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Dwayne calendar.

Hello and welcome to the show everyone.

Got a bit to talk about, just quick updates on March Madness.

And just wanted to talk about briefly the news and we'll get into this later on,

but the new NFL deal reached where Amazon is getting the bigger piece of the pie in terms of content with hosting Thursday Night Football exclusively and E-SPM plus being the new winner of what amounts to NFL Sunday ticket.

So no more direct TV.

It looks as though ESPN plus will be the new home

for Sunday ticket football in a sense so ESPN definitely gobbling up more of the

television rights than ever before and what amounts to between the

traditional broadcast networks and the streaming platforms

it nets out to in surplus of $100 billion for the NFL. So business is booming for the

NFL owners, not necessarily the players given the amount of players who have been

cut this year and it is now a free agency free for all that is still ongoing.

So we'll have to sort through the aftermath of that in a couple of weeks but a lot of

transactions going on in the NFL because of all the volatility in the marketplace

as teams as we talked about for getting

under that salary cap so more to come certainly because teams have to get their

salary cap situation squared away by today.

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