The CUSP Show

Tom and Joe sit down with Head Coach of the Toronto Raptors and author of Rapture: Fifteen Teams, Four Countries, One NBA Championship, and How to Find a Way to Win -- Damn Near Anywhere, Nick Nurse. Listen to his approach to coaching, how to connect with players, and his core values have brought him to become an elite NBA Head Coach and hear about his willingness to "do whatever it takes to make it happen." From coaching fifteen teams, in four countries to learn his craft and get better every single time on the court.  

Pick up his book today. Rapture: Fifteen Teams, Four Countries, One NBA Championship, and How to Find a Way to Win -- Damn Near Anywhere

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The CUSP Show is a production by the faculty of Sports Management at Columbia University. You can get in touch with the program on Twitter @CU_SPS_Sports. Our presenters are Joe Favorito (@Joefav), Tom Richardson (@ConvergenceTR), and produced by Tom Cerny (@Tom_Cerny19).

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Tom and Joe sit down with Ese Ighedosa, President of House of Athlete, and Laura Dixon, Head of External Relations, Spurs Sports & Entertainment to talk about their backgrounds from NFL Headquarters to the importance of culture inside organizations. Both Ese and Laura build on to their new initiative, 'Pro Sports Assembly' whose mission is the dedication to advancing diversity and inclusion, along with cultural and gender intelligence, in the sports industry.

For more information on Pro Sports Academy, please visit:  

www.prosportsassembly.org (Website)

@prosportsassembly (Instagram)

@theproassembly (Twitter)

https://www.linkedin.com/company/prosportsassembly (LinkedIn).

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Tom and Joe sit down with special guest Richie Graham, Founder of For Soccer Ventres and Chief Business Officer Marc Horine as they discuss their venture into Soccer in America. For Soccer Ventures is an investment firm focused on the growth and long-term development of American soccer. Hear ow the influence of the global landscape of soccer helps Richie and Marc build something special in the United States, with some blooming super stars in the pipeline.

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Joe & Tom sit down with Co-Founder + General Manager of Atatlanta Media and Alumn of the Columbia Sports Management PRogram, ESMERALDA
NEGRON, to discuss the company's focus on women's sports and elevating the players in the leagues. 

Who they are:

We are a women’s football company devoted to elevating the sport and its players. Founded by former Sky executive with expertise in sports media rights and new ventures, Hannah Brown, along with former professional soccer player, collegiate coach and sports marketer, Esmeralda Negron, Atalanta Media is here to change the global trajectory of women’s football through a fundamental shift in media rights distribution. We will bring the sport’s greatest leagues, clubs and players into the hearts, minds and homes of millions.

Website: https://www.atafootball.com/

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The CUSP Show is a production by the faculty of Sports Management at Columbia University. You can get in touch with the program on Twitter @CU_SPS_Sports. Our presenters are Joe Favorito (@Joefav), Tom Richardson (@ConvergenceTR), and produced by Tom Cerny (@Tom_Cerny19).

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecuspshow.substack.com

Joe and Tom sit down with Co-Founders of Slate Teams Eric Stark and William Brooke, to discuss their social media tool, Slate. Slate is a real-time social-content tool that allows teams to create image and video templates for Instagram, Twitter, and other social platforms. This creates the opportunity to create consistent, on-brand content using pre-approved assets. Creators can then resize, adjust, trim, crop, and watermark content in Slate to share to at the proper dimensions.

Web: https://www.slateteams.com/

Twitter: @slateteams

Instagram: @slate.teams

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The CUSP Show is a production by the faculty of Sports Management at Columbia University. You can get in touch with the program on Twitter @CU_SPS_Sports. Our presenters are Joe Favorito (@Joefav), Tom Richardson (@ConvergenceTR), and produced by Tom Cerny (@Tom_Cerny19).

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecuspshow.substack.com

Joe and Tom sit down with President & Co-Founder of Zoomph, Amir Zonozi as he discusses his early findings and passion for Social Media. From Presidential campaigns to being a leader in measuring sports sponsorship. Amir's entrepreneurial spirit and unwillingness to quit drove him to the success Zoomph is seeing today.

The CUSP Show is a production by the faculty of Sports Management at Columbia University. You can get in touch with the program on Twitter @CU_SPS_Sports. Our presenters are Joe Favorito (@Joefav), Tom Richardson (@ConvergenceTR), and produced by Tom Cerny (@Tom_Cerny19).

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecuspshow.substack.com

Joe and special host, Lj Holmgren, sit down with a special guest and alum of the program Neha Aggarwall. Listen as she discusses the changes in the Olympics from the time she participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympics for India in Table Tennis. How her passion of her sport drove her to Columba and currently as the Head of Partnerships & Communication at Olympic Gold Quest. 

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The CUSP Show is a production by the faculty of Sports Management at Columbia University. You can get in touch with the program on Twitter @CU_SPS_Sports. Our presenters are Joe Favorito (@Joefav), Tom Richardson (@ConvergenceTR), and produced by Tom Cerny (@Tom_Cerny19).

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecuspshow.substack.com

Joe and Tom sit down with a special guest and Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications Liz Brown of Little League, as they discuss her path from graduate school, to working on corporate sponsorship activations to head of marketing & communications for Little League Baseball and Softball. The effects of the global pandemic on a summer classic, and how to be resilient and push forward in the face of adversity. 

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The CUSP Show is a production by the faculty of Sports Management at Columbia University. You can get in touch with the program on Twitter @CU_SPS_Sports. Our presenters are Joe Favorito (@Joefav), Tom Richardson (@ConvergenceTR), and produced by Tom Cerny (@Tom_Cerny19).

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecuspshow.substack.com

Joe and Tom sit down with special guest and SIAC Commissioner Gregory Moore, as they discuss his experienced path as a former athlete, sports attorney, author, minor league sports executive,and now NCAA conference commissioner, Gregory Moore brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and passion to the thirteen historically black colleges and universities that currently constitute the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

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The CUSP Show is a production by the faculty of Sports Management at Columbia University. You can get in touch with the program on Twitter @CU_SPS_Sports. Our presenters are Joe Favorito (@Joefav), Tom Richardson (@ConvergenceTR), and produced by Tom Cerny (@Tom_Cerny19).

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecuspshow.substack.com

Joe and Tom sit down with special guest Dick Glover, as they discuss his experienced path from WWE, ESPN and NASCAR to launching a new media platform at Sportico.

Be sure to subscribe to Sportico: https://www.sportico.com/

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The CUSP Show is a production by the faculty of Sports Management at Columbia University. You can get in touch with the program on Twitter @CU_SPS_Sports. Our presenters are Joe Favorito (@Joefav), Tom Richardson (@ConvergenceTR), and produced by Tom Cerny (@Tom_Cerny19).

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecuspshow.substack.com