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SSI Board Member Watt Earns Phyllis Bailey Career Achievement Award
SSI Board member Kristen Watt, a Buckeye women's basketball legend and longtime broadcast voice of the team, today was honored with the Varsity O Alumni Society Phyllis Bailey Career Achievement…
SSI Launches 'The Intersection' podcast
The Ohio State Sports and Society Initiative is thrilled to announce the launch of our first podcast, "The Intersection," hosted by student intern Kevin Lapka and this week featuring SSI Director…
New podcast features SSI panelists who discussed "When Sports End"
TV/radio host and personality Prim Siripipat, who was featured in the Spring 2019 SSI panel "When Sports End," has launched a new podcast dedicated to helping athletes understaning the post-playing…
Research grant winners present at Society of Sport conference
Sports and Society congratulates our research grant awardees for their presentations at 2019 North American Society of Sport conference in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Here are their abstracts:
OSU e-gaming focus of Inside Higher Ed article
Inside Higher Ed has a feature story on Ohio State's e-gaming initiative. The article, entitled "Roses and Thorns," says s"upporters of Ohio State plan to create undergraduate degree program in…
Big Ten to review, discuss NCAA announcement on NIL
The Big Ten Conference issued the following statement about the NCAA announcement on opportunities for students who participate in intercollegiate athletics to benefit from their name, image…
Experts Define, Dissect Issues Around Compliance in SSI Fall Showcase
by Romi Azulay, SSI Editorial Intern
Nearly 100 people joined Ohio State’s Sports and Society Initiative for “Complying: Examining the rules and regulations that govern student…
Visit these links to learn more about NCAA compliance topics
Sports and Society is honored to host "Complying: Examining the rules and regulations that govern student athletics." Here are resources that will help illuminate the subjects we discuss: NCAA…
Sloan Sports Analytics Conference announces call for abstracts
The 2020 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has announced a call for abstracts for this year’s Research Paper Competition! Abstracts can now be submitted on its website. The Sloan Sports Analytics…