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"E-sports+" in COVID-19: Fashion and Esports Make Their Way, Hand-in-Hand and Hopefully

The global pandemic is squeezing the living space out of many industries, including the traditional fashion industry. However, to some Internet-based fields such as esports, the pandemic has produced more opportunity. COVID-19 has also catalyzed more cross-border cooperation: traditional industries need new blood to twist the adverse situation, while emerging industries need legacy icons or brands to help them unlock broader markets. Hence, the marriage between fashion and esports under the pandemic is unexpected, but predictably, influential.

Bubble Mentality: What Colleges Can Learn From the NBA Bubble

The Los Angeles Lakers’ victory over the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Finals marked the end of the longest and most tumultuous season in the NBA’s 74 year history. Yet by all accounts, this past season was a success. In what has been a year of chaos, the NBA formulated one of the most successful initiatives taken during the COVID-19 pandemic–The NBA Bubble.

Opinions, USDickson BowmanFebruary 10, 2021nba, NBA, sports, US, Disney, Orlando, nba bubble, COVID19, COVID, strategy

Operating Without a Blueprint in a Pandemic: a Conversation With Kelly Flatow

Kelly Flatow, the NBA’s Executive Vice President of Global Events, played an instrumental role in the success of the NBA Bubble, which was the NBA’s initiative to finish the 2019-2020 season at the Walt Disney World Resort after suspending play due to COVID-19.

InterviewsDickson BowmanFebruary 4, 2021sports, nba, COVID19, Women in business

A New Era – Outdated Amateurism and the NCAA (Part 1)

With an increasingly globalised world, the commercial potential of collegiate sport has exponentially grown. However, the NCAA’s “amateurism” business model is being increasingly attacked. Summer Journalism Fellow Joe Strong explains that the more that basketball players choose to forego the NCAA, the more that the quality of NCAA talent and therefore, its appeal to fans, will decrease. Many aspiring professional athletes want to be able to support their families earlier, and alternate pathways to circumvent the NCAA, like the NBA G-League’s “Professional Player Pathway,” are becoming increasingly popular.

NCAA Bans Early Recruiting, But Will it Help?

Administrators, coaches, faculty, and students have been fighting early recruiting for years.

Views on Operation Varsity Blues from an Ivy League Student-Athlete

I completely relish my identity as an athlete, but I am a student first. That’s why the stories of parents and counselors photoshopping kids onto water polo players, football kickers, and rowers alike, and bribing coaches and athletics officials to have their “student-athletes” admitted to college leaves me feeling disgusted.

Video Game Changers

eSports players can make a solid career and lifestyle out of what was once seen as just a hobby.

All, Culture, Fall 2018, PrintMark AgostinelliJanuary 23, 2019esport, tournament, nba, video games, gamechanger, game, sports, gamers, twitch

Relocation Rivalry

Every few years, a sports team in one of the United States’ ‘big four’ sporting leagues—the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey League— either moved from one locale to another or was created anew.

All, Culture, News & AnalysisMallory WilliamsonDecember 19, 2018relocation, sports, mlb, baseball, sports team

I Could Take You

Commentators wonder when, not if, the NBA will see its first female head coach.

Culture, All, News & AnalysisMolly Milligan December 9, 2018sports, nba, basketball, wnba, female, minority, women, coaching, sexism

Is Addison Russell Above the Fray?

But when will professional leagues and teams across sports begin to prove to fans that they too take domestic violence seriously?

Culture, News & Analysis, AllMolly Milligan December 6, 2018baseball, investigation, allegations, contract, sports, athlete

The Next Big Thing in College Athletics

Tiger Performance is a new arm of the athletic department that “aims to create the right environment and educational platforms to help student-athletes reach peak performance in athletics, in academics, and in life.”

Traveling to Your "Home" Games

Supporting a local sports team is an indelible part of the American psyche: there’s nothing like cheering on the home squad. Here, the idea of a ‘home game’ is given a much-needed reality check.

Nike, Just Did That

The ad campaign that shocked the world: on September 3rd, 2018, Nike released the ad for who would be the new “face of Nike,” and to the nation’s surprise, Nike had chosen Colin Kaepernick.

The World Cup: Do Countries Get What They Put In?

The Olympics are known for being wildly expensive, and are likely fiscally irresponsible for the vast majority of the world’s countries due to the astronomical costs associated with hosting. How does the FIFA World Cup stack up?

ESPN+ Chill?

ESPN+’s inaccessibility, in terms of consumer leisure, will not bode well for the future of this platform; unless large changes are implemented, ESPN may not become the trailblazer it had envisioned itself to be.

All, News & Analysis, CultureMark AgostinelliMay 1, 2018ESPN, stream, streaming, tv, netflix, business, finance, target, market, watch, sports, sprt, sport

Jump the Fumble

In her BT seminar on October 4th, Tyson emphasized the importance of taking initiative and creating opportunities for yourself by doing more than what’s expected of you.