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Wharton's Cade Massey, Eric Bradlow, and Adi Wyner speak with Blake Lawrence, co-founder of Opendorse, about college sports and the future of NIL. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At this week's ITA Showcase, I sat down with Blake Lawrence of Windwave Communications to discuss how the company is helping bridge the digital divide in Oregon. Windwave Communications, a fiber optic provider with its own network, has been instrumental in connecting rural and remote areas in Eastern Oregon, providing critical infrastructure for businesses, schools, hospitals, and communities. Expanding Connectivity in One of America's Most Remote Regions Oregon is a state of extremes—dense forests, coastal towns, vast deserts, and towering mountain ranges—but also counties larger than some U.S. states with populations under 10,000. This vast geography has historically made broadband expansion difficult, but Windwave Communications has been working to change that. “We design and build fiber optic networks for other carriers and have been connecting extreme rural areas for over 20 years,” said Blake Lawrence, emphasizing the company's role in middle-mile fiber deployment and community broadband planning. With federal BEAD funding and the rise of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology, there is real potential to close the digital divide in these remote areas. While satellite services play a role, fiber remains the gold standard for reliability and speed, and Windwave is focused on delivering that first-class connectivity where it's needed most. Supporting Data Centers and Large-Scale Fiber Projects Beyond serving rural communities, Windwave Communications plays a major role in Oregon's growing data center industry. The Pacific Northwest—especially Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington—has become a hotspot for data center expansion, driven by cloud computing giants and the need for high-bandwidth, low-latency connections. “We build fiber connectivity between data center sites and work with counties to ensure that these investments benefit local communities,” Lawrence explained. Data centers contribute significantly to county tax revenues, and some of that funding is being reinvested into broadband expansion projects. Windwave's expertise in building conduit banks, using specialized excavation equipment, and designing robust fiber networks makes them a key partner for data centers, large carriers, and government broadband initiatives. Working with Other Carriers and Organizations Windwave Communications isn't just an ISP; it's also a trusted partner for other telecom carriers, enterprises, and government entities. The company provides free consultations for businesses or communities exploring broadband projects. “If someone is considering a broadband expansion or applying for a large grant, we can help navigate the process,” Lawrence said. “Even if we're not your final vendor, we want to help guide you in the right direction.” How to Connect with Windwave Communications Windwave Communications operates primarily in Oregon, but its expertise extends to broadband projects across multiple states. Whether you're a carrier looking for fiber partnerships, a business in need of connectivity, or a government agency seeking broadband expertise, Windwave is ready to assist. For more information, visit www.windwave.tc or Google Windwave Communications to find out how they can help.

Blake Lawrence finally joins the show after 2 years to talk waterfowl tips and tricks along with a bunch of hilarious stories from over the years. Check him out anywhere you media socially and talk with him about trading hunts

Bobby Burton is joined by Blake Lawrence, CEO of Opendorse, to discuss the ever changing NIL landscape, how the transfer portal is impacting NIL, the increasing professionalization of college football and more!  

Coach Mark Gottfried and Blake Lawrence, co-founder of Opendorse, delve into the transformative impact of NIL on college sports. They discuss the new challenges in athlete compensation, the recruiting chaos, and financial strains on athletic departments. Blake shares how Opendorse helps athletes monetize their brand with ease and transparency. Listen in to understand how NIL is revolutionizing college athletics and shaping the future of athlete compensation.

Dartmouth athletes are fighting to unionize, but Blake Lawrence, CEO of Opendorse, feels that schools and conferences may be the ultimate benefactors of collective bargaining efforts. He joins the show to give his perspective on that topic, plus how NIL has impacted the earning potential for student athletes during March Madness. Plus, LSU head coach Kim Mulkey threatens to sue the Washington Post, March Madness posts its best viewership numbers in years, and we look into the murky past of Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.

Clubfunders' co-founder Blake Lawrence grew up as one of five boys with a single Mum. He saw first-hand how money can be a major hurdle to jump for kids to play sport.  Fellow co-founder Stuart Jacobs grew up in South Africa, and was a gun young golf talent. But golf is a sport that requires significant financial investment to make it all the way to the top. Stuart eventually reached a financial tipping point.  These two have come together to create Clubfunders- an open source banking platform that aligns sports bodies, clubs and leagues, along with participants and sponsors. It's a win-win-win formation, where leagues grow their competitions, players have more access to sport, and sponsors can realise greater return on their investments. It's a model for junior, community and elite level sport. Blake and Stuart join us on the show today to talk us through the mission, the growth and their cutting edge open banking technology.

Blake Lawrence – Co-Founder/CEO of Opendorse – gives us a crystal ball look into the next six years of NIL, collectives, and revenue sharing in college athletics. He predicts that athletes will receive a payout directly from the school or conference, but will not be classified as employees.   He suggests what the landscape will look like for his youngest brother, football prospect Brock Heath, and how his future school's administration, coach, and collective will all sit down to discuss terms prior to him committing.   Listen to the full episode here: https://nvgt.com/podcast?ppplayer=98f56b6dd6dca41729f186d12a4d1251&ppepisode=56317ddb47247d855e3576efd49f0fb3   For more insights, visit our LinkedIn page or learn more about Navigate at https://nvgt.com/.

Blake Lawrence - Co-Founder/CEO of Opendorse - shares his unique perspective on the NIL marketplace and what the data tells us after 2+ years.   He also gets into the precarious relationship between athletic departments and collectives, and how forward-thinking ADs are prioritizing NIL dollars in order to ensure sustained success.   For more insights, visit our LinkedIn page or learn more about Navigate at https://nvgt.com/.

Blake Lawrence is the Co-founder and CEO of Opendorse, the leading NIL marketplace connecting college athletes, brands, and fans. Opendorse has been around since 2012, however the legalities of name, image, and likeness (NIL) to student-athletes only became available on June 31st, 2021. The former University of Nebraska-Lincoln linebacker was ahead of the curve with his time working with the NIL for professional athletes and transitioning into the collegiate market when the opportunity arose. Hear from the CEO who is at the forefront of a new era in college sports chat about “interviewing” for a job while in the spotlight, revenue analysis of NIL on campuses, what he hopes for the legislative future of NIL, and more.  @opendorse  @blake_lawrence Episode Breakdown  0:00- Intro  1:42- Blake's time at Nebraska  3:00- “The rules of society apply to athletes” 8:24- NIL and the journey of Opendorse  12:53- Who is actually benefiting from NIL? Revenue  17:30- NIL revenue breakdown  18:55- is NIL disrupting locker room dysfunction  22:00- The Juju-Smith Schuster use case  23:25- Blake's view on the big legislative decisions coming up 26:40- Blake's Playlist  I do not own the rights to (The Who- Pinball Wizard, Mungo Jerry-Summertime (official lyrics video)) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a--and--a/support

Carbon emissions offsets can be a touchy subject. Some people think offsets are just a price businesses can pay to keep generating emissions. But the truth is, there are many industries where the technology needed to decarbonize doesn't even exist yet. So if you're a business leader who wants to offset the emissions from your operations, how exactly do you go about doing that? Or if you are an individual who wants to buy offsets for the emissions you create in your daily life, would you know how to do it?  And perhaps most importantly, with accusations of greenwashing flying around everywhere, how does one offset emissions in a transparent and responsible way? Blake Lawrence from Cool Effect joins  today's show to answer those questions and more. The team at Cool Effect works to use science expertise and transparency to give people the confidence to purchase carbon offsets that will deliver positive results for the world around us. For those of you who are new to carbon markets, Blake and I are going to walk through a list of 5 questions every person should ask before buying carbon offsets. You'll even learn how much it would cost you to offset your OWN emissions … or give offsets to others as a gift!More resourcesCool Effect ModelSeller's PledgeOffsetting TravelBusiness Offset CalculatorEDF Renewables Energy innovation for the next generationSign up for the Renewable Energy SmartBriefFollow the show on Twitter @RenewablesPod

Blake Lawrence joins the show to talk to Paul about the NIL in college sports and his involvement in it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're a business leader looking to offset the emissions from your organization's operations, how exactly do you go about doing that? And in a world where accusations of greenwashing abound, how do you offset your emissions in a transparent and responsible way? Blake Lawrence from Cool Effect joins the show to answer those questions and more. The team at Cool Effect works to use science, expertise and transparency to give organization's the confidence to purchase carbon offsets that will deliver positive results for the world around us. There are all kinds of carbon offsets -- and some of the offsets Blake describes are probably NOT what you think of when you think of carbon offsets.Blake also walks through a primer Cool Effect put together that outlines five questions every person should ask before buying carbon offsets. More resourcesCool Effect ModelSeller's PledgeOffsetting TravelBusiness Offset CalculatorMFS Investment Management Do more than survive. See how we strive to make the most of changing bond markets.Sign up for Modern Money SmartBriefFollow this show on Twitter @ModernMoneyPod

Roughly 99% of college athletes - all with big talent and big dreams - will never turn pro. They'll have to make their living doing something other than what they've spent thousands of hours perfecting in the sports arena.  But the good news is that most athletes have developed soft skills and leadership acumen - like resilience, judgement, and teamwork - that is not only fungible, but downright critical in todays fast moving, unpredictable business world. In other words, they'll have a big leg up after graduation.  Todays guests - Blake Lawrence and Adi Kunalic- are living proof. They were both former college athletes who rely on their leadership skills , every single day, to ensure their relatively new company becomes a unicorn in a fast growing industry that helps athletes profit from their name image and likeness. Share your thoughts and suggest future podcast guests at -  www.imperfectleaders.com.

Roughly 99% of college athletes - all with big talent and big dreams - will never turn pro. They'll have to make their living doing something other than what they've spent thousands of hours perfecting in the sports arena. But the good news is that most athletes have developed soft skills and leadership acumen - like resilience, judgement, and teamwork - that is not only fungible, but downright critical in todays fast moving, unpredictable business world. In other words, they'll have a big leg up after graduation. Todays guests - Blake Lawrence and Adi Kunalic- are living proof. They were both former college athletes who rely on their leadership skills , every single day, to ensure their relatively new company becomes a unicorn in a fast growing industry that helps athletes profit from their name image and likeness. Share your thoughts and suggest future podcast guests at - www.imperfectleaders.com.

