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Michael Smith

Michael Smith

The leading reporter covering the dynamic business of college sports, Michael Smith joined Sports Business Journal in 2006 after having spent 18 years with daily newspapers, most recently covering the University of Kentucky basketball program for the Louisville Courier-Journal. His résumé also includes stints covering the University of South Carolina and the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets. BEATS: college sports, high school sports

College football’s new home

Journal - 08/18/2014
John Stephenson’s day on this humid August morning started much like every other day, with Stephenson standing in front of a group of well-heeled Atlanta executives explaining why they should visit the new College Football Hall of Fame. The questions that came back from this group of Duke...

A better result than the NASCAR Hall?

Journal - 08/18/2014
Organizers of the $68.5 million College Football Hall of Fame learned from the mistakes Charlotte made with its NASCAR Hall of Fame. The $200 million NASCAR building, at 130,000 square feet, is too large, said John Stephenson, president and CEO of the college hall. Projections...

Hancock spreads the football playoff gospel

Journal - 08/18/2014
Bill Hancock’s goal is to keep the College Football Playoff as simple as possible. No complicated computer formulas, no RPI rankings, no math whatsoever. But that doesn’t stop the never-ending stream of questions that confront Hancock, the CFP’s executive director, wherever he goes. “My sense is that many...

IMG College will sell Harvard sponsorships

Journal - 08/11/2014
Harvard University athletics has reached an agreement for IMG College to build the Crimson’s corporate sponsorship program. The Ivy League school in the past has sold sponsorships through an in-house sales team. IMG College is being brought in exclusively to build a deeper program with a short...

SEC schools get camera ready

Journal - 08/11/2014
A year ago, the bowels of Bud Walton Arena at the University of Arkansas were filled with discarded filing cabinets, band instruments, old computers and merchandise that had been pulled from the shelves. It was an 11,000-square-foot collection area that had been forgotten. Now, that space represents some...
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