When it comes to the business of sports, it’s natural to think of the transactions that take place inside the arenas, stadia and courts that
OK, you know that back-to-school promotions have reached absurdity levels when even casinos get in on the act. Yes, a recent direct-mail postcard from one
With post-Mardi Gras headaches barely a thing of the past for Fat Tuesday revelers, it’s now time to consider the business angles surrounding the next
The Greatest Generation of business journalists will come from today’s university students. A perfect storm of events, technology and globalization has equipped this generation to
By Andrew Leckey The semester had just begun a decade ago when one of my students, recently named stringer for one of the nation’s most
By Alan Deutschman It might have been a prank perpetrated on the student body by a subversive administrator, or it might have just been a
If you’re sitting amid the “monster storm” reading this, it may seem surreal that we’re only a couple of weeks away from the start of
Steve Berkowitz, Jodi Upton, Michael McCarthy and Jack Gillum of USA Today continue their look at college athletics with a story about how some schools
Ben Botkin of the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho, checked the dates on a local college’s bidding process and found some discrepancies. His story starts:
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