Sport & Story Daily May 27, 2024

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May 27, 2024

Good morning! Memorial Day + More NCAA Talk

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What’s on Tap for SEC meetings: 4 Storylines to Keep an Eye on in Destin, Fla.
As The Athletic’s Seth Emerson writes, “Whether to go to nine conference games or stay at eight seems quaint now compared with the heavy reality that SEC presidents, athletic directors, coaches and commissioner Greg Sankey must confront this week: revenue sharing, roster limits and other results of the settlement in the House v. NCAA case.
^{The Athletic}

Southampton Back in the Premier League After Winning Playoff Final, the Richest Game in World Soccer
Per the AP, Southampton secured an immediate return to the Premier League on Sunday by beating Leeds 1-0 at Wembley Stadium in the Championship playoff final, the richest one-off match in world soccer. An uplift of 140 million pounds ($180 million) in future earnings from broadcast revenue and prize money is guaranteed for the south-coast club thanks to Adam Armstrong’s 24th-minute winner at England’s national stadium.
^{AP News}

Portland Thorns Add Group of Additional Investors
The Portland Oregonian reports via SBJ that longtime Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle is joining the Portland Thorns' investor group, along with Suns co-owner Sam Garvin, former NBAer Josh Childress, Revitate COO Kunal Merchant and TPG co-managing partner Nehal Raj. Boyle said he "won’t be involved in the team 'in any way' beyond providing financial backing," and that other investors joining the fray with the Thorns "will be more involved in the sporting side.”
^{Sports Business Journal}

Joe Buck Hopes Drew Brees Gets Another Shot at Broadcasting, Says Ex-QB ‘Got a Raw Deal’
“I think Drew Brees got a raw deal,” Joe Buck said. “And if there’s anybody who was ever created in a computer to be a top analyst at a network, I think it’s Drew Brees, and I would love to see him get another chance at that.

“He got one game, and he was working with a new crew and a new play-by-play guy and everybody expects brilliance. You make one comment, and it gets its own life on social media. It’s just ridiculous.”
^{The Athletic}

Adam Silver Is the Real Winner in the Battle for the NBA’s Rights Future
Michael McCarthy of FOS writes: “Silver is at the helm during another watershed moment in the league’s history: the NBA’s multibillion-dollar media-rights negotiations. We don’t know which TV networks and streaming giants will land which packages. Heading into Memorial Day weekend, we still don’t know exactly when. But one thing is clear: The winners of this high-stakes poker game have been, and will be, Silver and the NBA.”
^{Front Office Sports}

Timberwolves’ Playoff Run Helps Minneapolis Find Its Way Back
SBJ’s Tom Friend writes, “Four years after the murder of George Floyd and subsequent rioting that ravaged downtown Minneapolis — all while the pandemic was boarding up businesses — the Minnesota Timberwolves have orchestrated two comebacks: their own over the Nuggets and their city’s.

“With the team on the brink of the NBA Finals and fans howling like wolves in the streets, restaurants, bars and companies adjacent to Target Center — even a certain tattoo parlor 15 minutes up Interstate 35 — are reemerging from the abyss.”
^{Sports Business Journal}

As Birmingham-Southern Shuts Down, Its Baseball Team Advances to DIII College World Series
As Alex Andrejev and Kennington Smith III write, “Their school might be shutting down, but their College World Series hopes live on. The Birmingham-Southern College Panthers baseball team — which represents the 1,300-student college in Birmingham, Ala., that’s slated to soon close — advanced to the Division III College World Series with a 7-6 win over Denison University on Saturday.”
^{The Athletic}

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