final four

I grew up at Cisco. Not many of us can call ourselves “Cisco Babies” – but I think I qualify. My mom, Nicole James, has worked for the company since 1998. I was just six years old when she started working here and I have fond memories of spending my summers hanging out in her cubicle and begging her…

Sports – they never disappoint. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the impossible happens. Like a 16-seed beating a 1-seed in the NCAA March Madness Tournament for the first time ever. Congratulations to UMBC (that’s University of Maryland, Baltimore County) for an unbelievable, historic win la…

You know spring season is back when we start hearing all about March Madness – where 68 college basketball teams from Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are competing to win the national championship. With hundreds of games taking place at venues across the nation over…

March is the most wonderful time of the year for basketball fans across America, as over the next several weeks, hundreds of college basketball games will take place as part of the 2016 NCAA March Madness tournament. In arenas from Philadelphia and Anaheim to Denver and Brooklyn, fans will be treate…

I love this image – Cisco’s take on a bracket, like the ones so many of us filled out recently. It taps into the fact that the appetite of sports fans is almost insatiable with the buffet of content available to them, and that a network is their ticket to eat. Consider the fact that March Madness Li…