Tuesday 4:00pm ET....Latest News....Without A Net?

• Sources: Prokhorov Retains Evercore Partners To Help Sell Nets

• CFP Title Game Ranks As Cable’s Top Program All-Time

• CFP Championship Produces Per Cap Of $75 At AT&T Stadium

• NBPA Hires Jordan Schlachter For Newly Created CMO Position

The Starting Five....

The most-read stories today on SportsBusinessDaily.com:

1)  ESPN's Ohio State-Oregon CFP Title Game Sets Cable Overnight Ratings Record

2) Nike Tweet Goes Viral During CFP With Staged Photo Of Players Gazing Up At Coin Toss

3) MLBPA Announces Agent Certification Now Includes Background Check, Written Exam

4) College Bowl Season Attendance Lower In '14-15 With Addition Of Four New Smaller Events

5) MLB Giants To Convert Portion Of Parking Lot Into Pop-Up Beer Garden, Retail Center

The Daily's Hot Reads....

USA TODAY's Gregory Wallace writes, " President Obama 's recent diplomatic recognition of Cuba was the easy part. The heavy lifting will be promoting the human rights of Cubans. … One measure of success is how we reconcile the commercial interests of [MLB] and the Cuban government with the human rights of Cuban baseball players" ( USA TODAY ).

Also:  

• ESPN, conferences, coaches are big winners in CFP system.

• What will Inglewood, Calif., look like if NFL comes to town?

• Knicks, Rangers going in opposite directions in same building.

• Disparity between NBA's East and West is difficult to explain.

See the Hot Reads section for more sports business-related links.

Headliners....

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Notes & Quotes From This Day In SBD History....

2004

"Here's a guy that's on CBS television and on HBO. They pay him 4 jillion dollars a year to work there. He's not going to quit a job like that to come here, for somebody to say it's a figurehead job" – Dolphins Owner Wayne Huizenga , on hiring Dan Marino as Senior VP .