Opinion

I would love to see these iconic Donald Ross masterpieces — along with many other historic, traditional golf courses — no longer reduced to venues where “strategy from the tee is pretty non-existent” and players simply “bash driver down there and figure it out from there.”

Basketball play-by-play man goes overboard with the "downhill" references.

More than a decade ago in our Charlotte office, our editorial staff met with officials from the NBA, and over the course of our conversation, they argued that the WNBA should be getting more coverage in our publications. A healthy debate ensued, as some from SBJ’s newsroom countered the coverage fit...

The most important thing NIL has produced is not a brand deal, but the raising of a question not seriously considered before in college sports: Who actually owns the value that an athlete creates?

This month, roughly 2 million students will cross a commencement stage, shake a hand, and step into the job market with a diploma and a plan. For the ones who dreamed of working in sports or entertainment media — and there are more of them than you might think — that plan may have been spoiled a lon...

The sports business has spent the last few years focused on premium live rights, and for good reason: The biggest leagues still anchor the market, command the largest media deals and remain the center of gravity for sponsors, distributors and, ultimately, fans.

In every period of economic headwinds, the playbook says the same thing: When consumers get squeezed, discretionary spending slows. Entertainment is always among the first casualties. Someone should tell sports fans.

Professional sports organizations have always been competitive environments, not just on the field, but in the front office. Today, one of the most overlooked challenges affecting revenue performance is not strategy, pricing, or even market demand. It is the growing generational divide within sales ...

The idea to produce a sports business awards show was approved in a corner conference room in Sports Business Journal’s Charlotte office in 2007. My boss at the time, Publisher Richard Weiss, and I went through the pros and cons of an event, which had been internally discussed and externally suggest...

For the past three decades, the sports industry has focused on one core objective: building better ways to watch. Bigger broadcast deals, richer streaming packages and more statistics on the second screen have all improved the viewing experience. The model worked because audiences kept growing and t...