Sports Business Radio Podcast

We dive into the NBA and NHL Playoffs TV ratings as well as tell you what the local TV ratings were for NBA and NHL teams for the 2018-19 season on this week's edition of Sports Business Radio. Which teams saw the biggest increase and decrease in TV ratings? How have the leagues fared on the national TV broadcasts? We also recap a HUGE NFL Draft - both the TV ratings and the record setting attenda...

Jeff Levick (@JeffLevick), CEO of The Players' Tribune (@PlayersTribune) joins us for an in-depth conversation to discuss Derek Jeter's digital publishing company. From The Players' Tribune's various content platforms, to their distribution and monetization strategies, to the unique way they tell the stories of athletes from around the world, we dig into the elements that have made The Players' Tr...

Sports Illustrated golf writer Daniel Rapaport (@Daniel_Rapaport) joins us to discuss Tiger Woods' historic and emotional win at The Masters - Woods' 5th green jacket and his 15th major. From the record-setting TV ratings for CBS to the sponsors that activated most effectively around Tiger's big win, to the impact the win had on Nike's stock, we have lots of data for you for what this win meant to...

BONUS podcast to celebrate 15 years of Sports Business Radio. Our show launched on April 11, 2004.  During this podcast, Sports Business Radio host Brian Berger and Executive Producer Bryan Griggs reflect on the 15 year history of the show. We also listen to some of our favorite moments in our show's history including highlights from interviews with Mark Cuban, Jack Nicklaus, John McEnroe, Charles...

Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN) joins us to discuss his new book LeBron Inc., which takes a look at the inner workings of the business empire that LeBron James and his team have built. Windhorst discusses how James has scored big with equity deals instead of taking flat fee endorsement deals, the business team he has surrounded himself with and the sneaker battle that took place to land James com...

The Sports Business Radio Road Show presented by Boingo with Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss (@JeanieBuss). The wide-ranging conversation took place on the campus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles before a studio audience of students and invited guests. Buss discussed the Lakers season, having alignment with Magic Johnson on the future direction of the team and the business impact...

Blake Lawrence (@Blake_Lawrence), Co-Founder & CEO of Opendorse (@opendorse) joins us on this week's edition of Sports Business Radio. Lawrence, a former football player at the University of Nebraska, launched Opendorse in 2012\. Since then, Opendorse has become the world's leading athlete marketing platform. More than 6,000 athletes around the world use opendorse to receive content from partners...

Step inside March Madness with JoAn Scott - Managing Director of the Men’s Basketball Championships for the NCAA joins us to take us behind the scenes for this year's NCAA Tournament. Scott discusses how she oversees the operations for one of America's biggest annual sporting events, the 18 media platforms the Tournament is now shown on, the Selection Committee and seeding for the Tournament, what...

Kara Lynn Joyce (@KaraLynnJoyce), 4-time Olympic medalist & 3-time Olympic swimmer, 18-time NCAA champion and Founder & CEO of the LEAD Sports Summit (@leadsportssummit) joins us to discuss her annual event that connects young female athletes with accomplished women in sports during a 4 day, 3 night all-inclusive summit. She also discusses life after her decorated Olympic career. Learn more about...

Kevin Lavelle (@KevinSLavelle), Founder & CEO of men's dress shirt company Mizzen and Main (@MizzenandMain) joins us to discuss how the company is cleverly parlaying relationships with high profile athletes like Phil Mickelson and JJ Watt into increased visibility for the company. The TV/digital/social media campaign featuring Phil Mickelson and another campaign around "Textile Dysfunction" have g...

Jeff Attinella (@Jeff_Attinella1) - Goalkeeper for @MLS Western Conference Champion Portland Timbers (@TimbersFC) joins us to discuss the mindset of a goalkeeper, the Timbers' magical run to the MLS Cup last season, the state of Major League Soccer and being an entrepreneur with a children's book publishing company and his new "J to Z" podcast with Timbers teammate Zarek Valentin.  In our headline...

Sports Business Radio host Brian Berger and Executive Producer Bryan Griggs discuss a variety of topics including why NOW is the time for James Dolan to sell the New York Knicks. Berger and Griggs also recap the 2019 NBA All-Star weekend and the Daytona 500 and they explain the NFL's settlement with and Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid. Follow us on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram on @SportsBusine...

