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Champion Hockey Team Is in Business
April 29, 2021
In the year of COVID-19, UMass Amherst’s NCAA men’s ice hockey championship has been a shot in the arm for the entire campus, and it has had particular impact for Isenberg—15 of the team’s 21 players are Isenberg student-athletes.
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Faculty Research: McCormack Department Launches Sport Rivalry Research Lab
April 14, 2021
Associate Professor David Tyler, a 2013 PhD graduate, and fellow McCormack doctoral alum Joe Cobbs ’10 are cofounders of Know Rivalry, a pathbreaking research lab devoted to identifying and measuring rivalries.
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Faculty Research: Tracking Pandemic Leisure
March 16, 2021
Assistant Professor of Sport Management Bradley Baker has used social media and data from fitness trackers to study leisure trends over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Off the Playing Field
February 25, 2021
Aaron Polansky ‘97, graduated from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and secured a Master of Science degree in Administration with a research focus on Sport Psychology from Springfield College. He worked in the private sector for ten years and signed with DBC Publishing in 2017 and released his first book, Dolphins in Trees: A Children's Book with Implications for All of Us, in the summer of 2018.
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McCormack Introduces Groundbreaking Women in Business Course
January 28, 2021
The Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management has announced a first-of-its-kind new course, Women in Business, which is launching during the spring 2021 semester for 25 students who aspire to pursue a career in the sports industry.
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Mentorship and Growth Mindset Elevate Recent Grad’s Game
December 15, 2020
Josh Estes ’19 MBA/MS, who recently became an analytics coach with the Cleveland Cavaliers, benefited from McCormack’s long-term networking and mentoring relationship with retiring Amherst College basketball coach Dave Hixon.
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Melcolm Ruffin ’13 Joins 30 Under 30 Notables
December 11, 2020
Melcolm Ruffin, a 2013 Isenberg sport management graduate, has been named to Forbes Magazine’s annual "30 Under 30" roster in the sports category.
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McCormack Alum Develops Betting App
December 11, 2020
Noah Kortkamp '20 has founded RealTime Sports, an interactive sports betting app.
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Excel Sports Management + McCormack Sport Sponsorship Class
December 10, 2020
During the fall semester, Professor Will Norton’s Sport Sponsorship Strategy class collaborated with alum Brett Estrella ’16—a member of Excel’s Properties team who leads the esports practice in the division—on a final project tied to sponsorship sales in Esports.
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Mullin Award Honors McCormack Partnership with Octagon
November 11, 2020
In recognition of the “Octagon Bowl,” the Sport Marketing Association (SMA) has named Octagon the winner of its Mullin Award.
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McCormack Partners with SEEN to Offer New Graduate Fellowship
October 28, 2020
The SEEN-McCormack Graduate Fellowship will provide a SEEN community member with the opportunity to further their education by receiving a tuition-free and graduate assistantship-funded entry into the MS or Dual (MBA/MS) sport management program.
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McCormack Alumnus Named Chief Commercial Officer of U.S. Soccer
October 27, 2020
After four productive years as the chief marketing and commercial officer of Minor League Baseball, Isenberg alum David Wright was recently named chief commercial officer of U.S. Soccer.
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UMass Amherst Joins Think Tank Dedicated to Advancing Women in Sports
October 01, 2020
First-of-its-kind initiative partners academic institutions, brands, properties, and media companies to share data, insights, and information, driving real action toward a world of parity
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McCormack: A Year in Review
September 21, 2020
The McCormack Department of Sport Management is proud to share news about its faculty, students, alumni, and friends, as well as programmatic updates.
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UMass Sport Management Graduate Program Earns Top International Ranking
August 25, 2020
For the fourth time in the past five years, the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management has been judged by its academic peers as the number one sport management program in the world, according to SportBusiness magazine’s annual global rankings released today.
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McCormack Announces WISE Scholarship Recipients
July 17, 2020
MCCORMACK DEPARTMENT OF SPORT MANAGEMENT ANNOUNCES WISE/MCCORMACK GRADUATE SCHOLAR AWARD RECIPIENTS
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McCormack Partners with Japan's Pacific League Marketing
June 15, 2020
Educational partnership brings together the world’s #1-ranked sport management program with Japanese professional baseball consulting agency.
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McCormack Response and Action on Anti-Racism
June 05, 2020
We stand with those who fight for equality and justice for Black people in America.
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McCormack Department of Sport Management Announces New Leadership
May 22, 2020
Steve McKelvey becomes department chair, and Nicole Melton and Matt Katz take new department management roles.
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Senior Speaker 2020: Madison Perlmutter, Sport Management
May 05, 2020
“It opened my eyes to social and societal aspects of sport—how it is so much more than competition and business.”
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Join us in congratulating Isenberg senior Ali Saif who was a recipient of the Gerald F. Scanlon Best Student Employ… https://t.co/jerUwKdXIX — 4 days 8 hours ago
Senior Associate Dean & Professor Lisa Pike Masteralexis (@SportsLawMaster) was recently featured in an @NBCNews ar… https://t.co/2YZGqW8IdL — 5 days 10 hours ago
"In the year of COVID-19, @UMassAmherst's NCAA men’s ice hockey championship has been a shot in the arm for the ent… https://t.co/Fs4xXhBjQr — 6 days 8 hours ago
