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“The talk of the money, that’s just promotion. … We have to continue to educate the public that this myth that they put out there that boxing is a dying sport is solely not true” – Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe, on talk leading up to Saturday’s Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Canelo Alvarez bout being about PPV buys and record gates (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 9/12).

“All the stadiums are on schedule” – World Cup Brazil Local Organising Committee CEO Ricardo Trade, saying construction work on stadiums being used for the ’14 FIFA World Cup will be completed by the end of the year (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/12).

“The human rights stuff that’s going on, there’s a potential for it to be an incredibly negatively-overshadowed Olympics” – U.S. snowboarder Seth Wescott, on Russia’s law banning gay propaganda possibly tarnishing the legacy of the ’14 Sochi Games (AP, 9/11).

“Part of the aspiration for me is to get back to that, to take what Dave Gavitt set in motion and all the great history and success and repackage it in some way” – Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman, referring to the late Big East Founder, on growing the conference (PROVIDENCE JOURNAL, 9/12).

"What they're paying out, if you want the number, it’s a million and a half per team, per year, for 20 years. That’s walk around money for these guys, that’s chump change" – CBSSN's Jim Rome, on how much the NFL owners have to pay in the NFL concussion lawsuit settlement ("The Tonight Show," NBC, 9/11). Read more from Rome's appearance in Laugh Track.

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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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