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CBSSPORTS.com's Mike Singer noted Fantex "will soon offer shares" of Bills QB EJ Manuel, who agreed to a “brand contract” with the company. It is "expected to offer 523,700 shares" at $10 each. In return, the company will pay Manuel nearly $5M up front for 10% of "whatever he earns throughout his career (endorsements, etc), estimated to be around" $104M by the company. His stock will "trade under the symbol EJMLL" (CBSSPORTS.com, 5/1). 

RACE FOR A CAUSE: In Indianapolis, Curt Cavin reports Pippa Mann's No. 63 Dallara/Honda prepared by Dale Coyne Racing in the upcoming Indianapolis 500 "will carry the colors of Susan G. Komen, the nation's largest breast cancer organization." Mann's "car, helmet and firesuit will be pink, and pledges will be taken based on how many laps she turns" at the race. The partnership "began shortly after Mann changed her red helmet to pink last year to support breast cancer awareness" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 5/2).

COMING TO A STORE NEAR YOU: Quiksilver President & CEO Andy Mooney on Wednesday said of surfer Kelly Slater, who parted ways with the company in March after 23 years, "We had a fabulous run ... He communicated to us in the summer that at this point in his life, what he really wanted to do was give birth to his own brand -- a boutique, high-end brand. He's very environmentally conscious. He wanted to do something high-end and premier and also with a mind to being very environmentally aware. He wanted to do his own thing and the timing was right for him" ("Mad Money," CNBC, 4/30).

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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