Author to Talk about Business of College Athletics on U of A Campus
Kristi Dosh
Kristi Dosh, author of Saturday Millionaires: How Winning Football Builds Winning Colleges, will speak about the issues that have pervaded the modern sports industry at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom at the University of Arkansas School of Law. Her talk is free and open to the public.
Dosh is a sports business analyst, content marketer, professional writer, speaker, attorney and author. She has reported on topics including the financial workings of professional and intercollegiate sports, collective bargaining, and sponsorships for forums such as ESPN, Forbes, and Bleacher Report.
She founded BusinessofCollegeSports.com, an outlet providing news and analysis on the business of college sports. Sponsors of her talk are the recreation and sport management degree program in the College of Education and Health Professions and the Sports and Entertainment Law Society, a registered student organization in the School of Law.
The intercollegiate athletics industry is both dynamic and controversial. In the wake of conference realignment, record-breaking television contracts, court cases surrounding the payment of players, and the call for athletic departments to be more transparent about financial facts, fans of collegiate sports receive a flood of negative information. Dosh's writing regularly addresses these topics.
Dosh, who also wrote Balancing Baseball: How Collective Bargaining Has Changed the Major Leagues, is a frequent guest speaker to both undergraduate and graduate students at numerous institutions across the United States on topics ranging from finance to labor issues in the collegiate and professional sports industries. Her past speaking engagements have included the Harvard Law School Sports Law Symposium and the Florida Bar Association. She has a bachelor's degree in politics from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta and a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida, Levin College of Law. She served as an adjunct instructor in the University of North Florida sports management program.
Contacts
Heidi S. Wells, director of communications
College of Education and Health Professions
479-575-3138,
heidisw@uark.edu
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