Welcome back to the Spotlight! With a little under a week until Thanksgiving, it has once again become fair “game” for small talk to be dominated by mostly unsolicited advice as to how one should prepare their turkey....more
11/24/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! Is it just me or are sports scandals becoming more and more prevalent? Perhaps it’s that there’s so much money changing hands, including in legalized gambling, there is more opportunity and...more
11/17/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! This past week, amidst Halloween candy sorting (and sampling…and re-sampling…) a recording artist by the name of Xania Monet generated enough radio play to make a historic appearance on the...more
11/10/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight, boos and ghouls. On this Hallow’s Eve, the only thing scarier than brain-eating zombies is not having anything for said zombies to dine on. After all, as your mummy would say, “a brain is a...more
11/3/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! This time of year, the color orange not only evokes pumpkins and falling leaves, but also basketball. Indeed, the NBA season tipped off this past week, replete with intrigue and excitement on...more
10/27/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! One thing I love about this season is the memorable fall pastime of apple picking, with another installment of that chapter coming for me this weekend. Something about the experience makes...more
10/20/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! After an exciting Game 3 of the American League Division Series in which Aaron Judge hit a memorable, almost impossible game-tying home run to help propel the New York Yankees to a comeback...more
10/13/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight and Shana Tovah to those, like me, who celebrate Rosh Hashanah—the Jewish New Year. Here’s to hoping that the year ahead will be as sweet as apples and honey. The Spotlight will be off next week...more
9/29/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! If you feel a chill in the air, it might be because the seasons are changing and Fall is nearly upon us. Or perhaps, it’s the free speech and expression that Americans have held dear being...more
9/22/2025
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Artificial intelligence (“AI”) continues to grow as a fixture of daily life, but not everyone is embracing it (according to a recent Pew Research Center survey, about half of U.S. adults (51%) say they are more concerned than...more
Welcome back to the Spotlight! After the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on American soil, today’s date (September 12) has become synonymous not only with a profound paradigm shift, but also with historic levels of unity,...more
9/15/2025
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Welcome back! School is back in session and so too is this Sports and Entertainment business classroom we like to call the “Spotlight.” Here, the sharpness of your pencils will be matched only by that of my wit, the sardonic...more
9/8/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! Please accept my sheepish apology—I had planned to use this week’s Spotlight to announce Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl” but Jason and Travis Kelce beat me to the punch on...more
8/18/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! In many cultures, the number eight is considered lucky—one that is associated with wealth, prosperity and good fortune. So, it’s only appropriate then that on the eighth day of the eighth month,...more
8/11/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! Allow me to be among the first to welcome you to August. If you’ve made it this far into summer, congratulations on plodding along through joy-blunting, sizzling hot temperatures. That is not to...more
8/4/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! Somehow, we’re nearly in the month of August, which feels both like this year has been going by really quickly, despite it feeling at times like it has gone by really slowly. Time is truly a...more
7/25/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! This past week has been an interesting mish mash of Sports and Entertainment candy. Following on the heels of the Wimbledon Tennis Championship across the pond in England and the FIFA Club World...more
7/18/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! Last week you may have celebrated the Fourth of July with hot dogs on the grill (70.5 of them, if you’re Joey Chestnut), your favorite beverage of choice in hand and fireworks. This week, you...more
7/14/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! I write this week with a heavy heart, as I was not selected by a team in the NBA Draft for the 37th straight year. To the naysayers out there who would try to tear me down by pointing out that...more
6/30/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! Allow me to be among the first to welcome you to the official start of Summer and to ask that you turn up your air conditioning. Like clockwork, the temperatures outside are running up toward...more
6/23/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! For time immemorial (since 1906, to be exact), the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) so-called amateurism rules sought to enforce a bright-line distinction between college sports...more
6/16/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! Although men’s basketball in New York City is on hiatus with the Knicks falling short of an NBA Finals appearance (I don’t want to talk about it), women’s basketball is picking up the slack,...more
6/9/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! Given the volume of rain across the country recently, I may have to temporarily change the title to “Floodlight.” Yikes. I’d say these late nights watching the NBA Playoffs have made me a little...more
5/30/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! In the past 7 months, I have borne witness to monumental postseason collapses by two of my favorite professional sports teams: my beloved hometown New York Yankees and New York Knicks. Last...more
5/27/2025
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Welcome back to the Spotlight! While I appreciate your valiant efforts in coming back to this space, that comeback pales in comparison to the two comebacks the underdog New York Knicks have had against the defending NBA...more
5/12/2025
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