In order to help build a community around the people who visit this site and attend our networking events (including last night’s New York event, which was our biggest one yet), I created a new LinkedIn group appropriately called “The Business of Sports.” I encourage all of you to become a part of this group [...]

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Tonight we will have a special edition of The Business of Sports Live, direct from our New York networking event.  The broadcast will start around 6:30 and will run throughout the night.  You can watch the live stream right here, or you can visit our Ustream channel. I’ll try to bring multiple guests over to [...]

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I just heard on the radio that the NBA is going to release a league-wide Twitter policy this week. This isn’t very surprising, since other sports organizations, most notably the NFL and ESPN have released similar policies in the past month. In addition, the latest story involving the Texas Tech football program has unfortunately showcased [...]

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Time for this week’s edition of Sports Careers Saturday! Career Tip: The Power of Maintaining Your Network Almost all the literature I have read about networking goes into detail regarding the necessity of expanding your network. Always building your network base. Former President George Bush made it a point to contact ten new people a [...]

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Earlier this week, we had our first TheBusinessOfSports.com networking event in Atlanta.  Here’s a quick recap of the event from the hosts: Atlanta Sports Networking Kicks-off! Atlanta is now officially part of the Business of Sports networking series as a crowd of nearly 50 people attended the event at Five Season Brewing Co. last night. [...]

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It looks like Mikhail Prokhorov, the richest man in Russia, is going to buy an 80% stake in the New Jersey Nets from current owner Bruce Ratner.  He will be the first team owner from outside North America for the NBA, and the first “Russian billionaire” to take hold of a team in a big-four U.S. league. So [...]

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By now, everyone knows about how the Dallas Cowboys sold about 30,000 “Party Pass” tickets for their new stadium home opener against the Giants this past Sunday night.  Combining the party pass tickets with the rest of the seats sold for that game led to an all-time NFL regular season attendance record of just over [...]

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It’s time for this week’s edition of Sports Careers Saturday! Career Tip of the Week: School or School of Hard Knocks? Sport is a highly competitive field. Not just on the field, but in the job market as well. Sometimes hundreds of applicants apply for just one opening and the largest media organizations receive thousands of [...]

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In honor of NCAA President and former Indiana University President Myles Brand, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 67, I’d like to share links and quotes from five articles related to Mr. Brand’s accomplishments and hard work throughout his distinguished career. 1.  Brand timeline: Key career, life moments – IndyStar.com, 9/16/09 2.  [...]

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The US Open receives a lot of credit for some of their creative and engaging sponsor activation opportunities. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend the event myself to write a recap, but the good folks at PartnershipActivation.com and SponsorPitch.com have let me “borrow” some of their great recaps to share with you here. The US [...]

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