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NFL VP/Communications Brian McCarthy said that NFL Network's Michael Irvin "remains under review by the league for violating the personal conduct policy stemming from an incident last March." In Ft. Worth, Drew Davison notes Irvin "continues to serve" as an analyst for NFL Network after a 27-year-old woman "told police she feared she was drugged and raped by Irvin" on March 21 (FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, 9/6).

PAY UP: CORD CUTTERS NEWS' Luke Buoma noted many Sling TV subscribers last weekend were "surprised to find out that the Big Ten game on FS1 was blacked out on Sling TV." This is the "first year Fox has rights to air Big Ten home games on FS1 and Fox." Sources said that Fox is "charging an extra fee for Big Ten games on FS1." All other companies "agreed to pay the extra fee for Big Ten games on FS1, but Sling TV seems to be arguing against the extra fee just for Big Ten games on Fox." This fight will "not affect any other conference games, such as the Pac-12, and it won’t affect Big Ten games that air on Fox" (CORDCUTTERSNEWS.com, 9/5).

JUST FOUR FUN: Monday night's D-backs-Dodgers game on FS Arizona, in which D-backs RF J.D. Martinez hit four home runs, was the highest-rated D-backs telecast of the season. It generated a 5.1 rating, 16% higher than the previous season-best rating of 4.4. It was also the most-watched sporting event in Phoenix for the entire Labor Day weekend (FS Arizona).

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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