Blake Lawrence - Co-Founder and CEO of Opendorse joins the show to celebrate one-year of NIL. Paul also takes on callers to talk about UCLA and USC leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, Oakland A’s 0 – Game 1 Oakland A’s 4, Detroit Tigers 1 – Game 2 Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland Guardians 1 San Diego Padres 5, Chicago Cubs 4 Tigers 6, A’s 0 / A’s 4, Tigers 1 – Road teams sweep unusual A’s-Tigers doubleheader Tarik Skubal led the Tigers to a 6-0 win over Oakland as the visiting team in the opener of a unique doubleheader caused by Major League Baseball’s lockout. With the Athletics as the visiting team in the second game, 25-year-old Adrian Martinez (1-0) pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings in his major league debut to help Oakland to a 4-1 victory. In a matchup of last-place teams, Detroit ended a 27-inning scoreless streak in the opener. Oakland (12-19) then won for the second time in 12 games and sent the Tigers (9-21) to their seventh loss in eight games. White Sox 4, Guardians 1 – Sheets homers, Anderson 2 RBIs, White Sox top Guardians 4-1 Gavin Sheets homered in his second straight game, Tim Anderson had three hits and 2 RBIs and the Chicago White Sox shook off the previous night’s big collapse by beating the Cleveland Guardians 4-1. Starter Lucas Giolito went seven innings and gave up just the one run that came on a Josh Naylor homer to win his second straight start. He allowed six hits, struck out five and walked one. The White Sox won their seventh of eight games. Naylor had two hits. Cleveland starter Cal Quantrill went 6 1/3 innings, allowing four runs and 10 hits. Padres 5, Cubs 4 – Machado, Padres beat Cubs 5-4 in Clevinger’s return Manny Machado hit a go-ahead double in the sixth inning and the San Diego Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 5-4 hours after finding out manager Bob Melvin will have prostate surgery. Melvin announced before the game that he’ll have surgery Wednesday. He said he doesn’t think he has cancer, “but they won’t know until they get in there.” Mike Clevinger pitched well for 4 1/3 innings in his first start at Petco Park since late in the 2020 season. He missed last season while rehabbing after Tommy John surgery. Chicago’s Wade Miley lasted three innings in his Cubs debut. Today Cleveland (Civale 1-2) at Chicago White Sox (Velasquez 2-2), 2:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (TBD) at San Diego (Martinez 2-2), 4:10 p.m. Oakland (Logue 1-1) at Detroit (Wentz 0-0), 7:10 p.m.                WSJM/WCSY 6:50 MLB – Cubs’ Rivas gets HR when ball bounces out of rookie’s glove Alfonso Rivas of the Chicago Cubs got a two-run homer when his fly ball to deep center field bounced out of the glove of rookie Jose Azocar and went over the fence.Azocar was starting in place of Gold Glove center fielder Trent Grisham because the Padres were facing lefty Wade Miley. Azocar slumped to the ground in disappointment after the play. Rivas grew up in nearby Chula Vista and went to La Jolla Country Day. His homer tied the game at 2 in the third inning. It was his second and came off Mike Clevinger, who made his first start in San Diego since Sept. 23, 2020.. MLB – White Sox’s Jiménez making quick strides from torn hamstring Chicago White Sox outfielder Eloy Jiménez says he is making quick strides in his recovery from a torn hamstring. Jiménez says he is coming along sooner than expected. He is pain free and has been running and swinging. Jiménez was injured trying to beat out a grounder at Minnesota on April 23. The 25-year-old slugger felt it as he was running toward the base. He then stretched for the bag, stumbled and was taken from the field on a cart. Jiménez had surgery a few days later, and the White Sox said he would be out six to eight weeks. MLB – Anderson suspension dropped in MLB settlement, fine remains Major League Baseball dropped the one-game suspension of Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson for giving fans the middle finger during a game on April 20 as part of a settlement with the players’ association. He agreed to a fine as part of the settlement, which avoided an appeal before MLB special adviser John McHale Jr. Anderson had three errors in the first two innings of Chicago’s 11-1 loss in the opener of a doubleheader and made the gesture toward a fan while out in the field. MLB senior vice president Michael Hill announced the suspension two days later. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – 2nd Round Last Night Miami Heat 120, Philadelphia 76ers 85                              (MIA Leads 3-2) Phoenix Suns 110, Dallas Mavericks 80                            (PHX Leads 3-2) Tonight Boston Celtics 116, Milwaukee Bucks 108                        (Series Tied 2-2) Golden State Warriors 101, Memphis Grizzlies 98            (GSW Leads 3-1) NBA – Spurs owner insists NBA team will stay in San Antonio San Antonio Spurs owner Peter J. Holt sent a message Tuesday to fans worried he may try to move the franchise: the team isn’t going anywhere. An announced desire to have the Spurs move a few games to Austin had raised some local worries that the owners may be considering moving the team. Holt’s message posted to social media insisted the Spurs would stay in San Antonio. NBA – Bob Lanier, NBA force who left big shoes to fill, dies at 73 Basketball big man Bob Lanier has died after a short illness. He was 73. Lanier was one of the NBA’s top players of the 1970s, muscling up beside the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Lanier played 14 seasons with the Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks. The left-hander averaged more than 20 points and 10 rebounds. He was the No. 1 draft pick in 1970 after leading St. Bonaventure to the Final Four. In 1992, he made the Hall of Fame, where a bronzed pair of his giant sneakers is displayed. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Last Night Carolina Hurricanes 5, Boston Bruins 1                           (CAR Leads 3-2) Toronto Maple Leafs 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 3                   (TOR Leads 3-2) St. Louis Blues 5, Minnesota Wild 2                                 (STL Leads 3-2) Los Angeles Kings 5, Edmonton Oilers 4 – OT                    (LAK Leads 3-2) Tonight Pittsburgh Penguins at New York Rangers, 7:00 p.m.         (PIT Leads 3-1) Washington Capitals at Florida Panthers, 7:30 p.m.           (Series Tied 2-2) Dallas Stars at Calgary Flames, 9:30 p.m.                         (Series Tied 2-2) NHL – Canadiens win NHL draft lottery; Devils move up to No. 2 The Montreal Canadiens are hosting the NHL draft in July and will have the right to the No. 1 pick. Montreal won the draft lottery on Tuesday night. It follows a turbulent season in which they finished last in the overall standings. The New Jersey Devils shook up the draft order by winning the second of two lottery drawings and moving from the fifth to second slot in the draft order. Montreal will host this year’s event on July 7 and 8. It ends a long wait after the draft was held remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic in each of the past two years.  The Red Wings will pick 8th, while the Blackhawks had the 6th pick, but it was traded last year in the deal for Seth Jones. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Indiana Fever 82, Minnesota Lynx 76 Fever 82, Lynx 76 – Indiana snaps 6-game losing streak against Minnesota Kelsey Mitchell scored 26 points, Crystal Dangerfield had 10 points and six assists against her former team and the Indiana Fever beat the Minnesota Lynx 82-76 to snap a six-game losing streak in the series. Dangerfield, who was waived by Minnesota a week ago, made a jumper from the free throw line to extend Indiana’s lead to 76-72 with 2:26 left and added two free throws at 18.9 to seal it. Dangerfield, the 2020 rookie of the year, was 3 of 7 from the field in 21 minutes. Rookie NaLyssa Smith added nine points for Indiana. Sylvia Fowles had 26 points and 14 rebounds to lead Minnesota. Tonight New York Liberty at Chicago Sky, 8:00 p.m. NFL – Tom Brady to join Fox Sports when playing career ends Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as a football announcer when his playing career ends. That announcement was made Tuesday by Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch on an investor call. Brady had announced his retirement at the end of last season, but later renounced it and said he was going to play at least another season as the Tampa Bay Bucs quarterback. Signing the seven-time Super Bowl champion was a coup for Fox after its top football announcing team, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, recently left for ESPN. Murdoch says it’s up to Brady when he decides to retire. NFL – Slime Time: Nickelodeon to broadcast Christmas Day NFL game The NFL game on Christmas Day between the Broncos and Rams will be broadcast by Nickelodeon. The network, which previously televised two playoff games, and CBS will handle TV duties on Dec. 25 at 4:30 p.m. EST. The Super Bowl champion Rams will host the game, which also will be streamed by Paramount+. Nickelodeon has had success with its youth-oriented telecasts during wild-card weekend alongside the NFL broadcast on CBS. This season, that collaboration will shift to the regular season and Christmas Day. It’s expected to be part of a holiday tripleheader. NCAA – NIL expert predicts $50,000 minimum pay for Power 5 players College football and men’s basketball players on scholarship in one of the major conferences can expect to soon earn a minimum of $50,000 each year he plays because of the influx of cash from booster collectives brokering name, image and likeness deals. That prediction comes from Blake Lawrence. He’s co-founder and CEO of Opendorse, a company that helps athletes and schools navigate the NIL landscape. Indy 500 – Sarah Fisher selected as Indy 500 celebrity pace car driver IndyCar veteran Sarah Fisher has been selected as the celebrity pace car driver for this month’s Indianapolis 500. Fisher has been the regular pace-car driver for series events at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for years. This time she won’t be taking the handoff from some high-profile non-racing veteran. Instead she’ll be in the car for the entire May 29 race. She will drive the 670-horsepower 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 70th- year anniversary edition, the automobile manufacturer announced. Fisher made nine 500 starts in her career and was the first female to win an IndyCar pole. Boxing – No charges for Mike Tyson for punching airplane passenger Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco International Airport last month. The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office says Tuesday that it closed the case. The victim and Tyson requested that charges not be filed. The video shows Tyson repeatedly striking the unidentified man in the head, drawing blood. The footage was first shared by TMZ, which said it was recorded on a JetBlue Airways plane bound for Florida. Tyson representatives have said the boxer was on a flight with an aggressive passenger. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night Great Lakes Loons 4, Lake County Captains 1 Dayton Dragons 5, Lansing Lugnuts 4 West Michigan Whitecaps 7, Beloit Sky Carp 3 South Bend Cubs 9, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 7 Tonight Beloit Snappers at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Lake County Captains, 6:35 p.m. Fort Wayne Tin Caps at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. Dayton Dragons at Lansing Lugnuts, 7:05 p.m. MILB – MLB wage settlements Minor league players and Major League Baseball have reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging teams violated minimum wage laws. Two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press that the sides in recent weeks had been discussing a possible settlement in the $200 million range. The suit had been scheduled for a trial starting June 1 in San Francisco. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Baseball Lakeshore 7, St. Joseph 4 Our Lady of the Lake 10, New Buffalo 4 – Game 1 Our Lady of the Lake 15, New Buffalo 12 – Game 2 River Valley 8, Michigan Lutheran 0 – Game 1 River Valley 4, Michigan Lutheran 2 – Game 2 South Haven 2, Berrien Springs 1 – Game 1 Berrien Springs 6, South Haven 1 – Game 2 Lawrence 12, Eau Claire 9 – Game 1 Eau Claire 14, Lawrence 13 – Game 2 Paw Paw 14, Allegan 7 – Game 1 Paw Paw 12, Allegan 2 – Game 2 Otsego 3, Niles 1 – Game 1 Otsego 10, Niles 9 – Game 2 Plainwell 4, Sturgis 3 – Game 1 – 11 Innings Sturgis 8, Plainwell 7 – Game 2 Dowagiac 8, Three Rivers 5 – Game 1 Dowagiac 3, Three Rivers 2 – Game 2 Edwardsburg 4, Vicksburg 0 – Game 1 Vicksburg 10, Edwardsburg 5 – Game 2 Softball New Prairie (IN) 3, Lakeshore 0 – Game 1 Lakeshore 13, New Prairie (IN) 2 – Game 2 River Valley 2, Michigan Lutheran 1 – Game 1 River Valley 12, Michigan Lutheran 2 – Game 2 South Haven 5, Berrien Springs 1 – Game 1 South Haven 15, Berrien Springs 0 – Game 2 Buchanan 4, Bridgman 1 – Game 1 Buchanan 14, Bridgman 4 – Game 2 Niles 8, Otsego 3 – Game 1 Otsego 7, Niles 6 – Game 2 Plainwell 7, Sturgis 1 – Game 1 Plainwell 10, Sturgis 0 – Game 2 Dowagiac 13, Three Rivers 2 – Game 1 Dowagiac 5, Three Rivers 5 – Gm 2 Suspended 7th. Edwardsburg 5, Vicksburg 4 – Game 1 Edwardsburg 3, Vicksburg 2 – Game 2 Girls Soccer Battle Creek Central 6, GR Ottawa Hills 2 Girls Tennis Brandywine 8, Three Rivers 0 Niles 8, Dowagiac 0 Today Baseball Bridgman at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Parma Western at Battle Creek Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. Portage Central at Coldwater, 4:30 p.m. Schoolcraft at Delton-Kellogg, 4:30 p.m. Softball Mattawan at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Hartford at Coloma, 4:30 p.m. Marcellus at Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Three Rivers at Edwardsburg, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Otsego at Plainwell, 4:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Centreville, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Battle Creek Lakeview at Harper Creek, 4:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Delton-Kellogg, 4:30 pm. Galesburg-Augusta at Martin, 4:00 p.m. Boys Golf SMAC Conference at Bedford Valley, 10:00 p.m. Girls Tennis Lakeshore at Battle Creek Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. Girls Soccer Lakeshore at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Portage Central at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at Covert, 5:00 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake at Brandywine, 5:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Buchanan at South Haven, 5:00 p.m. Coloma at Kalamazoo Christian, 5:00 p.m. Saugatuck at Watervliet, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Mattawan, 6:30 p.m. Three Rivers at Niles, 6:30 p.m. Allegan at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Vicksburg at Paw Paw, 6:00 p.m. Edwardsburg at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Dowagiac at Sturgis, 6:30 p.m. Comstock at Schoolcraft, 5:00 p.m. Lawton at Constantine, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Hackett at Parchment, 6:00 p.m. Fennville at Delton-Kellogg, 6:00 p.m. Portage Northern at Gull Lake, 6:30 p.m. B.C. Lakeview at Battle Creek Central, 6:30 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, Oakland A’s 0 – Game 1 Oakland A’s 4, Detroit Tigers 1 – Game 2 Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland Guardians 1 San Diego Padres 5, Chicago Cubs 4 Tigers 6, A’s 0 / A’s 4, Tigers 1 – Road teams sweep unusual A’s-Tigers doubleheader Tarik Skubal led the Tigers to a 6-0 win over Oakland as the visiting team in the opener of a unique doubleheader caused by Major League Baseball’s lockout. With the Athletics as the visiting team in the second game, 25-year-old Adrian Martinez (1-0) pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings in his major league debut to help Oakland to a 4-1 victory. In a matchup of last-place teams, Detroit ended a 27-inning scoreless streak in the opener. Oakland (12-19) then won for the second time in 12 games and sent the Tigers (9-21) to their seventh loss in eight games. White Sox 4, Guardians 1 – Sheets homers, Anderson 2 RBIs, White Sox top Guardians 4-1 Gavin Sheets homered in his second straight game, Tim Anderson had three hits and 2 RBIs and the Chicago White Sox shook off the previous night’s big collapse by beating the Cleveland Guardians 4-1. Starter Lucas Giolito went seven innings and gave up just the one run that came on a Josh Naylor homer to win his second straight start. He allowed six hits, struck out five and walked one. The White Sox won their seventh of eight games. Naylor had two hits. Cleveland starter Cal Quantrill went 6 1/3 innings, allowing four runs and 10 hits. Padres 5, Cubs 4 – Machado, Padres beat Cubs 5-4 in Clevinger’s return Manny Machado hit a go-ahead double in the sixth inning and the San Diego Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 5-4 hours after finding out manager Bob Melvin will have prostate surgery. Melvin announced before the game that he’ll have surgery Wednesday. He said he doesn’t think he has cancer, “but they won’t know until they get in there.” Mike Clevinger pitched well for 4 1/3 innings in his first start at Petco Park since late in the 2020 season. He missed last season while rehabbing after Tommy John surgery. Chicago’s Wade Miley lasted three innings in his Cubs debut. Today Cleveland (Civale 1-2) at Chicago White Sox (Velasquez 2-2), 2:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (TBD) at San Diego (Martinez 2-2), 4:10 p.m. Oakland (Logue 1-1) at Detroit (Wentz 0-0), 7:10 p.m.                WSJM/WCSY 6:50 MLB – Cubs’ Rivas gets HR when ball bounces out of rookie’s glove Alfonso Rivas of the Chicago Cubs got a two-run homer when his fly ball to deep center field bounced out of the glove of rookie Jose Azocar and went over the fence.Azocar was starting in place of Gold Glove center fielder Trent Grisham because the Padres were facing lefty Wade Miley. Azocar slumped to the ground in disappointment after the play. Rivas grew up in nearby Chula Vista and went to La Jolla Country Day. His homer tied the game at 2 in the third inning. It was his second and came off Mike Clevinger, who made his first start in San Diego since Sept. 23, 2020.. MLB – White Sox’s Jiménez making quick strides from torn hamstring Chicago White Sox outfielder Eloy Jiménez says he is making quick strides in his recovery from a torn hamstring. Jiménez says he is coming along sooner than expected. He is pain free and has been running and swinging. Jiménez was injured trying to beat out a grounder at Minnesota on April 23. The 25-year-old slugger felt it as he was running toward the base. He then stretched for the bag, stumbled and was taken from the field on a cart. Jiménez had surgery a few days later, and the White Sox said he would be out six to eight weeks. MLB – Anderson suspension dropped in MLB settlement, fine remains Major League Baseball dropped the one-game suspension of Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson for giving fans the middle finger during a game on April 20 as part of a settlement with the players’ association. He agreed to a fine as part of the settlement, which avoided an appeal before MLB special adviser John McHale Jr. Anderson had three errors in the first two innings of Chicago’s 11-1 loss in the opener of a doubleheader and made the gesture toward a fan while out in the field. MLB senior vice president Michael Hill announced the suspension two days later. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – 2nd Round Last Night Miami Heat 120, Philadelphia 76ers 85                              (MIA Leads 3-2) Phoenix Suns 110, Dallas Mavericks 80                            (PHX Leads 3-2) Tonight Boston Celtics 116, Milwaukee Bucks 108                        (Series Tied 2-2) Golden State Warriors 101, Memphis Grizzlies 98            (GSW Leads 3-1) NBA – Spurs owner insists NBA team will stay in San Antonio San Antonio Spurs owner Peter J. Holt sent a message Tuesday to fans worried he may try to move the franchise: the team isn’t going anywhere. An announced desire to have the Spurs move a few games to Austin had raised some local worries that the owners may be considering moving the team. Holt’s message posted to social media insisted the Spurs would stay in San Antonio. NBA – Bob Lanier, NBA force who left big shoes to fill, dies at 73 Basketball big man Bob Lanier has died after a short illness. He was 73. Lanier was one of the NBA’s top players of the 1970s, muscling up beside the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Lanier played 14 seasons with the Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks. The left-hander averaged more than 20 points and 10 rebounds. He was the No. 1 draft pick in 1970 after leading St. Bonaventure to the Final Four. In 1992, he made the Hall of Fame, where a bronzed pair of his giant sneakers is displayed. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Last Night Carolina Hurricanes 5, Boston Bruins 1                           (CAR Leads 3-2) Toronto Maple Leafs 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 3                   (TOR Leads 3-2) St. Louis Blues 5, Minnesota Wild 2                                 (STL Leads 3-2) Los Angeles Kings 5, Edmonton Oilers 4 – OT                    (LAK Leads 3-2) Tonight Pittsburgh Penguins at New York Rangers, 7:00 p.m.         (PIT Leads 3-1) Washington Capitals at Florida Panthers, 7:30 p.m.           (Series Tied 2-2) Dallas Stars at Calgary Flames, 9:30 p.m.                         (Series Tied 2-2) NHL – Canadiens win NHL draft lottery; Devils move up to No. 2 The Montreal Canadiens are hosting the NHL draft in July and will have the right to the No. 1 pick. Montreal won the draft lottery on Tuesday night. It follows a turbulent season in which they finished last in the overall standings. The New Jersey Devils shook up the draft order by winning the second of two lottery drawings and moving from the fifth to second slot in the draft order. Montreal will host this year’s event on July 7 and 8. It ends a long wait after the draft was held remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic in each of the past two years.  The Red Wings will pick 8th, while the Blackhawks had the 6th pick, but it was traded last year in the deal for Seth Jones. