Rush Olson

3 days ago | fwweekly.com | Rush Olson

Curtis Wilkerson, Cecil Espy, and Mark McLemore know about being versatile with a bat in their hands. All three switch-hit during their big league baseball careers, accumulating more than 11,000 combined Major League plate appearances. But when I handed them a bat at the end of some Q&A sessions I conducted with them this week, they all looked at it strangely. “Am I doing it right?” asked Wilkerson as he fiddled with it. The bat I’d handed them wasn’t the kind they were used to.

6 days ago | fwweekly.com | Rush Olson

Saturday night, a soccer podcast discussed how a number of the USMNT’s best players had come through the North Texas area in their development path. The discussion included names like Weston McKinnie, Ricardo Pepi, and Chris Richards, the goal scorer in Thursday’s 1-0 win against Saudi Arabia in the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

1 week ago | fwweekly.com | Rush Olson

At the end of a Dallas Wings’ recent practice, Head Coach Chris Koclanes gathered his team at center court. He instructed them to continue to “build” their “identity.” He urged the squad to play unselfishly, share the ball, and do all the things he felt necessary to make that identity a winning one. That Sunday, the franchise that employs Koclanes and his players was hosting an event they hoped would be indicative of the organization’s identity as a whole. They staged their annual Pride Game.

1 month ago | fwweekly.com | Rush Olson

Parents face the reality that the school year will soon come to a close. Children will burst from the confines of their educational institutions to embark on a summer full of energetic mischief and bereft of edification — unless parents intervene. There’s a way for the young ones to continue learning something while also channeling activity levels into something more worthwhile than annoying their siblings: sports camps.

1 month ago | fwweekly.com | Rush Olson

One could find a lot to learn about the business of sport at this past week’s Global Sports Business Summit, presented by SMU and the Dallas Sports Commission. One thing we discovered is that college sports is in some turmoil right now. If you’re a sports fan, you probably already had that development on your radar. Issues like the House case settlement, NIL, the transfer portal, unionization, and more have thrust the disruption of traditional models into prominent media placements for a while now.