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Harnessing Sport Fandom for Character Development: Grant Supports Innovative Initiative
An innovative initiative focusing on the power of sport fandom for character development has been awarded more than $800,000 in funding through a 2025 Institutional Impact Grant from the Educating Character Initiative, part of Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership…
The Racket Â鶹ƵµÀ Padel: Newhouse Students Partner With Global Media Firm to Track Rise of Sport
Why all the racket about Padel? Students and faculty in the Newhouse School of Public Communications collaborated with a global communications consulting firm to release a report about the emerging sport’s rapid rise in popularity. The report, “Celebrities, Community, Content,…
Falk College’s Jordan Boron Plays Key Role in National Title for Women’s Club Hockey Team
Jordan Boron ’25 loved to play ice hockey, but she came to Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity in 2022 because its sport management program in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics is widely considered one of the best sport management programs…
Newhouse Alumna Serves Hometown Community Through Work With the Buffalo Bills Foundation
Growing up on a cattle farm in Alden, New York, a rural community 30 minutes east of Buffalo, gave Morgan Foss G’20 an understanding of agriculture, food production and life on a farm. The master’s degree in public relations Foss graduated…
Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity’s Falk College, Women in Leadership Initiative Launch Unique Partnership With Women Leaders in Sports
Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity is teaming up with the nationally recognized Women Leaders in Sports to launch a unique partnership that seeks to advance knowledge and enhance the professional acumen and management skills of sport administrators and executives. The new partnership between…
Calling Team USA Basketball at the Olympics a ‘Special Honor’ for Noah Eagle ’19
The Super Bowl. French Open tennis. Primetime college football and basketball games between nationally ranked opponents. The radio play-by-play voice of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers. In the ever-competitive field of sports broadcasting, what Noah Eagle ’19 has accomplished in…
A Winning Team: Sport Analytics Students Partnering With Â鶹ƵµÀAthletics to Prevent Injuries, Improve Performance Â
As the associate athletic trainer for the Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity men’s basketball team, Mike Mangano says he’d much rather spend his time preventing injuries than treating them. That’s why Mangano has fully embraced the partnership between the University’s Athletics Department and…
Broadcasting Legend Bob Costas ’74 Shares Tips, Stories From Hall of Fame Sportscasting Career
Even Bob Costas ’74 can strike out occasionally in the broadcast booth. During an appearance Friday at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, the decorated sportscaster shared a story from his iconic career about a regrettable mistake that he…
Meet Biko Skalla ’18, Voice of the World-Famous Savannah Bananas
Baseball is America’s pastime, a game rich in history and time-honored traditions, where change is slow to be embraced and slower still to be adopted. Then, there are the Savannah Bananas, a minor league baseball team that has changed the…
Sports Broadcaster Anish Shroff ’04 Hopes to Inspire Future Generations of South Asian Sportscasters
Anish Shroff ’04 happens to be the only minority radio play-by-play voice of a National Football League (NFL) team. It’s not something the veteran sportscaster embraces, but it’s a trend that seems to be shifting. Eternally proud of his South…