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Mavericks Owner MARK CUBAN is helping former NBAer DELONTE WEST, who has "battled substance abuse and homelessness." Cuban yesterday "picked West up at a Dallas gas station." A source said that Cuban "put West up in a hotel and is offering to help pay for substance abuse treatment." The report indicated that Cuban had been "trying to contact West for days" (FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, 9/29).

NAMES: CNBC’s Robert Frank reported when NFL Panthers Owner DAVID TEPPER moved from New Jersey to Florida in '15, New Jersey’s budget director called it a "new forecast risk because of the amount of taxes that that one taxpayer paid." Now Tepper is "back just in time for New Jersey's latest tax hike and New Jersey State Senate President STEVE SWEENEY saying Tepper called him to say he moved back to New Jersey in January and that ‘you got an extra $120 million coming from me.’" That means the state’s "new 10.75% tax rate on Tepper’s comp of over $1 billion last year would be around $120 million” (“Squawk Box,” CNBC, 9/29)....A class-action lawsuit was filed yesterday against Lockheed Martin on "behalf of Golf Channel employees who worked close to the site" in Tangelo Park, Fla. The 11 Golf Channel employees listed in the complaint "worked at the company in the period from 1994 to 2020" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 9/29).

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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