The Outside Game

25/09/2022

On this day 11 years ago: BWB4. Among other things: Daulerio heading up when Deadspin was Deadspin, Joe Sports Fan challenged to a chug off, showed off his feminism & was Basketball Jonesin’.

08/09/2022

BWB 9/8/09 confirmed for BWB 2 in Vegas with assist from , , , and joins all-star panel with , & . Rose was carving his own platforms loooong before it became second nature to athletes.

14/06/2022

13 years ago today: BWB1

22/01/2022

KB with some of our OG friends living it up in Nashville this playoff weekend.

12/11/2021

10/11/09 - BWB after dark: “People trust Tuscan in America.”

09/10/2021

9 years ago today we kicked off BWB5 in north of the border in Toronto with .barber, the crew, and more.

08/10/2021

Our old friend Bo with some new news…

Bomani Jones, the versatile ESPN personality who has gained traction with appearances on shows like “Highly Questionable” and “Around the Horn,” has found a new outlet for h…

23/09/2021

Congrats to — well deserved and overdue recognition for her continuous leadership and efforts in elevating those around her.

05/09/2021

Two years, a pandemic and a lifetime ago, we relaunched Blogs With Balls as The Outside Game. Here’s to new new beginnings.

05/08/2021

media mainstay Arash Markazi and joins prodigal son Kyle Bunch and Don Povia and talks about how Los Angeles Chargers dropped the ball relocating from , and the lessons it could have learned from Major League Soccer (MLS), specifically Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) and Austin FC.

30/07/2021

+ at BWB7.

30/07/2021

Waking up and watching the , cheering on our BWB7 featured speaker who had done a one on one with at our last Chicago event.

09/07/2021

Gone are the Deadspin / Yahoo Sports blog days and the SB Nation / Bleacher Report arms race. VICE Sports fizzled while Barstool Sports keeps pivoting and evolving. Will sports betting save online sports media? David Fucillo, Don Povia & Kyle Bunch discuss.

08/07/2021

From Colin Kaepernick to Naomi Osaka 大坂なおみ to , empowered athletes are the new norm.

Niners Nation: A San Francisco 49ers Blog founder & editor-in-chief of SB Nation's DraftKings Nation David Fucillo joins Don Povia and Kyle Bunch this week on The OGs.

02/07/2021

Ladies, want to work for pro team? Hope you like doing community relations....

"I expected to see a hand down from her pulling all the women who were interning and working there up, but there wasn't very much of that..." - Diana Klochkova on early NFL team internship with female CEO

24/06/2021

“I don't care if a lot of people read me, I just wanted the right people to read me.”

The Athletic's Zach Harper on his journey from stealing taxpayer money to getting noticed; and the influence of folks like J.E. Skeets, Tas Melas, Tom Ziller, Kelly Dwyer, and Kevin Arnovitz.

23/06/2021

Congrats to our friends & from on being named to the Olympic team today.

15/06/2021

BWB1 June 2009

27/05/2021

This week on The OGs, Don Povia and Kyle Bunch are joined by NBA ESPN editor and founder of Brown Liquor Collective and The Sports Fan Journal, Eddie Maisonet III. Here Ed shows his appreciation by cutting a commercial for us regarding BWB promoting a "full view of the blogosphere," and talking about memories involving Lang Whitaker, Spencer Hall, Christina Kahrl, Jason McIntyre, and Brian Cook; how we were in the "virtual landscape fighting for for people to invest in us"; and how Bleacher Report figured out how to be a tech company.

14/05/2021

“There’s so many opportunities...within the local markets that you can really use these players and all of their entire skill sets to uplift the entire community.” Joanna Lohman on how financial investment and stability can have a holistic benefit to womens pro markets.

13/05/2021

“Being a role model is being your authentic self. That’s what young women need to see.”

OGs guest Joanna Lohman on how Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan & the USWNT are teaching young girls that they can be their authentic self and still be an fn rockstar.

“People will respect you, they will adore you, and you will shape culture more than anyone else because of that authenticity.”

06/05/2021

Hosts Kyle Bunch and Don Povia are joined this week by former college football All-American, 10-year NFL vet, and Roc Nation Sports agent John Thornton. Thornton, who created his own website and message board in 2005 and went on to mentor and work with players about developing their off-the-field marketability before most emphasized it, talks about how he's used his knowledge and unique experience to create his own second career. He talks about the evolution of digital and social media, the sports marketing industry and Roc's position in it, and more.

Hosts Kyle Bunch and Don Povia are joined this week by former college football All-American, 10-year NFL vet, and Roc Nation Sports agent John Thornton. Thornton, who created his own website and mess

23/04/2021

BWB with this week’s guest TK Gore At BWB 3 TK noted being in the crosshairs of Jim Bankoff / SB Nation and Dave Nemetz/ Bleacher Report fire on panel about local sports in the digital age. TK helped us put together an All-Chicago panel at BWB 6 presented by NBC Sports Chicago during which Dan Katz - Barstool Big Cat took much of the fire.

23/04/2021

"AOL truly paved the way for so many things that are relevant today."

TK Gore relays a story this week to OGs hosts Don Povia and Kyle Bunch about Ted Leonsis, Jack Dorsey and how Twitter spawned from AIM.

Full episode and lots more fascinating insight: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Ujbi5IO6zQUcRxCrvBCPE?si=g_nDkA1VTFu6Np8EthIgAg

01/04/2021

“There’s something to be said about diversifying your portfolio…and not looking at everything as having to be a money maker.”

Ian Sohn on putting your passions out into the universe, and a fun anecdote about how his own viral LinkedIn post on work-life balance was (unknowingly) quoted back to him on a recent interview.

Post referenced: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6535470294486839296/

25/03/2021

BWB with this week’s OGs guest .