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This Week's Newsmakers: Gumbel's "Overseer" Comparison Proves Unnecessary

THE DAILY each Friday offers our take on the performances over the past week of people and entities in sports business. Here are this week's newsmakers:

WIN: 76ERS -- Strong opening for the new ownership group led by JOSHUA HARRIS, as he and new CEO ADAM ARON unveil their first phase of changes for the club. The moves include reductions in ticket prices, a new slogan and a website dedicated to opening communication between fans and ownership -- bold strokes which are a good start in an effort to bring fans back to supporting basketball in what could be one of the cities with the biggest NBA upsides.

LOSE: BRYANT GUMBEL -- Gumbel saying something provocative is nothing new in the sports world, but comparing the NBA Commissioner to a "modern plantation overseer" is a poor analogy. Any valid points he may have made were completely overshadowed when grouping together DAVID STERN and slavery. Yes, it got him a few days of publicity and headlines, but for all the wrong reasons.

DRAW: WORLD SERIES -- Two games into the Fall Classic and we've had two great games between two great teams with some other fun subplots along the way (see the rally squirrel). While some say "who cares about the ratings," everyone in sports business does care, and early numbers indicate that MLB has some difficulty garnering national eyeballs and scale when its top markets aren't involved.

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

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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