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The Kevin Sheehan Show, here's Kevin.

All right, we're getting this podcast out late today.

I apologize, but the news this morning about Dan Snyder acquiring the rest of the equity of his football team from his

minority owners has been a developing story all morning long and I wanted to get John Oren from

Sports Business Journal on with me to talk about it and was still trying to sort through a lot

of the information in various people that I have talked to.

First of all, if you're just learning about this, Tyler Dunn, who is a, it's sort of a news business pro football guy, broke this story early this morning that Washington football team majority owner

Dan Snyder was buying out the minority owners 40.5% stake in the team that he had requested a

debt waiver of $450 million to fund the deal and the deal has been approved by the NFL

Finance Committee. Tyler, by the way, will be deal has been approved by the NFL finance committee.

Tyler, by the way, will be on my radio show on 980 tomorrow morning at 8 a.m.

So tune in for that on radio at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Then we had the New York Times story that came out shortly thereafter. The New York Times basically

following up on that report, or maybe they had it initially before anybody else had it. The New

Times writers, Ken Belson and Catherine Rossman, who have been all over sort of the Washington

football story here for months, along with the Washington Post,

wrote earlier this morning, seeking to move past a year of tumult over the team's former name

and sexual harassment investigation of its front office. The owner of the Washington football team

is close to a deal with fellow league owners

that will give him greater control over the organization while he pays a fine for executives'

misconduct. Now, let me just mention that real quickly because they barely even get back to this,

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