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Jobing.com Arena's 10-Year Anniversary Comes With Mixed Legacy

The Coyotes' Jobing.com Arena celebrates its 10th anniversary today. The Glendale venue "marked the beginning of a pro-sports building boom" in the area that would include Univ. of Phoenix Stadium and Camelback Ranch. It also "brought several commercial developments, from Westgate City Center to Cabela’s and Tanger Outlets." But over the past decade, the arena "has failed to pay for itself." Projections that the arena "would generate enough to pay off the debt" and net the city at least $100M "turned out to be wildly overstated" (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 1/7).

Phoenix Mercury/NBC’s Cindy Brunson, NBA Media Deal, Network Upfronts

On this week’s pod, SBJ’s Austin Karp chats with SBJ NBA writer Tom Friend about the pending NBA media Deal. Cindy Brunson of NBC and Phoenix Mercury is our Big Get this week. The sports broadcasting pioneer talks the upcoming WNBA season. Later in the show, SBJ media writer Mollie Cahillane gets us set for the upcoming network upfronts.

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SBJ I Factor features an interview with Molly Mazzolini. Elevate's Senior Operating Advisor – Design + Strategic Alliances chats with SBJ’s Ross Nethery about the power of taking chances. Mazzolini is a member of the SBJ Game Changers Class of 2016. She shares stories of her career including co-founding sports design consultancy Infinite Scale career journey and how a chance encounter while working at a stationery store launched her career in the sports industry. 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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