For BizSense readers who are following VCU’s improbable run in the NCAA Tournament, we’re putting together a list of the must-read articles from the national media. For starters, there’s an awesome podcast on the national sports talk radio show hosted by Jim Rome with VCU point guard Joey Rodriguez. “Two weeks ago I could walk around campus and nobody would notice me,” Rodriguez told Rome. “Now I can’t get five steps without taking pictures. It’s been great.”
On the vibe in Richmond: “I couldn’t even go get a sub, it’s been wild.”
Click here to listen to it.
Shaka Smart also hit the airwaves on the Dan Patrick Show. Visit Richmond’s own Sports Radio 910 to hear the interview.
Also interesting: Las Vegas sportsbook took $10 bet on VCU at 5,000 to 1. Check out that story here.
There’s a great story from Bloomberg here that crunches the numbers on the potential financial opportunities that might be out there for Shaka Smart thanks to his new found fame.
VCU is getting creative with its tournament related T-shirts; going beyond the typical Final Four shirts. Read this USA Today story on the latest shirt design that from the school that busted brackets nationwide.
The NCAA Tournament is also huge business, and the players aren’t allowed to see any of the some $700 million in cash it produces. Click here to check out an awesome piece from Frontline that aired on Tuesday night. This brings up the a fundamental question — when everyone else involved is making bank, why aren’t the players allowed to make any money on their skill and hard work? Why does the NCAA, an enormously powerful institution, restrict their compensation to the same as student athletes who don’t earn any money for their school?
We’ll keep posting links to more interesting stories as we see them so check back throughout the day.
For BizSense readers who are following VCU’s improbable run in the NCAA Tournament, we’re putting together a list of the must-read articles from the national media. For starters, there’s an awesome podcast on the national sports talk radio show hosted by Jim Rome with VCU point guard Joey Rodriguez. “Two weeks ago I could walk around campus and nobody would notice me,” Rodriguez told Rome. “Now I can’t get five steps without taking pictures. It’s been great.”
On the vibe in Richmond: “I couldn’t even go get a sub, it’s been wild.”
Click here to listen to it.
Shaka Smart also hit the airwaves on the Dan Patrick Show. Visit Richmond’s own Sports Radio 910 to hear the interview.
Also interesting: Las Vegas sportsbook took $10 bet on VCU at 5,000 to 1. Check out that story here.
There’s a great story from Bloomberg here that crunches the numbers on the potential financial opportunities that might be out there for Shaka Smart thanks to his new found fame.
VCU is getting creative with its tournament related T-shirts; going beyond the typical Final Four shirts. Read this USA Today story on the latest shirt design that from the school that busted brackets nationwide.
The NCAA Tournament is also huge business, and the players aren’t allowed to see any of the some $700 million in cash it produces. Click here to check out an awesome piece from Frontline that aired on Tuesday night. This brings up the a fundamental question — when everyone else involved is making bank, why aren’t the players allowed to make any money on their skill and hard work? Why does the NCAA, an enormously powerful institution, restrict their compensation to the same as student athletes who don’t earn any money for their school?
We’ll keep posting links to more interesting stories as we see them so check back throughout the day.
OK, I have a couple of degrees from George Mason University, a PhD from Down Under, Murdoch University to be precise (no connection with media baron Rupert Murdoch), and I am working on an MBA from Imperial College, London. All of which does not an expert on basketball make. But this much I know. The CAA deserves at least four automatic bids to the NCAA. Go VCU! If they don’t win it all, I will eat my diplomas. And then when next year rolls around, will they have the nerve to say, “Who will be this year’s VCU?”
On your commute home tonight, make sure you “Honk 4 Hoops” as you drive by the VCU School of Business, Snead Hall – 301 W. Main Street (on the left as you approach Belvidere.) Go Rams!