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"I think you're seeing more guys who are basketball fans purchasing tickets and watching WNBA games because of Brittney" – Mercury Owner Robert Sarver, on C Brittney Griner broadening the appeal of women's basketball (USA TODAY, 6/18).

"This is what's wrong with the NBA in general … because we've seen coaches get fired because players don't like them and we’ve seen coaches get hired because players like them" – ESPN's Hugh Douglas, on Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban attempting to lure free agents by promising to let them help make player personnel decisions ("Numbers Never Lie," ESPN2, 6/18).

"We try not to get too meta. The problem is, I’m such an unabashed St. Louis supporter that it might take people out of the story if Don Draper suddenly is a big Stan Musial fan" – Actor Jon Hamm, a St. Louis native and Cardinals fan, when asked if he has tried to work St. Louis sports references into his role on AMC's "Mad Men" (SPORTINGNEWS.com, 6/17).

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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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