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Briefings Magazine
Aug 2012
For many, sports are a dress rehearsal for life.
Think back to your youth ... all by yourself on a field, on a tennis court or in a gymnasium....
Briefings Magazine
Aug 2012
Is it innate talent or hard work that makes athletes great? Or is it something else?
There’s an old adage in boxing that a good big man...
Briefings Magazine
Aug 2012
Early in the 2011 film “Moneyball,” Peter Brand, a baseball neophyte with an economics degree from Yale, shakily offers Oakland Athletics...
Briefings Magazine
Aug 2012
The British have traditionally regarded horse racing as “the sport of kings.” But can it also turn itself into a business for...
Briefings Magazine
Aug 2012
Sometimes a corporate success story really does start with a single entrepreneur’s inspired “aha!” moment. For Under Armour, it...
Briefings Magazine
Aug 2012
Sang Yul Chun’s career as a television executive spans nearly 25 years, a period during which golf in Asia has been transformed from an...
Briefings Magazine
Aug 2012
Let’s face it, the United States has tried to sell baseball to the rest of the world for decades.
So far, it has been exported into parts...
Briefings Magazine
Aug 2012
ESPN is one of the most successful media ventures ever, covering a wide variety of sports across the widest variety of media platforms in the...
Briefings Magazine
Aug 2012
In sports, perception and performance are closely linked.
In the fifth set of the semifinals of last year’s U.S. Open, Novak Djokovic was...
Briefings Magazine
Aug 2012
When rain caused the postponement last February of the Daytona 500 from 1 p.m. on Sunday until 7 p.m. on Monday, it seemed like a very bad break. But...