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Watching Kevin Costner and the Yankees and White Sox enter the playing field through the corn last night was mesmerizing. The back and forth in the 9th inning kept everyone in their seats afraid to miss the action. It was a moment publicists would spend tons of money to create and last night it happenedContinue reading “Major League Baseball hits a Home Run in Iowa”

The Parkway gang discusses the National Championship game between Ohio State and Alabama and what to look forward to for Ohio State football.

Join Jack Park as he joins The Parkway to discuss his all-time favorite Buckeyes.

“Normal is the Holy Grail and only those without it know its value.”  As the end of an awful year comes to a close, many are looking at the sports world at the various amateur, college, and professional levels and asking when will everything return to normal? At what point in 2021 should we expectContinue reading “Will 2021 be a normal sports year?”

Winning and losing are things every athletic staff members is expected to handle and learn to deal with within the team and athletic department setting. We learn this at an early age. Some people handle losses well and some do not. But seldom is the adversity of winning or losing what sets athletic staff membersContinue reading “Learning from Adversity in Athletics”

The Big Ten made a tough decision several weeks ago to postpone their fall seasons. The impact of that decision has been discussed at length in various media circles. To the outsider, the Big Ten made a decision that created a feeling of a lack of trust between their action and what the sports fan,Continue reading “Trust is major factor regarding Big Ten decision”

The job market and our lives have changed dramatically during this pandemic. Prior to the pandemic the unemployment rates were low and employers competed to find the best available talent available from a pool of job seekers and could afford to be selective. We now face an economy with hundreds of thousands of employees whoContinue reading “Interviewing for a job during the pandemic”

You have worked at a place for several years and given blood, sweat and tears to your job. Going above and beyond the norm to ensure your organization has been successful. Your colleagues respect you and your staff works their tails off for you. You know the system and the system knows you. Then oneContinue reading “Time to Consider Other Options”

The NCAA will furlough and/or offer voluntary separation agreements to the majority of its staff this fall and winter. The only people not impacted by the furloughs and voluntary separations are the upper level executives of the NCAA who previously had been asked to take pay cuts.  The NCAA is an organization that got itsContinue reading “Is this the beginning of the end of college sport as we know it?”

Most people know who Branch Rickey is. But do you know how Thurgood Marshall, Branch Rickey, Earl Warren and Jackie Robinson are connected? Branch Rickey was the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who signed Jackie Robinson to a professional baseball contract helping him break the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947. AContinue reading “Baseball and Change”