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A Louisiana judge ordered that NFL Commissioner ROGER GOODELL and three officials from January’s NFC title game "be questioned under oath in September about the infamous 'no-call'" in Rams-Saints. Attorney ANTONIO LEMON said that he and NFL attorneys will "pick a mutually agreeable date for depositions in New Orleans -- barring any league appeals that might delay" the proceedings. LeMon's lawsuit "seeks $75,000 in damages -- to be donated to charity" (AP, 7/29).

BOOK CLUB: In DC, Alyssa Rosenberg reviews MLB Commissioner Emeritus BUD SELIG's new book, “For the Good of the Game,” writing he "barely gestures at an answer to what the game is good for." Selig "writes with all the soul of an accountant seeking a particularly good tax incentive package, measuring the success of the league in the rising value of franchises and spinoff companies." To the extent that he can "summon up rhapsodies," they are "often for city-built or city-funded stadium complexes" (WASHINGTON POST, 7/25).

Hasek has several businesses and may consider a future presidential run in the Czech Republicgetty images

MR. PRESIDENT? Hockey HOFer DOMINIK HASEK told Czech Republic website iDNES it is "possible he will consider making a presidential run in the future." Until then, Hasek, 54, "continues to own and operate his energy drink company, 'Smarty.'" He also "continues to do charitable work with the Buffalo Sabres Foundation and Hasek's Heroes, which provides underprivileged children with hockey equipment, ice time and coaching" (BUFFALO NEWS, 7/26).

NAMES: Magic F JONATHAN ISAAC was a "big reason why nearly 70 kids from Orlando were at the city’s Downtown Recreation Center on Friday for a daylong basketball camp." Isaac’s mother, JACKIE ALLEN, "came up with the idea for the camp to give underprivileged kids an opportunity they otherwise probably would not get" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 7/27)....Former Little League P MO’NE DAVIS is “preparing to leave for college” at Hampton Univ., a historically black college in Virginia, where she “plans to major in communications and has ambitions of one day hosting her own sports show” (WASHINGTON POST, 7/27)....Nevada-based CBD company Leading Edge Pharms named former NBAer JOHN SALLEY Exec VP/Marketing (Leading Edge).

IN MEMORY: Longtime former Univ. of Kansas broadcaster MAX FALKENSTIEN, whose voice "became synonymous” with the school’s football and men’s basketball broadcasts for six decades, died yesterday at 95. FalkenstiEn “started broadcasting KU games” in 1946 after returning from World War II, and “covered more than 1,750 men’s basketball games and 650 football games” before retiring in ’06 (K.C. STAR, 7/30).

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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