{"id":90507,"date":"2025-01-22T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=90507"},"modified":"2025-01-27T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:19:08","slug":"utoledo-blade-continue-perspectives-series-with-feb-3-discussion-on-impact-of-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_22_2025\/utoledo-blade-continue-perspectives-series-with-feb-3-discussion-on-impact-of-sports","title":{"rendered":"UToledo, Blade Continue Perspectives Series with Feb. 3 Discussion on Impact of Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo and The Blade will present a panel discussion on the cultural and economic impacts of sports on Monday, Feb. 3, continuing the thought leadership series Perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>Four national panelists, including two former professional football players, will participate in the discussion beginning at 6 p.m. in UToledo\u2019s Doermann Theatre. Event parking is free in Area 1N.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-90508\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/perspectives.png\" alt=\"Promotional graphic for Perspectives, a series of quarterly events in which national panelists discuss a variety of topics alongside UToledo experts that was launched by UToledo and The Blade in December. The graphic includes UToledo and Blade logos.\u00a0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/perspectives.png 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/perspectives-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Attendees are asked to register for the free, public event <a href=\"https:\/\/theblade.com\/perspectives\/\">online<\/a> through The Blade.<\/p>\n<p>David Shribman will moderate \u201cPerspectives: The Cultural and Economic Impact of Sports,\u201d following opening remarks by Bryan Blair, vice president for intercollegiate athletics and director of athletics at UToledo. Shribman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, nationally syndicated columnist and executive editor emeritus of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Nick Lowery, the retired NFL kicker who was inducted into the Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame in 2009. Lowery is now a motivational speaker who works to end bullying and homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Andrew Luck, the star NFL quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts between 2012 and 2018. Luck is now the football general manager at Stanford University, where he had a record-setting collegiate career.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Peter Roby, who draws on experience as an athlete, coach, sports marketing executive and athletics director in his current role as senior consultant to the NCAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Steve K. Stoute, president of Canisius University and\u00a0a member of the NCAA Committee on Women\u2019s Athletics. Stoute previously served as the assistant director of the Princeton Varsity Club at Princeton University as well as in the Department of Athletics at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>Perspectives, launched by UToledo and The Blade in December, is a series of quarterly events in which national panelists discuss a variety of topics alongside UToledo experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUToledo is proud to partner with The Blade to provide opportunities for our community to come to campus to hear leaders discuss interesting and timely topics,\u201d said Matt Schroeder, interim president of UToledo. \u201cOur panelists shared insightful thoughts on modern leadership in the first installment of Perspectives, and I look forward to this discussion on the impact of sports that will no doubt engage many Rockets fans in the Toledo region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_22_2025\/utoledo-blade-continue-perspectives-series-with-feb-3-discussion-on-impact-of-sports\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/perspectives-150x150.png\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Promotional graphic for Perspectives, a series of quarterly events in which national panelists discuss a variety of topics alongside UToledo experts that was launched by UToledo and The Blade in December. The graphic includes UToledo and Blade logos.\u00a0\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Four national panelists, including two former professional football players, will participate in &#8220;Perspectives: The Cultural and Economic Impact of Sports\u201d at 6 p.m. in Doermann Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":90508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,5,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90525,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90507\/revisions\/90525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}