Quick bullets on new Michigan State deputy AD and CEO of Spartan Ventures Mike Polisky: - Comes from Intersport (big sports marketing firm) - Overlapped w/ Fitzgerald for 11 years at NW - Grew pickleball for 4 years as Pres. of PPA - President/GM of an Arena Football team - President of an AHL hockey team - Developed Cubs x Northwestern partnership TLDR: He’s done it all. Marketing, strategic & innovative partnerships and, of course, being a fundraising rainmaker are the qualifications.

NBA debut W for @N_Martinelli1 🤌

Nice to see Michigan State giving second chances to guys that didn't deserve to lose their first chance. Mike Polisky is an outstanding human and executive.

Really well said 👍

This is going to blow the Showtime Lakers series out of the water.

HOOP DREAMS was released 32 years ago today. Originally planned as a 30-minute PBS special, Steve James’s documentary grew into a three-hour portrait of two Chicago teenagers chasing basketball dreams, filmed over five years and 250 hours of footage.

10 years ago today, Miguel Montero crushed a pinch-hit Grand Slam in the bottom of the 8th inning in Game 1 of the 2016 NLCS against the Dodgers 💪🏼 Dexter Fowler followed up with a solo-shot to the right-field basket. Wrigley was ROCKING!

Jim Nantz says Mike Ditka used to pay and tip for everything with $100 bills, and never ask for change “I noticed early on that all he carried were $100 bills. All he did was peel off hundreds all the time. Buy a beer at the bar on the way out to dinner, ‘Yeah, give me a Budweiser.’ $100. Keep the change.” “Coat check, comes into a restaurant, comes out, $100. Man on the street, homeless, there was one guy that kind of understood the routine and he was there every week. Mike, every time, $100 bill.” “I finally got up the nerve to say, ‘Hey coach, why don’t you ever get change? Why just the hundreds?’ He says, ‘Hey, what’s the difference anyway?’” “He said, ‘You know, the way I look at it, when I die and they drop me down into the ground, I hope there’s a little opening in that coffin and my last $100 bill comes flying out and goes up into the sky and drifts away. That would make me happy.’” “So I said, ‘This gets a little pricey, doesn’t it?’ ‘It’s not that bad, Jim.’ He said, ‘Here’s the way I rationalize it in my head. We got 20 weeks. I come every single Friday to New York. I come in with 50 $100 bills, $5,000. And at the end of the season, I’m spending $100,000.’” “He would say, ‘I’ve allocated $100,000 to the football season to go enjoy myself in New York. And that’s the way it is.’ I take $5,000 in cash in hundreds every single week. And that’s what he did.”