Category Archives: Events

900 degrees of Tony Hawk

Josh Brooks from ESPN’s Action Sports site had a nice piece on a fundraiser held by Tony Hawk, proceeds from which will go towards the construction of a skatepark in…

Reminder: New Models of Social Responsibility: A Global Virtual Summit (CSR)

New Models of Social Responsibility: A Global Virtual Summit (CSR) November 5 & 9 http://www.communitelligence.com/content/ahpg.cfm?spgid=377&full=1 Conference Premise: For social responsibility (or CSR, green, sustainability or corporate citizenship) efforts in large…

Beyond Sport Awards 2010 – See you in Chicago

Beyond Sport announced that it will be having its second Summit and Awards ceremony in the U.S. in 2010, following its successful launch in London in 2009. Please see the…

Guest Post: What the World Cup means (and could mean) for business

Sab was kind enough to ask me, John Kim, from www.WorldCupCSR.wordpress.com, to contribute a guest post to this blog.  Of course I jumped at the chance and was absolutely flattered;…

Player and volunteer champions

This is a great achievement by the tournament organizers and especially its volunteers. The PGA players deserve a lot of credit but lets not forget the thousands of volunteers who…

A step and kick in the right direction

Any of us who has played a team sport understands the concept of home field advantage and want it for our most important games. Recently, the Palestinian women’s national soccer…

Still Need to Be Aware

On this last day of October, we wanted to include an inspiring video that captures some of the history of the relationship between New Balance, Susan G. Komen for the…

Sports, Race and Power Conference

I had the good fortune of working for Professor Ken Shropshire of the Wharton Business School almost 15 years ago while he was working on his book, In Black and…

"I'm in it to win it"

A terrific event took place last week that was focused on fun, good health, and safety. And it was for a group that we all should hope to be members…

Sharpen those pencils! SportBusiness' Making The Difference conference

Okay,we are WAY past pencils. Get those computers fired up and get your abstracts into SportBusiness. According to SportBusiness, “SportBusiness event Making The Difference – The Sport and Social Responsibility…