Pro athletes need financial advice during pandemic, too By Holden Wilen – Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal Professional athletes, like millions of other people around the United States, are not working while the various leagues have suspended play due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While NBA and MLB players are still getting paid, athletes face a number of challenges that […]
NBA players urge colleagues to get financially educated during work stoppage: ‘Don’t look at this as a timeout,’ Chris Paul says By Jabari Young Link to Article With the coronavirus pandemic keeping the sports industry on pause, players from across the National Basketball Association are urging their colleagues to use the downtime to examine finances […]
You’re invited. Please join us. Beginning this week, we are using our time in quarantine to chat about how this global, history-making disruption is affecting us all and how to come out on the other side of it with a better way of thinking and planning for turbulent times. April is traditionally the month when […]
By Holden Wilen Link to Story A former Morgan Stanley banker from Baltimore recently launched a business aimed at helping professional athletes and entertainers make better financial decisions so they do not go broke. Drew Hawkins, who founded and headed Morgan Stanley’s sports and entertainment group, officially launched his company Edyoucore Sports and Entertainment ahead of the […]
By Drew Hawkins Since the uber contagious Covid-19 emerged as a new, pervasive and, in cases, lethal viral assailant — it has moved at lightning speed globally, taking the political, medical, financial and entire sports worlds with it then sinking the latter two to new depths not seen in a very, very long time or […]
Edyoucore founder and CEO, Drew Hawkins was invited by NBC Universal’s Black Employee Network to serve on a recent panel focused on today’s athletes and their finances. The event,”Play-by-Play: Today’s Athletes and their Financial Road Maps” was hosted at CNBC and moderated by the network’s sports business reporter, Jabari Young. Joining Hawkins on the panel […]
This blog post was originally published by The Shadow League. (Photo Credit: Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images) If invested wisely, the bonus money made from their Super Bowl loss will eventually become a big cash win. By Drew Hawkins The Super Bowl is a wrap for the 2019 season with Patrick Mahomes and his Chiefs crowned the champs and handed bonus […]
By Drew Hawkins Yesterday’s loss was not just about losing a legend who had given so much to the sport, the NBA, the nation and the world. It was greater than that. It was a loss of what could have been and what was yet to be. As many in the sports world and beyond […]
By Drew Hawkins I had the honor of attending Tuesday’s memorial service for David Stern at Radio City Music Hall. Along with several thousand others in attendance, we were treated to heartfelt and tender remarks for a man who was tough as nails and whose impact on the world had reaches far beyond the hardwoods. […]
By Drew Hawkins David Stern created the WNBA in 1996 and the league is one of the cornerstones of the legacy he left as part of his 30-year career as the NBA commissioner. Tuesday’s announcement of the groundbreaking agreement achieved between the WNBA and its player’s union was not only historical but, in a way, […]