Sports

Brian Freeland, Program Director of the Sports Management and Sports and Health Sciences programs at American Public University, talks with fellow faculty member Dr. Spiro Doukas on how online will change the way we view sports. Everything from the way technology is used in the locker room, to interactive sports viewing, and then onto 3 things aspiring sports marketers can learn in the classroom to be successful.

Tommy Sheppard is an Industry Advisory Council member for American Public University System’s sports management program. This Q&A reviews his position and experience with the Wizards, methods for managing a professional sports franchise, the recent NBA lockout, and much more.

Where is the line getting blurred with the love of the game, and it being a business? Brian Freeland, Program Director of Sports & Health Sciences and Sports Management at APU, shares his position on business objectives as well as recent ethics cases in the industry.

Join American Public University as we discuss the current state of labor in professional sports. Adjunct Sports Management Professor, Dr. Lisa Miller discusses what steps the NFL, NBA, and MLB need to take to avoid a work stoppage during their respective off-season’s.

Dawn Marie Cain has many years of experience in athletic training, she’s even trained one of the world’s greatest swimmers, but she felt it was time to add education into the mix to take her training to the next level. In this podcast she talks about her many years of experience, prior certificates for athletic training, and then talks about the journey that led her to choose online education.

What concepts and lessons can a practicing attorney take away from a sports management program? Well, when you’re an attorney who is a co-owner of a professional men’s soccer team there are plenty of lessons to be learned. For starters, sales, marketing, and public relations are what help a team thrive and bring people to the games. In this podcast we interviewed APU sports management student, Shawn Dietrich, on his reasons for attending school online, and his future plans for his degree in the field.

Sports and business collide somewhere between competition and strategy. For Kristi Artenian going back to school for a degree in sports management was the next logical step in progressing in her career. Through her experience in the program at APU she learned some essential business strategies, marketing concepts, and how to apply these core concepts to the field of sports. This podcast details her experience within the program and what her plans are for the next phase of her career.