Fantasy sports are part of American sports culture; it’s an undeniable fact. Companies like ESPN, Yahoo!, and NFL.com host fantasy leagues for millions of fans around the world. The fantasy craze helped create a multi-billion dollar industry as well as spur demand for thousands of new jobs. Fox Sports, CBS, […]
Month: June 2015
Houston Sports: Out of This World
Not enough sports fans grasp the uniqueness of Houston. Many believe Houstonians wear cowboy boots and hats, drive pickup trucks and eat too much steak and barbeque. And while that may be true, it only scratches the surface of Space City. The city’s visitor website sums it up well: Houston […]
George Whitfield Jr. Fixing the NFL Crisis One QB at a Time
By Featured Blogger Niral Patel The NFL is in crisis mode. Not because it’s dealing with performance-enhancing drugs, heightened awareness of domestic violence issues, and yet another Patriots scandal, although none of that is helping Roger Goodell sleep at night. The supply of top-tier quarterbacks―heck, serviceable quarterbacks―is drying up at […]
Nike’s Phil Knight Was Born to Run
This is not the story of Phil Knight, as you know him. The billionaire co-founder of Nike, Inc. is known as many things — an entrepreneur, an iconoclast, a marketing genius, a philanthropist, the most powerful person in sports, and a rich, rich man. His tale as the head of the most […]
