Archive for November, 2009

Thank You, Barney Oldfield, for Making Motorsports and Racing Popular in America… By the Way, You Kinda’ Remind Me of Paul Newman

NASCAR drivers today enjoy the money and fame that come with being athletes in one of the world’s most popular sports, but not without the efforts of the nameless many who came before them and those who survive in posterity on the walls and in the halls of museums and national memory.  Just like the [ READ MORE ]

Moonshine, Folk History, and the NASCAR Spectacle

What do the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and Prohibition have in common?  NASCAR. I bet that was the last thing you expected to read, but it is true.  Moonshiners created an antiestablishment culture that fueled stock car racing in America.  The Whiskey Rebellion was a battle between a government that asserted itself in an early [ READ MORE ]

Vince Lombardi’s Leadership and the Path to Wisdom

Today, I will discuss how Vince Lombardi changed the Green Bay Packers’ entire culture and made champions out of underachievers.  For this analysis, I draw from Peter G. Northouse’s book Leadership, Jake Emen’s article “Vince Lombardi: A Case Study in the Art of Leadership” (available at http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/292814/vince_lombardi_a_case_study_in_the.html?cat=9) notes from Professor Cooper’s class, and my own experiences. [ READ MORE ]

Sports Marketing and Social Media

Much like the postal system a few centuries ago, social media changed the way people communicate in the 21st century.  Approximately 800 years ago, the Mongols created the first real postal service; in fact, it was the example the Pony Express followed when it first bridged the hundreds of miles that separated the Eastern United [ READ MORE ]

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