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SportBusiness has today launched the 10th edition of its Postgraduate Course Rankings, naming Ohio University’s Master of Sports Administration as the world’s best postgraduate sports management programme for 2021. 

Derrick Hall graduated Ohio University with a Masters in Sports Administration in 1993 and was the recipient of the department’s Charles R. Higgins Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006.

Dr Liz Wanless, assistant director of analytics and assistant professor of sports administration at Ohio University, on how the growth of natural language processing is changing professional sports and sports education.

Heidi Pellerano took UMass’ MS in Sport Management in 1997-98, and afterwards joined the WNBA as coordinator of communications and eventually player personnel.

Dr B. David Tyler, co-founder of the Know Rivalry Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Northern Kentucky University, explains how the project aims to measure and dissect the risks and revenue of sporting rivalry.

Michelle Harrolle, director of the University of South Florida's Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management programme, writes that universities have a chance to get in on the ground floor by offering cutting-edge education to the esports leaders of the future.

Philicia Douglas is an alum of the University of South Florida’s Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management Program, which she graduated in 2015.

UMass achieves a top-two finish for the fifth year in a row.

Last year, SportBusiness spoke with Columbia University’s Scott Rosner and Brunel University London’s Vassil Girginov about how the first few months of the Covid-19 outbreak had affected campus life. This year, we checked in with them again to find out about the effects of an entire year under the pandemic, and how they assess its likely long-term impact.

To mark the milestone of the 10th annual edition of the Postgraduate Rankings, SportBusiness casts an eye back over the evolution of the sports academic sector and speaks to programme directors of the three courses to have topped the list during that time

The Master of Sports Administration degree at Ohio University tops our list for the eighth time in ten years.

In this week’s episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Will Ahmed, founder and chief executive of wearable technology provider Whoop. Eric and Chris also discuss the expansion of the National Football League’s roster of sportsbook partners in the United States, Facebook’s entry into prediction-based sports games, the Covid-19 pandemic creating new labor issues in the NFL and National Basketball Association, and climate-related matters hitting the sports industry.

National Hockey League players will take part in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after a deal was finally struck between the league, NHL Players Association, International Ice Hockey Federation, and International…

NBC Sports is significantly enhancing its women's soccer coverage following an expanded deal with the Atalanta Media-owned women's soccer company Ata Football

The National Hockey League's Arizona Coyotes have formally submitted a bid to transform 46 acres of land in the city of Tempe into an arena and mixed-use entertainment district.

Barstool Sports is further expanding its presence in the United States sports and media industry by developing a branded sports channel on prominent streaming platform Sling TV