For the Love of Sports with Michael Rasile

Justin Jacobson joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career as an Entertainment, Esports, and Video Game Attorney. Growing up loving video games, Justin decided to take his career in law down the path of esports and video games well before it blew up. Realizing that there were very few qualified attorneys in the space he was able to carve out a niche for himself by learnin...

Stefano Vaccarino, the Chief Marketing Officer of FTN Network, joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his exciting path into the fantasy and gaming space, and how FTN Network is changing the game! While at a run-of-the-mill day job, Stefano found enjoyment with his NBA Twitter account @bigmoneyplay where he tweeted about NBA DFS. This led him down a wildly different path where h...

Dr. James Barnes joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career as a professor, business consultant, and youth basketball coach. While all of these things may not seem to have anything in common, Dr. Barnes is able to draw upon each area of expertise and utilize what he's learned in the other areas of his life. Dr. Barnes has found a passion in the online marketing space...

Jeff Pearlman joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career as a sports writer! Jeff has written 10 books, many of which you probably know, and we discuss where these ideas come from, how much work goes into each book, and some of his favorites. Jeff is the writer of Showtime, which has been adapted by Adam McKay on HBO as the show Winning Time, and he explains how the proce...

Joe Castignani joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his D1 Football career at UC Berkeley and how that led to him founding MVMI! Through knowing the right people at Berkeley, Joe realized that his idea for a new type of pillow was not bad. So with that information, he put the idea on the back burner, got a 'real job', and let the regret rule him for about 3 years. Afte...

Trevor Farnes joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss being the CEO of MNT OPS and how he's created a community around a product that works! MTN OPS is a nutrition, performance, and supplement business that caters to outdoorsmen and women. Trevor had already created great products that improved many aspects of their customers' lives, they just needed a community to get it...

Anthony Dittmann joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss Omegaball, the sport he created, and how he's helping spread the word! We first chat about his time at ESPN where he helped, and eventually directed, live events. Understanding what people want from an in-person event and how that will look to a TV audience is a balancing act that he's been able to use ever since. W...

Aswand Cruickshank joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss how football helped shape his life in many different facets. Having the dream of playing D1, Aswand eventually got the opportunity when he committed to Stoney Brook University after an injury at his D2 school. While out with this injury he learned about the opportunities around him that had nothing to do with the sport, b...

John Fieldly, CEO of Celsius Fitness Drinks, joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss how Celsius has become a mainstay in the fitness drink space. Celsius has risen to fame recently through the ability of the product to help athletes and fitness enthusiasts before and during their workouts. Initially looked at as a pre-workout beverage, Celcius is now being looked at closer as an...

Timmy Gallagher joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career in mental fitness, leadership, & performance coaching as well as his experience with Ironman races. You could safely assume Timmy uses much of what he learns on the mental fitness side to help him perform at his highest level within the Ironman races. We discussed how he started his mental fitness journey, the...

Dustin Gouker joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career in journalism, marketing, and sports betting. Dustin first started in the sports journalism space reporting on the news of the local teams in his area. Through his love of sports and all things around it, he found himself reporting on daily fantasy sports at LegalSportsReport.com . This then quickly started to evolv...

Steve Hiegel joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career in the sports content creation space.  Steve currently runs three websites where he discusses College Football, College Basketball, and US Soccer. All three are passions for him so he wanted to let some of it out through his opinions and ideas. While keeping fans up to date on what's going on within each of thes...

Dan Taren joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his company Scrimmage and all the iterations to the idea and the product. The original idea for a sports betting company came as a sports betting hedge fund where Dan and his team would take investors' money and place bets with it. Placing a multitude of bets, they believe this would reduce the inherent risk and allow them to make...

Jason Dennen joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his love of the outdoors and how that nearly ended his life. Jason has always been active and even loves to push himself to the brink. He has finished multiple Ironman races and understands the discipline that goes into running these races. He has also loved all things outdoors and was out skydiving one day when a gust of wind...

Tyler Webb joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career in marketing and content creation. Tyler got started in the social media game in high school where he was able to help grow a content-curation Twitter account that passed 150,000 followers. During college he realized there was more opportunity for him to help businesses, so he started a freelance career of it. It event...

Sam Karliner joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his Ironman experiences and how he turned running these races into a great cause. Sam has completed 10 Ironman races over the last 12 years, and over that time he had a significant hip problem and a broken collarbone. Through his time on the racetrack he realized that while it's awesome that he has finished all these races, the...

Dakota Crawford joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to chat about his career in journalism and athlete marketing. Dakota originally fell in love with the storytelling aspect of sports that brings athletes to life as real people. Through his time at Indy Car and the NHL, he started to obtain more understanding of what makes the audience tick, and what can shed more light on the way athle...

Jack Adler joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss how he created his business Out2Win to help athletes with NIL opportunities. Jack originally started his business helping facilitate deals for athletes but quickly realized there was a major opportunity to create more compelling content around these deals.  Out2Win has expanded to help facilitate athletes with deals, deals w...

Dakota Hunter joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his role in helping drivers find more opportunities off the track. Dakota first got his start while valeting cars and realizing who he was meeting daily. He eventually saw a name he knew at a business he liked and decided to take the man's name down and find him on LinkedIn and ask for an internship. Dakota eventually started...

Taj Dashaun joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his football career, what he went through after it ended, and how he was able to pick himself up to help others do the same. Taj played D1 football at Stoney Brook University and after he realized he wasn't going pro he fell into drinking and depression. Playing this sport and recognizing it as a significant piece of his persona...

David Woodley joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his background in content creation, ad sales, and driving revenue by giving the people what they want. David is a vet of the ad sales space working for The Onion back in the late 2000s. He then was the VP of Ad Sales at WatchMojo.com, a huge YouTube network that dives into all things pop culture. He now resides as the Presiden...

Alex Van Alen joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss creating a sport called FlingGolf! As the name suggests it is golf but with a bit of a twist. Rather than going to a course and hitting a ball 100 times with multiple different clubs, you have a FlingStick and throw the ball down the course. This allows younger athletes or people like myself who get frustrated from the sport v...

Tanner Maddocks joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his company, Athlete Squared, and how they are helping student-athletes with NIL opportunities. Tanner is an athlete himself, earning a spot on the University of Villanova football team with a chance to compete for the QB1 spot.  While in school and playing football, Tanner has started up Athlete Squared, a platform tha...

Scott Stokely joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career in disc golf and how it has led him to places he never thought before! Scott was one of the original disc golfers, making it up to #2 in the world when the sport only had 500,000 to 1 million people playing it. Not only was he one of the best in the game, but he was also one of the few who could make a full-time liv...

Darryl Haberman joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his content career starting in 1999 (!!!) and how he continues learning in the space. Darryl spent over 2 decades at the #NHL helping their digital footprint grow and eventually helping the athletes themselves with their brands.  This has allowed him to network and find the right people and brands to make his new busine...