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: Five Reasons March is Mad
The name “March” sounds like a military PT regimen. The sports phrase most associated with the month implies a certain mad-as-a-March-hare kind of crazy....
Sports Rush: Spring Training Finds
If you visit Surprise, Arizona for Rangers spring training, you probably won’t find yourself needing to source several bags of whole pecans. You likely...
Sports Rush: Rugby in Round Rock
Our sports reporter went to Dell Diamond stadium in Round Rock to check out some rugby.
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Sports Rush: Pants Get Shorted
Nobody chooses the guy in blue jeans. You know, when you’re picking sides for a basketball game in the schoolyard, you figure the kid...
Run a Mile in My Stripes
Early in the first half of the basketball game I watched Tuesday, I determined a referee had missed a foul call. I am not...
Love, Sports-Style
Two people attending a sporting event often share an emotional rollercoaster. They experience ups and downs, hanging on what happens next. They calm their...
Football Is Different
Football is different from other sports.
The ball’s not round, certain players aren’t allowed to touch said ball, and a game can fill 100,000 seat...
Forbidding Football?
In the sport of American football, violence sometimes begets more violence. I tackle you, you stiff-arm me, your teammate tries to block my buddy,...
Resolve to Pickleball in 2016
You’re about to make a New Year’s resolution, aren’t you? This is the year you’re going to start exercising, right?
Maybe you’re thinking you’ll get...
Baseball Makes the Arlington City Council’s Nice List
As Rangers Captain pulled the small box from under the tree, he knew it didn’t contain a bicycle. While he started to unwrap it,...
