Two decades into the 21st century and women are still breaking glass ceilings in sports. Midwest-born broadcaster Lisa Byington has been shattering industry glass for years. This year alone, she became the first woman in history to call play-by-play during NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Months later, Byington was named the first full-time play-by-play announcer for an NBA team, the 2021 NBA Champion Milwaukee Bucks.

Byington talked about grunt work and glory jobs with AB editor Tabatha Wethal in September, roughly a week after the Bucks announcement, and by then, sports media veteran Kate Scott had been announced as the second full-time female play-by-play announcer for a major men’s professional sports team as the new voice of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers.

Episode 34: Lisa Byington Discusses Her New Position as the Buck's Announcer

We're fresh off AB Show 2021 in San Antonio and ready to get back to podcasting. In this episode of The Athletic Business Podcast, Andy speaks with Christina Hickey, director and staff instructor for Warriors at Ease, a non-profit that offers training in yoga and mediation for the military community. Christina explains the benefits of these alternative fitness modalities, as well as why the military might consider officially adopting these techniques in the future.

Learn more about Warriors at Ease here: www.warriorsatease.org

Find the article about Warriors at Ease that was featured in the Nov/Dec issue of Athletic Business magazine here: https://www.athleticbusiness.com/operations/programming/article/15280564/military-harnesses-healing-power-of-yoga-meditation

Episode 35: Christina Hickey, Director, Warriors at Ease

Need help with recruiting? Want to better understand your athletes' strengths and weaknesses? In this episode of the Athletic Business podcast, Andy speaks with Ben Barnett, president and CEO of BodhiSport, a new tech platform that helps athletes and teams identify and understand sport and position-specific cognitive talent. So what exactly does that mean and how can it help you? Check out our discussion with Ben in the pod.

Episode 36: Ben Barnett, President and CEO, BodhiSport

The Savannah Bananas have emerged as a TikTok sensation, garnering more than three million followers to Banana Ball — the team’s unique brand of baseball. As owner and ringleader of the Bananas, Jessie Cole has managed to deliver an experience that sometimes resembles a circus for all the on-field and in-the-stands antics that take place on game day at 4,000-seat Grayson Stadium. Among the many unique nuances of Banana Ball, batters may hit from stilts, games have a two-hour time limit, and if a fan catches a ball in the stands, the batter is out. AB executive editor Andy Berg caught up with Cole, this year’s AB Show keynote, to talk about how he reimagined the national pastime and in doing so attracted a broad fanbase to a sport that in its traditional form has often been deemed by many as slow, boring and stale.

Episode 37 - Jesse Cole, Owner, Savannah Bananas

The Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE) will co-locate its conference with AB Show 2023 in Baltimore (Nov. 1-4). As an AB Show partner, AORE brings a community of professionals with knowledge on topics related to outdoor recreation programming, products and services. AB executive editor Andy Berg sat down with AORE executive director Jeannette Stawski to talk about AORE’s
mission and how its partnership with AB Show will create some exciting opportunities for both AORE members and AB Show attendees.

Episode 38 - Jeannette Stawski, Executive Director, AORE

In the inaugural episode of The Athletic Business Podcast, we speak to Dr. Douglas Casa of the Korey Stringer Institute and the University of Connecticut Department of Kinesiology about the dangers of exertional heat stroke and strategies for preventing and treating it in student-athletes.

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Episode 1 - Beating Heat-Related Illness with Dr. Douglas Casa

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