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Stars' Early-Season Success, Exciting Brand Of Hockey Starting To Draw Crowds

The Stars following last night's 5-3 win over the Bruins sit atop the Western Conference with a 10-3-0 record and have proven that they "not only can win games but also do so in a vastly entertaining fashion," and the Dallas market "seems to have responded," according to Pierre LeBrun of ESPN.com. When Owner Tom Gaglardi took over the team in November '11, the Stars were "at about 5,500 full-season-ticket equivalents; today they're over 11,000 and trending north." Last Saturday afternoon's game against the Sharks was a "sellout at home." Stars broadcaster Daryl Reaugh said, "A few years back, if we were playing on a Saturday in the heart of college football season, the announced crowd might have looked decent but the actual, through-the-turnstiles number would have been different. There we are Saturday on an afternoon game against San Jose, and it's packed to the gills." Reaugh said not only have Stars GM Jim Nill and coach Lindy Ruff "done a great job on the hockey side of things, the business side has been incredible." LeBrun wrote these are "promising times" for the Stars (ESPN.com, 11/2). 

SEEING STARS: California-based digital media company DeskSite yesterday announced the launch of the Stars' new, interactive video app that delivers HD video content to fans for free. The Stars DeskSite is a personalized HD video content library constructed to support fans' growing consumption of online video. DeskSite enables instantaneous video playback, freeing fans from the buffering, freezing and dropping associated with streaming video on a website. Video programming consists of game highlights, postgame recaps, player and coach interviews, and more. The company last month announced similar partnerships with the Red Wings, Sabres and Blue Jackets (THE DAILY).

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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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