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Indiana Fever 82, Minnesota Lynx 76 Fever 82, Lynx 76 – Indiana snaps 6-game losing streak against Minnesota Kelsey Mitchell scored 26 points, Crystal Dangerfield had 10 points and six assists against her former team and the Indiana Fever beat the Minnesota Lynx 82-76 to snap a six-game losing streak in the series. Dangerfield, who was waived by Minnesota a week ago, made a jumper from the free throw line to extend Indiana’s lead to 76-72 with 2:26 left and added two free throws at 18.9 to seal it. Dangerfield, the 2020 rookie of the year, was 3 of 7 from the field in 21 minutes. Rookie NaLyssa Smith added nine points for Indiana. Sylvia Fowles had 26 points and 14 rebounds to lead Minnesota. Tonight New York Liberty at Chicago Sky, 8:00 p.m. NFL – Tom Brady to join Fox Sports when playing career ends Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as a football announcer when his playing career ends. That announcement was made Tuesday by Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch on an investor call. Brady had announced his retirement at the end of last season, but later renounced it and said he was going to play at least another season as the Tampa Bay Bucs quarterback. Signing the seven-time Super Bowl champion was a coup for Fox after its top football announcing team, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, recently left for ESPN. Murdoch says it’s up to Brady when he decides to retire. NFL – Slime Time: Nickelodeon to broadcast Christmas Day NFL game The NFL game on Christmas Day between the Broncos and Rams will be broadcast by Nickelodeon. The network, which previously televised two playoff games, and CBS will handle TV duties on Dec. 25 at 4:30 p.m. EST. The Super Bowl champion Rams will host the game, which also will be streamed by Paramount+. Nickelodeon has had success with its youth-oriented telecasts during wild-card weekend alongside the NFL broadcast on CBS. This season, that collaboration will shift to the regular season and Christmas Day. It’s expected to be part of a holiday tripleheader. NCAA – NIL expert predicts $50,000 minimum pay for Power 5 players College football and men’s basketball players on scholarship in one of the major conferences can expect to soon earn a minimum of $50,000 each year he plays because of the influx of cash from booster collectives brokering name, image and likeness deals. That prediction comes from Blake Lawrence. He’s co-founder and CEO of Opendorse, a company that helps athletes and schools navigate the NIL landscape. Indy 500 – Sarah Fisher selected as Indy 500 celebrity pace car driver IndyCar veteran Sarah Fisher has been selected as the celebrity pace car driver for this month’s Indianapolis 500. Fisher has been the regular pace-car driver for series events at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for years. This time she won’t be taking the handoff from some high-profile non-racing veteran. Instead she’ll be in the car for the entire May 29 race. She will drive the 670-horsepower 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 70th- year anniversary edition, the automobile manufacturer announced. Fisher made nine 500 starts in her career and was the first female to win an IndyCar pole. Boxing – No charges for Mike Tyson for punching airplane passenger Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco International Airport last month. The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office says Tuesday that it closed the case. The victim and Tyson requested that charges not be filed. The video shows Tyson repeatedly striking the unidentified man in the head, drawing blood. The footage was first shared by TMZ, which said it was recorded on a JetBlue Airways plane bound for Florida. Tyson representatives have said the boxer was on a flight with an aggressive passenger. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night Great Lakes Loons 4, Lake County Captains 1 Dayton Dragons 5, Lansing Lugnuts 4 West Michigan Whitecaps 7, Beloit Sky Carp 3 South Bend Cubs 9, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 7 Tonight Beloit Snappers at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Lake County Captains, 6:35 p.m. Fort Wayne Tin Caps at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. Dayton Dragons at Lansing Lugnuts, 7:05 p.m. MILB – MLB wage settlements Minor league players and Major League Baseball have reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging teams violated minimum wage laws. Two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press that the sides in recent weeks had been discussing a possible settlement in the $200 million range. The suit had been scheduled for a trial starting June 1 in San Francisco. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Baseball Lakeshore 7, St. Joseph 4 Our Lady of the Lake 10, New Buffalo 4 – Game 1 Our Lady of the Lake 15, New Buffalo 12 – Game 2 River Valley 8, Michigan Lutheran 0 – Game 1 River Valley 4, Michigan Lutheran 2 – Game 2 South Haven 2, Berrien Springs 1 – Game 1 Berrien Springs 6, South Haven 1 – Game 2 Lawrence 12, Eau Claire 9 – Game 1 Eau Claire 14, Lawrence 13 – Game 2 Paw Paw 14, Allegan 7 – Game 1 Paw Paw 12, Allegan 2 – Game 2 Otsego 3, Niles 1 – Game 1 Otsego 10, Niles 9 – Game 2 Plainwell 4, Sturgis 3 – Game 1 – 11 Innings Sturgis 8, Plainwell 7 – Game 2 Dowagiac 8, Three Rivers 5 – Game 1 Dowagiac 3, Three Rivers 2 – Game 2 Edwardsburg 4, Vicksburg 0 – Game 1 Vicksburg 10, Edwardsburg 5 – Game 2 Softball New Prairie (IN) 3, Lakeshore 0 – Game 1 Lakeshore 13, New Prairie (IN) 2 – Game 2 River Valley 2, Michigan Lutheran 1 – Game 1 River Valley 12, Michigan Lutheran 2 – Game 2 South Haven 5, Berrien Springs 1 – Game 1 South Haven 15, Berrien Springs 0 – Game 2 Buchanan 4, Bridgman 1 – Game 1 Buchanan 14, Bridgman 4 – Game 2 Niles 8, Otsego 3 – Game 1 Otsego 7, Niles 6 – Game 2 Plainwell 7, Sturgis 1 – Game 1 Plainwell 10, Sturgis 0 – Game 2 Dowagiac 13, Three Rivers 2 – Game 1 Dowagiac 5, Three Rivers 5 – Gm 2 Suspended 7th. Edwardsburg 5, Vicksburg 4 – Game 1 Edwardsburg 3, Vicksburg 2 – Game 2 Girls Soccer Battle Creek Central 6, GR Ottawa Hills 2 Girls Tennis Brandywine 8, Three Rivers 0 Niles 8, Dowagiac 0 Today Baseball Bridgman at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Parma Western at Battle Creek Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. Portage Central at Coldwater, 4:30 p.m. Schoolcraft at Delton-Kellogg, 4:30 p.m. Softball Mattawan at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Hartford at Coloma, 4:30 p.m. Marcellus at Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Three Rivers at Edwardsburg, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Otsego at Plainwell, 4:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Centreville, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Battle Creek Lakeview at Harper Creek, 4:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Delton-Kellogg, 4:30 pm. Galesburg-Augusta at Martin, 4:00 p.m. Boys Golf SMAC Conference at Bedford Valley, 10:00 p.m. Girls Tennis Lakeshore at Battle Creek Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. Girls Soccer Lakeshore at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Portage Central at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at Covert, 5:00 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake at Brandywine, 5:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Buchanan at South Haven, 5:00 p.m. Coloma at Kalamazoo Christian, 5:00 p.m. Saugatuck at Watervliet, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Mattawan, 6:30 p.m. Three Rivers at Niles, 6:30 p.m. Allegan at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Vicksburg at Paw Paw, 6:00 p.m. Edwardsburg at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Dowagiac at Sturgis, 6:30 p.m. Comstock at Schoolcraft, 5:00 p.m. Lawton at Constantine, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Hackett at Parchment, 6:00 p.m. Fennville at Delton-Kellogg, 6:00 p.m. Portage Northern at Gull Lake, 6:30 p.m. B.C. Lakeview at Battle Creek Central, 6:30 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, Oakland A’s 0 – Game 1 Oakland A’s 4, Detroit Tigers 1 – Game 2 Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland Guardians 1 San Diego Padres 5, Chicago Cubs 4 Tigers 6, A’s 0 / A’s 4, Tigers 1 – Road teams sweep unusual A’s-Tigers doubleheader Tarik Skubal led the Tigers to a 6-0 win over Oakland as the visiting team in the opener of a unique doubleheader caused by Major League Baseball’s lockout. With the Athletics as the visiting team in the second game, 25-year-old Adrian Martinez (1-0) pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings in his major league debut to help Oakland to a 4-1 victory. In a matchup of last-place teams, Detroit ended a 27-inning scoreless streak in the opener. Oakland (12-19) then won for the second time in 12 games and sent the Tigers (9-21) to their seventh loss in eight games. White Sox 4, Guardians 1 – Sheets homers, Anderson 2 RBIs, White Sox top Guardians 4-1 Gavin Sheets homered in his second straight game, Tim Anderson had three hits and 2 RBIs and the Chicago White Sox shook off the previous night’s big collapse by beating the Cleveland Guardians 4-1. Starter Lucas Giolito went seven innings and gave up just the one run that came on a Josh Naylor homer to win his second straight start. He allowed six hits, struck out five and walked one. The White Sox won their seventh of eight games. Naylor had two hits. Cleveland starter Cal Quantrill went 6 1/3 innings, allowing four runs and 10 hits. Padres 5, Cubs 4 – Machado, Padres beat Cubs 5-4 in Clevinger’s return Manny Machado hit a go-ahead double in the sixth inning and the San Diego Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 5-4 hours after finding out manager Bob Melvin will have prostate surgery. Melvin announced before the game that he’ll have surgery Wednesday. He said he doesn’t think he has cancer, “but they won’t know until they get in there.” Mike Clevinger pitched well for 4 1/3 innings in his first start at Petco Park since late in the 2020 season. He missed last season while rehabbing after Tommy John surgery. Chicago’s Wade Miley lasted three innings in his Cubs debut. Today Cleveland (Civale 1-2) at Chicago White Sox (Velasquez 2-2), 2:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (TBD) at San Diego (Martinez 2-2), 4:10 p.m. Oakland (Logue 1-1) at Detroit (Wentz 0-0), 7:10 p.m.                WSJM/WCSY 6:50 MLB – Cubs’ Rivas gets HR when ball bounces out of rookie’s glove Alfonso Rivas of the Chicago Cubs got a two-run homer when his fly ball to deep center field bounced out of the glove of rookie Jose Azocar and went over the fence.Azocar was starting in place of Gold Glove center fielder Trent Grisham because the Padres were facing lefty Wade Miley. Azocar slumped to the ground in disappointment after the play. Rivas grew up in nearby Chula Vista and went to La Jolla Country Day. His homer tied the game at 2 in the third inning. It was his second and came off Mike Clevinger, who made his first start in San Diego since Sept. 23, 2020.. MLB – White Sox’s Jiménez making quick strides from torn hamstring Chicago White Sox outfielder Eloy Jiménez says he is making quick strides in his recovery from a torn hamstring. Jiménez says he is coming along sooner than expected. He is pain free and has been running and swinging. Jiménez was injured trying to beat out a grounder at Minnesota on April 23. The 25-year-old slugger felt it as he was running toward the base. He then stretched for the bag, stumbled and was taken from the field on a cart. Jiménez had surgery a few days later, and the White Sox said he would be out six to eight weeks. MLB – Anderson suspension dropped in MLB settlement, fine remains Major League Baseball dropped the one-game suspension of Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson for giving fans the middle finger during a game on April 20 as part of a settlement with the players’ association. He agreed to a fine as part of the settlement, which avoided an appeal before MLB special adviser John McHale Jr. Anderson had three errors in the first two innings of Chicago’s 11-1 loss in the opener of a doubleheader and made the gesture toward a fan while out in the field. MLB senior vice president Michael Hill announced the suspension two days later. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – 2nd Round Last Night Miami Heat 120, Philadelphia 76ers 85                              (MIA Leads 3-2) Phoenix Suns 110, Dallas Mavericks 80                            (PHX Leads 3-2) Tonight Boston Celtics 116, Milwaukee Bucks 108                        (Series Tied 2-2) Golden State Warriors 101, Memphis Grizzlies 98            (GSW Leads 3-1) NBA – Spurs owner insists NBA team will stay in San Antonio San Antonio Spurs owner Peter J. Holt sent a message Tuesday to fans worried he may try to move the franchise: the team isn’t going anywhere. An announced desire to have the Spurs move a few games to Austin had raised some local worries that the owners may be considering moving the team. Holt’s message posted to social media insisted the Spurs would stay in San Antonio. NBA – Bob Lanier, NBA force who left big shoes to fill, dies at 73 Basketball big man Bob Lanier has died after a short illness. He was 73. Lanier was one of the NBA’s top players of the 1970s, muscling up beside the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Lanier played 14 seasons with the Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks. The left-hander averaged more than 20 points and 10 rebounds. He was the No. 1 draft pick in 1970 after leading St. Bonaventure to the Final Four. In 1992, he made the Hall of Fame, where a bronzed pair of his giant sneakers is displayed. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Last Night Carolina Hurricanes 5, Boston Bruins 1                           (CAR Leads 3-2) Toronto Maple Leafs 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 3                   (TOR Leads 3-2) St. Louis Blues 5, Minnesota Wild 2                                 (STL Leads 3-2) Los Angeles Kings 5, Edmonton Oilers 4 – OT                    (LAK Leads 3-2) Tonight Pittsburgh Penguins at New York Rangers, 7:00 p.m.         (PIT Leads 3-1) Washington Capitals at Florida Panthers, 7:30 p.m.           (Series Tied 2-2) Dallas Stars at Calgary Flames, 9:30 p.m.                         (Series Tied 2-2) NHL – Canadiens win NHL draft lottery; Devils move up to No. 2 The Montreal Canadiens are hosting the NHL draft in July and will have the right to the No. 1 pick. Montreal won the draft lottery on Tuesday night. It follows a turbulent season in which they finished last in the overall standings. The New Jersey Devils shook up the draft order by winning the second of two lottery drawings and moving from the fifth to second slot in the draft order. Montreal will host this year’s event on July 7 and 8. It ends a long wait after the draft was held remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic in each of the past two years.  The Red Wings will pick 8th, while the Blackhawks had the 6th pick, but it was traded last year in the deal for Seth Jones. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Indiana Fever 82, Minnesota Lynx 76 Fever 82, Lynx 76 – Indiana snaps 6-game losing streak against Minnesota Kelsey Mitchell scored 26 points, Crystal Dangerfield had 10 points and six assists against her former team and the Indiana Fever beat the Minnesota Lynx 82-76 to snap a six-game losing streak in the series. Dangerfield, who was waived by Minnesota a week ago, made a jumper from the free throw line to extend Indiana’s lead to 76-72 with 2:26 left and added two free throws at 18.9 to seal it. Dangerfield, the 2020 rookie of the year, was 3 of 7 from the field in 21 minutes. Rookie NaLyssa Smith added nine points for Indiana. Sylvia Fowles had 26 points and 14 rebounds to lead Minnesota. Tonight New York Liberty at Chicago Sky, 8:00 p.m. NFL – Tom Brady to join Fox Sports when playing career ends Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as a football announcer when his playing career ends. That announcement was made Tuesday by Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch on an investor call. Brady had announced his retirement at the end of last season, but later renounced it and said he was going to play at least another season as the Tampa Bay Bucs quarterback. Signing the seven-time Super Bowl champion was a coup for Fox after its top football announcing team, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, recently left for ESPN. Murdoch says it’s up to Brady when he decides to retire. NFL – Slime Time: Nickelodeon to broadcast Christmas Day NFL game The NFL game on Christmas Day between the Broncos and Rams will be broadcast by Nickelodeon. The network, which previously televised two playoff games, and CBS will handle TV duties on Dec. 25 at 4:30 p.m. EST. The Super Bowl champion Rams will host the game, which also will be streamed by Paramount+. Nickelodeon has had success with its youth-oriented telecasts during wild-card weekend alongside the NFL broadcast on CBS. This season, that collaboration will shift to the regular season and Christmas Day. It’s expected to be part of a holiday tripleheader. NCAA – NIL expert predicts $50,000 minimum pay for Power 5 players College football and men’s basketball players on scholarship in one of the major conferences can expect to soon earn a minimum of $50,000 each year he plays because of the influx of cash from booster collectives brokering name, image and likeness deals. That prediction comes from Blake Lawrence. He’s co-founder and CEO of Opendorse, a company that helps athletes and schools navigate the NIL landscape. Indy 500 – Sarah Fisher selected as Indy 500 celebrity pace car driver IndyCar veteran Sarah Fisher has been selected as the celebrity pace car driver for this month’s Indianapolis 500. Fisher has been the regular pace-car driver for series events at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for years. This time she won’t be taking the handoff from some high-profile non-racing veteran. Instead she’ll be in the car for the entire May 29 race. She will drive the 670-horsepower 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 70th- year anniversary edition, the automobile manufacturer announced. Fisher made nine 500 starts in her career and was the first female to win an IndyCar pole. Boxing – No charges for Mike Tyson for punching airplane passenger Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco International Airport last month. The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office says Tuesday that it closed the case. The victim and Tyson requested that charges not be filed. The video shows Tyson repeatedly striking the unidentified man in the head, drawing blood. The footage was first shared by TMZ, which said it was recorded on a JetBlue Airways plane bound for Florida. Tyson representatives have said the boxer was on a flight with an aggressive passenger. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night Great Lakes Loons 4, Lake County Captains 1 Dayton Dragons 5, Lansing Lugnuts 4 West Michigan Whitecaps 7, Beloit Sky Carp 3 South Bend Cubs 9, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 7 Tonight Beloit Snappers at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Lake County Captains, 6:35 p.m. Fort Wayne Tin Caps at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. Dayton Dragons at Lansing Lugnuts, 7:05 p.m. MILB – MLB wage settlements Minor league players and Major League Baseball have reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging teams violated minimum wage laws. Two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press that the sides in recent weeks had been discussing a possible settlement in the $200 million range. The suit had been scheduled for a trial starting June 1 in San Francisco. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Baseball Lakeshore 7, St. Joseph 4 Our Lady of the Lake 10, New Buffalo 4 – Game 1 Our Lady of the Lake 15, New Buffalo 12 – Game 2 River Valley 8, Michigan Lutheran 0 – Game 1 River Valley 4, Michigan Lutheran 2 – Game 2 South Haven 2, Berrien Springs 1 – Game 1 Berrien Springs 6, South Haven 1 – Game 2 Lawrence 12, Eau Claire 9 – Game 1 Eau Claire 14, Lawrence 13 – Game 2 Paw Paw 14, Allegan 7 – Game 1 Paw Paw 12, Allegan 2 – Game 2 Otsego 3, Niles 1 – Game 1 Otsego 10, Niles 9 – Game 2 Plainwell 4, Sturgis 3 – Game 1 – 11 Innings Sturgis 8, Plainwell 7 – Game 2 Dowagiac 8, Three Rivers 5 – Game 1 Dowagiac 3, Three Rivers 2 – Game 2 Edwardsburg 4, Vicksburg 0 – Game 1 Vicksburg 10, Edwardsburg 5 – Game 2 Softball New Prairie (IN) 3, Lakeshore 0 – Game 1 Lakeshore 13, New Prairie (IN) 2 – Game 2 River Valley 2, Michigan Lutheran 1 – Game 1 River Valley 12, Michigan Lutheran 2 – Game 2 South Haven 5, Berrien Springs 1 – Game 1 South Haven 15, Berrien Springs 0 – Game 2 Buchanan 4, Bridgman 1 – Game 1 Buchanan 14, Bridgman 4 – Game 2 Niles 8, Otsego 3 – Game 1 Otsego 7, Niles 6 – Game 2 Plainwell 7, Sturgis 1 – Game 1 Plainwell 10, Sturgis 0 – Game 2 Dowagiac 13, Three Rivers 2 – Game 1 Dowagiac 5, Three Rivers 5 – Gm 2 Suspended 7th. Edwardsburg 5, Vicksburg 4 – Game 1 Edwardsburg 3, Vicksburg 2 – Game 2 Girls Soccer Battle Creek Central 6, GR Ottawa Hills 2 Girls Tennis Brandywine 8, Three Rivers 0 Niles 8, Dowagiac 0 Today Baseball Bridgman at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Parma Western at Battle Creek Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. Portage Central at Coldwater, 4:30 p.m. Schoolcraft at Delton-Kellogg, 4:30 p.m. Softball Mattawan at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Hartford at Coloma, 4:30 p.m. Marcellus at Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Three Rivers at Edwardsburg, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Otsego at Plainwell, 4:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Centreville, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Battle Creek Lakeview at Harper Creek, 4:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Delton-Kellogg, 4:30 pm. Galesburg-Augusta at Martin, 4:00 p.m. Boys Golf SMAC Conference at Bedford Valley, 10:00 p.m. Girls Tennis Lakeshore at Battle Creek Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. Girls Soccer Lakeshore at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Portage Central at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at Covert, 5:00 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake at Brandywine, 5:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Buchanan at South Haven, 5:00 p.m. Coloma at Kalamazoo Christian, 5:00 p.m. Saugatuck at Watervliet, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Mattawan, 6:30 p.m. Three Rivers at Niles, 6:30 p.m. Allegan at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Vicksburg at Paw Paw, 6:00 p.m. Edwardsburg at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Dowagiac at Sturgis, 6:30 p.m. Comstock at Schoolcraft, 5:00 p.m. Lawton at Constantine, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Hackett at Parchment, 6:00 p.m. Fennville at Delton-Kellogg, 6:00 p.m. Portage Northern at Gull Lake, 6:30 p.m. B.C. Lakeview at Battle Creek Central, 6:30 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Blake Lawrence, chief executive and co-founder of Nebraska-based athlete marketing platform Opendorse. Fisher and Russo also discuss the return of golfer Tiger Woods from a serious auto accident to compete in The Masters, the opening of the legal sports betting market in the Canadian province of Ontario, Major League Baseball's new streaming agreement with NBCUniversal's Peacock, the ongoing sale of the National Football League's Denver Broncos, and MLB's new use of PitchCom technology. 

