Rush Olson
Rush Olson has spent two decades directing creative efforts for sports teams and broadcasters. When not writing his Sports Rush blog for the Weekly, he creates television programs, ad campaigns, content marketing, and related creative projects for sports entities and more through Rush Olson Creative & Sports, Mint Farm Films, and FourNine Productions.
Sports Rush: The Proper Placement Of Boundaries In Sports
Boundaries have a role in sports.
Sidelines, rules, and unspoken codes of ethics represent boundaries needed to ensure a match proceeds in an orderly fashion.
But...
Soccer, Football, and Conference Realignment
College sports’ conference realignments tend to revolve around football.
To clarify that statement for non-US readers, we mean American football, not association football. But it...
Sports Rush: Wade Reflects on Dirk and His Fellow Hall of Famers
If your Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement ceremony happened in two days, would you find yourself a bundle of nerves? If soon-to-be...
Sports Rush: Mavericks Make History in Women’s Basketball
At the time when Cynt Marshall became CEO of the Dallas Mavericks, the franchise faced a lot of obstacles to earning the trust of...
Sports Rush: Getting The Message At A Basketball Game
“If people can taught to hate, they can be taught to love. And it’s up to you, young people, to change minds.”
- Dr. Opal...
Sports Rush: Pushing Sports Boundaries in Texas
The newest professional sports franchise in North Texas featured players of whom most of you have never heard, playing a sport for which you...
Sports Rush: Rugby’s Future
The city of Coventry, located some 15 miles from the town of Rugby, has no team in its country’s top flight in the sport...
Sports Rush: Winging It
Tuesday night at Arlington’s College Park Center, the Dallas Wings played their third game in five days.
The contest against the Minnesota Lynx followed road...
Sports Rush: Panther City Lacrosse Already Making History
Never in the history of sports has one city’s purple-clad men’s basketball, football, and box lacrosse teams, along with women’s rifle and equestrian squads,...
Sports Rush: Football and The Final Four
I saw Emmitt Smith at the Women’s Final Four.
The Pro Football Hall of Famer passed me as I walked through the American Airlines Center...
