Category Archives for "Sports & Entertainment"

Ever wonder why, according to Sports Illustrated, nearly 80% of former NFL players go broke within three years of leaving the league? Not to mention other high net worth people like successful actors or busy executives and entrepreneurs experiencing financial problems as they age. According to superstar player agent Leigh Steinberg, there are five main […]

[This article originally appeared in Ottawa Business, Journal, https://obj.ca/article/opinion-big-rig-gaining-steam-microbrewery-biz.] What’s in a name? Well, if you are Ottawa Senators defenceman Chris Phillips and the other four founding partners of Big Rig restaurant and brewery, a lot. Mr. Phillips and his partners – Angelis Koutsos, Lon Ladell, Pierre Cleroux and Jimmy Zourntos – spent $5 million […]

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, maybe you live with one or work with or for one, then read this excerpt (see below) from Don’t Back Down, the real story of the founding of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators and why big leagues matter, a book I wrote for the 25th anniversary of the founding of […]

While watching Hockey Day in America, I was struck by how the city of Detroit had integrated its outdoor ice-skating rink into the very fabric of its downtown. Most of these things are done badly; in fact, it’s surprisingly hard to create vibrant street life. Most cities and towns fail at it. Loneliness soars as […]

YES, I want to sign up for the Firestone Institute ninja real estate investor, co-coaching and development manager course. YES, I want to learn how to be a development manager to ensure my projects and those of others I deal with get started as soon as possible and come in on-time and on-budget with as […]

I am into naming things (like the elves in Tolkien’s Middle Earth did–they spent their first few tens of thousands of years there naming stuff). I also like creating taglines.  It adds value for both landlord and tenant—it’s like Italian trains of the 1970s—the only difference between 1st and 3rd class was the price you paid. #Seriously […]

Here’re some artifacts from Ottawa Senators founder Bruce M Firestone, PhD, now on deposit with city of Ottawa Archives, https://ottawa.ca/en/residents/arts-heritage-and-culture/city-ottawa-archives. In addition, the Firestone family has donated more than 1,600 works of art (paintings and sculptures) to form the FIRESTONE COLLECTION OF CANADIAN ART, https://oaggao.ca/firestone-collection-canadian-art, housed and displayed by the Ottawa Art Gallery, OAG. city of Ottawa archives: […]

By Graham Neysmith [This article by Carleton University journalism student Graham Neysmith originally appeared at https://capitalcurrent.ca/] The man who branded Ottawa’s professional hockey team doesn’t consider himself a hockey fan and has never even laced up a pair of skates. Tony Milchard designed the logo used by the Ottawa Senators when they debuted in the National […]

Today, is municipal election day in Ontario. Some of my friends are running for city of Ottawa council. Here’s what I had to say this morning to one of them. Both (my souse) Dawn and I talk about you often and we wish you all the success today. The thing is… we are proud of […]

“You can’t drink all day, unless you start in the morning,” one middle-aged female fan of the Buffalo Bills told me at their home-opener on Sunday September 16th, 2018. It was 0930 at the time, proving her point. That the Bills are important to Buffalo seems self-evident to me. But after tailgating with over 100,000 […]

Here’s a sketch I drew yesterday for a young client of mine—Jordan Sweeney—who is wondering how he is going to cope with all the demands on his time including running the STA (Sports Training Academy’s) multiple social media channels. I told him to leverage his time by recruiting a network of contributors. It’s something I […]

Why I am a real estate investment and business coach, Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD Why I am a life coach, Dawn Marie MacMillan Firestone, CPCC, ACC Here’s what former Edmonton Oilers GM Glen Sather (who built their Stanley Cup-winning dynasty in the 1980s) had to say about deal-making: “The best […]