SDSU Sports MBA Podcast

This week, the SMBA '20 students recap the last week in the life of SMBA 20. Points of discussion include recent guest speakers, our latest social outing, and topics of interest in the world of sports business.

This week's podcast contributors:

• Aaron Dryden
• Graham Lyman
• Tak Matsumoto
• Jenn Gerdes

This week's podcast producers:

• Kyle Robb

This week, the SMBA '20 students recap a busy two weeks in the SMBA program including volunteering at the World Congress of Sports and the many guest speakers from this week. As always, they also run through this week's sports biz news.

This week's podcast contributors:

• Aaron Dryden
• Graham Lyman
• Morgan Pefanis
• Kyle Robb

This week's podcast producers:

• Scott Patterson
• Jenn Gerdes

This week's podcast recaps our week in the program and takes a look into bad beats of sports betting, Petco Park, the release of the upcoming ICC schedule and the possibility of MLS implementing a promotion, regulation system for soccer.

This week's podcast contributors:

• Kyle Robb
• Jenn Gerdes
• Tak Matsumoto

This week's podcast takes a look at Body Armor's recent business successes, the streams of revenue and gambling surrounding the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, esports growth at the collegiate level, and our thoughts and picks for March Madness.

This week's podcast contributors:

• Aaron Dryden
• Kyle Robb
• Scott Patterson
• Tyler Drew

This week's podcast producers:

• Graham Lyman
• Jenn Gerdes
• Scott Patterson

This week, the students of the Class of 2020 recapped the guest speakers and WISE Power Play Event before jumping into discussions of the NBA jersey patch deals, MLB collective bargaining agreement, and MLB international series.

This week's podcast contributors:

• Aaron Dryden
• Graham Lyman 
• Kyle Robb
• Tyler Drew

This week's podcast producers:

• Jenn Gerdes
• Scott Patterson

After today's first Statistics midterm of the year, current Sports MBA students Aaron Dryden (SMBA '20), Jenn Gerdes (SMBA '20), Tak Matsumoto (SMBA '20), Scott Patterson (SMBA '20), and Kyle Robb (SMBA '20) got together to discuss the year they've experienced in SDSU Sports MBA thus far. 

This episode is a brief one, but it will set the table for much more to come on the SDSU Sports MBA Podcast with SMBA '20. 

We're well into the NBA season, so current Sports MBA students Barde Eseyin (SMBA '19), Ryan Maguire (SMBA '19) and Isaiah Ramsey (SMBA '19) are here to discuss the business of the NBA.  The trio debates the new team format of the All-Star Game, looks ahead at this offseason's free agency, and spends time dissecting sponsorship and jersey patch deals.

They're also joined by Sports MBA alumnus Nate Kassalow (SMBA '12), Associate Manager, Intelligence Analytics and Reporting with the NBA league office for a discussion of his career in sports business.  

The new Sports MBA cohort has been here less than a month, but it's been a hectic few weeks.  Current students Chelsea Devine, Ryan Huckabey, Ryan Lieu, Jessica Luttrell, and Ahkeel Whitehead (all SMBA '19) discuss orientation, volunteer opportunities, guest speakers, and much more in the group's first podcast of the year.

Julia Hernandez (SMBA '18) spent the summer reading all 373 pages of MLB's new collective bargaining agreement. She shares some of her newly-found knowledge with fellow classmates (and fellow baseball geeks) Drew Pomeroy and Forrest Lockwood, who add a few thoughts of their own.

Where are they now? Members of the SMBA Class of 2014 Walter Franco, Dom Lucq, Steve Fuller, Carlos Maldonado, and Adam John reunite and catch up on where their careers are at, three years after graduation. The crew also offers up some tips for the current SMBA class to get through the remainder of their program, and general advice for aspiring sports business professionals.