The American Athletic Conference and ESPN agreed on a 12-year, $1 billion media deal, according to a report from Michael Smith and John Ourand of Sports Business Daily. The deal, which begins in 2020-2021, pays the schools in the AAC four times what the current deal pays. The current media deal pays the league around…
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It’s Johnny Football Time in Tennessee: Johnny Manziel officially joins the Memphis Express
Former Texas A&M and Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel joined the Memphis Express Monday and fans had mixed reactions on the Memphis Express – Official Group Facebook page: “We’ve officially scraped the bottom of the barrel. Manziel is the last person in the world the Express needs.” “We just became much watch TV for all…
Woody’s World: How Woody Paige went from a local writer to one of America’s most colorful sports personalities
Forget six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Woody Paige’s life is six degrees of Elvis Presley. “I was born in Memphis and lived in Lauderdale Courts a few doors down from the Presley’s and then we moved behind Graceland in a subdivision called ‘Graceland.’ I would play flag football on the grounds of the (Elvis’) house….
The 901 Connection 