Standardized tests, core curriculum, better use of technology, life experience, micro-schools focused on trades, charter schools have all been bandied about, implemented and criticized in one way or another without any clear …
It hasn’t been the greatest of baseball years in the Valley of Sun, but that doesn’t mean the Arizona Diamondbacks haven’t continued to make an impact on the lives of young people through programs on and off the field. One that will bring classroom work together with a baseball club will take place this weekend, …
