In 1972, Title IX was passed into federal law, prohibiting sex discrimination in all aspects of education, including athletics. 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the passing of Title IX, but has much been done to bring equality to men’s and women’s athletics? Since Title IX’s implementation in 1972, there has been a large increase [...] Read More

Curtis Danburg, the Cleveland Indians’ senior director of communications with 16 years of experience with Cleveland’s Major League Baseball organization, shared his thoughts on how sport organizations should utilize social media during a Q&A session with Jim Kadlecek, associate professor and chair of the Department of Human Performance and Sport Business at the University of [...] Read More

David Bennett was just sharing a story he told to his Coastal Carolina University football team in an attempt to motivate them. But little did he know that his one-minute sound bite at a recent press conference would produce so much publicity for him and his program. Coastal Carolina played in front of less than [...] Read More

The face of sports media has changed considerably due to advances in technology and social media. Some media outlets and journalists have been quick to embrace the new tools at their disposal, while others have not. An example of the proper use of social media in sports reporting, and an example of how the old [...] Read More

Avid golf fans already knew Rory McIlroy‘s name prior to this year’s U.S. Open, but when the golfer dominated the field to earn his first major victory, he became a household name. His clothing provider, Oakley, is enjoying similar new notoriety as well. Oakley has carved a niche in the sunglass market, but its Oakley [...] Read More

  Dr. Simon Chadwick, professor of Sport Business Strategy and Marketing at Coventry University, has been popping up in the news as a go-to commentator for some of the sporting industry’s headlines. He was recently spotted in the Wall Street Journal, commenting on the Sepp Blatter/FIFA scandals and how the issue could affect the industry [...] Read More

Maybe Barry Bonds isn’t the spawn of Satan after all? Bonds quietly offered to pay for the college education of the children of Bryan Stow, a San Francisco Giants fan who went into a coma after being brutally attacked outside Dodger Stadium. The attack on Stow earned national headlines, and one of his alleged attackers [...] Read More

Across the pond, there’s a big fuss over something called “super injunctions,” which as an American, I had never heard of until stumbling across a story on the International Journal of Sport Finance blog. In short, a super injunction is a legal tactic in England that is, to quote Tech Crunch Europe, “when someone rich [...] Read More

Apparently Fox TV executives aren’t history buffs. If they were, Saturday evening’s primetime MLB game between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees wouldn’t have featured an on-air, in-booth appearance by B-list comic Sarah Silverman in the bottom of the fourth inning. ESPN’s Monday Night Football provided a season-long example in 2006 of why [...] Read More

  By Aaron Geiger:  Hines Ward has a point. The veteran Steelers’ receiver believes that he might be the “last double-digit guy” to play in the NFL, meaning that once the season is extended to 18 games, most players are going to retire from football before they reach a decade of playing time. Ward, like [...] Read More