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Roger Bennett went looking for America. He brought football with him.
A Liverpool boy fell for the Chicago Bears, American television and the promise of a different life. With Men in Blazers, Roger Bennett has spent years returning the invitation, opening the world of football to his adopted home.
Sports Info Solutions counts the hidden game.
A box score tells you what happened. Sports Info Solutions studies who made it happen - and sells the details to teams, media, and betting operators.
Frank Salmon and the business between the disks
A floppy-disk mismatch helped start CMS Distribution. Frank Salmon turned that small opening into an international business, while keeping a place for Mayo, football and the next generation of entrepreneurs.
The goalkeeper who kept coming back to football
Ernesto Reza-Garduño helped build Mayan around the daily problems of Amazon sellers. With Tekkers AI, the MIT engineer is returning to a question he knows personally: how does football bring people together?
Carl Allegretti and the art of bringing everyone along
From a Butler football scholarship to Arbor Investments, Carl Allegretti has built a career around assembling teams. His 70th marathon offered a rather literal demonstration.
Kingsley Chin and the long way back to Buff Bay
Football took Kingsley Chin from Jamaica to Columbia. After building a career in business, he returned to the game as a club owner - and gave his hometown a second life in books and music.
Laurence Girard and the art of the crowded table
Laurence Girard built a company with hundreds of individual investors, then took the same appetite for participation into venture building and New York football. His career turns on a deceptively simple question: who gets a seat at the table?
STATSports put a number on the hard yards. Sony bought in.
The Newry company turned a GPS vest into a business serving professional teams and weekend players. Its next test is making all those numbers worth a coach’s time.
Wilson Sporting Goods Co.
Wilson Sporting Goods is a Chicago-based, 113-year-old maker of sports equipment and apparel and one of the most recognized names in athletics. Owned by Amer Sports, Wilson designs and manufactures gear across tennis, basketball, football, baseball, golf, pickleball, padel, volleyball and soft goods, supplying professional leagues, elite athletes and everyday players. It is the official ball supplier to the NBA and NFL, backs a portfolio that includes Louisville Slugger, DeMarini and EvoShield, and has spent recent years pushing into apparel, direct-to-consumer retail and manufacturing innovation such as its 3D-printed Airless basketball.
Jack Raines
Jack Raines is a writer, investor, and author who turned a $150,000 trading loss into a media career and a Penguin Random House book deal. He writes Young Money, a newsletter with 61,000+ subscribers covering behavioral finance, career philosophy, and what your twenties are actually for. He's now an investment associate at Slow Ventures, where he works on their $63M Creator Fund. Known for viral LinkedIn satire that got him reported to Columbia Business School as the 'Bacon Bandit of Hell's Kitchen,' he combines intellectual rigor with a refusal to take himself too seriously.