With many basketball, football, and hockey teams in the off-season I thought I would drop a note about some good summer reading, game ops style.

Last month I got an email from a friend with a link to this video by a group called Improv Everywhere. If you haven’t heard of them, they are a New York based improv group specializing in creating joyful chaos with live pranks in public places, as well as now being an internet sensation with all these assorted pranks posted on YouTube.

Here are my last minute recommendations for the Holidays…and if all else fails, give cash. That always works for me.

We’ve been talking a lot about the social websites like Twitter and Facebook in the Editor’s Blog and on the site. This month Pat Walker gave some tips to help you succeed on sites like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, along with links to more information on the web.

Yesterday I had the great privilege to spend about an hour on the phone with Sports Marketing guru Dan Migala of The Migala Report. Dan is our guest for the August Interview on Gameops.com and without over-hyping it….I think this could be the best interview on the site.

While I like to blog about book reviews, to be honest I read a lot of books out of the political and historical sections of the bookstore….which have zero interest to most readers of the “Gameops” blog. So I was stopped dead in my tracks while reading a book about the Supreme Court Justices when I read this: