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The N.Y. TIMES in a front-page piece writes 15 years after the death of Pro Football HOFer Mike Webster and "two years after the courts cleared the way for a settlement that would pay" an estimated $1B to retired players, "Webster’s survivors continue to struggle financially." The NFL "insisted on a provision in the settlement that could prevent players who died before 2006 from receiving compensation." Webster, the first player diagnosed with CTE, died in '02.

The WALL STREET JOURNAL runs an opinion piece by author Shelby Steele under the header, "Black Protest Has Lost Its Power." NFL player protests during the national anthem "may point to the end of an era for black America, and for the country generally -- an era in which protest has been the primary means of black advancement in American life."

Elsewhere: 

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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