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MSG Net to honor Frazier with programming slate
Basketball HOFer Walt “Clyde” Frazier turns 80 this weekend and MSG Networks is “launching weeklong commemorative coverage” to honor the occasion. The festivities begin tonight, as the final installment of “Clyde’s Top 15 Moments,” in which the “No. 1 moment of Frazier’s Knicks career will be reveal...
Last night’s ‘Final Jeopardy!’ category was ‘Migrations’
“A biosphere reserve in Michoacán is named for these creatures that turn the forests orange & black every November.”
WinCraft’s John Killen leaving day-to-day role
WinCraft President John Killen is moving out of day-to-day operating responsibilities after 36 years with the licensed hard-goods company based in Winona, Minn. The move comes four-and-a-half years after Fanatics acquired the company.
Fire tap Ted Glick for ticketing, new venue
Ted Glick is set to join the Fire as their Chief Ticketing Officer and SVP/Stadium Programming & Events on April 1. Glick, who will report to Fire President of Business Operations Dave Baldwin, is being brought on with an eye toward the team’s planned move to a to-be-announced new stadium. Glick...
Endeavor execs Emanuel, Whitesell receive hefty payout in company sale
Endeavor execs ARI EMANUEL and PATRICK WHITESELL “received nine-figure cash payments in connection [with] Silver Lake’s take-private of the company,” though both men are “rolling over most of their equity into the private venture,” according to Alex Weprin of HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Emanuel had been CEO...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 25, 2025
Monumental Sports & Entertainment named AJ JONES II EVP & Chief Strategic and Corporate Communications Officer. He will oversee MSE’s communications and investor relations strategies, among other functions. Jones will report directly to MSE founder, chair and CEO TED LEONSIS. Jones joins MSE...
Names in the News
Former UFC fighter CAIN VELASQUEZ was “sentenced to five years in prison Monday for a California shooting that took place in 2022.” The sentence comes after Velasquez “pleaded no contest to attempted murder and other charges in connection with the shooting.” He said that he was “targeting a man who ...
Blatter, Platini again acquitted of financial charges
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and former UEFA president Michel Platini on Tuesday were “acquitted for a second time” on charges of "fraud, forgery, mismanagement and misappropriation of more than" $2M of FIFA money in 2011. The attorney general’s office in Switzerland had “challenged a first ac...
Watkins' knee injury alters tenor of NCAA tourney
USC G JuJu Watkins “suffered a season-ending knee injury” in the first quarter of the team’s second-round NCAA Tournament game against Mississippi State at Galen Center on Monday, dealing a hefty blow to “a Sweet 16 that has lost its flavor.” As evidenced by her recent multiyear deal with Fanatics -...
Last night’s ‘Final Jeopardy!’ category was ‘Acting Families’
“After leaving a religious group, John & Arlyn Bottom changed their family’s last name to this, to signify a rebirth.”
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For the league to step in and say that a team chose to play one player over another player and that was the wrong decision, I think that's a bit of a slippery slope.-- NBA EVP/Strategy & Analytics Evan Wasch, on the league monitoring player availability but not mandating how coaches rotate players in game.
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