Sports Business Pioneer Rick Horrow Brings Top Sports Biz Leaders to Nashville Thursday, November 3 for “Sports Business @ 50 Lessons & Leadership from Legends of the Game”
The expanded & revised 2nd version of “The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry” is now on sale.
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES, October 25, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Rick Horrow, writer and editor of the just-published expanded and revised second version of The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry, is bringing collectively contributors to the ebook and different main figures from the sports activities business for a particular occasion on Thursday, November 3 at The Gibson Garage in Nashville.
In celebration of the revised and expanded second version, Horrow has invited key contributors to the ebook to take part in a panel dialogue, “Sports Business @ 50 – Lessons & Leadership from Legends of the Game” from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., with a networking cocktail reception and stay musical performances to observe.
Horrow will co-host a panel of VIP audio system (and ebook contributors) together with:
• Former Major League Baseball President, Foley & Lardner associate and occasion co-host Bob DuPuy.
• Olympic Gold Medalist determine skater (and Nashville resident) Scott Hamilton.
• Scott Pranger, Founder & CEO of Nashville-based digital asset/cost chief Staks.
• Former Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher & Music City Baseball board member Dave Stewart.
• Mark Williams, Partner at main sports activities venue & structure agency HKS.
• Greg Marino, Foley & Lardner Sports & Entertainment Industry Team particular counsel.
• And auto racing business govt Bryan Sperber.
In addition, executives and board members from Music City Baseball (Nashville Stars) might be in attendance. Special musical company slated to carry out after the panel dialogue embody Dave Turnbull (Music City Baseball), Randy Montana and former Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher Barry Zito. The Gibson Garage is situated at 209 tenth Avenue South, Suite 209, Nashville, Tennessee 37209.
This is the second occasion in a sequence of nationwide occasions created by Horrow that debuted September twenty second in New York City, and consists of future occasions in Palm Beach, Florida (January 10) celebrating the fiftieth Anniversary of the undefeated Miami Dolphins season, in addition to occasions round the PGA Tour’s Waste Management Open and Super Bowl LVII in Arizona in mid-February and the NCAA Final Four in late March/early April in Houston.
Horrow’s ebook, The Sports Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry, printed this month by Human Kinetics, builds on that premise with essays and contributions from over 120 main business figures, together with Hall of Fame Duke University males’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski, Hall of Fame Baltimore Orioles infielder Cal Ripken Jr., former Major League Baseball president Bob DuPuy, Boston Red Sox govt Larry Lucchino, legendary golfer Jack Nickolas, Reebok president Matt O’Toole, National Football League commissioner Paul Tagliabue, USA Basketball chair Jerry Colangelo, Dallas Cowboys COO Stephen Jones, race automotive driver Lyn St. James, NASCAR CEO Lesa France Kennedy, Opendorse founder Blake Lawrence, Washington Capitals/Wizards/Monumental Sports homeowners Zack and Ted Leonsis, National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman, Olympic Gold Medal skater Scott Hamilton, and sports activities media personalities Jay Bilas and Ann Meyers Drysdale, amongst different notables.
One of the leaders who created the sports activities business as it’s identified in the present day, Horrow’s ebook is a treatise on the historical past of the previous 50 years of sports activities business written by the individuals who constructed the business and taking these views to foretell what’s forward for the subsequent 50 years.
The revised version now features a “Breakthrough Moments” listing of 50 of the most important sports-related moments that modified the business. These might be featured throughout the panel dialogue and are additionally the focus of the “Breakthrough Moments” NFT sequence created in collaboration with Staks, which debuted final month in New York. The subsequent sequence of NFT’s will debut in Nashville at the occasion.
In addition, Mike Cardano (additionally a ebook contributor), VP of Operations with SportsGrid Television and Radio Network, will present the technical experience to supply and develop sustaining content material from the occasion. SportsGrid content material reaches over 150 million followers over the air, broadcast, cable tv, linked Smart TVs, streaming OTT platforms, cell units, and streaming stay on the net.
As CEO of Horrow Sports Ventures, Horrow has been the architect of greater than 100 offers value greater than $20 billion in sports activities, performing arts, and different city infrastructure tasks. Horrow pioneered the public/personal partnership and infrastructure branding ideas that, thus far, has enticed greater than $4 billion in company funding to cities and improvement tasks. Besides growing stadia and arenas, Horrow’s capability to place collectively a number of city initiatives into one package deal for voter approval has resulted in the constructing of new performing arts and conference facilities, faculties, libraries, transit tasks, and vacationer locations.
In addition to offering common sports activities business content material to SportsGrid radio and tv community and penning a weekly column for Yahoo! Finance, Horrow hosts month-to-month nationwide tv reveals carried by Sinclair and different RSNs, “Good Sports” and “The Icons.” His “Keeping Score” podcast and weblog are weekly keystones of Thomson Reuters’ sports activities business protection.
Horrow’s shoppers have included the NFL, NHL, Major/Minor League Baseball, U.S. Polo, PGA Tour, NASCAR, Great White Shark Enterprises (Greg Norman), Ladies Professional Golf Association, Major League Soccer, General Sports Venue/AstroTurf, Edelman Financial, EVERFI, Citrix, Cisco Systems, CA, Guggenheim/Group One Thousand One, Globecast, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Golden Bear International (Jack Nicklaus), Portland Trail Blazers, Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, and the State of West Virginia.
He has been a key participant in stadium, enviornment, and speedway offers in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Boston, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Houston, Green Bay, San Diego, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and El Paso. Horrow has additionally introduced sports activities and leisure ventures into Brazil, Argentina and Trinidad & Tobago, amongst others.
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