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Tepper made a $5,200 contribution to Lyles' campaign committee, the maximum allowed at the time GETTY IMAGES

Members of the NFL Panthers' football operations staff, including Owner DAVID TEPPER, "made campaign contributions to Charlotte Mayor VI LYLES and members of the Charlotte City Council weeks before officially asking the city for millions of dollars in tax dollars to renovate Bank of America Stadium" in an effort to lure an MLS team. The "biggest donation was from Tepper to Lyles' campaign committee." Tepper "made a $5,200 contribution," the maximum allowed at the time it was made. The contribution was made on Aug. 13, a little more than a month before city council was "first briefed in a closed-door session" about Tepper’s now-successful bid for an MLS club (WBTV.com, 1/21). 

HONORS & AWARDS: Indians Chair & CEO PAUL DOLAN on Tuesday accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of his family at the Great Cleveland Sports Awards. Before Dolan accepted the award, a video "showing the history of the Dolan family in Cleveland and their purchase of the Indians was shown." Dolan was "emotional after watching it" (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 1/22)....ESPN women's college basketball analyst DEBBIE ANTONELLI, UNC football coach MACK BROWN, late UNC track & field and cross country coach DENNIS CRADDOCK and former Charlotte AD JUDY ROSE will be among those inducted into the North Carolina Sports HOF in a ceremony May 1 (BIZJOURNALS.com, 1/23)....Worcester, Mass., will unveil a “bronze statue” of BOB COUSY that will stand outside the DCU Center. A donation of nearly $150,000 from SMG Management, which runs the venue, “covers the entire cost of the statue.” Cousy graduated from Holy Cross, located in Worcester (AP, 1/22).

THE GOOD STUFF: White Sox P MICHAEL KOPECH received a haircut as “part of the Kopech’s Big Kut sweepstakes, which raised $20,000 for Ronald McDonald House Charities and Chicago White Sox Charities” (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 1/23)....PGA Reach named Nuggets F PAUL MILLSAP its first-ever PGA Works Ambassador (PGA of America).

NAMES: DANICA PATRICK on Tuesday "kicked off" the Rancho Mirage Speaker Series' Legends of Sports series at The Helene Galen Auditorium. She was "engaging and honest about the arc of her life and career" (Palm Springs DESERT SUN, 1/23)....Luxor Hotel & Casino announced “THE TERRY BRADSHAW SHOW” officially will “kick off its new residency in March and is booked for dozens of shows through July in the Atrium Showroom” (LAS VEGAS SUN, 1/23)....Musician TORI KELLY will sing the national anthem at Sunday’s Pro Bowl (NFL)....Spotted at Lakers-Knicks last night: SpringHill Entertainment CEO MAVERICK CARTER, former NBAer BARON DAVIS, media strategist ADAM MENDELSOHN and SPIKE LEE (BYERS MARKET, 1/23).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

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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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