Tony Dick

Tony Dick worked in various capacities with the Cleveland Browns over the course of 23 seasons with the team. He started as a member of the grounds crew in 1991 while an undergraduate student at Baldwin Wallace and worked his way up to assistant head groundskeeper before the team moved to Baltimore in 1995. Dick rejoined the Browns upon their return to Cleveland in 1999, serving for the last nine years as the team’s manager of alumni relations before leaving in October of 2015. Currently he teaches in both the sport management and hospitality management programs and serves as the internship coordinator for both programs.

Additionally, he has assisted in the planning and execution for student experiential learning trips to the Super Bowl, College Football Playoff National Championship Game, F1 Austin, FedEx St. Jude’s Championship, NFL Alumni Pro-Am, USFL Championship Game, and Pro Football Hall of Fame Game and Enshrinement Events. In 2019, he co-led a study abroad to Brazil and in 2020, co-led a spring break trip to New York and Philadelphia. In 2021, he helped to bring Sports Biz Camps to BW, which gave 31 high school students the opportunity to network with high level sports executives and tour various sports facilities for one week at no cost.

An avid sports historian and member of the Pro Football Researchers Association, he has served as a research assistant for several documentary projects with NFL Films, NBC Sports, Time Warner Cable Sports Channel and Epix. He has also done similar work on the major motion pictures "Draft Day" and "The Express" as well as over a half dozen published sports books. Since 2018, he has served as a Regional Game Day Operations Specialist for Zebra Technologies, helping to compile NextGen Stats for the NFL.

He sat on the executive board for Cleveland Touchdown Club Charities (CTCC), where he served as president for three years, and is a member of their Donors Hall of Fame. He also served on the board of directors for the Northeastern Ohio chapter of the National Football Foundation (NFF) and on the advisory board for HansonHouse TBI Clubhouse in Berea. In 2013, he was recognized for his philanthropic efforts in the community by his high school alma mater when he was inducted into the Marion L. Steele Gallery of Success in Amherst, Ohio.

Courses

• The History of Sport (SPM-223)
• Introduction to Sport Management (SPM-243)
• Discovering Brazil (SPM-363)
• Sport Management & Media Relations (SPM-344)
• Ethics in Sport Management (SPM-348)
• Pro Sport Industry (SPM-350)
• Facility/Event Management (SPM-450)
• Sport Management Capstone (SPM-452)
• Sport Management Internship (SPM-479X)
• Cultural Diversity in Baseball (FYE-100)
• Film and Sports (FYE-100)
• First Year Experience (FYE-100)
• Customer Experience Management (HTM-343)
• Hospitality/Tourism Management Internship (HTM-479X)