For the Love of Sports with Michael Rasile

Larry Berger joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career in the sports video production game! Larry talks about his 15 (!) year career working for the NBA getting to interview athletes like Michael Jordan, working on the PR side of the business for a year with the NBA D-League, and now what he's working on over at USA Today. Larry is a student of the game and is always loo...

Andrew Stephens joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career in media and running a startup media company. Andrew first got started at the University of Georgia where he needed a way to cover the team he loved so much. He couldn't get in at the school newspaper, so he started covering the team on his own through a self-published blog. This led to friends and friends of frie...

Viswant Korrapati joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss how he found his way into the sports industry. As a first-generation American, V pushed to pursue becoming a doctor, lawyer, or business executive, not a mogul in the sports world. Through his relationships at tOSU with the football team, V grew his presence in the space and started adding value to the players leaving for...

Sue Enquist joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss her partnership with TIAA and how they are helping expand the conversation around Title IX. Sue dives into what Title IX is, why it's so important, and how we can help push the movement forward as regular people. She also discusses how even though things aren't perfect yet, how far we have come for women's education and sports....

Lauren Ammon joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss her division 1 swimming career, the hard truths around the end of it, and what she is doing now to help other athletes through these types of transitions. After her swamming career ended at Eastern Michigan, Lauren had a hard time coping with 17 years of her life ending abruptly. It took her many years before she could even com...

Tyler Gallagher joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to talk all things esports and gaming. Tyler has been a huge fan of the video game scene since early on. He even credits gaming with helping him overcome many bouts of panic attacks in his life. After building a successful business in the alternative investments space, he decided he wanted to give back to the communities that he has fa...

Lee Povey joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his lifelong career as a coach. Lee has done a lot of different coaching in his life, but it all comes back to making an impact on the world for the better. Lee coaches elite cycling athletes that were competing for spots on Team USA for the Olympics when the pandemic abruptly halted that part of his career. From there he realized...

Matt Wolff joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his company Ticket Time Machine and how they are adding some flare to the collectibles market. Considering how most tickets are now virtual, what does the fan who saves all their ticket do? And how can the sports team or venue hall add some value to the people that want to keep their tickets? Enter Ticket Time Machine! Matt and h...

Sun Sachs joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his company, Rewire Fitness, and how they are helping people with mental readiness, reducing stress, and improving the brain! Sun comes from an endurance sports background where working harder than everyone else did him in due to burnout. He had a unique stop learning how to meditate from some of the world's finest, before helping...

Kunal Gandhi joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his love of training his body and how that allowed him to start EZPT. At a young age, he realized that his health was one thing he could do the best at controlling and started to work out an immense amount. After a bad injury, Kunal thought "pushing through" was the best thing for him and worsened the situation. Once he realize...

Chris Adams joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss how his company SharpRank is changing the sports betting landscape. Coming from a financial background, Chris was well aware of all the regulations and ratings companies that help the public and media have a better understanding of the securities industry. But where is that in sports betting with everyone claiming to guarantee t...

Andy Frye joins Michael Rasile for a second time on For the Love of Sports, this time to discuss his recently published book, Ninety Days in the 90s! Andy started writing as a hobby before turning it into a career and working with ESPN, Rolling Stone, and now Forbes. With his need to continue to push himself, Andy decided to write a book about one of his favorite times of his life, the 90s! While...

Rob Nelson joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his baseball career and how he was able to take a couple innings of shooting the breeze with a teammate into a full-fledged business. Rob played baseball his whole life having the opportunity to play at Cornel University and professional in Cape Town, South Africa as well as in Portland, Oregon.  During his time playing (and...

Partha Unnava joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his entrepreneurial spirit and how it took him into the sports medicine/health and wellness space. After breaking his ankle, Partha realized there had to be a better version of crutches out there, which led him to start his first company around that concept. He was able to take what he learned from there to help found Lasso, a...

Steve Mellor joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his business as a Performance Coach and Culture Consultant. We dive into his swimming career, how he was able to turn that into over two decades of coaching, and working with athletes who went on to be Olympic Goal Medalists.  Steve explains how his swim coaching led perfectly into his Performance Coaching and how he's abl...

James Santore joins Michael Rasile (for the third time) on For the Love of Sports to discuss his newly founded company, Three Two Strategies! James gives us an update on La Salle Baseball, his short stop in the sports betting industry with Fubo Sportsbook, and why he ultimately founded Three Two Strategies.  We dive into what exactly he's doing to help companies and brands, why he's so passio...

Nathaniel Jewell joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his past sports partnership deal between Apple and Nike, as well as how he's empowering wellness professionals now at Recess. Recess is a platform designed for fitness professionals to create their own content and disperse it to their community! https://recess.tv/home https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanieljewell/ https://www...

Dr. Arash Aftabi and Dr. Farnoush Fadavi join Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss their company Bala Enzyme and how they created a product that supports muscle recovery, hydration, and joint function. https://balaenzyme.com/ https://www.instagram.com/balaenzyme/ 📺 FOLLOW Michael Rasile: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChrF4fA8uP7B6ImdfaHAe6Q?sub_confirmation=1 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE here:...

Daniel Pardo joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss DPC Labs, athlete NFTs, and web 3.0! We talk about how his company is helping all different kinds of athletes and how the opportunity is endless for even younger athletes to own their own IP, push their NIL, and expand their brand! dpardo@dpc-nft.com https://dpc-nft.com/ https://twitter.com/dpc_nft https://www.instagram.com/dpc...

Scott Perillo joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss marketing in the world of sports including his time at Maui Jim Sunglasses and UCAN! We discuss how brand marketing works in the digital world and how you can introduce a product or idea to a group of people quickly, or over time. https://ucan.co/ https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Ucan https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-perillo-15670b...

Alen Paul Silverrstieen comes back on For the Love of Sports to continue the discussion around augmented reality and what he's started to do with the FameDays App. The FameDays App allows users to get personalized e-greeting as well as to take pictures with their favorite stars, athletes, and celebrities! We discuss what is the Metaverse and how FameDays App fits right in by engaging fans through...

Greg Larnerd joins Michael Rasile on the For the Love of Sports Podcast to discuss his career in sports media and how much time, effort, and energy it took to become the host of his own ESPN show! Greg talks about all the stops along the way, the grind that he went through, and all the tough times it took to get to finally reaching *one* of his goals of having his own radio show. He has more goals...

Emily Coffman joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss her division 1 rowing career, transitioning out of elite sports, and helping other athletes do the same.  Check out her book Elite to Everyday Athlete and her podcast Live Your Personal Best. https://emilycoffman.org/book/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-your-personal-best-workout-motivation-and/id1517530142 ht...

Zane Kekoa Schweitzer joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his life in the ocean and how he has become the master of the ocean and working on his mastery of life. Zane partakes in multiple sports that he puts full force behind as well as wrote a book, runs a foundation, works on businesses, and helps change the world through what he loves the most.  https://zaneschweitzer...

Kathleen Ralls joins Michael Rasile on the For the Love of Sports Podcast to discuss teaching, Female Empowerment & Leadership Training, and her upcoming book "Take Her Word For It: Sports Cultivate World-Class Leaders” (May 2022) We discuss how she came up with the idea for the book, what she plans to do with it, and how she looks to help females (and males) understand more about leadership a...