Menu
Download the app

SBJ subscribers – Enhance your experience with the revamped iOS app

Franchises

Judicial Official Says NRL Side Parramatta Eels Board To Blame For Club's Woes

A senior NSW judicial official made "explosive statements" about the former National Rugby League side Parramatta Eels board in a judgment, according to Nick Tabakoff of THE AUSTRALIAN. The official claimed that at least some of the board's directors "connived" in the commissioning of offenses that saw former club CEO Scott Seward sentenced. The judgment came as the NSW Police Force's Fraud & Cybercrime Squad's Strike Force Rhod­ium "continues to investigate the Eels' NRL salary cap scandal and frauds committed against the club's parent, the Parramatta Leagues Club," with the behavior of Eels officials and others "under the microscope." NSW Deputy Chief Magistrate Chris O'Brien said that Seward's criminality in the fraud charges he faced was at "the lower end of objective seriousness for offences of this type." O'Brien said, "The most important distinguishing feature (from other simil­ar cases) is that the board members ... connived in the commission of the offence. Those board members had, prior to the offender's engagement as CEO, created the circumstance that they then pressured the offender to resolve, and in his seeking to do so, the offence ­before the court was committed" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 7/14).

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.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2017/07/14/Franchises/Parramatta-Eels.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2017/07/14/Franchises/Parramatta-Eels.aspx

CLOSE