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Sports fandom meets the business behind it.
For the Love of Sports with Michael Rasile sits at the busy intersection of games, money, media, and fan behavior. Conversations move from AI search habits and sponsorship strategy to crypto sportsbooks, new leagues, NIL, softball, soccer, and sports nostalgia.
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For the Love of Sports with Michael Rasile is a sports business interview show with a fan's pulse. It starts with why people love sports, then follows that answer into the business, technology, media, and personal stories behind the industry. The format is casual and guest-centered. Questions often wander through context before landing on a useful business point, which gives guests room to explain how their corner of sports actually works. Recent episodes show a wide range without losing the through-line. Shripal Shah brings AI into sports marketing, from prompt habits and LLM indexing to how media companies may need to think beyond traditional search traffic. Chris Gotti Lorenzo talks through building Clash Pro League, finding sponsors, choosing distribution, and meeting an audience on platforms they already use. Nigel Eccles explains BetHog, BetDex, social betting, streamers, and why online gaming can feel more alive when fans can play along together. Jenny Finch shifts the show toward athlete legacy, softball, Superhole, cornhole, tailgating, and the competitive fun of a game anyone can try. Jeff Pearlman brings sports writing and nostalgia into the frame, describing the emotional pull of old athletes, old broadcasts, and childhood memories. Messiah Bright's episode brings college soccer, family competition, NIL, and the athlete's side of a sports-centered life. The show is strongest when it turns an abstract trend into a plain example: how a fan watches, how a sponsor thinks, how a league finds eyeballs, how a staffer might use AI, or how a bettor interacts with a product. It is not overly formal. It is brisk, approachable, and sometimes a little scrappy in the way live interviews often are. The audience is assumed to care about sports first, but the conversations reward curiosity about the machinery around the games. For listeners tired of pure highlights talk, it offers a useful middle lane. It keeps the love of sports in the room while asking how the modern sports economy gets built.
Made for: Built for sports fans, marketers, founders, bettors, athletes, and media-curious listeners who want the story behind leagues, platforms, sponsorships, and fan behavior. It suits people who like practical industry talk without losing the casual rhythm of sports conversation.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by keeping business mechanics tied to everyday fan experience. AI strategy, sportsbook design, league distribution, athlete branding, and sports nostalgia all get translated into concrete, conversational examples.
For the Love of Sports with Michael Rasile is a captivating podcast that dives into the dynamic world of sports business. Each episode features an in-depth conversation between Michael and his guest, which includes athletes, entrepreneurs, and business executives, as they share their unique stories and experiences in the sports business space. [email protected] https://www.instagram.com/michael.rasile/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-rasile/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChrF4fA8uP7B6ImdfaHAe6Q/featured?view_as=subscriber
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Michael Rasile turns founder conversations into clear accounts of how sports products, media strategies, and emerging ventures are built.
Michael Rasile builds each conversation around a revealing first question: why the guest loves sports. That personal entry point leads naturally into the machinery behind the games, with founders and executives explaining how products, media, and new leagues take shape.
Michael Rasile asks why guests love sports; you may end up debating where their games should stream.
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A grounded look at Chris 'Gotti' Lorenzo building Clash Pro League through talent, sponsors, venues, and reach.
Chris 'Gotti' Lorenzo frames Clash Pro League from the inside, tracing the path from a Queens upbringing in a big sports-playing family to the harder machinery of building a league: finding the right players, convincing sponsors, and getting distribution in front of fans where…
Shripal Shah links everyday AI habits to the next phase of sports media discovery.
Shripal Shah returns to For the Love of Sports with a clear look at how AI is reshaping sports content discovery. Now Chief Digital Officer at NextLeague, he explains why ChatGPT has replaced Google in parts of his own workflow: follow-up questions, reframing, and direct answers…
A clear, accessible look at how BetHog is using Hogger to make online betting feel more social.
Nigel Eccles gives the episode a clean point of entry: online betting has often felt private, while betting in person is usually social. Speaking as CEO and founder of BetHog and BetDex, and former CEO and founder of FanDuel, he connects that gap to streaming, where fans can…
A grounded sports-business conversation about making generative AI useful through careful experimentation.
AI in sports marketing gets a practical, human-scaled frame here, as Ashri Paul Shah connects the communal pull of sports with the everyday trial and error of learning generative AI.
A grounded sports-business episode about turning AI curiosity into repeatable working habits.
AI lands here as a working habit, not a shiny future-tense promise. Leveling Up with AI links sports marketing to the slower, more useful work of learning how tools behave through repeated use.
Sports business from the seats back.
Career moves inside sport.
Sports stories aimed beyond the scoreboard.
Career lessons from basketball’s working rooms.
Sports business from the betting window.
Michael Rasile interviews soccer player Messiah Bright about her career, NIL, and love for sports.
Shripal Shah, author of “Leveling Up with AI: A Strategic Guide to AI in Sports Marketing,” talks with Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports about why sports and AI intersect.
Olympic softball gold medalist Jennie Finch joins host Michael Rasile to discuss her love of sports and business ventures.
Host Michael Rasile interviews author Jeff Perlman about his sports books and the nostalgia of sports.
Dog trainer Eileen Cronin joins Sean McDaniel on the Dog's Way Podcast to discuss her specialty in preparing dogs for life with babies and young children.
Dog's Way Podcast host Sean McDaniel delivers a solo episode on how to choose and use training collars, covering the progression from Martingale collar to star Mark collar to the Herm Springer prong collar.
Michael Rasile interviews Nigel Eccles—co-founder and CEO of BetHog and BetDex, and former co-founder and CEO of FanDuel—on episode 385 of For the Love of Sports, covering gambling psychology, casino game innovation, and the social gap in online betting.
Shripal Shah, author of 'Leveling Up with AI: A Strategic Guide to AI in Sports Marketing,' joins Michael Rasile to discuss how generative AI is being used — and underused — in the sports industry.