At the end of January 2025, I had an incredible experience competing in the National Collegiate Sports Sales Championship in Atlanta, GA, hosted by Baylor University and the Atlanta Hawks.
The sport sales class I teach at IU Indianapolis set a record for revenue generated in the sales center project this semester selling for the Indy Fuel. I can attribute the success of the class this semester to three significant factors.
Sport management is not an academic discipline or profession that many associate with the field of design. However, over the past 7 years, I have used design thinking as the set of mindsets and methods in my senior capstone class in sport management at Indiana University Indianapolis.
The Sports Innovation Institute has partnered with the Center for Sports Transformation since January 2022 on a wide variety of initiatives to support and build the sports leadership capacity in communities at all levels of youth sports using the long-term program development model (LTPD) framework. One of our first projects was to examine the durability… Read more »
My name is Shane Mattingly and I am a senior at IUPUI studying Sport Management at IUPUI. My sport sales class sells tickets for the Indianapolis Indians and the Indy Fuel through the Sports Innovation Institute, and the commission revenue generated from this projected helped to fund my travel to Cleveland for the Teamwork Online Sport… Read more »
The Sports Innovation Journal announces a call for papers for a special issue on innovations in engaged learning in sport management, tourism, recreation, live entertainment, and related fields led by guest editors Elizabeth Gregg (University of North Florida), Jessica Braunstein-Minkove (Towson University), and Heather Alderman (Commission on Sport Management Accreditation).
In this publication of the Sports Innovation Journal, authors Bradley Baker, Anthony Pizzo, and Yiran Su explore the emergence of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) in the sports industry. NFTs are a form of digital ownership that is recorded to a permanent ledger on blockchain. NFTs have transformed from free digital art pieces to highly valued and… Read more »
The consequences wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are pushing sports organizations to think differently, and sales teams are no exception. In addition to COVID-related changes to seating capacities and frictionless fan experience, changes in consumer attitudes, buying preferences, and accessibility of sales technology are creating pressure to reimagine the inside sales model that served the… Read more »
Impact of COVID-19 on the Sports Job Market in the United States: Analysis of Full-Time Job Postings on Teamwork Online Overview The impact of COVID-19 on the sports job market cannot be understated. The cancellation of sporting events and seasons wreaked havoc on all industry revenue streams, forcing sports properties to take unprecedented measures. Layoffs,… Read more »
Written by Rick Matthews The IUPUI Sports Innovation Institute provided me the opportunity to dig deep into the world of sports officiating through my capstone class, internship, and a research project. What I received was a truly transformational experience that helped me look at problems in a brand-new light, and something I… Read more »
