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“The brand is something that is ours, and a brand is one of the biggest things you can get. Whether it's a lot or a little bit, it's still mine” – LaVar Ball, on owning the Big Baller Brand (“Sunday Today with Willie Geist,” NBC, 6/18).

"They’re breaking their own rules to try to punish North Carolina because they don’t like this ... You can’t just violate the rules because you don’t like something. ... A rules-based organization cannot break its own rules to get the result that it wants" – ESPN's Jay Bilas, describing the NCAA's treatment of UNC (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 6/18).

"ESPN is basically the Titanic. They’re the first one to hit the iceberg to show how damaging this greed of theirs has been over the years, to overpay for sports rights and to force that down to consumers whether they wanted to watch it or not" – American Cable Association President & CEO Matt Polka, on the effect EPSN has on the media rights landscape (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 6/18).

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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