NASCAR star Kevin Harvick (@KevinHarvick) - 2007 Daytona 500 winner & 2014 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Champion joins us to discuss this Sunday's Daytona 500 as well as his diverse business interests, which include an athlete management company, radio show on SiriusXM, endorsement partners and charitable foundation. Harvick tells about how he got his start in racing and how his race car is be...

Sports Business Radio Host Brian Berger (former Portland Trail Blazers executive) and longtime NBA Insider Ric Bucher (@RicBucher) combine their deep network of NBA contacts and vast knowledge of the league to do the deep dive into the current landscape of the NBA on this week’s edition of Sports Business Radio. As the 2019 NBA Trade Deadline approaches, we discuss: - LeBron’s Conflict of Interest...

Sports Business Radio Host Brian Berger and Executive Producer Bryan Griggs preview all aspects of Super Bowl LIII between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. From sports gambling (overall money wagered on the game, prop bets and how the new sports gambling laws in the U.S. will impact this year's betting) to Super Bowl commercials (cost for a thi...

Peter O’Reilly (@ploreilly) - Senior Vice President of Events and Club Business Development for the NFL takes us behind the scenes for the planning and production for Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, including the game itself, the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show, Super Bowl Live, the Super Bowl Experience and Super Bowl Opening Night. O'Reilly and his staff are responsible for planning and executing the...

Lauri Markkanen (@MarkkanenLauri), Chicago Bulls power forward and one of the bright young stars in the NBA, joins us to discuss his NBA career thus far, growing up in his native Finland, his love for Hockey and his partnership with Neste (@NesteGlobal), which is a company based in Helsinki and focuses on how to better our earth's environment and what he is personally doing to reduce our earth's c...

Pete McPartland, Chairman, President & CEO of Sentry, the Title Sponsor of the Sentry Tournament of Champions PGA TOUR event at Kapalua Golf Course in Maui joins Brian Berger to discuss why his company made the decision to enter into a 5-year sponsorship deal with the PGA Tour and why they specifically chose the TOC event at Kapalua to sponsor. Berger attended the 2019 Sentry TOC in Maui and offer...

Sports Business Radio host Brian Berger and Executive Producer Bryan Griggs count down Sports Business Radio's Top 10 Sports Business stories of 2018. They also reflect on some of their favorite interviews on Sports Business Radio in 2018 and they preview the biggest sports business stories ahead for 2019. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from the team at Sports Business Radio. Learn more about y...

Oliver Luck (@OliverLuckXFL), Commissioner of the XFL (@XFL2020) sits down with Brian Berger at the Sports Business Radio Road Show presented by Boingo (@Boingo) at The Players' Tribune in New York City in front of a studio audience of students from Montclair State University's School of Communication and Media as well as invited guests for an in-depth conversation. Luck discusses the XFL, which w...

Matt Higgins (@MHiggins) - CEO and Co-Founder of RSE Ventures, Vice Chairman of the Miami Dolphins and a Shark on ABC's hit TV show "Shark Tank". Higgins takes us behind the scenes and into the "Shark Tank". He shares whether he's investing his own money or not and how much information is provided about the companies making their pitches on the hit TV show. Higgins also discusses his company RSE V...

TJ Adeshola (@TJay) - Head of U.S. Sports Partnerships @Twitter joins us to discuss the growth of the social media platform and his role negotiating partnerships with U.S sports league, athletes and properties. TJ discusses the factors Twitter takes into consideration when determining what kind of content to bring to the platform, how athletes are using Twitter to speak out on non-sports issues wh...

Karen Osborn (@KarenOsborn22), Founder of the non-profit organization Kusewera (@Kusewera) joins us for a special Thanksgiving edition of Sports Business Radio. Kusewera’s mission is to empower and educate children in Malawi, Africa through active and creative PLAY. Osborn, a life-long athlete, started this non-profit organization after a trip to Malawi in 2008 changed her life. Now her organizati...

Sports Business Radio Host Brian Berger and Executive Producer Bryan Griggs discuss the Sports Business Radio podcast winning a Cynopsis Media Award for Best Podcast at the recent Cynopsis Media Awards in New York City. Berger outlines the problems that Major League Baseball is facing moving forward and the warning signs that are already surfacing.  Berger and Griggs also discuss the recent mishan...

Jordi Bertomeu - President, Chairman and CEO of Euroleague Basketball (@Euroleague) joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on the growth of the league, the league's partnership with IMG, having NBA legend Tony Parker on board as an owner of their club in Lyon, France, the transition from Euroleague to the NBA by Luka Doncic, when Euroleague may have a team in the UK, the world-class atmosphere a...