NHL – National Hockey League Last Night New York Rangers 5, Detroit Red Wings 4 – OT Rangers 5, Red Wings 4 – OT – Copp lifts Rangers over Red Wings in OT for 4th straight win Andrew Copp scored 1:34 into overtime and the New York Rangers extended their winning streak to four games by beating the Detroit Red Wings 5-4. Artemi Panarin had a goal and assisted on two others, including Copp’s winner, as New York swept back-to-back road games beginning with Tuesday night’s big victory over division rival Pittsburgh. Chris Kreider scored his 46th goal overall and NHL-high 24th on the power play. Ryan Reaves and Filip Chytil also scored for the Rangers, while Alexandar Georgiev made 22 saves. Michael Rasmussen, Jakub Vrana, Tyler Bertuzzi and Adam Erne scored for Detroit, and Moritz Seider added two assists. Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 29 shots, but the Red Wings lost their fourth straight. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Denver Nuggets 125, Indiana Pacers 118 Nuggets 125, Pacers 118 – Jokic has 37 points to lead Nuggets past Pacers 125-118 Nikola Jokic flirted with another triple-double with 37 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists, helping the Denver Nuggets hold off the Indiana Pacers 125-118. Jokic fell one assist shy of his 20th triple-double of the season after getting one Monday night at Charlotte. The Nuggets led by as many as 31 points in the second quarter before the Pacers stormed back. Indiana led 102-100 with 7:40 left in the fourth quarter before the Nuggets scored seven straight points to regain control. Seven of the nine Pacers who played scored in double figures, led by Buddy Hield with 20 points. Tonight Philadelphia 76ers at Detroit Pistons, 7:00 p.m. Los Angeles Clippers at Chicago Bulls, 8:00 p.m. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Detroit Tigers 7, Philadelphia Phillies 1 Chicago White Sox 7, Texas Rangers 0 Chicago Cubs 8, Seattle Mariners 5 Today Detroit Tigers at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Cincinnati Reds, 9:05 p.m. Cubs are off MLB – White Sox slugger Andrew Vaughn recovering from hip pointer Andrew Vaughn feared the worst when he got hurt making a diving catch for the Chicago White Sox on Sunday. Same for his team, which is looking for the slugger to play a key role this year. They’re all feeling much better now. Vaughn was diagnosed with a hip pointer and could return to game action in one to two weeks. The No. 3 overall pick in the 2019 amateur draft ditched his crutches Tuesday and already is swinging a bat again. But the team is planning to be cautious with when he returns to the field. NFL – Arians retires as Bucs’ coach, Bowles promoted to top spot Bruce Arians has decided to retire as coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and move into a front-office role with the team, a stunning move announced Wednesday night. Arians, who will turn 70 this coming season, coached the Bucs to the Super Bowl title in the 2020 season which was Tom Brady’s first with Tampa Bay. The Bucs were 31-18 in Arians’ three seasons there and he was 80-48-1 in eight seasons as a head coach overall when adding in his five seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. Defensive coordinator Todd Bowles will replace Arians as coach. WNBA – WNBA players break silence on Brittney Griner Two of Brittney Griner’s USA Basketball teammates have broken their silence on the star player’s imprisonment in Russia. Most WNBA players have been hesitant to talk about Griner’s detention on apparent drug charges in Russia, hoping to avoid potentially hurting her case. Players have been keeping discussions about how to best help Griner within their community. WNBA players have been very cohesive in the past when rallying behind issues such as voter registration or the Black Lives Matters movement. For the first few weeks, it was decided that it was clearly better for them to say less. NCAA – Emmert claims progress in women’s NCAAs, not close on pay A year after glaring inequities were revealed at the women’s NCAA Tournament and less than two weeks after sharp criticism from Congress, NCAA President Mark Emmert says he is happy with the institution’s progress but said there had only been “preliminary discussions” about distributing tournament revenues to women’s programs. Emmert said the work ahead improving conditions for women’s basketball includes negotiating a new television contract for the women’s tournament and potentially having a similar revenue distribution protocol as the men’s event. Emmert was careful not to call for specific changes ahead of discussions by the NCAA’s hundreds of member schools, and he declined to offer his own viewpoint. NCAA – March Madness paying off for players under mishmash of rules This week, Kansas, Villanova, North Carolina and Duke will play in the first Final Four to take place under the new world of “name, image and likeness” endorsements in college sports. It allows college players to earn money through endorsements. This new world is comprised of a loosely regulated mishmash of state laws and university-written rules that set different standards across the nation with little transparency about who gets what or where it comes from. On the one hand, it’s seen as a long-overdue development that will forever change the landscape of what has been widely disparaged as among the most unfair labor markets in America. On the other, trouble could be looming for an industry with few rules that doles out big bucks to teenagers with big dreams. NCAA – Women’s Final Four can be a financial windfall for players Women’s basketball is ranked second, behind only college football and ahead of men’s basketball, when it comes to the amount of income generated by name, image and likeness deals. That is according to Blake Lawrence, the chief executive of Opendorse. His company helps colleges and athletes navigate the celebrity endorsement landscape, which was opened last summer by the NCAA and now has millions of dollars flowing through it. He says making it to the Final Four will only increase the deals coming to social-media influencers such as Stanford’s Cameron Brink and UConn’s Paige Bueckers. Soccer – CONCACAR – US returns to World Cup despite 2-0 loss at Costa Rica The United States men are returning to the World Cup after the trauma of missing the 2018 tournament, clinching a berth for this year’s championship in Qatar despite a 2-0 loss to Costa Rica on the final night of qualifying. Juan Pablo Vargas got behind Walker Zimmerman and headed Brandon Aguilera’s corner kick past goalkeeper Zack Steffen in the 51st minute, and Anthony Contreras knocked in a cross off a scramble in the 59th after Steffen couldn’t hold onto a free kick. A sellout crowd of about 35,000 in National Stadium came to life, but the Americans’ 5-1 rout of Panama at home last weekend gave them a huge goal-difference margin over Costa Rica. Soccer – World Cup – FIFA, Qatar prepare for unprecedented World Cup finals draw A World Cup like no other in its 92-year history will take shape this week at an unprecedented tournament draw. When FIFA and host nation Qatar stage the draw ceremony show Friday three of the 32 entries will be placeholders. That’s because the three-year qualifying program has been delayed by the pandemic and war in Ukraine. It means 37 nations will be involved Friday. Five of those ultimately won’t play in November when the first “winter” World Cup kicks off. Qatar is in the draw pot of top-seeded teams with the world’s best: Brazil, Belgium, France, Argentina, England, Spain and Portugal. ECHL – ECHL Hockey League Last Night Kalamazoo Wings 4, Iowa Heartlanders 3 – OT MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Today Softball Lake Michigan College at Kellogg Community College, Postponed MHSAA – High School Sports Yesterday Girls Soccer St. Joseph 5, Edwardsburg 0 Bridgman 3, Constantine 1 Saugatuck 1, Allegan 0 Coldwater 2, Three Rivers 1 Today Girls Soccer Hartford at Berrien Springs, 5:30 p.m. Baseball Hartford at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Gary Calumet (IN) at River Valley, 5:00 p.m. Softball Hartford at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NHL – National Hockey League Last Night New York Rangers 5, Detroit Red Wings 4 – OT Rangers 5, Red Wings 4 – OT – Copp lifts Rangers over Red Wings in OT for 4th straight win Andrew Copp scored 1:34 into overtime and the New York Rangers extended their winning streak to four games by beating the Detroit Red Wings 5-4. Artemi Panarin had a goal and assisted on two others, including Copp’s winner, as New York swept back-to-back road games beginning with Tuesday night’s big victory over division rival Pittsburgh. Chris Kreider scored his 46th goal overall and NHL-high 24th on the power play. Ryan Reaves and Filip Chytil also scored for the Rangers, while Alexandar Georgiev made 22 saves. Michael Rasmussen, Jakub Vrana, Tyler Bertuzzi and Adam Erne scored for Detroit, and Moritz Seider added two assists. Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 29 shots, but the Red Wings lost their fourth straight. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Denver Nuggets 125, Indiana Pacers 118 Nuggets 125, Pacers 118 – Jokic has 37 points to lead Nuggets past Pacers 125-118 Nikola Jokic flirted with another triple-double with 37 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists, helping the Denver Nuggets hold off the Indiana Pacers 125-118. Jokic fell one assist shy of his 20th triple-double of the season after getting one Monday night at Charlotte. The Nuggets led by as many as 31 points in the second quarter before the Pacers stormed back. Indiana led 102-100 with 7:40 left in the fourth quarter before the Nuggets scored seven straight points to regain control. Seven of the nine Pacers who played scored in double figures, led by Buddy Hield with 20 points. Tonight Philadelphia 76ers at Detroit Pistons, 7:00 p.m. Los Angeles Clippers at Chicago Bulls, 8:00 p.m. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Detroit Tigers 7, Philadelphia Phillies 1 Chicago White Sox 7, Texas Rangers 0 Chicago Cubs 8, Seattle Mariners 5 Today Detroit Tigers at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Cincinnati Reds, 9:05 p.m. Cubs are off MLB – White Sox slugger Andrew Vaughn recovering from hip pointer Andrew Vaughn feared the worst when he got hurt making a diving catch for the Chicago White Sox on Sunday. Same for his team, which is looking for the slugger to play a key role this year. They’re all feeling much better now. Vaughn was diagnosed with a hip pointer and could return to game action in one to two weeks. The No. 3 overall pick in the 2019 amateur draft ditched his crutches Tuesday and already is swinging a bat again. But the team is planning to be cautious with when he returns to the field. NFL – Arians retires as Bucs’ coach, Bowles promoted to top spot Bruce Arians has decided to retire as coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and move into a front-office role with the team, a stunning move announced Wednesday night. Arians, who will turn 70 this coming season, coached the Bucs to the Super Bowl title in the 2020 season which was Tom Brady’s first with Tampa Bay. The Bucs were 31-18 in Arians’ three seasons there and he was 80-48-1 in eight seasons as a head coach overall when adding in his five seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. Defensive coordinator Todd Bowles will replace Arians as coach. WNBA – WNBA players break silence on Brittney Griner Two of Brittney Griner’s USA Basketball teammates have broken their silence on the star player’s imprisonment in Russia. Most WNBA players have been hesitant to talk about Griner’s detention on apparent drug charges in Russia, hoping to avoid potentially hurting her case. Players have been keeping discussions about how to best help Griner within their community. WNBA players have been very cohesive in the past when rallying behind issues such as voter registration or the Black Lives Matters movement. For the first few weeks, it was decided that it was clearly better for them to say less. NCAA – Emmert claims progress in women’s NCAAs, not close on pay A year after glaring inequities were revealed at the women’s NCAA Tournament and less than two weeks after sharp criticism from Congress, NCAA President Mark Emmert says he is happy with the institution’s progress but said there had only been “preliminary discussions” about distributing tournament revenues to women’s programs. Emmert said the work ahead improving conditions for women’s basketball includes negotiating a new television contract for the women’s tournament and potentially having a similar revenue distribution protocol as the men’s event. Emmert was careful not to call for specific changes ahead of discussions by the NCAA’s hundreds of member schools, and he declined to offer his own viewpoint. NCAA – March Madness paying off for players under mishmash of rules This week, Kansas, Villanova, North Carolina and Duke will play in the first Final Four to take place under the new world of “name, image and likeness” endorsements in college sports. It allows college players to earn money through endorsements. This new world is comprised of a loosely regulated mishmash of state laws and university-written rules that set different standards across the nation with little transparency about who gets what or where it comes from. On the one hand, it’s seen as a long-overdue development that will forever change the landscape of what has been widely disparaged as among the most unfair labor markets in America. On the other, trouble could be looming for an industry with few rules that doles out big bucks to teenagers with big dreams. NCAA – Women’s Final Four can be a financial windfall for players Women’s basketball is ranked second, behind only college football and ahead of men’s basketball, when it comes to the amount of income generated by name, image and likeness deals. That is according to Blake Lawrence, the chief executive of Opendorse. His company helps colleges and athletes navigate the celebrity endorsement landscape, which was opened last summer by the NCAA and now has millions of dollars flowing through it. He says making it to the Final Four will only increase the deals coming to social-media influencers such as Stanford’s Cameron Brink and UConn’s Paige Bueckers. Soccer – CONCACAR – US returns to World Cup despite 2-0 loss at Costa Rica The United States men are returning to the World Cup after the trauma of missing the 2018 tournament, clinching a berth for this year’s championship in Qatar despite a 2-0 loss to Costa Rica on the final night of qualifying. Juan Pablo Vargas got behind Walker Zimmerman and headed Brandon Aguilera’s corner kick past goalkeeper Zack Steffen in the 51st minute, and Anthony Contreras knocked in a cross off a scramble in the 59th after Steffen couldn’t hold onto a free kick. A sellout crowd of about 35,000 in National Stadium came to life, but the Americans’ 5-1 rout of Panama at home last weekend gave them a huge goal-difference margin over Costa Rica. Soccer – World Cup – FIFA, Qatar prepare for unprecedented World Cup finals draw A World Cup like no other in its 92-year history will take shape this week at an unprecedented tournament draw. When FIFA and host nation Qatar stage the draw ceremony show Friday three of the 32 entries will be placeholders. That’s because the three-year qualifying program has been delayed by the pandemic and war in Ukraine. It means 37 nations will be involved Friday. Five of those ultimately won’t play in November when the first “winter” World Cup kicks off. Qatar is in the draw pot of top-seeded teams with the world’s best: Brazil, Belgium, France, Argentina, England, Spain and Portugal. ECHL – ECHL Hockey League Last Night Kalamazoo Wings 4, Iowa Heartlanders 3 – OT MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Today Softball Lake Michigan College at Kellogg Community College, Postponed MHSAA – High School Sports Yesterday Girls Soccer St. Joseph 5, Edwardsburg 0 Bridgman 3, Constantine 1 Saugatuck 1, Allegan 0 Coldwater 2, Three Rivers 1 Today Girls Soccer Hartford at Berrien Springs, 5:30 p.m. Baseball Hartford at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Gary Calumet (IN) at River Valley, 5:00 p.m. Softball Hartford at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NHL – National Hockey League Last Night New York Rangers 5, Detroit Red Wings 4 – OT Rangers 5, Red Wings 4 – OT – Copp lifts Rangers over Red Wings in OT for 4th straight win Andrew Copp scored 1:34 into overtime and the New York Rangers extended their winning streak to four games by beating the Detroit Red Wings 5-4. Artemi Panarin had a goal and assisted on two others, including Copp’s winner, as New York swept back-to-back road games beginning with Tuesday night’s big victory over division rival Pittsburgh. Chris Kreider scored his 46th goal overall and NHL-high 24th on the power play. Ryan Reaves and Filip Chytil also scored for the Rangers, while Alexandar Georgiev made 22 saves. Michael Rasmussen, Jakub Vrana, Tyler Bertuzzi and Adam Erne scored for Detroit, and Moritz Seider added two assists. Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 29 shots, but the Red Wings lost their fourth straight. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Denver Nuggets 125, Indiana Pacers 118 Nuggets 125, Pacers 118 – Jokic has 37 points to lead Nuggets past Pacers 125-118 Nikola Jokic flirted with another triple-double with 37 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists, helping the Denver Nuggets hold off the Indiana Pacers 125-118. Jokic fell one assist shy of his 20th triple-double of the season after getting one Monday night at Charlotte. The Nuggets led by as many as 31 points in the second quarter before the Pacers stormed back. Indiana led 102-100 with 7:40 left in the fourth quarter before the Nuggets scored seven straight points to regain control. Seven of the nine Pacers who played scored in double figures, led by Buddy Hield with 20 points. Tonight Philadelphia 76ers at Detroit Pistons, 7:00 p.m. Los Angeles Clippers at Chicago Bulls, 8:00 p.m. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Detroit Tigers 7, Philadelphia Phillies 1 Chicago White Sox 7, Texas Rangers 0 Chicago Cubs 8, Seattle Mariners 5 Today Detroit Tigers at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Cincinnati Reds, 9:05 p.m. Cubs are off MLB – White Sox slugger Andrew Vaughn recovering from hip pointer Andrew Vaughn feared the worst when he got hurt making a diving catch for the Chicago White Sox on Sunday. Same for his team, which is looking for the slugger to play a key role this year. They’re all feeling much better now. Vaughn was diagnosed with a hip pointer and could return to game action in one to two weeks. The No. 3 overall pick in the 2019 amateur draft ditched his crutches Tuesday and already is swinging a bat again. But the team is planning to be cautious with when he returns to the field. NFL – Arians retires as Bucs’ coach, Bowles promoted to top spot Bruce Arians has decided to retire as coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and move into a front-office role with the team, a stunning move announced Wednesday night. Arians, who will turn 70 this coming season, coached the Bucs to the Super Bowl title in the 2020 season which was Tom Brady’s first with Tampa Bay. The Bucs were 31-18 in Arians’ three seasons there and he was 80-48-1 in eight seasons as a head coach overall when adding in his five seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. Defensive coordinator Todd Bowles will replace Arians as coach. WNBA – WNBA players break silence on Brittney Griner Two of Brittney Griner’s USA Basketball teammates have broken their silence on the star player’s imprisonment in Russia. Most WNBA players have been hesitant to talk about Griner’s detention on apparent drug charges in Russia, hoping to avoid potentially hurting her case. Players have been keeping discussions about how to best help Griner within their community. WNBA players have been very cohesive in the past when rallying behind issues such as voter registration or the Black Lives Matters movement. For the first few weeks, it was decided that it was clearly better for them to say less. NCAA – Emmert claims progress in women’s NCAAs, not close on pay A year after glaring inequities were revealed at the women’s NCAA Tournament and less than two weeks after sharp criticism from Congress, NCAA President Mark Emmert says he is happy with the institution’s progress but said there had only been “preliminary discussions” about distributing tournament revenues to women’s programs. Emmert said the work ahead improving conditions for women’s basketball includes negotiating a new television contract for the women’s tournament and potentially having a similar revenue distribution protocol as the men’s event. Emmert was careful not to call for specific changes ahead of discussions by the NCAA’s hundreds of member schools, and he declined to offer his own viewpoint. NCAA – March Madness paying off for players under mishmash of rules This week, Kansas, Villanova, North Carolina and Duke will play in the first Final Four to take place under the new world of “name, image and likeness” endorsements in college sports. It allows college players to earn money through endorsements. This new world is comprised of a loosely regulated mishmash of state laws and university-written rules that set different standards across the nation with little transparency about who gets what or where it comes from. On the one hand, it’s seen as a long-overdue development that will forever change the landscape of what has been widely disparaged as among the most unfair labor markets in America. On the other, trouble could be looming for an industry with few rules that doles out big bucks to teenagers with big dreams. NCAA – Women’s Final Four can be a financial windfall for players Women’s basketball is ranked second, behind only college football and ahead of men’s basketball, when it comes to the amount of income generated by name, image and likeness deals. That is according to Blake Lawrence, the chief executive of Opendorse. His company helps colleges and athletes navigate the celebrity endorsement landscape, which was opened last summer by the NCAA and now has millions of dollars flowing through it. He says making it to the Final Four will only increase the deals coming to social-media influencers such as Stanford’s Cameron Brink and UConn’s Paige Bueckers. Soccer – CONCACAR – US returns to World Cup despite 2-0 loss at Costa Rica The United States men are returning to the World Cup after the trauma of missing the 2018 tournament, clinching a berth for this year’s championship in Qatar despite a 2-0 loss to Costa Rica on the final night of qualifying. Juan Pablo Vargas got behind Walker Zimmerman and headed Brandon Aguilera’s corner kick past goalkeeper Zack Steffen in the 51st minute, and Anthony Contreras knocked in a cross off a scramble in the 59th after Steffen couldn’t hold onto a free kick. A sellout crowd of about 35,000 in National Stadium came to life, but the Americans’ 5-1 rout of Panama at home last weekend gave them a huge goal-difference margin over Costa Rica. Soccer – World Cup – FIFA, Qatar prepare for unprecedented World Cup finals draw A World Cup like no other in its 92-year history will take shape this week at an unprecedented tournament draw. When FIFA and host nation Qatar stage the draw ceremony show Friday three of the 32 entries will be placeholders. That’s because the three-year qualifying program has been delayed by the pandemic and war in Ukraine. It means 37 nations will be involved Friday. Five of those ultimately won’t play in November when the first “winter” World Cup kicks off. Qatar is in the draw pot of top-seeded teams with the world’s best: Brazil, Belgium, France, Argentina, England, Spain and Portugal. ECHL – ECHL Hockey League Last Night Kalamazoo Wings 4, Iowa Heartlanders 3 – OT MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Today Softball Lake Michigan College at Kellogg Community College, Postponed MHSAA – High School Sports Yesterday Girls Soccer St. Joseph 5, Edwardsburg 0 Bridgman 3, Constantine 1 Saugatuck 1, Allegan 0 Coldwater 2, Three Rivers 1 Today Girls Soccer Hartford at Berrien Springs, 5:30 p.m. Baseball Hartford at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Gary Calumet (IN) at River Valley, 5:00 p.m. Softball Hartford at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, we will be speaking with Blake Lawrence, Marketing Manager of Cool Effect on how we can reduce our carbon footprint.  Cool Effect is the actual boots on the ground non-profit working diligently to help fund projects that help reduce our carbon footprint.   Cool Effect uses science, expertise, and transparency to fund projects around the globe that actually help in reducing carbon emissions.  And as citizens of earth, we can help reduce our carbon footprint by purchasing carbon offsets for these projects.   Carbon dioxide is the most prevalent greenhouse gas and accounts for ¾ of all emissions.  It keeps heat close to the Earth's surface causing global temperatures to rise and affecting our weather patterns.  This combined result has been seen with our extreme weather changes, rising sea levels, forest fires, changing of wildlife patterns and habitats, and water availability.  Carbon dioxide emissions mainly come from burning wood, coal, oil, gas, and solid waste which is related to human activity.  Greenhouse gases also affect our health as these emissions contribute to an increase in smog and air pollution which can lead to respiratory illnesses.  We all emit carbon through our daily activities, ranging from driving to the amount of electricity we use.  Reducing our carbon footprint is a key component to turning the tide with climate change and the rise of global temperatures.  The carbon footprint of the average American is 16.6 carbic tonnes in one year which is one of the highest rates in the world.   Whether it is purchasing land in Montana to protect native grasslands that sequester carbon to providing cookstoves in rural homes in Honduras that provide clean air and health benefits to families, Cool Effect is trailblazing a path towards a greener, healthier, more sustainable planet for all of us to live on.  On this Wild For Change podcast, we will learn;How Cool Effect helps combat climate change by funding projects around the globe that aim to reduce carbon emissions.Learn what our carbon footprint is and a carbon offset.Simple measures we can take to reduce our carbon footprint.How we can offset travel to reduce our carbon footprint.Learn about some of the amazing projects Cool Effect is funding to help reduce carbon emissions.  You can learn more about Cool Effect and its amazing work at: www.cooleffect.org

