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- Stop Chasing Sports Tech Hype: Julie Souza on AI, NFL Player Safety, and Fan Data · 45 min · Episodio 89A sports customer once asked Julie Souza and AWS to build a virtual locker room in the metaverse. Instead of taking the order, she asked why. Julie, whose career has spanned CBS…
- From World Cup Momentum to Media Rights: Heidi Pellerano on Concacaf’s Commercial Model · 51 min · Episodio 88Football across North America, Central America, and the Caribbean is entering a rare moment of opportunity with a World Cup on home soil, growing domestic leagues, emerging…
- The “Share the Gains” Strategy Behind Drew Sheinman’s Sports Private Equity Firm · 37 min · Episodio 87Money keeps pouring into sports, much of it chasing the same assets: teams, leagues, and media rights. Drew Sheinman, Founding Partner at Brand Velocity Group, is investing…
- The U.S. Open Tech Strategy: Temporary Infrastructure, AI, and 50TB of Championship Data · 43 min · Episodio 86A U.S. Open can bring more than 200,000 fans to a golf course with no permanent network, limited infrastructure, and none of the technology you would expect at a major stadium…
- How NASCAR Is Using Netflix, YouTube, and Fan Data to Grow Fandom with Tim Clark · 43 min · Episodio 85NASCAR has spent years experimenting with new platforms, content formats, race environments, and ways to understand its fans. But one of its biggest lessons has been knowing what…
- The Business of Olympic Sports: Julie Swarts on Funding, Leadership, and Athlete Support · 41 min · Episodio 84Julie Fabsik-Swarts has spent her career on the much less visible side of sports: the funding, governance, safety, officiating, and infrastructure that determine whether athletes…
- 30,000 Shots, One Fan Experience: Dave Giancola on AI, Data, and the USGA · 44 min · Episodio 83Golf may be one of the most complicated sports to produce digitally and on television. Every championship takes place on a different course, across hundreds of acres, with dozens…
- How to Design Better Digital Products in Sports [REPLAY] · 41 min · Episodio 82How do sports teams achieve faster alignment, fewer reworks, and digital products that move from idea to launch more reliably? Bora Nikolic’s views of technology in the sports…
- Building Fandom Without a Stadium: Kara Baker on TGL’s Shared-Services Model · 42 min · Episodio 81With WTGL preparing to launch this November, TMRW Sports is scaling a shared-services model built to run team operations more efficiently than teams could on their own, and…
- What Makes a Sports Tech Business “Exitable” with Igor Ulis [REPLAY] · 48 min · Episodio 80What REALLY makes a business worth buying, and what should founders actually optimize for? In this candid conversation, Dave sits down with longtime friend and former business…
- Can Data Change Who Gets Considered for the Heisman? with Jeff Price · 52 min · Episodio 79The Heisman Trophy is one of the most recognizable symbols in college sports. Now, as college athletics undergoes massive structural change, the organization behind the trophy is…
- The Human Side of Modern Sports Leadership with Andrew Siegel [REPLAY] · 44 min · Episodio 78In an industry being reshaped by NIL, the transfer portal, and private capital, one question is becoming unavoidable: how do leaders make principled decisions when everything…
- The $1.3B Stadium Strategy: Personalization, Friction, and Fan Engagement · 36 min · Episodio 77Bank of America Stadium is undergoing a $1.3 billion renovation, but Tepper Sports & Entertainment isn’t just thinking about new seats. The bigger question is, what will get fans…
- How a College Project Became SBJ's Sports Tech of the Year with Antyush Bollini · 45 min · Episodio 76A tablet that turns basketball into vibrations sounds like a novelty. Today, roughly half the NBA carries one, and Ticketmaster is footing the bill. In this conversation…
- From Game Day Utility to Lifelong Fandom: George Scott on the Future of College Sports Apps · 42 min · Episodio 75Sidearm Sports powers the digital experience for the vast majority of major college athletics programs, but George Scott believes the next challenge is much bigger than…
- Curling's $11.2M Bet: How Nic Sulsky Bought a Sport to Rebuild It · 51 min · Episodio 74What happens when an entrepreneur recognizes that one of the world’s most-watched Olympic sports has never been built to maximize its global audience? Nic Sulsky saw an…
- The 'Free Agent Fan' Strategy That Doubled the Nets' Fan Base with Darolyn Pierce · 44 min · Episodio 73What happens when you stop benchmarking yourself against other teams and start borrowing ideas from Apple, Google, and Netflix instead? Darolyn Pierce leads three distinct…
- Sports Fans Have Changed. Has Sports? with Alden Mitchell · 47 min · Episodio 71College athletics, media, and technology are all being forced to reinvent themselves at the same time. Alden Mitchell has spent her career navigating exactly those industry…
- Best Of: Inside Cosm's New Category of Live Sports · 29 min · Episodio 72The company that invented the first VR headset in 1968 is now powering one of the most talked about venues in sports. In this Best Of episode, we’re revisiting conversations with…
- Best Of: How the USGA Runs 15 Championships Without a Home Venue · 29 min · Episodio 70From record participation among women and junior golfers to new technology platforms, major investments in player development, and a reimagined fan experience, the USGA is…







