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Please don’t call it Frisco. The locals hate that. They prefer almost any other nickname—City by the Bay, Fog City, SF, and San Fran to name a few. While bad San Francisco monikers irk the natives, their sports teams have quite the opposite effect. The 49ers and Giants reign supreme […]

Shaping a positive, team-oriented corporate culture is hard. Companies spend buckets of money on mission statements, motivational posters, employee newsletters, speakers, and leadership training to develop a company culture that attracts and inspires the best talent in the world. But culture isn’t defined by words on a page or slides […]

New York City is known for a lot—a world-class theater district, historical museums, a mass of skyscrapers, foods from across the globe, soulful music, and 24/7 entertainment. With well over 8 million residences doing 8 million different things, it’s easy to believe that the city’s sports franchises are neglected. It’s […]

Professional sports have been infiltrated with confusing jargon—Usage Rate, Wins Above Replacement, Batting Average on Balls in Play, and Win Shares. The glossary goes on for pages. These numbers, commonly known as advanced statistics, are woven into all layers of the sports we love, like Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR) in […]

At face value, finding a job in the realm of professional sports seems like a daunting task. In the US and Canada, there are 141 professional sports franchises that cut across Major League Baseball, the NBA, the NFL, Major League Soccer, and the NHL. That number certainly presents some employment […]

Everything is bigger in Texas. The largest of the 48 contiguous states has bigger cowboy hats and beefier cattle. The pickup trucks sit higher, and the country music reaches an extra decibel. The steaks are thicker, and the beer mugs are taller. Most Texans embrace the “bigger in Texas” motto, […]

The National Football League is wildly profitable and widely popular, but high ticket prices still keep some fans out of the stadium on game day. The Detroit Lions recently announced variable ticket pricing, one attempt at matching the cost of a ticket with the demand of its game. They aren’t […]

California is one of few states in the nation that still holds a bit of magic to it. From the beaches and bright lights of Southern California to the Bay Area’s fog and majestic Golden Gate Bridge, there remains a mystic to the most populous state in America. No other […]