A sports and entertainment themed version of The Five.
1. The Milwaukee Bucks are rocking an 18-game winning
streak. Now that is a fun sentence to write. In 2014, the Bucks won 15 games for
the entire season. Even though the ultimate measure of the season will be what
happens deep in the playoffs, got to enjoy and savor this. Many more Bucks
thoughts to come throughout the season – some hopefully quite trenchant about
the majority owners and management.
2. News of an upcoming Harvard Business School’s Case
Study on the Milwaukee Bucks was released to large fanfare right before the
start of the regular season. Since then, crickets. Surprised that to my
knowledge no journalist had tried to get an update on when it would be
published, Bobproof sent an email to the lead author, Anita Elberse, the
Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
We heard back from her assistant that “our office is expecting the case to be
published in the next few weeks.” Stay tuned.
3. The first in-depth feature story I wrote for the
Indiana Daily Student was on the great Erika Wicoff. Erika won three consecutive Big-Ten
championships, a record that still stands. I can’t tell you how many
times I checked to make sure that it was Erika with a “k” before submitting
that article. Today, she’s a highly-regarded instructor in Indiana and she posted
on Facebook that earlier this week she took advantage of the “warm” weather to
sneak in another round of golf. Erika playing golf in December on the course owned
by legendary IU golf coach Sam Carmichael is amazing.
4. Rarely Tweet but do enjoy going on Twitter several
times a week to catch up with what people are saying. One of my favorite tweets
– which has already been liked close to 800,000 times this week -- came
courtesy of director Rod Blackhurst. He wrote, “In 1992 I was 12. My dad and I were in the
Newark airport. I saw Joe Pesci and recognized him from HOME ALONE. I went up
to him to ask for his autograph. Joe asked me who my favorite actor was. I said
he was. He handed me a crisp $100 and said "That's the right answer,
kid".
5. The Bears visited Lambeau Field on Sunday and the
Packers triumphed 21-13. Can’t pass up the opportunity to reminisce about one
of the most just outcomes in the history of the NFL -- the famous After Further
Review Replay game between the two teams from 30 years ago. Enjoy.
