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Bow To The Brow: Consensus No. 1 Draft Pick Anthony Davis Trademarks Brow Phrases

Consensus No. 1 NBA Draft pick Anthony Davis “trademarked the phrases ‘Fear The Brow’ and ‘Raise The Brow’ earlier this month,” according to Darren Rovell of CNBC. Davis said, “I don’t want anyone to try to grow a unibrow because of me and then try to make money off of it. Me and my family decided to trademark it because it’s very unique.” Davis said that the only endorsement deal he "has signed so far is a draft night deal with Sprint, pitching the company’s watch live app." Asked if a razor company "could pay him to shave off his unibrow," Davis said that "that’s not going to happen" (CNBC.com, 6/25).

DEFENSE AND OFFENSE
: In N.Y., Richard Sandomir noted Knicks G Jeremy Lin in February “filed to register a trademark for Linsanity with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.” The plan to trademark Linsanity “formed quickly inside Lin’s legal and marketing team.” Arent Fox Partner Pamela Deese said, “We laid out a strategy and moved forward with it in 36 hours.” The trademark would “provide him with legal protection against others who wanted to stamp, sew or print the Linsanity name on their merchandise.” Deese: “We wouldn’t want marks like these if there were no business to be made. But we wouldn’t want them hanging out with someone else, either. It’s defense, but it’s also a good offense” (N.Y. TIMES, 6/24).

HOME OF THE BRAVE? BLOOMBERG NEWS' Victoria Slind-Flor reported the Braves are in “settlement talks with Walt Disney Co. over a disputed trademark registration.” Disney’s film “Brave" was released in the U.S. this month, and in “anticipation of merchandise opportunities connected to the film, Disney filed 14 applications to register ‘Brave’ as a trademark for a wide range of goods.” The MLB team “objected to Disney’s attempt to register the mark for use with a variety of food items, including ice cream, frozen yogurt, snack foods, meat, poultry and processed fruits and vegetables.” The team said that consumers "might be confused about the source of ‘Brave’ branded food products Disney might sell” (BLOOMBERG NEWS, 6/25).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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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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