Researcher Heather J. Lawrence, PhD joined the IUPUI Sports Innovation Institute podcast to discuss the recently published SIJ article Applying Activity-Based Costing to Intercollegiate Athletics. Current accounting methods in intercollegiate athletics make it difficult for leaders to assess and understand the true cost of each sport team operations. Institutional and athletics leaders often make decisions… Read more »
Sports Innovation Institute Director David Pierce joined the podcast to discuss the new IUPUI research article written in partnership with Grand Park Sports Campus. COVID-19 has impacted all areas of life, and youth sports is no exception. States and counties are publishing their own unique guidelines for permitting youth sports to return over designated phases,… Read more »
Authors Brendan O’Hallarn and James Strode joined the podcast to discuss their recently accepted paper in the Sports Innovation Journal. As sport management pedagogy has evolved, an effort has been made to incorporate popular and innovative social media technologies into classroom instruction. Academic research has suggested how the technology can be utilized to provide real-world… Read more »
Authors Michael Naraine and Liz Wanless joined the podcast to discuss their recently accepted paper in the Sports Innovation Journal. The sport industry has become increasingly more complex with the expanse of digital technology such as fiber optic internet access, 5G wireless communication, and blockchain, just to name a few. These advancements have shifted the… Read more »
Authors Sarah Stokowski, Amanda Paule-Koba and Alex Auerbach joined the SII podcast to discuss their recently published article in the Sports Innovation Journal. The success of an athletic program is often defined by wins and losses. According to the sporting success framework (De Bosscher et al., 2006) as well as the athlete development literacy (ADL)… Read more »
Authors Chris Chard, PhD and doctoral candidate Daniel Wigfield joined the SII podcast to discuss their recently published article in the Sports Innovation Journal. Participation in sport has been lauded for the myriad benefits provided to youth who engage. Similarly, attendance in school has been identified as a salient contributor to academic success. Thus, the… Read more »
Dr. Nick Elam is a Ball State professor focusing on educational leadership. But if you watched the NBA All-Star game this season you may have heard or seen his namesake trending on Twitter. The Elam Ending, a term coined by The Basketball Tournament, an annual $2 million prized basketball tournament on ESPN, is a way… Read more »
Next up on the IUPUI Sports Innovation Institute podcast is a conversation with Dr. Cheri Bradish from Canada’s Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Bradish is the Director of the Future of Sport Lab, which is the focus of this episode. Dr. Bradish explains the concept of both incubators and accelerator programs and, in doing… Read more »
The Sports Innovation Institute welcomed Dr. Dave Schrader to campus in September, where he spoke to a group of students about sports analytics projects. Afterwards, Dr. Dave joined the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on the subject, including his favorite student projects at different colleges and how to strategically start the conversation with athletic directors… Read more »
