Pat Walker Looks at off-season planning, including how to best plan for your season during a work stoppage.

Pat Walker has had an opportunity to work with many different emcees. The best ones have the ability to not only entertain an audience, but truly make the show about the fans. This month he gets their insight into how they approach their time on the mic.

For 2011 Pat Walker challenges those of you who are well into your careers throughout the sports industry to take on a “mentorship”. He explains by using adorable photos of his dog.

Pat Walker tabs league meetings and conferences as an extremely valuable experience. Get the full story in this month's Walk and Talk.

After a month of World Cup fever and the sound vuvuzela still fresh in his head, Pat Walker evaluates several crowd interactive elements to determine if they are an enhancement or an annoyance in this month's Walk & Talk.

Now here’s a timeless classic…a potpourri of concepts molded together to create a single entity, kind of like the Voltron of online columns. Well, as Hollywood has proven, every first effort deserves a good sequel...introducing Around the Horn II.

Pat Walker has worked around a lot of different sports in his game ops career…basketball, football, baseball, soccer, hockey, tennis, golf. But this past January, he was exposed to a sport for the first time and it has turned out to be a game ops dream.

Last month Pat Walker served as the Game Presentation Director for one of the highest profile sporting events at one of the largest venues in the world. Here it is by the numbers.

Pat Walker pays tribute to Seattle SuperSonics play-by-play announcer, Bob Blackburn who passed away in January. Pat remembers the public man who was a Seattle sports legend and the private man who became a friend.

Last January, the focus of Walk & Talk was the Top 9 Game Ops Resolutions for ’09. Before moving forward into 2010, take a moment to look back at the list and see if you were able to make significant progress in any of these areas…