The ROAR Podcast

During this holiday week we wanted to run one of our best episodes of the season with Eric Winston. Eric is a former NFL offensive tackle and current president of Winners Alliance. Eric played in college at the University of Miami and was selected by the Houston Texans in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft. During his NFL career has also played for the Kansas City Chiefs, Arizona Cardinals, and...

JJ Stankevitz is the Indianapolis Colts' team writer and his work can be found on Colts.com and on the Colts App. He also regularly appears on the Colts Official Podcast on the Colts Audio Network, and can be heard on "Colts Pregame Huddle" on 93.5 and 107.5 The Fan. JJ joined the Colts in 2021 after spending 10 years at NBC Sports Chicago, where he covered Notre Dame football from 2011-2016 and t...

Aji-Mallen Sanneh is the owner of Soccer Stars North Dallas along with being the co-founder of Altimate Sports Group - a boutique sports agency focusing aimed to amplify distinct talents and set athletes on a trajectory towards global acclaim. Aji has extensive work experience in global healthcare organizations. She began her career in 2009 as a Program Associate at Management Sciences for Health,...

Annette Corbin is a former All American soccer player at Purdue and professional soccer player turned yogi and teacher. Annette is an excellence junkie who leans on the principles of kindness, discipline, and joy to teach a well-rounded class that has space for movement, breath, and reflection. Her courses and teaching approach are a little Brené Brown, Deion Sanders, bend, but don’t break, sing y...

William Mao is Senior Vice President of Octagon’s Global Media Rights Consulting division. A leading sports media rights expert, Mao leverages Octagon’s proprietary data, research, and technology, to advise and provide strategic consultation to rightsholders, distribution platforms, technology companies, and the investment community. With more than a decade of global experience across the linear T...

Lucy Montgomery is currently the Sr. Manager of Case Writing at the Kellogg School of Management where she created materials leveraged in multiple course around conflict and conflict resolution. In addition to her work at Kellogg Lucy is a Strategy Consultant for Bloom Sports Partners. The remit of Bloom Sports Partners is to help the owners of sports teams and leagues to redefine strategic intent...

Jonathan Zarrilli is a Senior Manager, Strategy & Business Development at YES Network. The YES Network is the most-watched regional sports network in the country, owns the exclusive local TV rights of the 27-time World Champion New York Yankees, the Brooklyn Nets, Major League Soccer's New York City FC and the WNBA's New York Liberty. In his role at the Yes Network Jonathan is responsible for...

This week Adam and Brice take a break from the amazing guests to celebrate a milestone - the 100th episode of the Revenue Above Replacement podcast. The guys discuss the inception of the podcast and how it has evolved in the nearly three years since it began. They also dive into the typical workflow to publish the podcast each week, and end the episode with listener questions. Adam and Brice will...

Michael Shealy is a Senior Manager of Data Science at Monumental Sports and Entertainment. Monumental is one of the largest integrated sports and entertainment companies in the country and owns and operates five professional sports teams: NBA's Washington Wizards, NBA G League’s Capital City Go-Go, NBA 2K League’s Wizards District Gaming, the Washington Capitals and the WNBA's Washington Mystics....

Katie Krall is a Senior Product Manager of Baseball Strategy at Hawk-Eye Innovations, a division of Sony Sports Business. She spearheads development of new products that leverage biomechanics, player tracking, bat, and ball flight data. Katie spent 2022 as a Development Coach with the Boston Red Sox where she oversaw pitch design, advance scouting and integrating data into player plans. This was h...

This week Adam and Brice take a break from the incredible guests this season to replay one of the most popular episodes from last season with Bryan Blair. With the landscape of college athletics continuing to shift Adam's interview with Bryan resonates as much today as at the time of the recording. Bryan Blair is the the 14th athletic director in the history of the University of Toledo, is the fir...

As the third season of the Revenue Above Replacement podcast continues Adam and Brice take a break for their excellent guests and discuss the current sports landscape and what to expect on this season of the podcast. In that conversation Adam and Brice discuss the recent NBA All Star game, touch on the Super Bowl, hit on NBA media rights, and wonder aloud about the recently announced sports stream...