Opendorse co-founder Blake Lawrence joins Andy to discuss the rapidly changing world of name, image and likeness deals for college athletes. Blake talks about the deal a class of 2023 football player just signed that could pay up to $8 million over four years and the "collectives" springing up to fund such deals. Is that a wise investment? Should the player have sold all of his NIL rights? Blake also explains how a player in this week's NCAA Tournament could cash in on instant fame. Blake also explains that depending on what state the player's school is in, that cashing in may have to wait a few days -- which could be a recruiting advantage for other schools. Blake founded his company after graduating from Nebraska, where he played linebacker on some very good teams. What defensive tackle played in front of him? Ndamukong Suh. Blake explains how a great defensive tackle like Suh is a linebacker's best friend, and Andy suggests those NIL collectives throw their money at the larger humans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fans have more of an affect on players than ever before. Now, with NIL collectives popping up at major universities, that impact is growing even larger. Blake Lawrence of Opendorse joins Brandon Marcello to break down these "super-pac's" and discuss the influence they have now and will have in years to come. Host: Brandon Marcello Guest: Blake Lawrence Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Melissa Vincent, Executive Director of Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship. This recording was part of our IO Live series and Melissa and I sit down and talk about the people, the resources, and the companies making the Midwest a great place for startups to grow and prosper. Let's get started.Inside Outside Innovation, is the podcast to help new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with the best and the brightest innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneering businesses. It's time to get started.Interview Transcript with Melissa Vincent, Executive Director of Pipeline Entrepreneurial FellowshipBrian Ardinger: Welcome to Inside Outside Innovation. I'm your host, Brian Ardinger. And as always, we have another amazing guest with us today. This is part of our IO Live series, which is our virtual conversation series to talk innovation and entrepreneurship. Part of our Inside Outside platform, where we have our podcast and newsletter and ongoing events like this. So I'm super excited to host Melissa today. Melissa is a good friend. She's the Executive Director of Pipeline. So welcome to the show, Melissa. Melissa Vincent: Brian, thank you so much. I love it when I get to chat with you. Brian Ardinger: I'm excited about this conversation. Before we get too far. I always like to thank our sponsors. Today our sponsor is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. They are a private nonpartisan foundation based in the Kansas City, Missouri. They seek to build inclusive prosperity through entrepreneur focused economic development. They've been a huge help to a lot of things going on, including Pipeline. I believe they're a sponsor for. If people are interested in finding out more about Kauffman, go to kauffman.org or check them out @KauffmanFDN on Facebook and Twitter.And so huge shout out to our sponsors for making things like this happen. And having conversations that make Midwest Entrepreneurs even better. I was gonna say, you're new to Pipeline, but you were new from the standpoint of you started working at Pipeline right before the pandemic. It seems like that's a short time ago, but it seems now we're what, almost two years into this thing. So it's exactly, exactly the pandemic years. But I wanted to have you on, because I think Pipeline has been one of those proven things in the ecosystem that has helped entrepreneurs across the Midwest here. And I wanted to get you on to talk about, you know, what have you seen? What's different and, and more importantly, what's going to happen moving forward. So maybe let's start the conversation with, tell us a little bit about what Pipeline is. For those who may not know that and where we're at right now. Melissa Vincent: I would love to. Yes. So I have been there for, as you mentioned, it'll be two years next month. So it's kind of crazy because it feels sometimes like six months and other times it feels like 10 years because of the pandemic. So you never know. So Pipeline is a fellowship for high- growth entrepreneurs in the Midwest. We are industry agnostic. So we do everything from Bio to Ag. You name it, everything in between. And do not take equity in the organizations that we work with. And so we're different in that way as well. And we focus on serial entrepreneurs because they have the greatest economic impact on the region, when you focus on someone who's going to get right back up, if they have a failure. And if they succeed, they're going to get back up, start another company and invest in the community. Brian Ardinger: Pipeline's been around for a number of years. It was actually started even prior to me starting Nmotion and that. I think you have over 140 or a 150 entrepreneurs that have gone through the program. Had had an economic benefit. 2,700 employees I think are, are based in Kansas and Missouri and Nebraska because of the founders that have been part of Pipeline. Your founders have raised over $600 million in capital since joining Pipeline. And it's a flywheel approach. So, you know what started 10 or 15 years ago. Now we're seeing some of the fruits of that payoff. So tell us a little bit about how you got involved in Pipeline. Melissa Vincent: Pipeline was started 14 years ago. It was started by Joni Cobb and a number of key people kind of in the Midwest. She was the CEO. And the idea was that there was such, as you mentioned, like 14 years ago, we were in such a different place.There weren't all the entrepreneur support organizations that we have now. And so, you know, when she started the organization, it was around this idea that if you came and you brought resources from the coast to the Midwest. And you focus specifically on serial entrepreneurs to have a massive impact on the region because of what we talked about earlier, they're going to reinvest, they're going to get back up, start another company. And that was really true. So over the last 14 years, our members are not just creating jobs. They're creating really high paying jobs. So average salary for an employee of one of our members is $52,000. So they're creating great jobs. They're creating a lot of them. And they're raising capital and they are staying here in the Midwest.And so really over 14 years, that whole concept that we were seeing, if it could be proved or not, if you bring in these resources, what impact would that have if you focused on serial entrepreneurs is proven. So it's like, okay, successful, we've done that. That's really amazing. But then it becomes the question of 14 years later, how things changed. Like to your point, we've had, with the pandemic and we've had social injustice that's been ongoing that really came to a head last year.So we have all these different things that happened over the past few years. And so I think for us as an organization, we've really looked at well, how do we respond to that? And I think there's a lot of other entrepreneurial support organizations that are doing the same. How do we step in. How do we be a part of that progress and change that really needs to happen? That's where Pipeline is headed. But we couldn't have gotten there without the legacy that was started 14 years ago, by bringing in all these resources and creating some amazing fellowship programs. Brian Ardinger: It's been a very important piece of the puzzle. When I started Nmotion, I think it was 10 years ago, ish. It was the first accelerator in Nebraska at the time that's a equity based accelerator. But we quickly wanted to tie ourselves with Pipeline and get our founders an opportunity to move through the Pipeline. And you find those early stage founders. You get them a little bit of capital. You surround them with mentors and investment capital.We help build that. And then you also then connect them into a wider network. I think that was one of the most important things about like an Nmotion is, you know, we started in Lincoln, Nebraska. But we realized quickly that you can't build a startup ecosystem by yourself. In just the four walls of your own county or city.And so how do we create opportunities for those founders to make network connections that can help them grow their business wherever they end up. And, you know, we've had some great founders that went through Pipeline. Brett Byman who started with Nobl. And now he's with another company, BasicBlock.You mentioned that serial net nature of entrepreneurs. Vishal Singh with Quantified Ag. Liz Whitaker with Pawlytics and that. And now with Brooke Mullen who's with Sapahn and she came through the GBeta Program with Gener8tor that we're now working with. So those are just some of the things, but maybe let's talk about some of the success stories of some of the Pipeline Entrepreneurs that have had success based on having access to your program.Melissa Vincent: Yeah. You know, one of the things that, you know, we're really looking for when we're investing is we're looking at high growth. So they're already at a decent place. And then we're really trying to help them get to that next phase of growth to hopefully, like we said, either exit or re invest in their community.And so some of those are ones that everyone kind of in the Midwest, you know, your Toby Rush with EyeVerify. So everyone kind of always thinks of Pipeline. They're like, oh, that was, you know, Toby went through that. But the thing that I love is that we have so many other organizations. So a couple that people know of that may not have realized that their founders went through Pipeline is ShotTracker Davion Roth.So that's a company that is still ongoing. Doing massive things. In the news. Part of Pipeline program back in the early days. Another one, let's go to Nebraska here. We have Blake Lawrence with Opendorse. Oh my goodness. Since the NIL law changes, like, I mean, he already was killing it. But now it's like, those are just like set him in a whole other trajectory because he can capitalize on college sports now and college athletes.So there've been these really successful founders. And I think that there's a lot of different pieces that in the ecosystem, like what you're doing and what Pipeline's doing. It takes more than just one organization to be able to provide the support. You really need layers to that. So you need some groups that are a little bit earlier stage. And then you have Pipeline which fits in this very unique role of serial entrepreneurs who are high growth, who are looking to exit and give back.It's a very unique spot that we fill. And so really trying to figure out how do we support each other. And I think that's kind of in the Midwest, what everyone's looking at right now. So it's like, we have organizations like yours that have been around for 10 years. Pipeline is fourteen. Like these established organizations that are now looking and saying, okay, we've done this. How do we work better together? Because if we work well together, we can do even more. So I think that's kind of the shift that's starting to happen. And I don't know if it's the pandemic that was part of like, kind of being the catalyst to that. Realizing that we all needed each other. And we needed, our entrepreneurs need more support than one organization could give solo. But when you combine forces, we can do so much more.Brian Ardinger: So let's talk about the program itself. So obviously there are specific things about the program. You go through things over the course of your year, and that. I think most people think of Pipeline and think of the value that's created from the network that's been established and the access to that network. But talk a little bit about the program itself. Melissa Vincent: When you're a Fellow In the program. You go through four modules a year. And those are really intense three day workshops, basically. And they are focused on helping you really scale your company. So the first module that they go through is understanding who your target customer is. Which these are all going to sound very like early stage.They're not. I mean, they're digging in super deep to analyze this information. So finding your target customer. The second one is all about your business model. And making sure that you have the right business model now that you know who your target customer should be. And the third is telling your story through your financials.Which, in all honesty is probably the one that everyone fears the most. Because one understanding your financials is one thing. Telling your story through your financials. Nobody wants to do that. And then when they get through that module, they are just able to easily tell the story through their financials.And then the fourth we just wrapped in St. Louis. Was about telling your story and what's your why? So taking all of the things that you learn throughout the year. Putting that into basically a pitch for an investor or a potential client. And being able to tell the entire story of your company in one single pitch. Brian Ardinger: One of the interesting things, because I've been a mentor in Pipeline for a long time, and I've seen the evolution of how these companies kinda go through that. And you mentioned things like just that customer discovery piece, for example, your business model. I think a lot of times we forget that that's not necessarily something that all entrepreneurs understand or know or use.And oftentimes just having that forced function of let's re evaluate, let's make sure that we are in the right business. And we have the right metrics. The right things that are going on can do such a powerful thing to an entrepreneur because it kind of levels the system, especially when you're surrounded with other entrepreneurs and other business models and that. It gets them thinking and doing things differently.Melissa Vincent: And we certainly saw that in the pandemic where I think as entrepreneurs we're hit across the board, just like everyone else, but realizing when you're the one who is out there as an entrepreneur, It comes to you. It's so, it is lonely at the top. It's especially lonely when you're a serial entrepreneur, because we do think a little bit differently.It's that whole like, ah, knock me down. I'll get right back up and start something else. And if I succeed, I'm gonna put myself through this all over again. But I think that in the pandemic, what we really saw was the value of that network and that connection. And really being able to lean on other people who were struggling.But because this isn't a program where you go through, and yes, you've gone through that program, but that's it, you become a member. And you're part of this pipeline family. They were really able to lean in and support each other in a very unique way. And obviously Pipeline provided resources, and we did a lot of stuff around mental health and wellness.However, that support of that network was so powerful. And you could really see it during the pandemic. Cause there was a safe space to be able to talk about things that you were struggling with, that had they not had that network maybe wouldn't have come up or they wouldn't have felt comfortable talking about. Brian Ardinger: Well, I think everybody was in that boat. Reevaluating what they're doing for who they were doing it for, et cetera, et cetera. We've got a number of people in the audience. If anybody has a question from the audience, feel free to type it in the chat, or there's a great feature in this Run the World called Grab the Mic.So you can also click the little microphone button and come on stage with us and ask your question directly. Happy to do that. So, yes, we're excited to make this a little bit more interactive. So we talked a little bit about ecosystems. So talk about the different ecosystems that you support. You know, you're in Kansas, you're in Missouri, you're in Nebraska. And obviously the cities are involved. Talk a little bit about the differences in the ecosystems and where you draw your entrepreneurs from. Melissa Vincent: You nailed it. Thank you for you have exactly right. So we are Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. And I think everyone always asks the question, like, are you guys planning to expand further? Yes, we may at some point. However, right now there is so much like attention. Resources that we know we need to provide just on that three state region, that it's super important that we stay there. But those are the areas that we look at. We are actually, we just finished. We've just closed our apps for recruiting. Had in all honesty, the best turnout we've had in years. I mean, it's interesting because at some point you don't know, during the pandemic are people really starting companies. You know, for some, it might be a really difficult time to start a company, but that's such a great, you know, response from that. And we're super excited about that. We see a lot of pockets. So we have Wichita pockets. We have Lincoln Omaha pockets. We have St. Louis pockets. And then obviously Kansas city on both sides. And so we see a lot of people coming from there. I think as far as how the different regions, and the only I can really compare it to, because I feel like I've become entrenched over the last two years here in our three state region.But when I look at like Oklahoma or some areas that aren't part of that really strong network of ESOs or Entrepreneur Support Organizations. You know, Oklahoma is further behind than let's say Kansas or Nebraska, and certainly St. Louis. I think part of that is because they have not brought in outside organizations to come in and help them establish some of the entrepreneurial groups that you need. You need more than just one group within a region. And again, when you've been doing it, as long as you know, we have here and in Nebraska and certainly in Missouri, I think that that's where you're able to, you've been doing it for a while. You realize where you play well, and then you find other people to compliment. And I think when you look at other regions who aren't there yet, they're just trying to figure out who do we even want to bring in? They're not to a place yet where they could even say, oh, here's the part that we do really well. Let's find other organizations to supplement that. So I think that the Midwest, when we're talking about Nebraska and Missouri and Kansas is unique and really amazing, and its ability to work together regionally to create really strong entrepreneur. Brian Ardinger: Are you seeing fundamental differences or different expertise in the different ecosystems? Like how does St. Louis compared to a Lincoln or? Melissa Vincent: So St. Louis has a lot of bio. Obviously there's Bio STL. So we see a lot of bio coming out of St. Louis. And then Nebraska, we see a lot more animal health resources. And obviously healthcare resources as well. And then Kansas City, this conglomeration of bio and, and also Nebraska would be sports tech. I would put that in there too, even the shot trackers here in Kansas. So you have this interesting mixture and I think along the whole corridor, you have a lot of animal health cause we're in that kind of quarter for animal health. And then we have some amazing entrepreneurs who are rural because that's an area that we really have tried to focus on. And so we have rural entrepreneurs who are doing really unique things, you know, in ag and everything else. Brian Ardinger: So talk a little bit about the mentors themselves. What type of mentors did you bring in? And how do they work. Melissa Vincent: We love to bring in a mixture of regional mentors, like yourself, and then national mentors. And we feel like that mix is super important. Because one regionally, you want people who actually understand the ecosystem, understand the issues of raising capital that are still here. And, you know, that we need to address and change if we want to really be able to grow the ecosystem. And then we want people from the coast. So we know that a lot of times what we're seeing is that on the coast, we have PE and VC that are looking to invest here in the Midwest. And so we're able to kind of capitalize on that. And because Pipeline takes our entrepreneurs through such a strong vetting process to even get into Pipeline, it's not the easiest thing to get into, but there is a pretty long process to get in. And then you have a year's long fellowship. And then they know they're going to get that extra support. We get a lot of interest from the coast about what our entrepreneurs are doing, because you're adding those layers of continued support and resource, which should hopefully help their success rates continue to go up. So that's kind of where we are. Brian Ardinger: And the type of people that you bring in, like a Chris Shipley has been on the podcast before. And spoken at our events before. People like that who have been in the industry for a long time and can navigate east, west and in between is really helpful. Melissa Vincent: And even international. I will tell you, I love Chris Shipley. She is so able to help you take and tell your company's pitch. And we just saw this because she leads our fourth module. And you can tell your entire company story in your five minutes. You're in. And she'll be like, so what I think you're saying is, and she'll like completely boil down your company to like a minute.And it's like, oh yeah, that. And it's like, oh my gosh, please tell me I wrote that down. One of my other favorites that I think, it just reminds you of how unique Pipeline is in the mentors that we bring in. So Laura Kilcrease, she leads our module three on financials. If you look her up, she's literally credited with starting the tech scene in Austin.And she's just this ridiculous, amazing leader and ecosystem builder. And now she's in Alberta running the entire Alberta, the province of Alberta, she's running their entire new innovation arm. And so she's just, it doesn't even seem real when you talk to her. I mean, she's just, she can give you stories of companies that you know, she's been on the board for, that had sold for, you know, ridiculous amounts. And she's been through so many different things. So it's that level of just resources and expertise. And just people who really care about entrepreneurs, who understand the entrepreneurial lifestyle. What's it's about. How hard it is. And really care about giving back and supporting our entrepreneurs.Brian Ardinger: I want to shift to COVID. And again, you started right before a lot of this stuff happened. Talk a little bit about how COVID and the remote nature has changed Pipeline and, and change your entrepreneurs. Melissa Vincent: You know, so I would say there were both good and, you know, difficult pieces. So Pipeline for anyone who doesn't know is very, very much an in-person organization. The modules are in person. They're three days. The professional development was always in person. There are all of these pieces that it's like a hundred percent an in-person organization.And then you have a new leader that starts, and then you have a pandemic that doesn't allow anyone to be in person. And so it was really interesting because the downside was. Our Fellows had one module, the very first one, and then everything else was virtual. And for me just research thought was okay, how does that impact, you know, who becomes a member who doesn't, or their engagement with each other. And we started with 13 Fellows, we've finished with thirteen fellows, despite the pandemic.We were very intentional as soon as the pandemic hit to go virtual with resources. So rather than having, you know, a handful of professional development. We went weekly. Everything from, okay, how do I communicate? What is this pandemic? How do I communicate to my customers, my team? I mean like things that now it feels like, oh, that was 10 years ago, but it was just last year.And so we were trying to really figure out and then PPP loans and all of that. So just started doing virtual resources. So in that way, I think it was positive because it allowed us to really beef up, any type of professional development. I mean, it was just weekly. We're coming at you and we're helping you feel connected.And then after that, I would say the downside was not being able to have those in-person connections, but we just finished our last module for this year, which we had the first two, which virtual. The last two modules were in-person. And again, we've finished with thirteen, started with 13, finished with 13.So I think really for us, it allowed us to do a whole lot more because we could do it virtually. The transition for an organization that is so heavy on live in-person events is probably some of the members who have been around for a while. And we're like, whoa. When are we going to get in the person? I heard that a lot. Brian Ardinger: Absolutely. But Hey Bob, I saw you Grab the Mic and I didn't have a chance to click the button. So if you want to grab the mic. There you go. Welcome Bob. Bob: Yeah, there's some other people from the Midwest I'm in Cleveland, Ohio, I'm at Case Western Reserve University. I run something called Launch Net. We used to be a Blackstone Launchpad, which is around the country and now we're at Launch Net, There's five of us, in different universities in the area. Besides that I'm an Entrepreneur in Residence at the economic development called Jumpstart. And also doing some business incubator. Question I had, St. Louis. Is I, I was working with a guy from Kent State. And Melissa, I don't know if you know this guy or not in St. Louis, Brian Stoyfield. Does that ring a bell? Okay. I was just curious. He's a troublemaker, which in a good sort of way. He was trying to put rockets into suborbital space for experiments. And because there's so much aerospace in St. Louis, he ended up moving down there and hung out a lot with, begins with a C the big area where everybody collaborates, connects. No people in the middle, we just have to work harder. But I think it's turned a lot. Got quite a few friends out in SF and they're leaving. Some of them, just the cost of structure. And it used to be that a VC said if I can't have lunch with you, without flying somewhere, I don't want to invest. That has changed dramatically. Austin's picked up, as you know, and Miami has picked up. We picked up a little bit here. Actually rental costs for homes have escalated tremendously. And inventory has dropped. Because people were working from here, but a number of people are staying. Which is good to see.So, but yeah, I just wanted to, you know, say hello. I'm also involved with Techstars a little bit. I just had one in Techstars, Chicago. And then Techstars, Minneapolis. And so we're gaining that. And then I used to work with GSV Global Silicon Valley. GSV.com. If you want to take a look. They just did a $220 million spec and then something called GSVbootcamp.com.We do it now twice a year. And it could be helpful for some of the people in your cohort. It's not just ed tech, it's a broader spectrum. And they kind of did it to help during COVID. And now it kind of stuck. That they said, hey, this is good. You know, while we concentrate on ed tech for our SPAC, GSV invests in other entities, plus this is a good way that people can't, you know, do something in person physical can do this.I've also done a number of, three times now, startupschool.org, which is run by YC. Which has been really helpful. But yeah, the in-person the, the two that went to Techstars. One in Chicago, that was right in the midst of COVID. So there was no in person. The other one went to Minneapolis or Farm to Fork and he was in person. And they've got a delivery robot and it's really, really, really cool. And EcoLab. The company has helped a lot. Melissa Vincent: I've been taking notes as you've been talking Bob:  CarbonOrdinance.com. It's a grad again, getting into aerospace. So a guy who worked on the Mars rover, and some other folks, one who dropped out. That basically you can deliver food in these little carts. And you can observe or be kind of like not the driver, but kind of the driver in virtual reality.So those people who don't own a car. Who maybe don't have the ability to drive a car can be drivers of this. And we already have 300 people signed up. Yeah, to drive these vehicles in virtual reality. And we're getting some restaurant pickup again. Ecolab has been a great partner in Minneapolis. It's not the best place to have a little cart delivery because when the snow flies.Brian Ardinger: Yeah, next time. Spring and Summer time. Bob: Exactly. So, but they're, they're working hard. And the other one that was in Chicago was called undone.com. Yeah. During COVID I did a hell of a lot of stuff online. I'll give you one more. If your MPD is one of the it's called pitch-force.com. They went from being in person only in San Francisco and they were charging $75 to pitch.And I don't like to pay to pitch, but they would then turn around and buy pizza, beer and pop. They went to online. Free. And I've attended almost every week for over a year. And they've got 10 companies and five VCs. These VCs generally were San Francisco based. And now they're all over the place, including Austin, including New York.And there, now that it's virtual, they now have other entities pitching from Argentina, from Australia, from Israel. And it's a good way to learn how to pitch and see how things are going for people and also things, how they're going poorly for people. So it's a good way of see a real entrepreneur. It's your real business.And so friends of mine and I, we would literally watch it and text each other, our votes. And after a while, you get pretty aligned with what the VCs would do. And the downside is you get good. And all of a sudden you see these very, you both understand, you see these very smart people going, okay, you're in love with your technology, but what's it going to do for the customer? How much are you asking for? And then you're going, this is going to burn down. And sure enough, they get a two.Other ones you go, holy crap, did they hit it. I work with a lot of students and you know, they're just learning how to do this. And I sent them there. And they see, you know, the real people putting it all on the line to do it. Max who runs it, he runs a staffing agency and he also helps startups who don't have the finances to maybe pay someone right now, get somebody to work for equity only. And that's how he makes money that you have to pay him like five grand and then a certain percentage after let's say six months, once you put them on a salary and you know, maybe they're going for that Series A or something like that, but they can't get there because they don't have that chief marketing officer. Well, he knows off people who are bad exits and they can do that. Melissa Vincent: That's awesome. I love hearing from other regions on, well, not regions, but just other states that are kind of right next to us. What's going on there and how it's similar or different. And one of the things you brought up about the VC groups out of San Francisco being like the pandemic really did shift.And I think, you know, when you're talking about who you would put capital, that has been, I think one of the best biggest shifts. The ability for us to bring capital in from the coasts. Because to your point, exactly. That was not something. If you could not do lunch or coffee, there was not capital happening here and you'd have to move.And so it's really allowed us to have a lot of people moved back to the Midwest, their roots. And then allow people who would have had to leave previously, get to stay here in the Midwest. Which is just an enormous benefit, that was a by-product of the pandemic. Bob: Absolutely. One of the entities who didn't make it into the top five does a Reg A. He pitched at going public and he didn't make it to the top five and he did a great job. And I reached out to him and his name is Darren Marble. And he has a show that he he's working with Entrepreneur magazine. It's called Goingpublic.com. And so my friend is the board director for Gen Global. Jeff Hoffman.We just went through Global Entrepreneurship Week. And I introduced Jeff to Darren. And now Jeff is one of the advisors and one of the producers on Going Public. But that wouldn't have happened if again, to go to Pitch Force, I would have had to been on San Francisco that week. And I'm going to like do that maybe twice a year.Brian Ardinger: Well, Bob, thanks for coming on stage. Anybody else have any questions? Feel free to put them into the chat. And we have a couple more minutes to keep going. You've changed parts of that program. You're actually creating a new program focused on the diversity inclusion side of things. So maybe talk a little bit about that part of Pipeline and some of the new things that are happening.Melissa Vincent: Yeah, so super excited to be able to, as I mentioned, this is a great kind of success story of what Pipeline was traditionally for the first 14 years. And without that, you know, legacy of success, you can't really add or expand. But because of that legacy of success, and because we were able to successfully say, you bring in resources from the coast to the Midwest, and you focus on these entrepreneurs who are really going to scale.And one of the things that we realized in going through the recruitment process during the pandemic was that, in order to get into Pipeline traditionally, you have to working on your company full time. And so during the application process, what we saw were a lot of really great ideas for high growth companies that the person just wasn't able to yet work on their company. Full-time. And when you looked more closely, we realized that there were a lot of those people were from underserved communities. And for us, that is rural, female, and minority entrepreneurs. And so the only thing that's holding them back is they haven't had an even playing field to get to a place where they are actually ready to be able to get into Pipeline.And so we wanted to do something to address that. And so we created a new program. It's called Pipeline Pathfinder. That is kind of like a starter program to be able to get into the Pipeline traditional fellowship. But our hope is that when you go through the program and it starts next year, we just finished recruiting for it.That it will be something that you're either able to run your company full time at the end of it. Or you get to a place where you're ready for Pipeline traditional and a really scale to the next level. So that is our hope. Next year, will be our first year to pilot it. And then after that, we hope to expand and continue to grow.For More InformationBrian Ardinger: It's exciting to see changes that are happening across the ecosystem. You know, we mentioned one of the benefits of being an entrepreneur in the Midwest is this comradery. And this ability to get access to people that you wouldn't normally have access to necessarily in the big tech hub. Where again, if you find the right person typically are one or two degrees separated from getting to the people that you need. And appreciate everything that you've done to move it forward, and then also take it in new directions. So if people want to find out more about yourself or about Pipeline, what's the best way to do that. Melissa Vincent: So go to pipelineentrepreneurs.com or reach out to me on LinkedIn. Or you can always email me at melissa@pipelineentrepreneurs.com. Could we have any longer of an email? Probably not, but. Brian Ardinger: Melissa, thank you again for coming on Inside Outside Innovation. Thanks for doing this live and thanks for all the audience folks that came and participated. We look forward to having future events and that. If you want to find out more about Inside Outside, go to InsideOutside.IO. Subscribe to our newsletter and watch the podcast every week. So appreciate you coming on Melissa. Look forward to having further conversations and thanks very much. Melissa Vincent: Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it. Thanks everybody.Brian Ardinger: That's it for another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. If you want to learn more about our team, our content, our services, check out InsideOutside.io or follow us on Twitter @theIOpodcast or @Ardinger. Until next time, go out and innovate.FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER & TOOLSGet the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HEREYou can also search every Inside Outside Innovation Podcast by Topic and Company.  For more innovations resources, check out IO's Innovation Article Database, Innovation Tools Database, Innovation Book Database, and Innovation Video Database.  

