In case you missed it, one of our frequent ATHLEDIFY webinar hosts and podcast guests, Justin Sievert, a partner and attorney at Sievert Werly LLC, has updated his popular guide for colleges to understand Title IX as it relates to athletics. This 2nd Edition includes an entirely new section on eSports. Topics include: You can […]
Complimentary Guide to Title IX / Gender Equity
In case you missed it, one of our frequent ATHLEDIFY webinar hosts and podcast guests, Justin Sievert, a partner and attorney at Sievert Werly LLC, has authored a practice guide on college and university compliance with Title IX as it relates to athletics. Topics include: Full and effective accommodation of athletics interests and abilities through […]
Has the N.C.A.A.’s ‘Student-Athlete’ Fiction Reached Its Logical End?
| By Michael Sokolove, www.nytimes.com | A federal trial is telling an important story about the buying and selling of young basketball prospects. Mr. Sokolove is the author of “The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino: A Story of Corruption, Scandal and the Big Business of College Basketball.” When I was a young reporter in Philadelphia, I covered […]
Ohio State’s Plan To Become The Most Desirable College For Esports
| By Darren Heitner, www.thesports.biz | The Ohio State University is a top destination for blue chip football and basketball prospects, but the university wants to become known as a hot spot for another type of activity. Ohio State is interested in building out a top notch esports program that attracts the best and brightest competitive video […]
Become A Great Leader By Working With Great Leaders
| By Mike Grandinetti, www.forbes.com | When I graduated from Rutgers University with my bachelor’s degree in engineering, most of my classmates joined major East Coast industrial companies. I, however, did something many of them did not consider. Drawn to the unbridled energy driving Silicon Valley and the revolutionary innovation happening in the area’s pioneering companies and […]
Discover Your True North
| Forbes.com | For any leader at any level in any organization, clarity of purpose is a critical ingredient of success. In other words, you must know where you’re headed and why you’re headed there. A compass provides the ideal metaphor. Just as a compass points toward a magnetic field, your personal “true north” directs […]
The Top Signs You’re a Servant-Leader
| Leadership Freak | The first time I was asked what a servant-leader looks like I was dumbfounded. Who wouldn’t know? But after some thought, I realized that some may not understand what to look for when hiring leaders with a servant’s attitude. Servant-leaders: #1. Servant-leaders turn conversations toward others. One of the first signs […]
Report: Emergency Care Was Delayed for Maryland Football Player Who Died
| By Lindsay Ellis, www.chronicle.com | More than an hour and a half passed between when a University of Maryland football player reported exhaustion and when his ambulance departed for the hospital, according to a new investigation into the death of the athlete published on Friday by the University System of Maryland. The delay of care for 19-year-old […]