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On the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including a spate of upsets in college football. Five teams ranked in the AP’s Top 15 lost on Saturday, including No. 1 Alabama, No. 4 Tennessee and No. 9 Missouri.
The hosts talk about the inevitable field storming that happens when the underdogs win at home. At Vanderbilt, fans carried a goalpost nearly three miles to dump it in the Cumberland River. The goalpost was later retrieved by local firefighters, and the school is auctioning off pieces of the metal. Part of the proceeds may go to the fine incurred from the field storming. Vanderbilt will have to pay $100,000 to Alabama because of the incident; Arkansas will owe Tennessee $250,000 as a repeat offender.
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The hosts also talk about how the expanded College Football Playoff has changed the consequences of the regular season. In previous years, many of these losses could have ended the title aspirations for schools like Alabama and Tennessee. Now, both SEC teams have one loss, and can probably suffer another and still qualify for the playoff at the end of the year. Has that devalued the importance of each regular season game?
Next the hosts talk about the MLB playoffs. The games remain dramatic, with some of the sport’s most valuable teams still in the running. The Mets, Yankees and Dodgers all play in huge markets, and feature some of the sport’s biggest stars, such as Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani.
They close by addressing the very quiet start to the NHL season, with two games played in Prague almost a week before every other team plays its first game; and a potential NFL transaction in Miami. The parent of the Miami Dolphins, which includes the stadium and F1 race, is in talks to sell LP stakes…
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Author : Sportico
Publish date : 2024-10-08 09:55:00
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