Hurrdat and Hurrdat Media would not be here today if it weren't for Blake Lawrence and Adi Kunalic. Today, we talked Hurrdat origin stories with Blake. We learned about their latest endeavor, OpenDorse, and how it's dominating the brand new NIL market. We of course had to talk Husker Football, as well. He tells us a story we've never heard before about the legendary 57-yard field goal by Alex Henery to defeat Colorado in 2008. A Hurrdat Media Production. Hurrdat Media is a digital media and commercial video production company based in Omaha, NE. Find more podcasts on the Hurrdat Media Network and learn more about our other services today on HurrdatMedia.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sports Professor Rick Horrow and Mike Blewitt look at what lies ahead for sports wagering and gambling among the College Football world. Blake Lawrence, CEO of Opendorse, joins the show to talk about the future of NIL.

As the waterfowl hunting seasons have been opening up across the region Blake Lawrence has been preparing, scouting and hunting every moment he can.  He shares reports from his travels across the prairie pothole region and provides some tips for those who may be planning a trip.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Blake Lawrence, Co-Founder and CEO of Opendorse (@Opendorse) joins Sports Business Radio to discuss NIL (Name, Image and Likeness) for college athletes and how Opendorse has become an important tool connecting athletes to brands for endorsement deals. Over 60,000 athletes at every level of sport utilize Opendorse's platform to monetize their name, image and likeness. Lawrence, a former University of Nebraska football player, started Opendorse in 2012. He shares his thoughts on the best NIL deals and what the current landscape looks like 3 months after college athlete were granted the right to monetize their name, image and likeness. He also tells us what brands are looking for when they sign a NIL deal with a student athlete. Monetize your athlete's name, image and likeness utilizing Opendorse's platform by visiting www.opendorse.com. LISTEN to the award-winning Sports Business Radio podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music or at www.sportsbusinessradio.com. WATCH this interview on the Sports Business Radio YouTube channel at www.sportsbusinessradio.com. Follow Sports Business Radio on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram and Tik Tok @SportsBusinessRadio. Sports Business Radio is powered by Malka Sports (@MalkaSports) and produced by Griggs Productions (@GriggsProd). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It seems there is an app for almost anything these days and, guest what, there's now an app to help athletes negotiate the world of ‘Name, Image, and Likeness'. Blake Lawrence, CEO and founder of Opendorse joins Jeremy to give us a peek behind how his app helps student athletes market their brand, secure endorsement deals and generate revenue through social media. More than 55,000 athletes are already users of this innovative product.

