Tackling the biggest issues in sports from sports media students at Seton Hall
Tied at 90 with 0.7 seconds left in regulation, Toronto forward Kawhi Leonard shot an off-balance jumper from the right corner and drained the winning basket in front of a sold-out home crowd of 20,000 at the Scotiabank Arena that would advance the Raptors to the Eastern Conference Finals. Following the shot, we probably saw…
The Texas Rangers got off to a slow start in the 2011 World Series against Saint Louis and the hopes of capturing their first title in franchise history seemed much slimmer following their disastrous 16-7 loss in game three. Things started to look brighter for the Rangers after taking games four and five against the…
Rye, N.Y. is home to two historical landmarks, the Boston Post Road Historic District and Playland Park, and also home to Adam Silver, Commissioner of the National Basketball Association. Silver went from a town of 16,000 to the helm of hoops, but didn’t always envision working in the sports business as he saw himself “on…
By Andrea Keppler After graduating four starters from last season, the Seton Hall men’s basketball team’s 2019 campaign was looking more like a transition year rather than a year to reclaim the Big East championship title. With an eighth place preseason projection in the conference, the standards were low for Kevin Willard’s squad, but the…
By Andrea Keppler In her 10th year as Seton Hall’s Faculty Athletics Representative in academic support services, Dr. Laura Schoppmann heads a department of five members who assist student-athletes with academic advising, scheduling and pacing with overall academic performance. Schoppmann is a professor in the mathematics and computer science department at the Hall, but has…
It’s not every day that an NBA game combines over 300 points among both teams, but it’s almost every year now that this occurs in the league’s annual All-Star match. Out of the top 10 highest scoring All-Star Games in history, seven have come from this century, and within the past 10 seasons, the score…
The Super Bowl has gone from being more than just an NFL championship game and has evolved into a cultural phenomenon drawing in over 100 million viewers every year. According to Sports Media Watch, 111.3 million people viewed the 2017 Super Bowl, and 103.39 million people watched in 2018. Seton Hall Associate Sports Management professor…