For the Love of Sports with Michael Rasile

Malcolm Lemmons joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his unique path in the business space and his thirst for always trying to find what he loves. This is the third time Malcolm has come on the show and each time we've had a different discussion. Malcolm is open and honest with us on why he decided to shift his business focus from time to time and how that has benefited him no...

Sean Topchi joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to chat about his sports betting and gaming career. Sean grew up in Vegas, giving him a unique perspective on the industry he was constantly around. When others would come to visit for a weekend to live it up, it was just another day to Sean. He started his career with Caesars Entertainment where he climbed the corporate ladder from intern...

Ben Truman joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his company Media Troopers and where they fit in the sports betting/iGaming space. Ben is a veteran of the industry originally starting over in the UK and Europe before pivoting to the US after the repeal of PASPA in 2018. Media Troopers works as an affiliate to the sports books helping them sign up clients and bring more bettors...

Tamara Laine joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss her career in content and marketing, and how this took her to become the CMO of The Card Shop Live! With her career spanning from professional ballerina, journalist, and documentary producer, Tamara has held storytelling very close. Each of these professions helped her tell different stories in different ways, which allowed her...

Andy Borowsky comes back on For the Love of Sports to discuss what's going on in the world of Sockey! If you haven't, make sure to go back and listen to his first episode on the show, #144. Andy created an incredible product called the Sockey that protects your hockey stick from the outside world and the outside world from your hockey stick. This awesome product is now being brought even further t...

Ish Tanyeri joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss her time helping spread the stories of Paralympic athletes. Ish first got caught by the Paralympic movement when she was learning more about wheelchair basketball and how it is huge in certain parts of the country. This led to her falling in love with the athletes and people that surround the sports and diving deeper into their...

Messiah Bright joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss her life in soccer and what it's like playing at the collegiate and national levels. Messiah has been on the TCU Women's Soccer team since 2018 and has earned many accolades including First Team All-Big 12, Academic First Team All-Big 12, Freshman of the Year, and more! She lets us in on what the 2020 COVID year was like and...

Wylie McGraw joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss how he helps athletes, and people, find their true potential and optimize their lives. Wylie played competitive baseball, eventually made his way to professional bull riding, and is a 3 tour combat veteran. Through many of these experiences, Wylie was able to realize that he has an inherent ability to lead others and get them t...

Evan Shirreffs of PPL Strategy joins Michael Rasile of For the Love of Sports to discuss the recent disappointments in the crypto space and how they may affect the sports landscape for the positive and negative. With the recent bankruptcy of FTX, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges, Evan dives into what happened, why it wasn't a 'crypto problem' and more of a people problem, and how we can...

David Fales joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his 7 year NFL career, the ups and downs that come with it, and the inevitable end. David was open and honest during the conversation about all the great things that happened, the people that helped along the way, and what he was able to learn during his career. He also discussed the difficulty of having it end on someone else's...

Jason Franklin joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss joining the sports industry through the lens of design. From a young age, Jason realized he had a knack for design and this came to fruition when he was 14 speaking with the CEO of Footlocker showing the designs he believed they should be selling in their stores. Through his tenacity, Jason also decided he wanted to be the ba...

Rob Welsh joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his winding career in the world of sports. Growing up and playing sports his whole life, Rob eventually made it back into the industry after many different stops along the way. Rob spend time in the Military, run restaurants, and helped people with financial literacy and mortgages. Through his time helping people understand their...

Chris Cason joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss how he got into writing about athletes, celebrities, and entertainers. Chris got his start on the beat for his favorite basketball team, the Chicago Bulls. He hustled his way into the position and did so while working a full-time job and finishing school. Chris was able to see how most beat writers are saying the same things, so...

Doug Grant joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his desire to be in the NBA and how he eventually got there, just not how he thought! Doug was the first nutritionist in the NBA when he was hired by the Suns to help their players understand how to better care for their bodies and increase the number of special moments they had on the court. Since then, Doug has worked with many...

Greig Carlson joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his football career, winning a national championship, and how a bad decision might not be the worst. While playing for USC and having too much of a good time, Greig took a class with a professor that changed his life! Greig took an interest in technology in the early 2000s to the point of working with mobile phone applications...

Charlie Ruiz joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his professional baseball career in the Colorado Rockies farm system, the injury that derailed his career, and how hard it was to walk away from baseball. We then discuss why Charlie, like so many other former athletes, get into sales/biz dev roles after they retire. Charlie then explains why he fell in love with coaching and n...

Michael Ehrlich joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his public relations career within the world of sports! Michael got started originally with USC and through connections he made, ended up working for the LA Lakers. Eventually finding himself attracted to PR, he made his way into Adidas and up to the Head of Public Relations for the company, helping change the culture along...

Mark Koesterer joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his company The Players NIL and how they are helping educate athletes about the NIL space. Mark comes from a sports-centric background where his father ingrained in him that sports can lead to many opportunities to better himself. Mark ran with that idea and even added on bettering those around him! He spent some time in the...

Zac Litwack joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career being a growth hacker in the sports media space. Zac figured out that he was great at growth hacking and decided to take his talents to the sports media landscape where he teamed up with Clay Travis of Outkick to help scale his audience and monetize the eyeballs. During his time there, Zac helped Outkick become FanDue...

Zach Doctor joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his company WagerWire and how they are changing up the sports betting space! Zach has an entrepreneurial background mixed with a little finance which has given him the perfect skill set to lead WagerWire into the future! WagerWire is a marketplace that allows users to sell their already placed bets to other users. Have a futures...

Jason Bergman joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports for the THIRD TIME to discuss the NIL space, what's going on at MarketPryce, and what's changed in the last year. Jason is an expert on what athletes need for NIL and has assembled an incredible team and product to help these athletes succeed. Through partnerships with brands like INFLNCR, NIL collectives, and building out products so at...

Jennie Finch joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss her partnership with Johnsonville and the American Cornhole League! Jennie will be running a watch party for the SuperHole coming up on August 5th so make sure to tune in with your brats in one hand and bags in the other! https://www.instagram.com/jfinch27/ 📺 FOLLOW Michael Rasile:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChrF4f...

Evan Shirreffs joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his love of sports, his love of NFTs, and how they are able to come together with his business, PPL Strategy. Evan is a former QB recruit of the University of Miami (The U) and details how he was able to take his network to the next level just by utilizing his name and title. We talk about how he eventually made his way into...

Former NFL Safety Kenny Vaccaro joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss how his NFL career prepared him for his current entrepreneurial journey. Kenny dives into what made him great in the NFL and how he could take all those learnings and turn the action up another notch. Kenny started his esports team, G1, out of his love of games since childhood. He realized he wanted to do thi...

Greg Kajewski and James Seils joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss their sports betting startup, BettorEdge! BettorEdge is a social betting platform that allows users to bet again each other. No house, no book, no vig! Through their sophisticated stock market-like trading platform, users from 45 different states all around the country are able to place an 'order' and have it f...