Yesterday was a big day for athletics, especially baseball, but it wasn’t necessarily for good reasons. The anticipated drug report by George Mitchell was made public and it listed over 80 current or retired baseball players that have used performance enhancing drugs. From Barry Bonds to Roger Clemens, the baseball Read more…
In most public relations programs at universities, there are certain classes that you have to take as a student. The first class in the major that you would take would be “Introduction to Public Relations” and then you would either go on to a writing course in Public Relations or Read more…
One of the things that has been great about the University of Tennessee and its Ph.D program is the fact that we are encouraged to pursue research to better the field of public relations and communications, and the way that we can do this is to present our research and Read more…
It seems that Barry Bonds is back in the news again, and this time it isn’t for his home-run record or stating that he won’t go to the Hall of Fame if his home run record has an asterisk next to it. What is it this time? Well, it seems Read more…
I have posted on many different sports cases that I consider to be PR Nightmares. From Marion Jones to Michael Vick, there are just many to choose from. But, there of course are PR Nightmares in Academics as well. I might be a little biased towards this article for Read more…