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          TOP FEMALE EXECUTIVES: The SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL names
     its Top 25 Female Sports Executives of the Year in its
     current issues.  WWC President & CEO MARLA MESSING was
     ranked No. 1, as the WWC "exceeded all expectations, and
     many observers believe Messing was the primary force behind
     that" (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 10/18 issue)....The WOMEN'S
     SPORTS FOUNDATION celebrates its 25th anniversary tonight in
     N.Y.  Exec Dir DONNA LOPIANO said that she hopes the next 25
     years bring "greater access to the doors of corporate
     managers, the men and women who control the financial
     ledgers of major companies" (O.C. REGISTER, 10/17). 
          OTHER NAMES: A group of Chicago Republicans "hopes to
     meet with" MICHAEL JORDAN to "urge him to run for the
     congressional seat" being vacated by U.S. Rep. JOHN PORTER
     (R-IL) (SUN-TIMES, 10/17)....In Houston, John Lopez profiled
     STEVE PATTERSON, who will lead the city's new NFL franchise,
     and called him "the most successful professional sports
     executive" in Houston's history (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 10/16).
     ...In St. Paul, Charley Walters reported that despite being
     dropped by T'Wolves F KEVIN GARNETT, agent ERIC FLEISHER is
     not "out of a" 4% cut of Garnett's $126M deal.  Insiders say
     that Fleisher "was paid a flat negotiating fee by Garnett,
     not a percentage" (PIONEER PRESS, 10/17)....In the N.Y.
     TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Alan Schwarz reviews JOE MORGAN's "Long
     Balls, No Strikes: What Baseball Must Do To Keep The Good
     Times Rolling," and writes that Morgan "too often relies on
     banal statements and stories to which the average fan would
     say, 'No kidding'" (N.Y. TIMES, 10/17)....In today's N.Y.
     TIMES, Ginia Bellafante goes "Shopping With SERENA WILLIAMS"
     and  writes that the Williams sisters have become "budding
     fashion divas in the minds of some" (N.Y. TIMES, 10/18). 

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On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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