“Having Louisville and Kentucky would have been one of the best of all time” – Jeff McGuinness, owner of Indianapolis-based 317 Tickets, on Kentucky, Wisconsin, Michigan State and Duke making the Final Four and bumping up ticket prices on the secondary marketplace (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 3/31).
“If they don’t want to pay extra for cameras, just use the cameras Belichick used in Spygate” – ESPN’s Tony Reali, on the NFL researching the addition of more replay cameras around the field (“Around The Horn,” ESPN, 3/30).
“We’re not tanking games. It is irresponsible for them to go on TV saying that. If you work at ESPN, you get fired for saying stuff like that” – T'Wolves President and coach Flip Saunders, on Jazz broadcasters mentioning his team during a discussion about tanking (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, 3/31).
“I don’t expect people to go into the ground and build a facility without some sort of commitment that they are going to get a team. But I do think you need a plan, and a commitment to how that plan is going to be executed” – MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, on needing a strong commitment from Montreal to build a new ballpark in order for them to land a team (CP, 3/31).
