Sports Illustrated, one of, if not the most famous sports magazine in the business has made a huge move in the sports jobs field, signing long-time football writer and expert Peter King to a substantial deal. The journalist has signed a three-year deal worth more than $1 million annually. The exact numbers of the deal Read more →
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Sports Jobs: SI Keeps their King
Written by on March 27 2013 last updated on March 26 2013 in Sports JobsAdministrated by Bryan Mcwilliam
UCLA Fires Ben Howland After 10 Years
Written by on March 26 2013 last updated on March 26 2013 in Sports JobsAdministrated by Sean Larson
Ben Howland, who coached UCLA for the past 10 years, was fired on Sunday, the school announced. The move ends the longest coaching tenure at UCLA since John Wooden retired in 1975. In 10 seasons, Howland went 233-107, leading the Bruins to three Final Four appearances. “I evaluate a coach on a number of other Read more →
Sports Job Interview with the Managing Director of the Sports Business Entertainment Network – Beth Grupsmith (VIDEO)
Beth Grupsmith has been Managing Director of the Sports Business Education Network (SBEN) since it’s inception in September 2012. Created and funded by the McCormack Foundation, this non-profit organization carries on the tradition of Mark H. McCormack of connecting the sports industry and the classroom. SBEN works with companies, universities and associations in the sports Read more →
Must-Dos in Interviewing for a Sports Job
Written by on February 27 2013 last updated on February 27 2013 in Sports JobsContributed by Matthew Gray
Working in the sports industry is the next best thing to being the athlete playing in front of thousands of people. For many, the desire to work in a sports related field is cultivated in the realization that we are not all talented enough to reach the big stage as an athlete. Fortunately, landing a Read more →
Sports Jobs: Second Annual MLB Diversity Business Summit
Written by on February 27 2013 last updated on February 27 2013 in Sports JobsAdministrated by Bryan Mcwilliam
Major League Baseball and the Houston Astros will co-host the second annual MLB Diversity Business Summit on June 19th at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. The business summit will provide those who attend with numerous opportunities to socialize with executives from all 30 MLB Clubs, MLB Network, MLB Advanced Media, Minor League Read more →
Pat DeCola Discusses How He Landed a Job With NASCAR (VIDEO)
Written by on February 25 2013 last updated on March 11 2013 in Sports JobsAdministrated by Trevor Turnbull
Meet Pat DeCola. Some of you might recognize him as he has contributed articles in the past here on Sports Networker (check out some of Pat’s past contributions here: http://www.sportsnetworker.com/author/patdecola/ Pat attended Saint Joseph’s College of Maine in Standish, Maine, and graduated with a B.A. in Communications in 2009. He previously worked as a sports columnist for Fox Sports Read more →
Sports Job Interview with Terry Reynolds, Senior Director of Pro & Global Scouting – Cincinnati Reds
Written by on February 21 2013 last updated on March 11 2013 in Sports JobsContributed by Lucas Biebelberg
For my first interview of 2013, I was lucky to have been able to interview Terry Reynolds, Senior Director of Professional and Global Scouting for the Cincinnati Reds. Unlike most of the interviews I have done so far, Terry resides in the scouting department of a Major League Baseball team, and shares a lot of Read more →
Sports Jobs: Olympic Wrestlers Need Them for 2020
Written by on February 17 2013 last updated on February 17 2013 in Sports JobsAdministrated by Bryan Mcwilliam
Olympic wrestlers will need to find new sports jobs instead of training for the 2020 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that wrestling will be cut from the 2020 Olympic games. The news comes as a shock to the wrestling world, as the sport is one of the oldest in Olympic history. Wrestling has been Read more →
The 10 Best Sports Careers, According To CareerCast
Written by on February 6 2013 last updated on February 6 2013 in Sports JobsAdministrated by Mark Burns
CareerCast is a California-based career website that recently compiled a list of sports careers that they consider some of the best there are. According to Forbes, CareerCast acquired its data for the sports careers list from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics along with the Census Bureau and other trade association studies. We’ll list the Read more →
Working Behind The Scenes In College Athletics
Written by on January 25 2013 last updated on January 17 2013 in Sports BusinessContributed by mikegari
I worked in college athletics for nearly 20 years. In that time, I hired and did my best to mentor a number of young people who had dreams of a career in sports. The first thing that I told them, and it was the first thing I was told when I started at Eastern Washington Read more →
Jobs In Sports Events: How To Land Your Dream Job In Sports
Written by on January 23 2013 last updated on February 15 2013 in Sports JobsAdministrated by Mark Burns
When you attend a big sporting event like the NCAA Final Four or the Super Bowl, for example, you might forget that there’s a laundry list of people working behind the scenes to put on the event. Even for regular season games in the NBA or NFL, there’s people working together to make sure the Read more →
How to Get a Job in Sports Marketing
Written by on January 23 2013 last updated on January 23 2013 in Sports JobsContributed by davestevenson
It’s great that you want to work in sports marketing, but so do hundreds of thousands of other people, which makes the job market pretty tough and competitive. Sports marketing can be a career for those with adequate educational background, particularly since it is one of the highest paid sport related career fields. You can Read more →
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