Morning Buzz

Thursday 9:00am ET....Today's News....Costas Takes A Step Back

  • Costas Stepping Down As NBC Olympic Host; Tirico To Fill Role
  • NBA, Take-Two Launching E-Sports Venture Around "NBA 2K"
  • Las Vegas Stadium Authority Meeting As Funding Questions Loom
  • Goodyear To Sponsor Cavs Uniforms In NBA's Fifth Jersey Deal

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Today:   A new voice for NBC’s Olympics coverage is coming in '18, while the NBA dives head-first into e-sports and a Splash Brother gets political .

Today's Back Pages....

The Morning Buzz offers today's back page sports covers from some of North America's major metropolitan tabloids:

Spanning The Global....

The most-read Global stories today on SportsBusiness Daily:

1)  Pepsi Max Signs Agüero, Kompany, Sánchez For Champions League Campaign

2) Bill Gates Received Offer To Purchase Liverpool From Tom Hicks, George Gillett

3) NRL Side Parramatta Eels Likely To Start Season Without Major Shirt Sponsor

4) Allianz To Sponsor Drone Racing League In Deal Worth Reported $10M

5) WIN TV Owner Supporting Wollongong-Based A-League Expansion Team 

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It doesn’t take account of all the investments we make in many things, the costs of delivering the Championships to the standard that we deliver it to -- which, of course, builds a value in our brand, which, particularly for the top-10 players, they’ll see the benefits of when you look at the kind of contracts that they will have personally. Our business model, really carefully balanced over 150 years, has delivered that value -- yes, to us, yes, to British tennis -- but also back to the players.
-- All England Lawn Tennis Club CEO Sally Bolton, on how a source of frustration for AELTC leadership is the player group’s proposed revenue share structure as the mode of deciding the total prize money pool.
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