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AFL Players Association CEO Matt Finnis Says League Needs To Conduct Economic Review

Australian Football League Players Association CEO Matt Finnis said that "the crowded Melbourne market continues to impact financially on clubs and that the league needs to conduct an economic review," according to Jon Pierik of THE AGE. While insisting club relocation was "not our focus," Finnis said that having 10 Victorian clubs, with nine in Melbourne, had implications in terms of equalization "that needed to be addressed." Finnis said, "I think there is evidence to say Melbourne is the kind of economic part of the game. But the number of teams in the one market does put pressures on the competition which are structural in nature when you consider the historical level of support for those teams, but also policies around fixturing which do combine to continue, I guess, some of those disparities." A rich TV deal and its need for 18 clubs should ensure their safety, but Cats CEO Brian Cook said last year that "relocation could be on the agenda when this broadcast deal expires" in '16 (THE AGE, 7/23).

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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