On June 25th, we had a Public Relations (PR) panel featuring Joe Favorito and Bryan Harris. Our speaker series recently has featured panels of professionals discussing specific areas of Sports Business. We’ve had a law panel, a sponsorship panel, and now it was time for PR. Joe Favorito and Bryan Harris have over 50 years of PR experience between them, …
Day 14: MSG Tour & Long Island Beach
It has been two weeks now since the beginning of the Manhattan Sports Business Academy (MSBA) program and it has certainly been a pretty exhilarating experience so far. The program promises an internship in a sport industry, a talk series with prominent sports executives, and interaction with a group of intelligent and driven MSBA colleagues, and it delivers in spade. …
Day 13: End of Week 2 and Madison Square Garden Tour
This morning I took my daily trip to Randall’s island, where I am an intern for the N.Y. Sportimes. The N.Y. Sportimes is a tennis team that is part of World Team Tennis (WTT). As Matt Mascolo mentioned before (he is interning at WTT), WTT is a professional and amateur co-ed tennis league created by Billie Jean King. I have been working …
Day 12: Sports All Day
I woke up this morning at 6:30 a.m. to go workout downstairs in the basement. I was tired as always, but even if you are not a workout warrior, working out in the morning, whether by yourself or with friends, makes you feel better the rest of the day. After working out in the basement, naturally, I turned on ESPN …
Day 11: Lou Koskovolis and the Art of Selling
Finally, the first day of my summer internship at Foxrock Partners, a sports and entertainment marketing consulting firm who works with BBVA on their activation as the official bank of the NBA. I arrived at the office and met the 3 other interns I’ll be working with this summer. I learned that we all happened to be college lacrosse players, …