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The Sport Market Podium funded by Alpine Credits

Episode Summary

Sport business commentator Tom Mayenknecht, a principal in Emblematica Brand Builders, walks through the top sport business stories of the week on The Sport Market Podium funded by Alpine Credits. For only the 13th time in the 16-year history of The Sport Market, we have a platinum sport business story and it's the bizarre situation surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, one that has completely sucked the oxygen out of the lead-up to the beginning of the regular season in Major League Baseball. Also on the Podium: NCAA March Madness, the new life for Sports Illustrated and the plans by the Arizona Coyotes to go to auction in June to buy a 95-acre plot of land in northeast Phoenix.

Episode Notes

Sport business commentator Tom Mayenknecht, a principal in Emblematica Brand Builders, walks through the top sport business stories of the week on The Sport Market Podium funded by Alpine Credits. For only the 13th time in the 16-year history of The Sport Market, we have a platinum sport business story and it's the bizarre situation surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, one that has completely sucked the oxygen out of the lead-up to the beginning of the regular season in Major League Baseball. Also on the Podium: NCAA March Madness, the new life for Sports Illustrated and the plans by the Arizona Coyotes to go to auction in June to buy a 95-acre plot of land in northeast Phoenix.