Evan Weiner, a New York City-based journalist and speaker, is recognized as a global expert on the business of sports as well as emerging technologies such as broadband.
Feeling vindication is a doubled edged sword. On one hand, it is easy to say I told you so but on the other hand, you don't want innocent people to be hurt because a group of politicians thought...
In 1905, United States President Theodore Roosevelt used the power of the bully pulpit by ordering the President of Harvard, Yale and Princeton to the Oval Office so that the heads of the three schools would work together to clean...
Steve Bartkowski, a newly elected member of the National Football Foundation's College Hall of Fame, is one of hundreds of former National Football League players who are suing their former employers for what best can be described...
There was a video on the Minneapolis Star Tribune's website that may have summed up what sports is all about these days in the United States and globally. A man dressed in a purple Minnesota Vikings football shirt...
I didn't know Junior Seau although I met him on the day he was drafted into the National Football League in 1990 and probably interviewed him after a football game a few times more. From all accounts he...
There is something about sports which triggers the brain to go into irrational mode. Despite all of the financial problems associated with the 2004 Athens Olympics, politicians and business leaders in 2005 in London, Paris, Madrid, Moscow and New York...
In 1987, Bill Daughtry and I hosted a one-off cable television show called "Between the Lines." It was a sports business conversation, the kind of dialogue that cable TV, sports talk radio and newspapers don't...
Have American politicians lost sight of priorities and has sports become so important that city and state governments are willing to put up billions of dollars for what is little more than entertainment? The answer is yes. Sacramento Mayor Kevin...
It is April and one of the most important golf tournaments is taking place in Augusta, Georgia. The Masters Tournament is one of the big golf events on the calendar because someone decided back in the 1930s to make playing...
The Major League Baseball season opens in a matter of days and Lance Berkman opened up an interesting discussion about how the commissioner, Bud Selig, used extortion to get Houston Astros owner Jim Crane to move his team from the...