Best of the Sports Business - AZ TRT S04 EP43 (206) 10-29-2023

Best of the Sports Business

- AZ TRT S04 EP43 (206) 10-29-2023

What We Learned This Week

·         Football Done Right w/ Ex-NFL GM Mike Lombardi

• History of the Baseball World Series w/ NYT Writer Tyler Kepner
• Sports Performance – Train Your Mind w/ Alex Auerbach
• Sports Gambling is Legal w/ Adam Candee

Seg 1 - Clips From:

Football Done Right, History of the NFL with Ex GM Mike Lombardi + Rick Horrow on Stadiums

- AZ TRT S04 EP38 (201) 9-24-2023

What We Learned This Week

·         You don’t work in the NFL. You live in the NFL. – Al Davis, Raiders Owner

• White Oaks of Football – 5 Coaches who revolutionized how the game is played
• Paul Brown’s Operating System – responsible for so many of the ways football teams are run, from headsets, to play calling & playbooks, to scouting systems 
• West Coast Bill Walsh – created an offensive philosophy by passing early to get the lead, and running late to keep the lead
• Pete Rozelle (former NFL Commissioner) propelled football into the #1 sport thru Television, starting with Monday Night Football in 1970
• Scouting for players is about elimination, never about finding. Need a Profile to know what you are looking for.

Guest:

Michael Lombardi is a former general manager and three-time Super Bowl-winning executive, having spent thirty-five years working for the New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, the Oakland Raiders, and the Cleveland Browns, and has the distinction of the being the only person to make it to the Super Bowl with legends Bill Walsh, Al Davis, and Bill Belichick in a single career. He is the best-selling author of Gridiron Genius and appears on the top-ten sports podcast GM Shuffle in addition to hosting the daily show The Lombardi Line on the VSIN podcast network. He has appeared as a draft analyst and on-air talent for CBS Sports, Showtime, and the NFL Network, among others. He has written extensively for numerous print and digital media platforms, including NFL.com and Sports Illustrated. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: FOOTBALL DONE RIGHT: Setting the Record Straight on the Coaches, Players, and History of the NFL 

By Michael Lombardi

“A master class in the history, philosophy, and art of football from a man who has seen it all.”

—Bill Belichick, Head Coach of the New England Patriots

From “Monday Night Football” to Super Bowl Sunday, the NFL is a dominating force in the lives of millions of fans who tune in and passionately cheer for their favorite teams. And when the games are over, the conversation is just getting started. Who's the greatest player of all time? Which coaches truly shaped the game we know and love today? What was the most unforgettable game? Why is professional football such an undeniable part of our culture? 

In FOOTBALL DONE RIGHT: Setting the Record Straight on the Coaches, Players, and History of the NFL (Running Press, September 5, 2023) former NFL general manager and three-time Super Bowl winner Michael Lombardi sets the record straight on these questions and more, taking readers on the ultimate journey through the NFL's history to present his calls on the greatest players and coaches the sport has ever seen. Lombardi has done it all—from scout to executive to coach—and with FOOTBALL DONE RIGHT, he tackles all aspects of the sport, channeling his 35+ years of experience with the NFL into an all-encompassing celebration of the game. 

Through his incisive analysis, first-person experience, and hard stats, Lombardi makes a definitive case for the most influential coaches and best players, while also honoring the many change makers, trade negotiators, and sportscasters who played an essential role in popularizing the game that we recognize today. Both a full history of the sport and a comprehensive re-imagining of the Football Hall of Fame to honor every deserving athlete and coach, FOOTBALL DONE RIGHT will change the way you watch, discuss, and debate the gridiron. 

Full Show: HERE

Seg 2 – Clips from:

BRT Game Night - The Saban Process + the History of the World Series w/ NYT National Baseball writer Tyler Kepner - BRT S03 EP52 (151) 10-16-2022

What We Learned This Week

• Business of Baseball Drafting Players to Analytics, & How the game has evolved  
• History of World Series – Game Changers - Did babe Ruth call his shot?
• The Process – Nick Saban’s success formula to focus on the moment, and being more fundamental & sound for each play
• Sports Gambling – who are the big players in the industry from sports books to Casinos
• Chess Strategy – how to train the mind to make better decisions

Guests:

TYLER KEPNER is the author of the New York Times bestseller K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches. He has covered every World Series game of the last two decades for The New York Times. He started his career as a teenager, interviewing players for a homemade magazine in the early 1990s. He attended Vanderbilt University on the Grantland Rice/Fred Russell sportswriting scholarship, then covered the Angels for the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise and the Mariners for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He joined The New York Times in 2000, covering the Mets for two seasons, the Yankees for eight, and serving as the national baseball writer since 2010. 

