Events and Speakers

Fall 2023, Football Fridays

A series of question-and-answer sessions sponsored by the Penn State Center for the Study of Sports in Society and the Penn State All-Sports Museum, and hosted by the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.

  • Sept. 1: Todd Blackledge (’83), NBC Sports VIDEO
  • Sept. 8: Doug Allen (’74), Penn State football letterman; former assistant executive director, NFLPA, and former national executive director, SAG VIDEO
  • Sept. 22: Mike Stevens (’96), president, MDS Consulting, and former president of the Champions Tour – PGA VIDEO
  • Oct. 13: Char Morett-Curtiss (’79), retired Penn State field hockey coach and director of “Teammates For Life: A Penn State Women’s Athletics Initiative” VIDEO
  • Oct. 27: Kirk French, Penn State anthropology professor and Emmy-winning filmmaker, on “Cheap Beer and Generic Weenies vs. Craft Brews and Artisan Sausages — The Archeology of Tailgating at Beaver Stadium” VIDEO
  • Nov. 10: Michelle Sikes, assistant professor of kinesiology, African studies and history, for a bit of personal and professional history and conversation titled “A Long Journey with Mercury and Clio: From All-American, NCAA Champion and Professional Runner to Chronicler of Kenya’s Running Women” VIDEO
  • Nov. 17: “We Are a Thorn in Their Sides,” an inside view of the role of The Daily Collegian through a conversation with student journalists (4 p.m. Carnegie Cinema)

 

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  • Oct. 16, 2023 | Discussion with David Trodden, CEO of New South Wales Rugby League about the design (and coaching decisions) involved in sponsoring the NSW Blues in Australia’s most popular sports series, “State of Origin”;  the operation of grassroots sports affordable to all; and strategies for developing rugby league for girls and women.
  • Oct. 14, 2022 | Webinar on baseball antitrust exemption, Speakers will include Erica Weisgerber, Jeffrey Jacobovitz, Jeffrey Kessler, Lori Taubman and Stephen Ross.
  • March 30, 2022 | Steve O’Brien: sports lawyer, formerly Deputy AD at San Jose State among many athletics administration jobs
  • April 1, 2022 | Global Sports Law: Judicial Review and Governing Bodies: Center Director Steve Ross will be joined by Roy Eisenhardt, a Lecturer in Law at Berkeley Law and former President of the Oakland A’s and Jonathan Taylor QC, a prominent English sports solicitor who directs the sports practice at the global firm of Bird & Bird.
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  • April 7, 2022 | David Brody: Senior Director of Global Partnerships, NBA
  • April 13, 2022 | Global Sports Law: Mission of Governing Boards: Center Director Steve Ross will be joined by Miguel Cardenal Carro, a Professor of Law at Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid) and former Spanish Minister of State for Sport, as well as David Trodden, an author and CEO of the New South Wales Rugby League.
  • April 17, 2022 | Continuing Legal Education talk by Steve Ross on Global Sports Law and its relevance to intercollegiate athletics
  • April 20, 2022 | Mark Shapiro: CEO of Toronto Blue Jays on reforming corporate culture of a sports team
  • March 19, 2021 | NCAA v Alston Moot Court
  • March 15, 2021 | Tameka Rish: Vice President of Game Day and Event Experience, Atlanta Falcons and Mercedez Benz Stadium
  • March 1-4, 2021 | Penn State Sports Business Conference 
  • Feb. 22, 2021: Chris Bevilacqua: Co-founder of Bevilacqua Helfant Ventures. He also founded College Sports TV,  was an All-American wrestler at Penn State and was elected to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • Feb. 18, 2021: Dr. David Goldblatt: Writing a Good Game: Sports Writing, Politics and Cultural Change
  • April 19, 2019: Global Histories: Sports and Apartheid South Africa
  • April 15, 2019: Geographic Determinants of Infant Health: The Impact of Sports Facility Construction Projects, featuring the work of Professor Brad Humphreys of West Virginia University
  • April 12, 2019: “From Penn State to the NFL: The Business of Football from the Players’ Perspective”
  • April 5, 2019: Shengxi Huang, Department of Electrical Engineering and Materials Research Institute
  • March 25, 2019: Panel discussion with former Penn State standouts and NFL players Adrian Amos, Donovan Smith and Allen Robinson
  • March 21, 2019: “Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story” Documentary and panel discussion
  • March 18-19, 2019: Penn State Sports Business Conference
  • March 15, 2019 / Dr. Cairsty DePasquale, Department of Biology, Penn State Altoona
  • Feb. 15, 2019 / Francisco Javier Lopez Frias, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Research Associate, Rock Ethics, Institute
  • Feb. 6, 2019: A Conversation About Baseball and Law, featuring Roy Eisenhardt, formerly of the Oakland A’s and a lecturer at Berkeley Law, Sandy Alderson, senior adviser for the Oakland A’s and former general manager of the New York Mets.
  • Jan. 28, 2019 / Bob Angelo, NFL Films Producer and Videographer, Penn State Alumnus
  • April 12-13, 2018: Penn State Sports Analytics Conference, Keynote lecture by John Urschel and numerous sessions on a variety of sports analytics topics
  • April 6, 2018 / Kyle King, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Penn State Altoona
  • March 23, 2018 / Dr. Joanna Belander, Instructor, Department of Kinesiology and U.S. Paralympics Track and Field Classifier
  • March 15-16, 2018: Penn State Sports Business Conference
  • Nov. 17, 2017: “The Future of Sports Stadiums” Public Q&A with alumnus Scott Radecic, founding senior principal at global architecture and design firm Populus and a former Penn State standout and NFL player
  • Nov. 9, 2018: Sports Labor Conference
  • Dec. 1, 2017 / Dr. Pete Allision, Associate Professor of RPTM, Shavers Creek and Rock Ethics Institute
  • Oct. 27, 2017 / Dr. Michelle Sikes, Visiting Assistant Professor of Kinesiology
  • Sept. 22, 2017 / Dr. Douglas Hochstetler, Professor of Kinesiology, Penn State Lehigh Valley
  • April 21, 2017 / Dr. Zack Furness, Associate Professor of Communications, Penn State Greater Allegheny
  • March 31, 2017 / Amira Davis, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Richards Civil War Center and the Africana Research Center
  • Feb. 24, 2017 / Abe Khan, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Communications Arts & Sciences
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