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Quick Hits....

"I really don’t think that this lawsuit, if it follows the law, would represent a significant change in how collegiate athletics is conducted" – Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman, on the Ed O'Bannon antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA (Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER, 4/21).

"You have three police officers running, pretty much startled. You have smoke from the explosion, and debris on the track. You have a runner down. You have that female police officer with her handgun drawn, which suggests violence. Your eye goes around the photo and sees all that. That picture says it all in one photo" – Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki, on his iconic photo of the Boston Marathon bombings seconds after the first bomb went off, which made it onto this week's cover of Sports Illustrated (SEATTLE TIMES, 4/21).

"It’s probably the hottest city in the world right now. It’s the most aspirational city in the world right now. And it needs to bring marquee events and establish itself there. This will help bring marquee events" – Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross, on why Miami-Dade taxpayers should help fund renovations to Sun Life Stadium (MIAMI HERALD, 4/21).

"The Pelicans just doesn’t seem right. Maybe because it’s just starting. Maybe in three years we’ll be talking about another name change, the Pelicans will be an afterthought" – Wizards G Garrett Temple, who grew up in Baton Rouge, on the Hornets' new name (WASHINGTONPOST.com, 4/19).

"I heard there is a blackout in Brooklyn and I'm here to turn on the lights" – Nets Owner Mikhail Prokhorov, addressing the Barclays Center crowd yesterday during the Bulls-Nets game (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 4/21).

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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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