*Blog Update*

I apologize for not posting any new content over the past two months. I admit that I took a break from blogging as school got busier and final exams approached. So much for thinking first semester of senior year would be easy. Quite the contrary. I am proud to announce that I was recruited to [...]

Learn to “Roll the Dice” if You Want to Break into Sports

The idea for this post came to me as three of my closest Georgetown friends and I decided to travel from Washington, DC to New York for Game 5 of the American League Division Series this past Thursday. The decision to go was very spontaneous, as we purchased game and bus tickets after the Yankees [...]

5 Tips on Developing a Winning Mindset to Break into Sports

The sports industry is a competitive business. There are no surprises here. What kid would not want to work for his favorite sports team he has been following his whole life? I know I would. Too often, people hold themselves back from chasing their dreams because of fear. It sucks to fail at something, and [...]

The Most Important Skill You Need to Break into Sports

I am talking about communication skills, of course. I recently read a Forbes.com article called “The One Skill They Don’t Teach You in B-School”. Contributor Carmine Gallo wrote about the importance of effective communication skills in the business world and how lacking them can affect your career adversely. It got me thinking about how such [...]

What Mark McCormack Can Teach You About Time Management

Mark McCormack One of the most important lessons I learned from Mark McCormack’s What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School is how to better manage my time. McCormack, the founder of IMG and the godfather of sports marketing, lived his life on legal pads and index cards. He was a master planner. Every night [...]

What Muhammad Ali Can Teach You About Breaking into Sports

Over the past few years, I have become a big fan of quotations that are typically attributed to famous people throughout history. I am especially interested in sayings that are motivational and practical in nature. It just so happens to be that some of the best quotes out there come from sports figures. For those [...]

Harness the Power of LinkedIn to Break into Sports

As I mentioned in an earlier post about using social media to land a sports job, LinkedIn is one of the three websites I utilize to promote my blog. The number of professionals joining LinkedIn continues to grow every day, especially with the company’s recent successful initial public offering (IPO). With sites like this one, [...]

You Are What You Read

In Ask the Right Questions when Researching Sports Jobs, my tenth question was about whether any sports business professionals had published books on an aspect of the industry you want to learn more about. Besides talking to someone who works in a particular part of the sports business that you are interested in, the next [...]

Leverage Social Media to Break into Sports

These days, social media is becoming quite the phenomenon in sports. With the advent of websites like Facebook and Twitter, professional teams and other sports businesses must embrace this revolution that is taking the world by storm. Failure to do so will leave them behind the competition. For the most part, everyone in sports is [...]

Embracing Rejection

Nobody likes to be told “no.” It’s just not a good feeling. Facing rejection is something that occurs frequently in the sports industry, whether it happens to students like you who are looking to break into sports or sports professionals who are pursuing new business opportunities. Thinking about rejection reminds me of a quote that [...]