In this episode of Startup Hustle, Melissa Vincent and Blake Lawrence, CEO and Cofounder of Opendorse talk about sports tech and how to maximize athlete marketing outcomes. Find Startup Hustle Everywhere: https://linktr.ee/startuphustle This episode is sponsored by Pipeline: https://www.pipelineentrepreneurs.com/ Learn more about Opendorse: https://opendorse.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recorded: July 14, 2021 | You will most likely want to grab your notepads for this one boys because we are talking business in this pod. Comp brings in the founders of Name Image Likeness industry leader, Opendorse, Blake Lawrence and Adi Kunalic to talk us through the ins and outs of the NIL world. We learn early on in this podcast that Will made his own pitch to be an investor in the company, but Opendorse wasn't sure he was a good fit in the beginning for multiple reasons. Next, Blake and Adi explain the origins of Opendorse, when the NCAA reached out, and how they have been operating long before the NIL movement took over the collegiate athlete world. Then, Comp tries to get a feel for what it is like being co-founders with your best friend and how to navigate around the differences and play into each others strengths. Wait, did we forget to mention that Blake, Adi and Comp all played ball together back in the day at Nebraska?? The boys share plenty of old stories from their playing days, and Blake and Adi tell us what Comp was like on his recruiting visit. The pod wraps up with some money talk about who the biggest earners are thus far in the NCAA and the answers might shock you. The Boys have been on a roll and this one is another banger! ----- BUSSIN' MAIL: Send a video to The Boys! bit.ly/BussinMail ----- EARN YOUR WOLF: Want to be featured on our Instagram Story? Screenshot this episode, tag @bussinwtb, and share it to your Story. The Boys will take care of the rest... ----- SHOP: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/bussin-with-the-boys FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bussinwtb Twitter: https://twitter.com/BussinWTB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BussinWTB Website: https://www.bussinwtb.com ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: Chevy Silverado: The Strongest, Most Advanced Silverado Ever. BetterHelp: Go to https://barstool.link/BetterhelpBussin to get 10% off your first month. Cross Country Mortgage: Go to https://barstool.link/crosscountrymortgageBSS to learn more Cigars International: Go to https://barstool.link/BussinCigars and use Promo code BOYS at checkout. Georgia Boots: Head over to https://barstool.link/GeorgiaBoot and use code BUSSIN for 20% off Showtime: GO TO https://barstool.link/PPVShowtime TO ORDER NOW!

In this episode, guest host Thomas Alomes sits down with Zaileen Janmohamed (Head of Partnership Development & Innovation, USOPC) and Blake Lawrence (Co-Founder, OpenDorse) to understand what sparked the idea of teaming up to create a ‘first-of-its-kind' pilot program that will enable Team USA athletes to earn income from group and individual marketing and sponsorship opportunities.

In this AD Insider podcast, we feature a segment from the AD Insider LIVE | Thursday 30, presented by Hudl, where we sat down with Blake Lawrence, CEO of Opendorse, a platform 40,000+ athletes use to understand, build, protect, and monetize their brand.The topics covered were:Opendorse Software CapabilitiesThe Market Value of an Athlete's BrandWhat Are NIL Activities?How to Keep Athletes from Making MistakesMaterials Mentioned in this Episode:Opendorse PlatformNCAA Interim Name Image and Likeness PolicyName, Image and Likeness Legislation by StateExample Name Image and Likeness PoliciesWhat Are NIL Activities Cartoon PosterName Image and Likeness Policy Kit - Make sure to include "High School" in your institution nameSupport the show (https://coachesinsider.com/sign-up/)

College sports will never be the same. Starting in July of 2021, every NCAA athlete in the country has the opportunity to make money from their names, images, and likenesses (NIL). So what does the future of paid college athletes look like? Joining Joe this week is Blake Lawrence, the co-founder & CEO of Opendorse, a sports tech company that maximizes endorsement value for athletes. More than 40,000 (and growing) athletes around the world use Opendorse to monetize their brands with support from partners including the PGA TOUR, NHL, NFLPA, MLBPA, WNBPA, LPGA, over 100 professional and collegiate sports teams, and hundreds of brands. Blake talks about the inspiration for creating Opendorse, how he's helping college athletes make money, and how the new system will impact sports in the near term.

Today (Thursday) marks a big change in college athletics: It's the first day student athletes can monetize their name, image or likeness. In today's Signature Story, Will Bauer of Nebraska Public Media News has more on what it means and what it will look like in the state. The idea wasn't new in Nebraska, but it's now possible here and everywhere else. Student athletes, under interim NCAA bylaws, are now able to monetize their name, image and likeness. It's uncharted waters for everyone involved.BLAKE LAWRENCE 1: “When name image and likeness legislation changes go into effect, it'll forever change college athletics.”That's Blake Lawrence. He's a former Nebraska football player and now CEO of Opendorse, a Lincoln-based company that works with athletes all over the country with endorsements and social media. He's been at the heart of name, image and likeness or NIL since he founded his company in 2012. For Lawrence, the obvious impact on the horizon of college athletics? What makes it unique: recruiting.

For it or against it,Hoosier fans must come to grips with the reality of Name, Image & Likeness rights for college athletes. It is upon us, and will be one of the most consequential changes in the history of the NCAA. CEO and co-founder of Opendorse, Blake Lawrence, brings knowledge and know-how to the pod, breaking down how his innovative company is working with IU and other universities across the country to take advantage of this brave new world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Join The Athletic for just $1 a month! Visit: theathletic.com/andystaples Andy sits down with Opendorse CEO Blake Lawrence to discuss NIL and the earning power of athlete endorsements. The two review Opendorse's list of college basketball players with the largest social media following in the Elite 8 that stand to significantly profit when NIL takes effect. Plus, the pair look at names in college football, like Michael Penix Jr., who could earn advertisement revenue from big on-field moments (4:30). Follow Andy on Twitter: @Andy_Staples Follow Blake Lawrence on Twitter: @Blake_Lawrence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're wondering how to leverage your brand image as an athlete, it's your lucky day! Today you get to hear from Opendorse Co-Founder, Blake Lawrence. In this episode you will hear everything you need to know about the upcoming NCAA changes regarding name, image and likeness; specifically how players and teams should be preparing themselves for success!

Today is the second episode in our December series called “Rewind.” Blake Lawrence is the founder and CEO of Opendorse.We first talked with Blake back in April 2019, and our episode aired on July 17, 2019.Since that time, Opendorse has grown a lot. They've not only raised a Series A, but just this week they announced a partnership with Team USA. Opendorse is the athlete-marketing platform that helps the biggest brands in sports share content on social. Founded by two former major college athletes, Opendorse was built seeking to make it easy for athletes and their partners to work together to engage their fans. Today, more than 7,000 athletes use Opendorse to share content with their 1.4b social media followers.Top sports properties including the PGA TOUR, LPGA, NFLPA, WTA, and New Jersey Devils, and college properties including Michigan, Clemson, and Nebraska Athletics partner with Opendorse to send content to athletes to share through their social media channels. More than 1,500 brands also use opendorse to engage professional athletes and their audience.Learn more about Opendorse: https://opendorse.com/ Follow Blake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blake_Lawrence Follow upside on Twitter: https://twitter.com/upsidefm Advertise with an upside classified: https://upside.fm/classifieds 

Carbon emissions are piling up every day, affecting the world’s weather patterns, and accelerating climate change. Earth 911 talks with Cool Effect’s Blake Lawrence about how you can offset your carbon emissions inexpensively and with confidence it will remain sequestered. Cool Effect is a non-profit organization that seeks out the highest quality carbon reduction projects globally and assists them in selling their carbon credits to individuals, organizations, non-profits, and anyone who wants to reduce their carbon footprint. We discuss a few of the organization’s projects, from teaming with American Airlines and Twitter to offset travel emissions to providing low-smoke cookstoves and building homes for families in need in Brazil to prevent local deforestation. One recent project is seeking a better way to usage for pigs’ waste to produce compost for farmers.Lawrence talks about Cool Effect’s Seller’s Pledge and their promise of transparency to their buyers with a small 9.87% management fee. Cool Effect also helps individuals and businesses offset travel emissions – by car, plane, boat, or at the hotel -- by the hour with easy-to-use calculators. In addition to the environmental benefits Cool Effect provides, carbon offset purchases are tax-deductible. Check out Cool Effect and consider supporting their projects to reduce your carbon footprints. Visit cooleffect.com to learn more.

Blake Lawrence, CEO of Opendorse, joins us this week to talk about the early days of social media, athletes and influencers and NIL and what it means to creatives. 

Everything you wanted to know about carbon offsets in one handy episode: it's our Crash Course on Carbon Offsets with the MagicLinks carbon offset partner, Cool Effect. Blake Lawrence explains how to discern good offset partners from bad, breaks down additionality, portfolios, and much more. Bonus points for the listener who can name the cat voice at the end of the episode! Drop us your guesses at responsibleimpact@magiclinks.com

On tonight's show we have our Husker Huddle with Blake Lawrence, our Famous Dave's Face-Off, and a chat with Todd Leabo.

On tonight's show we have our Husker Huddle with Blake Lawrence, our Famous Dave's Face-Off, and a chat with Todd Leabo.

On tonight's show we have our Husker Huddle with Blake Lawrence, our Famous Dave's Face-Off, and a chat with Todd Leabo.

How the f**k did Blake Lawrence go from making negative $54 on his first business venture to owning and operating his own successful company, Opendorse? On today’s episode we talk about how Blake went from playing football at Nebraska to founding two successful companies: Hurrdat and Opendorse. Blake co founded the company, HurrDat with his buddy Adi, while they were still in school at the University of Nebraska in 2010. In 2013, he was chosen as one of the Midwest’s most successful, high-performing entrepreneurs to complete a Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship. Today, his other company Opendorse has facilitated deals with leagues like the NFL, NBA, NHL, UFC, La Liga, and athletes like Connor McGregor, Rob Gronkowski, and Gareth Bale just to name a few. So how did Blake manage two growing companies at the same time? And how did a $10 Tweet win him the attention of the NFL?

