Summer Paid Internships: One Nation Baseball tournament work in Ohio

From: Bobby Del Torto, a third-year sport management major at The Ohio State University. 

I recently have accepted a position working for a company called One Nation Baseball. We have expanded into Ohio and are primarily based in the Northeast Ohio area now. We currently are looking for 3-4 full time paid interns to work tournament sites at our events all summer long. I’ve attached our flyer for what is expected and required for some of our workers. 

If you have any students that would be interested in a position like this working in baseball, please feel free to share the flyer or give them my number 330-977-7677 or reach out to my boss wilsonstrikeforcebaseball@gmail.com . I’m also attaching the link to our main registration website https://onenationbaseball.com/ along with a link to the website that has all our events listed with dates and locations https://www.ohiobaseball.com/ Thank you and hope to hear from you or some of the students in your program. 

Sincerely,

Bobby Del Torto

 -SRH-

PANDEMIC RECOVERY MONEY FINDS WAY TO BENEFIT SUPERDOME

A COVID-sports related item was reported today on D1ticker.com, a news clipping outlet that shares information in college sports.   Bottom line is how municipal downtown development authorities (DDAs) are using their share of COVID-19 relief money from the American Rescue Plan to improve athletics facilities.  Think about this, and the rationale:  should taxpayer money be used to enhance stadiums?  Was that the intent of the COVID relief law, and if so, how do stadium renovations help communities with COVID relief?

Sportico reports on this, and I have a summary below from D1ticker.com.  There was a lot of pandemic relief money from the government, and figuring out how to spend it all may not be the best type of policy decision:

"The Caesars Superdome in New Orleans - site of this weekend’s MBB Final Four - is using $27M of American Rescue Plan funding for renovations according to Sportico’s Coffey, who reports the Superdome is one of several sporting venues utilizing the federal aid to the same end. “Among the uses disclosed so far: $11.6M to build an addition to Dutchess Stadium, the home field of the Hudson Valley Renegades. … [And] in Ohio, Franklin County, which owns the Columbus Clippers, the AAA affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians, gave itself $3M to ‘offset negative impacts of the pandemic’ on the team’s stadium, which it also owns." Holy Cross economist Matheson: “It’s really squinting at things to make any sort of argument that fixing up the roof of the Superdome is a pandemic-related thing. … We had about a 50% drop in employment in the spectator sports industry between February and April [in 2020]. The industries were crushed… so that was all probably pretty reasonable. Now we have a bunch of leftover pandemic money that they’re figuring out how to try and spend, and we’re getting much faster and looser with the rules.”

altafiber Named as Exclusive Wi-Fi Provider for the Cincinnati Bengals and Paul Brown Stadium

All you sport management Bengals fans, stadium connectivity is the key to success, and not the future.  The future is now.  And, if you fail to have enough high-speed wifi or access points, you will fail to add value to your stadium, and your sporting events.

Ask the Super Bowl runner-ups, the Cincinnati Bengals, and look what they are doing!  Need to remain cutting edge:

"The Cincinnati Bengals and altafiber today announced a partnership that will deliver a state-of-the-art, fiber-enabled Wi-Fi network at Paul Brown Stadium.
altafiber and its IT Services subsidiary, CBTS, will engineer and build the Wi-Fi network that will more than double the number of access points at Paul Brown Stadium." ....
 
The Wi-Fi 6 network will greatly enhance the ability to provide fast Internet service to devices connected to the 1,600 access points strategically located throughout the stadium. Wi-Fi 6 uses MU-MIMO technology, which allows for eight times the number of concurrent connections when compared to previous generations of Wi-Fi, and also produces greater throughput and higher speeds. To support the new access points, Paul Brown Stadium is deploying a 40GbE network core that will deliver the fastest Internet speeds possible for fans."... READ MORE

-SRH-

Chicago Bears Internships

The Chicago Bears have a variety of new seasonal positions available including:

Human Resources, Building Operations, Brand Creative

Learn more and apply at www.chicagobears.com/jobs. #jobalert #sportsbiz #chicagobears #linkedinsports #hiring #internships

Internship Openings for Summer 2022

My name is Tyler Eaton, Director of Internships at College Coaches Skills Camp.

We are currently in the process of searching for candidates for our 2022 Summer Internship Program.
This opportunity is for students who are needing an internship for-credit for Summer 2022 and/or beyond.

There will be a small stipend is available to those selected for the internship program.   At the bottom of this email is the Job Description. I can provide a PDF copy if needed.

Let me know if you have any questions.
Students can send their resumes/email of interest to me at tyler@ccscathletics.com.

Tyler Eaton

Director of New Sport Development
Director of Internships
College Coaches Skills Camp
tyler@ccscathletics.com
(703) 479-5832

 

'Set me up for life’: Female college athletes stash NIL cash

This is a fascinating look at some case studies relating to females in college sports, and their NIL deals so far.  You can read about athletes in a variety of sports at different institutions, with different sponsors, and different ways to make money from their publicity. 

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2022/03/set-me-up-for-life-female-college-athletes-stash-nil-cash.html

Names, Images, and Likenesses is an organic area right now - it is growing and changing daily, it seems.  Athletes should be able to monetize their social media at all levels of sport, endorse products, and otherwise be creating in selling their NIL.  The question remains: to what impact does this new focus on NIL have on their education?   Is it a distraction as much as it is an enhancement to athletes' lives?  What are they learning from the NIL experience?  

-SRH-

McKenzie Cooper named DC Sport Management Student of the Month for February 2022

(March 2, 2022) -- Defiance College student McKenzie Cooper is the college's  "Sport Management Student of the Month" for February 2022.  Cooper is a sophomore from Greentown, Indiana.  She is a guard for the Jackets women's basketball team, and has played in 28 games, logging 18 minutes and averaging 6.6 points per game. Cooper also was a leader in helping market the HCAC Conference Track & Field Championships for her MKT 350 class in Spring 2022.  Her future is to work in sports marketing. (NOTE to employers: hire her!)

Congratulations, McKenzie!