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Iger's target annual compensation will now be 28% lower than the initial target of $48.5M GETTY IMAGES

Disney has cut "tens of millions of dollars of future potential earnings" for Chair & CEO BOB IGER, whose target annual compensation will be cut to $35M after Disney completes the deal to acquire assets from 21st Century Fox. That figure is 28% less than the initial $48.5M target. The company "didn't provide a reason for the change" (BLOOMBERG NEWS, 3/4).

SCREEN TIME: RYAN GARCIA, a 20-year-old undefeated boxer for OSCAR DE LA HOYA's Golden Boy Promotions, last week "debuted 'ON THE ROPES,' a new YouTube series produced by digital video studio Brat Inc" (L.A. TIMES, 3/5)....“KING RICHARD,” a film script by ZACH BAYLIN, has WILL SMITH “poised to play RICHARD WILLIAMS,” father of VENUS and SERENA. TIM WHITE and TREVOR WHITE will produce the film under their Star Thrower Entertainment banner alongside Smith and Overbrook Entertainment (DEADLINE.com, 3/5).

NAMES: Former NFLer DAVE LINDSTROM said that he will "decide within the next 90 days whether to join the Senate race in Kansas" (K.C. STAR, 3/5)...Former NFLer MARTELLUS BENNETT "took to Twitter to ask if anyone was interested in buying" his Super Bowl LI ring from the Patriots' win over the Falcons. Bennett also made it "clear" that the possible sale was not a "result of financial issues" (NBCSPORTSBOSTON.com, 3/4)....Musician JACK WHITE made a “very generous $10,000 donation” toward the restoration of the “historic Hamtramck Stadium -- one of the few remaining Negro League ballparks in America” (FREEP.com, 3/4)....NBC’s TONY DUNGY has been named Grand Marshal of the NTT IndyCar Series season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (THE DAILY)....EPL club Tottenham D ERIC DIER is “setting up a training school that kicks off this summer in Massachusetts” at the Berkshire School in Sheffield (USA TODAY, 3/5).

IN MEMORY: Longtime Temple administrator AL SHRIER died early yesterday at age 88. Shrier “worked more than six decades at Temple, most of them in charge of the sports information department.” After graduating in the Temple class of ’52, Shrier began working at the university in ’53. Shrier technically “retired from running the sports information department” in ’96, but “showed up for work the next Monday, and stayed on the payroll until last July” (PHILLY.com, 3/4).

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