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The NBA, NHL and MLS have all shown this summer that sticking their respective athletes in a bubble environment can work. All three leagues have restarted their regular seasons in bubbles. Medical and testing protocols have been strict, not to mention uniform, which has led to positive COVID-19 tests being nonexistent. This has all come at great cost to the leagues, but what they’ve done has clearly been effective.

Social media has forever changed our society and how people do business. A 2013 report by J.D. Power found nearly two-thirds of customers have used a company’s social media site to connect with customer service. New research in the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research finds businesses that use Twitter as a social care channel are seeing a 19% increase in customer satisfaction.

The Big Ten and the Pac-12 have “delayed” (a.k.a. cancelled) fall sports, an effective one-size-fits-all stay-off-the field order for these student-athletes, due to COVID-19. Intercollegiate sports at numerous institutions are threatened this fall, with winter and spring sports likely in jeopardy as well. 

Social media has forever changed our society and how people do business. A 2013 report by J.D. Power found nearly two-thirds of customers have used a company’s social media site to connect with customer service. New research in the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research finds businesses that use Twitter as a social care channel are seeing a 19% increase in customer satisfaction. The study, “The Voice of the Customer: Managing Customer Care on Twitter,” looks at data from Twitter service accounts for the four big telecommunications firms in the United States. The two that rise to the top among online customer care are AT&T and Verizon compared to Sprint and T-Mobile.