Sports and Society
Canadian NHL teams could face financial impacts due to Trump’s tariff policy
Univ. of Alberta professor and sports management expert Brian Soebbing said that both the Oilers and the entire NHL are “paying close attention” to the latest on Canada-U.S. tariffs, which “stand to impact the biggest expense for Canadian teams: salaries,” according to Zac Delaney of the EDMONTON JO...
New movie ‘Eephus’ is a pitch back in time
Baseball has many forms, from the pros on pristine big-league diamonds to the crabgrass-strewn fields where I now coach my young children.
Unsealed documents detail sexual misconduct allegations against current and former Nike execs
Documents unsealed Tuesday after a three-year court battle between Nike and several news organizations “detail allegations of sexual misconduct by Nike executives, from seemingly consensual relationships with subordinates to unspecified harassment and unwanted sexual remarks,” according to Matthew K...
SFIA: World Cup, Olympics will boost U.S. sports participation
At Licensing International’s recent summit in NYC, SFIA Senior Director of Business Operations and Research Alex Kerman offered a number of predictions as an addendum to the organization’s industry-standard participation data.
Trump, Putin want U.S., Russia hockey face-off
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin want their countries to “face off on the ice,” as hockey apparently “was a topic of conversation” when they spoke via telephone Tuesday. According to a readout from the call released by Putin’s office, Trump is “on board with the idea of ha...
The Youth Sports Buy-In
The NFL has been trying to make flag football work since 1994. Three decades later, no sport is hotter.
Need for remote work necessitated redefining office standards
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the sports and entertainment industry to adapt and embrace remote work while still keeping company culture in mind.
IMG Academy increases focus on mental performance and character-building
Over the past decade, the conversation around athlete performance has expanded beyond college and professional sports, trickling down into high school and youth athletics, raising the competition and stakes to new heights.
Crisis supercharged sports’ adoption of digital ticketing; the impact has been huge since
Put digital ticketing into the category of things that existed before the COVID pandemic, but was given rocket fuel by the curious conditions of life in 2020.
iRacing in high gear after pandemic boost
IRacing was one of the best-positioned companies in sports when the realities of the pandemic hit, and the motorsports simulator product has been on the road to growth ever since.
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For the league to step in and say that a team chose to play one player over another player and that was the wrong decision, I think that's a bit of a slippery slope.-- NBA EVP/Strategy & Analytics Evan Wasch, on the league monitoring player availability but not mandating how coaches rotate players in game.
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