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Joseph Siprut is the founder and managing partner of Siprut PC. His practice encompasses a wide spectrum of litigation, with an emphasis on challenging cases against powerful, well-funded adversaries.

The vision of Siprut’s law firm is the following: “To take interesting cases. To work with clients who have been [...]

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Fred Bowen

Fred Bowen is the author of 18 books for kids that combine sports fiction and sports history. Ideas for his stories are often drawn from his experiences as a youth sports coach for thirteen years, and from his time as a young athlete growing up in Marblehead, [...]

Frank Deford on the Issues

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Frank Deford is an author of eighteen books, a long-time commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition, Senior Correspondent on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, and Senior Contributing Writer for Sports Illustrated.

His latest book is Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter, a wide-ranging, [...]

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Brenda VanLengen

Brenda VanLengen is Vice Chair of PE4life, a non-profit whose mission is to increase the amount of quality physical education in schools across the nation.  From 2001-2010, VanLengen served as second in command for PE4life, including in her role as Chief Design Officer.  In addition to her [...]

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Diana Cutaia

Diana Cutaia has been the athletic director at Wheelock College in Boston since 2005.  Wheelock competes at the NCAA Division III level.

Cutaia is a former college athlete who began her coaching career on the high school level at the age of 19.  She started the women’s [...]

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Patrick Hruby

Patrick Hruby is an award-winning journalist and writer based in Washington, DC.  He writes extensively on sports issues, focusing on the people and issues around the games.  Three of his features have been selected for the highly-acclaimed The Best American Sports Writing anthology.

Hruby has an undergraduate [...]

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Allen Sack

Dr. Allen Sack is a professor of sports management at the University of New Haven.  He’s also the current president of the Drake Group, a college faculty consortium whose mission is to defend academic integrity in the face of the burgeoning college sports industry.  Sack began his [...]

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Donna Lopiano

Dr. Donna Lopiano is the president of Sports Management Resources, a consulting firm that services intercollegiate athletics departments.  She is the former CEO of the Women’s Sports Foundation, serving in that role from 1992-2007.  She also was the University of Texas’ Director of Women’s Athletics for 18 [...]

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Q’s & A’s with Leading Sports Reformers: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson is founder and chief executive officer of Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), a non-profit formed at Stanford University with the mission to create a movement to transform the culture of youth sports so that all youth athletes have a [...]

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Dave Zirin is the leading sports activist/journalist in the country.  He regularly writes about the intersection of politics and sports.  Zirin was named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” and won the Sport in Society and Northeastern University School of Journalism’s 2011 “Excellence in [...]