Myles Schrag Author & Editor

Rick Horrow, JD, is a leading expert in the business of sport and has orchestrated over 100 deals worth more than $20 billion. The CEO of Horrow Sports Ventures (HSV), he has served as a sport business analyst for SportsGrid Television and Radio Network, Fox Sports, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Businessweek, Reuters, NBC, PBS, and the BBC. As the leading commentator on sport business and as a well-connected entrepreneur, he has access to many of the top names in sport, including commissioners, owners, general managers, coaches, and athletes. His clients have included some of the biggest organizations and companies in the world of sport and business: NFL, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, PGA, Great White Shark Enterprises, Cisco Systems, Golden Bear International, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, LPGA, and MLS. He has also been managing editor of sports business for the U.S. Library of Congress. Horrow is nicknamed the Sports Professor, thanks to his time spent as a visiting expert on sport law at Harvard Law School, where he earned his degree.

Rick Burton, MBA, is the award-winning David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University. He has also served as Syracuse’s faculty athletics representative to the NCAA and ACC since 2014. Prior to his appointment at Syracuse in 2009, he served as the chief marketing officer for the U.S. Olympic Committee at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. He also previously held the position of commissioner of Australia’s National Basketball League (2003 to 2007), which featured teams in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. From 1995 to 2003, Burton led the University of Oregon’s Warsaw Sports Marketing Center to international prominence. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Sports Business Journal, Sportico, Sport Business International, Stadia, and Ad Age. He has published numerous coauthored books (20 Secrets to Success for NCAA Student-Athletes, Forever Orange, and Sports Business Unplugged), and his latest book, Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice, will be published by the University of Toronto Press in 2022. Burton is also an advisor for Playbk Sports, Point 3, and XV Capital.

Myles Schrag, MS, is a former acquisitions and developmental editor at Human Kinetics, responsible for its sport management book list for 13 years. He is a cofounder of Soulstice Publishing and the author of six books and coeditor of two books. His freelance credits include Sports Illustrated, Publishers Weekly, Runner’s World Online, and Trail Runner. He earned an MS in kinesiology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.