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S&T Live Recap: NCAA’s Gail Dent on Her Love of Sports and Lifelong Learning

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Gail Dent’s Sunday afternoons were spent watching sports on television with her family. Her parents were both sports fans, especially her dad. As a child, she saw how much people enjoyed watching sports, live or on television. When she was growing up in Louisville, Ky., Experience helps students stand out.

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What Content Marketers Can Learn from the Greatest Television Steal of All Time

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As it was announced, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the greatest television steal of all time—and the incredible innovations it introduced. Fox Sports didn’t exist. It’d end up being the greatest television steal of all time. But first, the network had 6 months to create Fox Sports from scratch.

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ICON 2023 Q&A: ESPN’s Amanda Brooks on Finding the Human Element in Stories

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14, Brooks talked with PRsay about her career path and offered advice for students and new pros interested in a career in sports-related communications. I was incredibly passionate about sports. When I was playing, I remember looking around and wondering, “What can I actually do as a career in sports?” I was a college athlete.

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Entertainment & Sports Section New Member Spotlight

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What we like to remind everybody that we are a very young sport. It went from being a spectacle to being a sport. And all of the leadership positions that we’re taking. Mikolich is the Founder of npm | pr ( www.npmpr.com ) and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Entertainment and Sports Section 2016 Chair.

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8 Questions with Syracuse University’s Sports Legend, Michael Veley

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To say Michael Veley embodies sports is an understatement. Falk Center for Sport Management spanning more than two decades is, in a word, impressive. Which 3 tips do you have for anyone trying to break into the sports PR/marketing world? Passion and an insatiable appetite for sports; 2. By Robin Gelfenbien.

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5 Tips to Effectively Engage Generation Zers

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They do not read newspapers and magazines or watch traditional television. On the professional sports front, the National Hockey League also skated their way into an incubator of Gen Zers in early 2019. Move over newspapers, magazines and television. They don’t tune-in to “Good Morning America” or the 6 p.m.

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A Crisis Playbook for the Academy Awards

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Aside from presenter errors, a lot can go wrong on live television. Mikolich is the founder of npm | pr and was the 2016 chair of PRSA’s Entertainment and Sports Professional Interest Section. In other words: saving the Oscars is a spur-of-the-moment operation for PwC and the Academy, and the event badly needs a crisis playbook.

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