From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, a highly entertaining, revelatory history of the World Series, filled with gripping behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years of the Fall Classic. 

The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American team sports. It’s the place where legends are made, where celebration and devastation can hinge on a fly ball off a foul pole or a grounder beneath a first baseman’s glove. And there’s no one better to bring this rich history to life than New York Times national baseball columnist Tyler Kepner, whose bestselling book about pitching, K, was lauded as “Michelangelo explaining the brush strokes on the Sistine Chapel” by Newsday. In seven scintillating chapters, Kepner delivers an indelible portrait of baseball’s signature event. He digs deep for essential tales dating back to the beginning in 1903, adding insights from Hall of Famers like Reggie Jackson, Mike Schmidt, Jim Palmer, Dennis Eckersley and many others who have thrived – and failed – when it mattered most. 

Why do some players, like Madison Bumgarner, Derek Jeter and David Ortiz, crave the pressure? How do players handle a dream that comes up short? What’s it like to manage in the World Series, and what are the secrets of building a champion? Kepner celebrates unexpected heroes like Bill Wambsganss, who pulled off an unassisted triple play in 1920, probes the mysteries behind magic moments (Did Babe Ruth call his shot in 1932? How could Eckersley walk Mike Davis to get to Kirk Gibson in 1988?) and busts some long-time myths (the 1919 Reds were much better than the Black Sox, anyway). 

The result is a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, filled with humor, lore, analysis and fascinating stories. THE GRANDEST STAGE is the ultimate history of the World Series, the perfect gift for all the fans who feel their hearts pounding in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game Seven. 

Tyler / NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/by/tyler-kepner

Twitter: @TylerKepner

Book Link: HERE

Full Show: HERE

Seg 3 – Clips from:

Sports Performance - Train Your Mind to Be Your Best in the Present w/ Alex Auerbach

- BRT S04 EP11 (173) 3-12-2023

Things We Learned This Week

• Mindfullness - Be in the Present, use breathing techniques to anchor in
• Imposter Syndrome - Q of confidence
• Client Psychology (30%) vs Environment (70%) - take care of your health, get sleep
• Sunk Cost Fallacy - resources are gone, move on

Guest: Alex Auerbach, Sports Psychologist for the Toronto Rapters (NBA)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexauerbachphd/

https://alexauerbach.info/

Performance psychologist working with the world's best performers | Building science-backed systems for health and high performance for elite athletes, executives, and organizations

Area of Expertise Include:

·         Wellness & Performing Under Pressure

·         Leadership & High Performance

·         Mindset Training & Systems optimization

Alex is a counseling and performance psychologist currently working as an executive in professional sports. He’s been fortunate to work with the best athletes in the world in the NBA, NFL, MLB, and the Olympics. Also with high performers in other domains – including elite military units, Fortune 500 Companies, and venture backed start-ups.

In addition to his training as a psychologist, he also worked as a college football coach with 2 different NFL Teams. Alex collaborated as part of several venture-backed start-ups, working in a range of roles from consultant to C-Suite. Outside of work, Alex is the father of an incredible daughter, a dog, & a husband.

3 Mindsets that separate the best from the Rest: 

Post - HERE 

Full Show: HERE

Seg 4 – Clips from:

Sports Gambling is Legal in AZ & Beyond w/ Adam Candee

- BRT S02 EP19 (66) 05-09-2021

What We Learned This Week

• AZ legalized sports gambling 4/2021 & develop rules to start in the fall of 2021, will have similar setup to Nevada & tax rate of 6.75%
• Low margin business – lots of data from NV, 55% win rate by sports book and then taxes
• NJ legal battle, Supreme Court in 2018 - ‘Pasba’ struck down Federal ban, now a state matter, and states can legalize sports gambling (vs Federal law 1992 – only in Vegas)
• Sports book will be inside US arenas, just like in Europe
• Big Players – Caesars, MGM, Fan Duel, Draft Kings, Betfair, Sky Bet, Penn National Gaming & Barstool Sports

Guest: Adam Candee w/ Legal Sports Report

https://www.legalsportsreport.com/arizona/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcandee/

AZ has just legalized sports gambling, and it is due to go live in the Fall of 2021

Adam Candee is a radio host and journalist who runs the top sports gambling info websites / podcast - Legal Sports Report (.com). He joins the show to talk all things sports gambling. We cover AZ and all of the other states (like NY) who just passed the initiative also, and potential tax revenues.

We talk the big players (Draft Kings, Barstool Sports) and the casinos who have thrown their hat in – Caesars, MGM. 

Adam tells of the history of sports gambling in the US, the growth of offshore books in the 1990s, and what we can learn from Europe’s sports betting market the last 20 years.

Full Show: HERE

Sports Themed Show: HERE

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