I'm joined once again by Blake Lawrence, co-founder and CEO of Opendorse to chat about NIL and the opportunities available for student athletes as social media influencers. We chatted about how brands activated around this year's virtual NFL Draft. How much were student athletes entering the draft really able to earn from social media partnerships? Turns out it was even more than Opendorse expected!Listen in as Blake and I chat about the NFL Draft, social media monetization for student athletes, the latest developments in NIL legislation and whether any of those coaches with the cool digs at home upped their own earning potential during the draft (we're looking at you, Kliff Kingsbury). You can follow Opendorse on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram to discuss further, ask additional questions or suggest future episodes.You can find more of my analysis on the business of college sports at BusinessofCollegeSports.com, on Forbes and Entrepreneur. 

Opendorse co-founder and CEO Blake Lawrence joins Kevin DeShazo (Culture Wins, Fieldhouse Media) and Mark Hodgkin (TicketSocket) to discuss a number of topics. We dive into the recent NCAA announcement related to student-athlete NIL rights, discuss the impetus and creation of Opendorse, and what role being a student-athlete himself helped Blake in his journey.

In Episode 003, we're specifically covering the topic of Name, Image and Likeness rules and regulation changes for the NCAA. If you're unfamiliar, this is a newly introduced policy allowing players to profit from their "personal brand." It's a highly nuanced topic, so Blake Lawrence joins us on the first half to break down the status and intricacies of the new rules. We're also joined by Appalachian State Head Coach, Dustin Kerns.

Nebraska Athletics recently partnered with Opendorse to create the first-ever program designed to help individual student athletes build their personal brands. The program, being called Ready Now, will afford all 650-plus Nebraska student athletes the opportunity to improve their personal brands on social media so they can maximize their earning potential once NIL legislation is ultimately enacted. I wrote about this program on Forbes when it was first announced, but in this episode I was able to chat with Opendorse co-founder and CEO Blake Lawrence about what his company currently does with professional athletes and how his platform will benefit student athletes as NIL legislation is enacted. We discussed how Opendorse currently works with its approximately 75 collegiate partners and how the Nebraska partnership takes that to the next level. From providing actionable data to matching athletes with brands, we chatted about everything Opendorse does and how student athletes will be able to maximize their monetization opportunities once NIL legislation is enacted.You can follow Opendorse on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram to discuss further, ask additional questions or suggest future episodes.You can find more of my analysis on the business of college sports at BusinessofCollegeSports.com, on Forbes and Entrepreneur. 

Opendorse CEO Blake Lawrence talks about how athletes can use social media while social distancing, his plans for helping collegiate athletes monetize their name, image and likeness and his journey from high school football star to entrepreneur.

David and Blake discuss how the sports industry as a whole has been affected by the ongoing COVID-19 situation and what teams and athletes can do during this unprecedented time. Athletes are now realizing what life without sports will look like, so its important to use this time to figure out what you want to accomplish outside of the sports world and what you want to do in the future. As a leader in the space, Blake shares some of his thoughts and ideas on different ways to handle the current climate and what we can look for in the near future. FOLLOW THE GUEST, Blake Lawrence LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakealaw... Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blake_Lawrence opendorse: https://twitter.com/opendorse FOLLOW THE HOST, David Brickley: Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidjBrickley Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidjbrick... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6yZ... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brickley/ An STN Digital Production: STN is a Social Media Marketing Agency trusted by the largest Sports & Entertainment properties in the world. https://stndigital.com FOLLOW STN DIGITAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/STNDigital/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stndigital/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/STNDigital LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stn-...

David and Blake discuss how the sports industry as a whole has been affected by the ongoing COVID-19 situation and what teams and athletes can do during this unprecedented time. Athletes are now realizing what life without sports will look like, so its important to use this time to figure out what you want to accomplish outside of the sports world and what you want to do in the future. As a leader in the space, Blake shares some of his thoughts and ideas on different ways to handle the current climate and what we can look for in the near future. FOLLOW THE GUEST, Blake Lawrence LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakealaw... Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blake_Lawrence opendorse: https://twitter.com/opendorse FOLLOW THE HOST, David Brickley: Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidjBrickley Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidjbrick... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6yZ... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brickley/ An STN Digital Production: STN is a Social Media Marketing Agency trusted by the largest Sports & Entertainment properties in the world. https://stndigital.com FOLLOW STN DIGITAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/STNDigital/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stndigital/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/STNDigital LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stn-...

Blake Lawrence (@Blake_Lawrence), Co-Founder and CEO of Opendorse (@Opendorse) joins us for an in-depth conversation about how Opendorse  is helping influential people - from athletes to CEO's - publish social content on behalf of their partners or organizations. Lawrence and Opendorse are leading the conversation on Name, Image, and Likeness by partnering with schools like University of Nebraska. Lawrence also discusses Opendorse's work with pro sports players unions such as the NFLPA and MLBPA. And we discuss how athletes and brands are pivoting during the COVID-19 pandemic on their social media platforms. Vada Manager (@VadaManager), Founder of Manager Global Consulting and former Corporate Team Leader for Nike Inc. as well as a top corporate strategist and crisis PR expert joins us to discuss how sports teams, leagues, brands and companies can strategize their communications efforts during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Manager provides helpful tips and takeaways. This week’s edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by Fiverr.  Fiverr’s marketplace helps you get more done with less. Fiverr connects businesses with freelancers who offer hundreds of digital services including graphic design, copywriting, web programming, podcast editing, photography, film editing, and more. Take Five and check out FIVERR.com and you will receive 10% off your first order by using our code SBR. Follow us on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram @SportsBusinessRadio.

Listen to this recap of Sports Nightly featuring conversations with Blake Lawrence of Opendorse, Husker football player Cam Taylor-Britt and Husker volleyball analyst Lauren Cook

Listen to this recap of Sports Nightly featuring conversations with Blake Lawrence of Opendorse, Husker football player Cam Taylor-Britt and Husker volleyball analyst Lauren Cook

Listen to this recap of Sports Nightly featuring conversations with Blake Lawrence of Opendorse, Husker football player Cam Taylor-Britt and Husker volleyball analyst Lauren Cook

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How do athletes, celebrities and influencers effectively monetize their social media channels? What's the most effective way to have a spokesperson advertise for you? Should you use a larger influencer with a huge following to maximize eyeballs and awareness of your product? What about a smaller level influencer who may not have as many followers, but gets better engagement?  If you want the answers to those questions and many others like it, this episode is for you! Blake Lawrence, Co-Founder and CEO of opendorse, joined the Business of Social to tell us how all athletes/influencers/celebrities should be using social to grow their brand and increase their monetization efforts to get ahead of the pack. We also discuss what brands should be doing to leverage their messaging, the importance of micro-influencers, product advertising and more on episode 50! FOLLOW THE GUEST, Blake Lawrence LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakealawrence/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blake_Lawrence   opendorse: https://twitter.com/opendorse FOLLOW THE HOST, David Brickley: Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidjBrickley Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidjbrick... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6yZbmTvJfjY8h79Wpm49Zw   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brickley/ An STN Digital Production: STN is a Social Media Marketing Agency trusted by the largest Sports & Entertainment properties in the world. https://stndigital.com

How do athletes, celebrities and influencers effectively monetize their social media channels? What's the most effective way to have a spokesperson advertise for you? Should you use a larger influencer with a huge following to maximize eyeballs and awareness of your product? What about a smaller level influencer who may not have as many followers, but gets better engagement?  If you want the answers to those questions and many others like it, this episode is for you! Blake Lawrence, Co-Founder and CEO of opendorse, joined the Business of Social to tell us how all athletes/influencers/celebrities should be using social to grow their brand and increase their monetization efforts to get ahead of the pack. We also discuss what brands should be doing to leverage their messaging, the importance of micro-influencers, product advertising and more on episode 50! FOLLOW THE GUEST, Blake Lawrence LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakealawrence/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blake_Lawrence   opendorse: https://twitter.com/opendorse FOLLOW THE HOST, David Brickley: Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidjBrickley Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidjbrick... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6yZbmTvJfjY8h79Wpm49Zw   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brickley/ An STN Digital Production: STN is a Social Media Marketing Agency trusted by the largest Sports & Entertainment properties in the world. https://stndigital.com

Blake Lawrence, Co-Founder & CEO of Opendorse, joins Pro Mindset host Craig Domann to share his experiences as a former college football player and his transition to life after football. Blake was a starting linebacker for the Nebraska Cornhuskers until he stepped away from football due to concussions and concern for his future health.Blake played college football with current veteran NFL players Prince Amukamara and Ndamukong Suh, as well as, his current business partner Adi Kunalic. Blake shares his key carryovers from college football to the business world: • Trust • Discipline • Compete • Belief & Passion • Work EthicBlake shares that sports has a tendency to draw people together, not only the players who practice, play and have fun together but also for fans who attend games or watch games together. There is a gravitational pull with and among athletes and fans.Blake and his company are the leaders in the athlete social media marketing space. He tells us that consumers have a 20 times greater appetite (engagement rate) for player social media marketing than team/organization social media marketing. Even though teams average 30 posts on social media per day and players only average 6 posts on social media per day, companies/brands utilizing players in social media marketing is far more effective.Opendorse, an athlete social media marketing company, matches companies and brands with athletes. Opendorse is built on the foundation that athletes have significantly more engagement value than companies because people on social media will stop their strolling way more often for faces than logos.Opendorse is headquartered in Lincoln, NE. Blake and his best friend, college roommate and Nebraska teammate, Adi Kunalic, co-founded Opendorse in 2013.

SportsPro digital editor Tom Bassam talks to Blake Lawrence, the co-founder and chief executive of Opendorse, to find out about the platform's plans in athlete marketing and run through some best practice in social media. The average athlete shares six pieces of social content a month, while the average team posts 30 times a day with one in three of those featuring a sponsor, so are brands allocating their resources properly? How do athletes avoid security risks and classic [insert sponsor here] errors? And what might changing rules in US college sports mean for US student-athletes?

Our hosts recap the Nebraska vs. Purdue game with a special guest Blake Lawrence. Original Air Date: 11/5/2019

Adi Kunalic joins Pro Mindset host Craig Domann to share his journey and experiences about moving to the U.S. from war-torn Bosnia as an eleven-year old, earning a college football scholarship at Nebraska, getting his shot in the NFL, and currently being CEO of Opendorse, a sports social media marketing company that matches companies and brands with athletes. Opendorse is built on the foundation that athletes have significantly more engagement value than companies because people on social media will stop their strolling way more often for faces than logos.Adi talks about how sports teaches you that entitlement doesn't matter and nothing is owed to you but rather you have to earn everything you get. If you take an entitlement approach and complain about your circumstances, then you will find out no one listen or cares about you. Instead, Adi believes you should take the "hardest worker in the room" mentality to everything you want to accomplish and that's what he does.He also shares his convictions about practice, preparedness and repetition. Adi shares his mindset about how much practice counts and sometimes people forget that practice really matters. When he played kicker, his mindset was to practice, practice and practice more so he got lots of repetitions thus he was prepared for any situation, could block out the noise and focus on his job.Adi's company is Opendorse headquartered in Lincoln, NE. Adi and his best friend, college roommate and teammate, Blake Lawrence, co-founded Opendorse in 2013.He mentions one of his secrets to success is getting up at 4:30am every day to start his day.

NoMo Diagnostics CEO Harald Steltzer and Dr. Daniel Daneshvar join Bram to discuss the latest technology and training methodology to detect concussions, understand symptoms, advocate for yourself and treat quickly. Plus, Blake Lawrence CEO of Opendorse discusses his journey from Nebraska Cornhuskers football player to running a social network platform that connects brans and fans to athletes. 

Interview begins: 09:02Insight begins: 58:13Debrief begins: 1:01:59Blake Lawrence is the founder and CEO of opendorse.opendorse is the athlete-marketing platform that helps the biggest brands in sports share content on social. Founded by two former major college athletes, opendorse was built seeking to make it easy for athletes and their partners to work together to engage their fans. Today, more than 7,000 athletes use opendorse to share content with their 1.4b social media followers. Top sports properties including the PGA TOUR, LPGA, NFLPA, WTA, and New Jersey Devils, and college properties including Michigan, Clemson, and Nebraska Athletics partner with opendorse to send content to athletes to share through their social media channels. More than 1,500 brands also use opendorse to engage professional athletes and their audience. We discuss: Ad: What are the most important terms for an entrepreneur to be aware of when raising capital? (7:56) Blake's turning point on being in the social media business (11:26) A throwback: running a social media agency way back 2010 (14:50) How does opendorse maintain the authenticity of the content being shared? (20:35) Blake Lawrence advocacy in running opendorse full time (25:08) How opendorse helps in advertising (29:11) opendorse saves the athletes maintain a balance in the busy schedules (30:56) What happens to Opendorse years from now? (55:29) Day in the life of Braxton Miller (58:33) opendorse was founded in 2012 and based in Lincoln, Nebraska.Learn more about opendorse: https://opendorse.com/Follow Blake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blake_Lawrence--This episode is sponsored by Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, a full-service law firm known for assisting entrepreneurs across the Heartland.Learn more about or get in touch with Taft: https://www.taftlaw.com/ Follow upside on Twitter: https://twitter.com/upsidefm

Blake Lawrence and Adi Kunalic, Co-Founders of opendorse, join the Social Pros Podcast to discuss their incredible athlete marketing platform and how its revolutionizing the way the sports industry use social. Huge thanks to our amazing sponsors for helping us make this happen. Please support them; we couldn't do it without their help! This week: Salesforce Marketing Cloud Pattern 89   Power Comes with Content The influencer marketing landscape is at its pinnacle with brands seeking help from ‘prized’ influencers to drive their message to audiences large enough to pack out hundreds if not thousands of sports stadiums. But not every influencer is a born marketer.  Athletes are prime examples of influencers who, despite not being natural marketers, get worldwide attention from their social audience. Thus, brands and sponsors see athletes as the “golden chalice” of influencers who have the unique power to reach millions of sports fans with every post they publish on social media. According to Adi Kunalic and Blake Lawrence from opendorse, the ability to reach the masses on social isn’t exclusive to the most influential entities in sports media. The average athlete has a 6% engagement rate on social compared to the average sports team, which has an engagement rate of just 0.3%. In This Episode:  03:58 – How athletes use opendorse to share content with their audience 08:34 – Why more employee advocacy platforms should consider personalizing the experience 12:39 – How opendorse can help you build your brand 18:03 – What type of content works best for engagement 22:39 – How to use reporting and analytics to get more value from influencer marketing 32:23 – How opendorse can help brands establish relationships with athletes Resources Get the new State of Marketing report for free from Salesforce here. Find out more about the community at SocialMedia.org with a special form for Social Pros listeners here. Learn more about how Pattern 89 can help you reduce costs and increase revenue with your social ads. Find out more about opendorse and how they can help you share content with athletes here. Visit SocialPros.com for more insights from your favorite social media marketers.

Blake Lawrence (@Blake_Lawrence), Co-Founder & CEO of Opendorse (@opendorse) joins us on this week's edition of Sports Business Radio. Lawrence, a former football player at the University of Nebraska, launched Opendorse in 2012. Since then, Opendorse has become the world's leading athlete marketing platform. More than 6,000 athletes around the world use opendorse to receive content from partners and publish to their personal social channels like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with one click. Leading sports organizations like the PGA TOUR, NFLPA, MLBPA and LPGA use the platform to send video highlights, photos, GIFs, and more to athletes. Lawrence discusses his company, the recipe for "engaging" content on social media, which athletes use social media the best and how athletes are partnering with brands like never before to activate campaigns on social media. We also bring you the sports business headlines of the week including the TV ratings for March Madness on CBS/Turner, lawyer Michael Avenatti's arrest after his attempt to extort Nike and how Apple's announcement of a new streaming service will impact the sports landscape. Follow us on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram @SportsBusinessRadio.

Blake Lawrence, former Husker linebacker and current Co-founder/CEO of the athlete marketing platform Opendorse, joined Alex Roux in New York City at the Hashtag Sports conference to discuss his path from Big Ten athlete to entrepreneur. Lawrence also shared how connections and experiences playing at Nebraska helped him build a company that has grown from Lincoln-based startup to national leader in the sports industry.

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We discuss actually starting a company. The steps it takes, fear, workflow and much more on this episode of Inside Outside. We also sat down with Blake Lawrence and Adi Kunalic from Opendorse. Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy