Ben Portnoy
College Sports Reporter at Sports Business Journal
College Sports Reporter for @SBJ | Ex-Hoosier
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1 week ago |
sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Portnoy
Greg Sankey rummaged through his back pocket for a sheet of paper. Locating the notecard-sized slip of personalized stationery, the SEC commissioner flashed it toward a handful of reporters, revealing a game’s worth of scores, stats and other scribbles, along with a pair of quotes pressed into the top of the sheet. “There’s two mantras that I have if you walk in our back door,” Sankey said, referencing those aforementioned quotes.
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2 weeks ago |
sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Portnoy
After a busy couple of days and a few long nights, I’m headed home to South Carolina following another great Final Four. Looking forward to locking into the happenings down at Augusta National this week (and the House settlement and whatever else is going on in college sports in the coming days). Cheers to the end of another great college basketball season.
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2 weeks ago |
sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Portnoy
Players Health, a sports tech company providing digital risk-management services, reporting tools and insurance products to sports organizations, is adding an all-star name to its team. Longtime NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski is serving as a brand ambassador for Players Health, joining the company’s NIL advisory board, he told SBJ.
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2 weeks ago |
sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Portnoy
Ball State C Payton Sparks’ announcement appeared like so many others over the last four years -- red-and-white emojis coupled with a flexing arm, an accompanying video flashing highlights and a commitment graphic affirmed what was expected. Sparks, a second-team All-MAC performer in 2023, was transferring to Indiana. “Committing to IU was a dream for me,” he told the Indianapolis Star in March 2023. “As soon as I did, I just haven’t stopped smiling the whole day.”Those smiles only lasted so long.
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2 weeks ago |
sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Portnoy
Tim Pernetti hasn’t exactly shied away from being different. He’s openly discussed private equity and conference naming rights. It’s only a month ago his league also instituted a measure requiring schools to put at least $10 million total toward revenue sharing with athletes by 2027-28 should the House settlement receive approval.
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Bear Grylls has gone too far this time https://t.co/8gd0NVGVZF
Based on a quick Wikipedia scan, Fred Couples and Bernhard Langer both made the cut in the same year at the Masters in 1984. They are both in a spot to make the cut at Augusta in 2025. That is truly astounding longevity.
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I will not get invested in Rory again I will not get invested in Rory again I will not get invested in Rory again I will not get invested in Rory again *YELLS* Rory McIlroy is two shots off the lead at LACC
