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Going Off The Grid: Execs Share Their First Car, Oddest Place For A Work Call

"Going Off The Grid" is a weekly survey of sports execs and personalities offering their thoughts on a handful of pressing (and trivial) issues in sports and pop culture. This week, execs share the oddest place they have made work calls and their first cars.

  • Golf Channel Senior VP/New Media Jeff Foster
    – His favorite place to watch a baseball game is Fenway Park.
  • The Players' Tribune Exec Editor Jessica Robertson
    – Thinks Nike is the brand with the best ads. "Nike makes me feel things."
  • Mercedes-Benz USA Brand Experience Marketing Department Manager Stephanie Zimmer
    – Her most stylish sporting event is The Masters, a "sea of seersucker and Lilly Pulitzer."
  • NextVR Exec Chair Brad Allen
    – A Converse fan, Allen wears "John Varvatos every day."
Going Off The Grid

Major in college? How often do you use Twitter for work? Oddest place you've made a work call? First car? USWNT federal complaint in 2-3 words

Foster
Communications Several times per day Free phones at Augusta National Bright orange Nissan Datsun Should be interesting

Robertson
Recording Industry; emphasis in Music Business By the minute French Montana's basement Red '92 Chevy Cavalier It's 2016, guys

Zimmer
Public Relations Never, no time Storage closet at Augusta National Volkswagen Rabbit, manual transmission and a tape deck You go, girls!

Allen
Business None whatsoever Kathmandu, Nepal '73 Gran Torino Big believer

Do you want to get your thoughts in the Grid? If so, shoot an email to jperez@sportsbusinessdaily.com.

Sue Bird and Dawn Porter talk upcoming doc, Ricardo Viramontes of UNINTERRUPTED and NBA conference finals

This week’s pod comes to you from 4se where SBJ’s Austin Karp is joined by basketball legend Sue Bird and award-winning director Dawn Porter as the duo share how their documentary, Power of the Dream, came together and what viewers can expect. Later in the show ,Ricardo Viramontes of The SpringHill Company/UNINTERRUPTED talks about how LeBron James and Maverick Carter are making their own mark in original content. Plus SBJ’s Mollie Cahillane joins the pod to add insight into the WNBA’s hot start and gets us set for the NBA Conference Finals.

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