Eric Winston is a former NFL offensive tackle and current president of Winners Alliance. Eric played in college at the University of Miami and was selected by the Houston Texans in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft. During his NFL career has also played for the Kansas City Chiefs, Arizona Cardinals, and Cincinnati Bengals. Eric was the president of the National Football League Players Associat...

Brian Kopp is the founder of Stretch 4 Advisory and provides strategic business services to a variety of sports technology, data and analytics companies. Brian is also partner at Ryan Sports Ventures. Prior to Ryan Sports Ventures, Brian served as Senior Vice President of Sports Solutions for STATS LLC. At STATS, Brian was responsible for the revolutionary SportVU player tracking technology as wel...

Tony Ponturo is the CEO of Ponturo Management Group where he consults in marketing for business and new sports ventures. He is a regular guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight, Fox Business, Bloomberg News, CNBC, and other media outlets. Tony is also a Managing Partner in the Kirmser Ponturo Group, a company that produces and promotes projects at the crossroads of sports and entertainment. Tony spent 26 years...

Bryan Blair is the the 14th athletic director in the history of the University of Toledo, is the first African-American to hold the post. When he arrived at Toledo in 2022, he was just 37 years old, the youngest FBS athletic director in the nation at the time. He joined the Rockets after serving as the deputy athletic director and chief operating officer at Washington State University from 2018-22...

Tyler Webb is the co-founder of Uncle Charlie Marketing company where he leads the creative side of the operation. Uncle Charlie focuses on go to market strategy for clients and the implementation of that go to market strategy. Tyler got his first experience with organic social media while in high school where he built a Twitter theme page that reached over 150,000 followers by the time he graduat...

Greg Thompson s the Global Technology Business Leader for Amazon Web Services with a focus on the sports business space. In that leadership role with AWS Greg has strategically develop new business with, and solutions for, customers in the sports industries utilizing the AWS cloud. He leads business strategy and performance to quickly innovate at scale. Prior to his current role Greg was the AWS I...

Michael Neuman is the co-head Playfly Sports Consulting - a sports media, marketing and technology business centered around the team, league, brand, and network. Before this newest venture Michael was the Managing Partner of Scout Sports and Entertainment, a Division of Horizon Media. Prior to joining Horizon, he was co-founder and president of Amplify Sports and Entertainment, a marketing consult...

Kate Popovec is the head coach of the women’s basketball team at Bradley University, a role she starting in 2022. Kate began her collegiate coaching career as Director of Women's Basketball Operations at La Salle University for the 2013-14 season. She returned to Northwestern the following season for a 2-year stint as Director of Player Development for the Wildcats. Northwestern received an at-lar...

Matt Repchak is the Chief Marketing Officer of Florida Citrus Sports. Matt joined Florida Citrus Sports in 2005 and is now in his 18th season. Matt previously served as Senior Director of Marketing & Communications, a role he began in 2013. In his role Matt leads the Integrated Marketing & communications department, including the nonprofit’s public relations, advertising, creative producti...

Jacob Pavilack is the Associate Director of Athletic Communications at Northwestern University. The West Virginia native is the communications contact for Men’s Basketball and Women's Lacrosse at Northwestern, working with both programs during historic seasons in 2023. He was previously the Assistant Athletic Communications Director at the University of Arkansas, where he worked with Razorback Foo...

This week we take a break from the great guests with a conversation between Adam and Brice. The two discuss current events in the sports landscape along with some of the great work that Adam and team have been doing at Excel Sports Management.

Alexander Kane is the founder and CEO of Sporttrade. Sporttrade is a Philadelphia-based sports betting and trading company that has disrupted the sports betting industry with the first legal sports betting exchange. This exchange approach is like a financial exchange, enabling customers to trade on sports outcomes by buying and selling contracts, just like trading stocks. Alex has been featured in...

Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models have been top of mind in recent months so this week we revisit and episode from this season that drives into both of those topics. Adam Goldberg is the head of Azure OpenAI Enablement and Go To Market team and was previously an Account Director for the Go To Market team at OpenAI. Prior to his work with OpenAI Adam was the Director of Data and AI s...